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 Message 1033 
 Mike Powell to ED VANCE 
 TV Woes 
 03 Oct 25 10:17:35 
 
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> Whiile reading I thought about a TV station that was on Channel 5 was causing
> interference to a Station 100miles away so the FCC had the local station
chang
> broadcasting to Channel 3.
> The station is WAVE-TV.

I had heard that story before but I had fogotten it!

> Later WHAS-TV came on the air as Channel 9 but I can't recall why they were
> told to change to Channel 11.

IIRC, there is a Channel 9 in Cincinnati, too, but I don't know if it was
on the air yet back then.

> Yep, I remember when there wasn't Television just AM Radio.

Are you old enough to remember where WHAS-AM was before it became 840?  ;)

Mike

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