Original sentence: Although the station has been licensed to Steubenville by the FCC from the start, Steubenville's proximity to Pittsburgh almost cost it the channel 9 license.Before going on the air, CBS wanted to purchase the channel 9 license and move it to Pittsburgh to compete with DuMont-owned WDTV, which at the time had a de facto monopoly in what was then the nation's sixth-largest television market.C..   The channel 9 license remained in Steubenville, where it remains today.CBS would eventually get an owned-and-operated station in Pittsburgh—ironcially, the former WDTV (now KDKA-TV) after Westinghouse Electric purchased CBS in 1995.Despite the monopoly that WDTV had at the time, the FCC turned CBS down since the network was already at the ownership limit of five VHF stations at the time -- the network wholly owned WCBS-TV in New York City, KNXT (now KCBS-TV) in Los Angeles, WBBM-TV in Chicago, KMOX-TV (now KMOV) in St.It also carried a secondary affiliation with ABC, sharing that network's programming with NBC affiliate WTRF-TV.Louis, and partially owned WTOP-TV (now WUSA) in Washington, D.The station went on air as CBS affiliate WSTV-TV (for STeubenVille) on December 24, 1953
Edited sentence: CBS planned to move the station's license to Pittsburgh in order to get its own station in what was then the sixth-largest market.Channel 9 was originally a CBS affiliate, but also carried a secondary affiliation with ABC, sharing that network's programming with NBC affiliate WTRF-TV.However, the FCC turned CBS' bid down.The major cities in the Upper Ohio Valley are so close together that they must share the VHF band, and the FCC had opted not to issue any more VHF construction permits to Pittsburgh in order to give Wheeling/Steubenville and the other smaller markets in the area a chance to get on the air.The station went on air as WSTV-TV (for STeubenVille) on December 24, 1953.When the FCC opened bidding for the channel 9 license, Rust Craft and CBS emerged as the favorites