How might it have turned out?

[Garrett Wollman]

The FCC revised the initial table of TV allocations several times in
the early years, including twice in late 1945 after the end of World
War II.  Here's what /Broadcasting/ reported were the assignments for
our area in late November, 1945:

Albany-Schenectady-Troy .... 2 4 7 9 11
Allentown-Easton-Bethlehem . 8 (a "community" station)
Atlantic City .............. 8 ("community")
Binghamton ................. 12
Boston ..................... 2 4 7 9 13
Bridgeport ................. 1 ("community")
Buffalo-Niagara ............ 4 7 9 13
Fall River-New Bedford ..... 1 ("community")
Hartford ................... 8 10
Lowell-Lawrence-Haverhill .. 6
Manchester (N.H.) .......... 1 ("community")
New Haven .................. 6 ("community")
New York City .............. 2 4 7 9 11 13
Philadelphia ............... 3 6 10 12
Portland ................... 3 8
Providence ................. 11
Rochester .................. 2 6 11
Scranton-Wilkes-Barre ...... 11 plus 1 ("community")
Springfield-Holyoke ........ 3 plus 1 ("community")
Syracuse ................... 5 8 10
Utica-Rome ................. 3 13
Waterbury (Ct.) ............ 12
Worcester .................. 5

Aside from Portland, there were no allocations for anywhere in
Northern New England.

It would be a considerably different TV dial, that's for sure.  (Of
course, as we know now, even before most of these stations were built,
it was obvious that it didn't work in reality.  The "community"
stations were dropped early on, along with channel 1.)

-GAWollman