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

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Bob Rathke wrote:

> Most VHF stations were on the air in 1948-49, but Pittsburgh had the dubious
> distinction of being the largest city in the U.S. to have only ONE
> commercial VHF station channel until 1957 when channel 11 went on the air,

The fact that Pittsburgh had one station, and it was DuMont, was what kept
them around until 1954. Many of the DuMont assets, including the
then-recently-completed New York City Telecenter, were picked up by
MetroMedia some time later; Said TeleCenter is home of Fox in New York.

> And what happened to channel 1?  Before WWII, space was allocated for
> channel 1, but by the late 40's, its frequency band was re-assigned to radio
> stations, and it never happened.

Government took it for (mumble I forget) and moved FM to 88-108
megacycles.