RE: Channel 35 to sign on today

[Roger Kirk <rkirk@videoserver.com>]

Chris Beckwith posted:

Channel 35 (WPME-TV) is slated to commence regular broadcasting this
afternoon at 5 with an episode of "Star Trek: Voyager."  The UPN
affiliate is (to my knowledge) the first Lewiston commercial U since
WLAM-TV broadcast briefly as a repeater (for the most part) of
Portland's WPMT-TV Channel 52 in the 1950s. For those interested,
WPMT-TV signed on in 1952, taking advantage of the FCC's VHF
allocation freeze.

Was there not (briefly) a Channel 17 WSAS in Lewiston/Auburn in the 50's?  

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