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The first night of regular viewing on WDAF-TV was October 16, 1949, when channel 4 presented a four-hour schedule including a dedication, a live telecast from the American Royal, films of the station's construction, local news (a telegraph tape moved in front of the camera to display the news [9]), and a salute to WDAF-TV by Arthur Godfrey. [10]
The sign-off sequence may include some or all of the following stages, but not necessarily in this order: An announcement informing viewers that the station is about to go off-air: it may also include a message of thanks for the viewer's patronage, along with an announcement of the time when the station is scheduled to sign on again.
In 1949, co-owned television station WDAF-TV came on the air. [10] It was the second TV station in Missouri and the first in Kansas City. Like WDAF (AM), it primarily was an NBC affiliate, although it carried shows from other networks as well. WDAF-TV became a Fox affiliate in 1994. In 1958, the Kansas City Star sold WDAF-AM-TV to National ...
[11] [12] It was sold as a night-light from 1997 to 2005 by the Archie McPhee company, [13] reminiscent of the times when a fairly common late-night experience was to fall asleep while watching the late movie, only to awaken to the characteristic sine wave tone accompanying the Indian-head test pattern on a black-and-white TV screen.
KOTA-TV/KHSD-TV's call letters, ABC affiliation, and virtual channels 3 and 11 were moved to KEVN-TV/KIVV-TV, while KOTA-TV/KHSD-TV's former license was sold to Legacy Broadcasting, moved to channels 23/5 and became a MeTV affiliate, and KEVN-TV/KIVV-TV's Fox affiliation and virtual channel 7 was moved to a new low-power station (which Gray ...
During the pre-trial discovery phase, Viacom requested and received a court order for YouTube to hand over data detailing the viewing selections of every user who had ever watched videos on the site. The move led to concerns that the selections of individual users could be identified through a combination of their IP addresses and usernames.
KCMO-TV made the September 27 start date, with an official dedication featuring former president Harry Truman as the guest of honor taking place on October 4. [14] It took the ABC affiliation, giving Kansas City four channels for the four networks: NBC on WDAF-TV, CBS on KMBC-TV and WHB-TV, DuMont on KCTY, and ABC on KCMO-TV. [15]
The logo of Fox Broadcasting Company from 1987 to 1993. Between 1994 and 1996, a wide-ranging realignment of television network affiliations took place in the United States as the result of a multimillion-dollar deal between the Fox Broadcasting Company and New World Communications, announced on May 23, 1994.