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Was I seeing things, or does the lettering on that WDSU-TV camera state "WDSU-TV channel 5"? I always thought the station was on channel 6 the entire time it has been in New Orleans. When did it switch, and if so why?
BTW, what station did New Orleans' WJMR-TV become when it switched to a VHF channel, and what UHF channel was it on? Was it a network affiliate? I'm surprised it didn't remain a UHF station from the beginning. If it had, it probably would have been a pioneer, New Orleans' first UHF station. My best guess is that, like a lot of early UHF TV stations, it began on a very high UHF channel (sixty-nine or higher; 70 thru 83 were still being used for TV broadcasting until 1970) and had a very weak signal (by today's standards), viewable only in a very small area, possibly only a small section of the city of New Orleans itself, leaving most of the rest of the metro area with no signal whatsoever from that station.