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[Kevin Vahey]

Wasn't CBLT on channel 6 before the CN Tower was built? I think things
were moved to make room for Global TV in the 70's.

On 3/21/08, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org> wrote:
> <<On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:23:58 -0400, "Bill Dillane" <dillane@sbcglobal.net>
> said:
>
> > BTW - According to a 1947 TV allocation chart, Boston was suppose to have
> > channels 2, 4, 7, 9 and 13, Worcester - channel 5, Providence channel 11,
> > and Portland channels 3 and 8.
>
> Yep, that's from before the FCC realized how hellaciously short-spaced
> that would have made nearly everything in the northeast.  Then
> Providence moved 11 to 10 and added 12, New Haven moved 6 to 8, New
> Bedford got 6, Albany 4 moved to 6, Utica 3 moved to 2 and 13
> moved to 4 (never built), and that whole cascade of changes in Western
> NY that eventually put Syracuse on 3, 5, and 9, Rochester on 8, 10,
> and 13, and Toronto on 5 and 9.
>
> -GAWollman
>