# Talk:WFUT-DT

Also New York City had the elasta mount of UHF awareness of any market in the US. The reason was that NEw York City had 6 commercial VHF stations that had all the viable programming plus the Educational station was also on VHF. Very few New York Metro area people even knew there was UHF. Even Los Angeles with 7 commercial VHF stations had ana wareness of UHF due to the fact the PBS station is a UHF. In many markets even network affiliates were UHF stations. So to get a decent selection of programming in most places one needed to turn to UHF if they did not have cable. But Wometco did buy a few shows for WTVG 68.
Um, of *any* market in the US? That would include Glendive, Montana (pop 7000), the smallest market with its *one* TV station? They wouldn't need UHF.

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As for few people knowing there was UHF? FCC regulations required all new television sets to be able to tune UHF as of 1969 with similar tuning mechanisms on both bands by 1973, so some would certainly have the new sets with their (nominal) 82 channels of TV tuner capacity. --carlb 17:53, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Keep in mind that those early TVs with UHF tuners built in had a separate UHF channel selector.  You had to turn the VHF knob to "U", and then tune the UHF knob to the channel you wanted.  Plus, those TV generally had a separate antenna feed for UHF.  So with six commercial and one non-commercial channel already on VHF, most New Yorkers didn't bother learning about UHF, even if they had a TV capable of receiving it.  UHF didn't really become successful in New York until it was put to a use not available on the VHF dial...Spanish language programming. Jimtrue (talk) 00:23, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
At the time of WFUT's first air date on September 29, 1974 (as WBTB), New York City did indeed have six commercial VHF stations and one non-commercial educational station, channel 13, However, it may be noted for the record that from its first air date on May 15, 1948 until its final air date on December 22, 1961, Channel 13 was a commercial station. It returned to the air on September 16, 1962, rebranded as an affiliate of National Educational Television and Radio Center (NETRC), subsequently National Educational Television (NET) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).

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Why is there no mention of Channel 68's brief stint as an over-the-air broadcast music television station? Branded as U68. I would think it is significant considering that station manager Bill Roller did on-air interviews with such music notables as Frank Zappa. Macross-island (talk) 16:02, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Never mind, I see that it was included, Question withdrawn. my bad. Macross-island (talk) 20:10, 29 July 2010 (UTC)