TV DX'ing (was nice picture of old TV)

[Carmine]

I moved this to a new thread, since I love TV DX'ing...

Since I like NBC-TV programming (even some of today's prime-time offerings), my favorite Detroit station was always WDIV-TV [formerly WWJ, now CBS channel 62].

Jeff, I think you've got things just a little mixed-up. Our NBC affiliate has always been (and still is) on Channel 4. The call letters, at the beginning, were WWJ (same as our ancient 50KW AM news station). At some time in the late 70s, perhaps very early eighties, ownership changed and the call letters changed to WDIV. It remained an NBC station, and this is the situtation today.

Our CBS affiliate was channel 2 WJBK, around 1994 they switched to FOX, and CBS was left with no Detroit affiliate. CBS went scrambling, because their was no more room on VHF, and having a major network on UHF was disgraceful! To add insult to injury, none of the exsisting UHF stations wanted anything to do with CBS. Finally CBS made "an offer that couldn't be refused" to the only black-owned TV station in the US, channel 62 WGPR (We're Grosse Pointe Radio). CBS completely rebuilt their ancient transmitter and chaged the call letters to WWJ-TV (I guess they figured nobody remembered).