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A March 1953 advertisement announcing the call letter change from WJZ-TV to WABC-TV [5]. The station's call letters were changed to WABC-TV on March 1, 1953, [6] [7] after ABC merged its operations with United Paramount Theatres, a firm which was broken off from former parent company Paramount Pictures by decree of the U.S. government. [8]
This is a list of full-service television stations in the United States having call signs which begin with the letter W. Stations licensed to transmit under low-power specifications—ex., WOCV-CD, W16DQ-D and WIFR-LD—have not been included.
The FCC has since extended K-prefixed translator call signs on channels 7 and 13 to three-letter suffixes; what is now KMNF-LD operated briefly under the six-character call sign K13AAR-D in 2018, [18] and was later granted a channel 7 construction permit with call sign K07AAH-D before changing to its current sign.
Call letters stand for We're IV 4 Buffalo; originally WBEN-TV until 1977; Channel 7: WKBW-TV - - Buffalo, 7 Eyewitness News; Channel 15: WNBF-CD - TCT) - Buffalo. Channel 17: WNED-TV - - Buffalo; Channel 23: WNLO - - Buffalo, CW 23. Originally independent and WNEQ , formerly UPN 23; Channel 29: WUTV - - Buffalo, FOX 29. Independent until the 1980s
As a result, WBKB's channel 4 license was sold to CBS, which subsequently changed that station's call letters to WBBM-TV; that outlet would move to VHF channel 2 several months later on July 5, 1953. The old WBKB's on-air and behind-the-scenes staff stayed at the new WBBM-TV, while the WBKB call letters and management moved to channel 7 (from ...
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American broadcast television television network owned by the Disney Media Networks subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, which originated in 1927 as the NBC Blue radio network, and five years after its 1942 divorce from NBC and purchase by Edward J. Noble (adopting its current name the following year), expanded into television in April 1948.
The WABC call letters were previously used by the flagship station of CBS Radio (now WCBS) until 1946. The WJZ calls would later be reassigned to the then-ABC affiliate in Baltimore in 1957, in a historical nod to the fact that WJZ was originally established by the Baltimore station's owner at the time, Westinghouse.
After the KYW-TV call letters, ... Used 1973–1977 when it was affiliated with ABC, it was a clone of WABC-TV's format; has identified as NBC 7 News since 2011.