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Originally Posted by MRX37
How are you getting a picture on channel 83?
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I'm not sure by any means, but I think Doug (VK member drh4683) is feeding the set from cable, with the VHF and UHF channel selectors set on UHF and channel 83 respectively (where they might have been set when he got the TV). The screen is showing an image from WWME-TV 23, the MeToo affiliate in Chicago. I don't think this channel is broadcasting NTSC OTA anymore, although I could be wrong; that is why I said the TV is probably on cable and receiving the station that way. I believe Chicago only has one or possibly two UHF NTSC stations left, WWME-TV and one other on channel 26, although, again, I am by no means certain.
Doug would know much more about this than I would. The only reason I know anything at all about the Chicago stations I mentioned is because I do a lot of research on these and other out-of-town stations on Google; living 30 miles from Cleveland, I have no way of getting those channels OTA or even on local cable except for WGN America, which is in fact on Time Warner Cable.
Channels 70-83 (before DTV) were used for land-mobile and other services from 1970 on, and are vacant today. I remember a PBS station in northwestern Ohio that was on channel 70 in the '60s, but that station moved to a much lower channel shortly after signing on for the first time. The first TV station in Youngstown, Ohio also began in 1953 on channel 73, moving to channel 21 several years later.