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[Scott Fybush]

Garrett Wollman 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.

Garrett *almost* remembered it right. There was never a Utica 3...just 
WKTV on 13, which moved to 2. The Utica 4 allocation, never built, was 
dropped in later on. Utica's move opened up 13 for use in Rochester and 
Albany. The swap of 8 Syracuse and 5 Rochester opened up 9 for Syracuse.

As for Toronto...CBLT signed on in 1954 on channel 9. It moved to 6 
around 1960, freeing up 9 for use by commercial CFTO in 1961. CBLT then 
moved from 6 to 5 in 1972, freeing up 6 for use by the new Global TV 
(CKGN, later CIII-TV) at Paris, Ontario later that year.

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