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Originally Posted by Jeffhs
For WA2ISE: I remember seeing a picture in Popular Science magazine years ago of a group of TVs, all tuned to New York City's channel 13 showing a test pattern -- only then the station was known as WNDT and was probably not an NET affiliate at that time.
I looked up WNDT on Google a while back, and discovered that the station was in fact a commercial station (New Dimension Television, hence the NDT in the call sign) in its early years. I don't recall if the article mentioned when WNDT became a public-TV station, but when it did it changed calls to WNET -- for National Educational Television, but remained on channel 13.
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Interesting history here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNET
It appears that the WNDT calls remained for several years after the station became "educational"... some interesting union legal battles involving the teachers/actors on the station as well.
jr