[PRCo] Re: More than you wanted to know about Pittsburgh TV

[Fred Schneider]

Yes guys, I know this has nothing to do with trolleys in Pittsburgh.  So what!
You'll find delete key over to the right.

About the same time as that channel shuffle, WGAL TV in Lancaster changed from
channel 4 to 8, allegedly because of interference with 4 in Washington DC.   Was
this, Bob, a common problem?  Did receivers get more powerful?  Were
transmitters more powerful?  Were people out in the country buying sets and
complaining?  What did the shuffle take place?

Bob Rathke wrote:

> KDKA radio was in the Grant Building (where I worked) until around 1954 when
> the station moved to Gateway 1.
>
> Since 1949, KDKA-TV (then WDTV, channel 3) had its stidios in the Chamber of
> Commerce Bldg.  It too moved to Gateway 1 around 1954, and became KDKA-TV.
> WDTV was owned by the DuMont Network and the station was sold to
> Westinghouse in 1954.  Today, Bruce DuMont is director of the Broadcast
> Museum in Chicago, and has a radio program, "Beyond the Beltway."
>
> Back in the late 1940's and early 1950's, WJAC-TV in Johnstown broadcast on
> channel 13.  In a major channel shuffle in the early 50's, WDTV went from
> channel 3 to 2, channel 3 went to Cleveland (KYW-TV), WJAC-TV went from 13
> to 6, and channel 13 was assigned to Pittsburgh, although WQED didn't take
> over that channel until April 5, 1954.
>
> For about 18 months in 1954-55, Pittsburgh had TV stations on channel 16
> (WENS) and 53 (WKJF), but most TV sets in that era couldn't receive UHF
> broadcasts, and so the stations went off the air, and they didn't return
> until the late 1960's when all TV sets were required to receive UHF
> channels.
>
> And....UHF channels at that time went up to 83.  Now the highest UHF channel
> is 69.  What happened to channels 70-83?  That part of the broadcast
> spectrum is now used for cell phone transmissions.  Does anyone out there
> still have a TV set capable of receiving channels 70-83?  If you do, guess
> what you can hear on channels 70-83....
>
> Bob 4/22/04
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harold Geissenheimer" <transitmgr2 at earthlink.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 11:40 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Wabash Terminal
>
> > Greetings
> > A question?  Wasnt KDKA Radio in the Grant Building?
> > I attended a radio show there once.   Harold Geissenheimer
> RR