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<<<The Windsor/Cleveland issue is murkier. WXEL Channel 9 in Cleveland went on the air on December 17 1949 while CBET (originally CKLW-TV) Channel 9 Windsor went on the air on September 16, 1954. Why a station was allowed to go on the air on a same channel as a nearby city after the 1953 FCC-dictated frequency realignment is unclear. Perhaps some issue between the US and Canada allowed this to happen. Also, it seems strange that WXEL was made to change their assignment rather than CKLW since they were operating years before CKLW, unless they wanted to change their assignment for other reasons.>>>
Channel 8 in Windsor would have been mutually exclusive with WXYZ-TV, channel 7 in Detroit (which had already been on since late 1948).
Moving WXEL/WJW-TV to 8 also allowed the use of channel 9 for WSTV-TV in Steubenville, Ohio, which signed on in December, 1953 (now WTOV).
Rob
Last edited by Robert Grant; 12-31-2008 at 12:50 PM.
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