Lost in consolidation, especially to younger readers, are the historic pairings of AM and FM stations before consolidation.
Category: History
Broadcast History: Twin Cities TV Dials, 1948-2002
Have you ever wondered if it’s true when people say they only had three channels growing up? Do you have fond memories of the simple TV lineup you had as a child?…
Broadcast History: Cities That Never Got Their Allotted TV Stations
Looking at an early list of TV allotments, you can see that regulators may have thought the broadcast TV industry was going to be a lot bigger than it became.
Broadcast History: The Two Sets of Original VHF TV Allotments
The original VHF TV allotments, which still mostly dictate virtual channels used today, fit together a bit like a puzzle or a game of Sudoku.
Broadcast History: The Early Days of Duluth’s Channel 21
In the mid-1990s, few people knew that Duluth had a TV station on channel 21, but one person who worked there made sure some of its history was preserved.
Broadcast History: Longest TV Channel, Callsign, Affiliation Combos
Which Upper Midwest stations have had the same channel (real or virtual), primary network affiliation, and callsign for the longest?
Broadcast History: Timeline of Early TV in Wisconsin
Wisconsin has an interesting (if not confusing) early TV history due to a quick series of affiliation changes, sign-ons, sign-offs, and experiments with early UHF TV.
Broadcast History: How BBC Radio Reported the Queen’s Death
Tradition, formality, and ceremony can help people cope with a loss, and all were in place when the BBC announced the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Sept. 8.
Broadcast History: Timeline of Early TV in Minnesota
Viewers in much of Minnesota had to rely on deep-fringe signals from the Twin Cities for the first years of television history.
Broadcast History: Vintage Wisconsin Cable TV Lineups
Out-of-market stations were carried on cable systems in a number of larger Wisconsin cities in the 1970s.