Talk:Circle 7 logo

message: I'm a bit worried.  It appears that debate between  and  regarding if WHDH-TV's logo should be represented with or without NBC's peacock has arrived here, and also now involves if :Image:WHDH-WSVN.png should also be replaced for WSVN by :Image:WSVN.png.  I don't want to get into trouble so I'm neutral, but a revert war appears to have begun.  What is most proper?  --WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 17:00, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  WHDH and WSVN 

message: It's used one for years...Ranma9617 22:12, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[KPLC-TV]] 

message: Why is it logical to call this logo "Circle 7" even if it's on a random channel?? Georgia guy 16:36, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would suspect it has to do with it originating and apparently being most popular on channel 7 (although the "circle 4" seems to be used quite frequently as well now). JMyrleFuller 21:55, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Circle logo number 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Abc7la.png

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Abc7la.png

message: :"When ABC applied for TV licenses in the late 1940s, it was thought that the low-band (channels 2 through 6) TV channels would be discontinued, thus making these five stations broadcasting on VHF channel 7 the lowest on the TV dial"
Any source for this assertion?
It would seem that, in the early days of commercial television (1940's-1960's) ABC was a perennial third-ranked US broadcaster with less core news programming than the big-two (NBC and CBS) and less access to then prime spots on the low-VHF dial (the 3's and 5's often already claimed by the two stronger networks). While ABC's fortunes improved somewhat with fourth-ranked DuMont suspending network operations in 1955 (its O&O stations became independent group Metromedia/Metropolitan Broadcasting System, then were acquired as the core O&O's to relaunch a fourth network as Fox TV in 1986) most long-running ABC news and public-affairs (20/20, Good Morning America) was introduced in the 1970's. ABC was to gain the top position around the time of its 1976 Olympics coverage, but by then any community which had long had NBC/CBS affiliates as early adopters of low-band channels would see ABC pushed higher on the dial (a town with CBS/NBC on 3/5, allocating no two local stations to adjacent channels, would at best be able to allocate ABC7 as the third-network affiliate - which happened often, and sometimes was only possible by moving the station to an adjacent town if a city's local allocations were all taken).
 Certainly WNBT (NBC, channel 1) and WABD (DuMont, channel 4) would've been 'experimenting' with TV broadcasts in NYC during the pre-1941 era while the key NTSC system technical standards were still being drafted. By 1948, there would have been about 100 US stations on-air nationwide, although ABC would've been in its infancy at best (as a spinoff from NBC radio's secondary "blue" network) at the time - a late entrant in many key markets.
I realise the low-VHF channels have been rendered all-but-worthless now by the forced US DTV transition, with entire towns like Syracuse (3,5,9), Plattsburgh (3,5,22) and Utica (2,20) transformed into UHF islands overnight (many in Kingston-Watertown lost over-the-air NBC to this) and some of the longest-established stations are now trying to compensate for being bumped to some of the worst high-UHF spots by increasing power, sometimes to the megawatt ERP limit, with somewhat disappointing results. I doubt, somehow, that ABC saw this problem coming in the 1940's... if they landed on now-valuable high-VHF channels, it's because those were the best to still be available after stronger NBC/CBS stations had already claimed then-prime low-band VHF spots (all now worthless) ab initio.  
(B—Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.102.80.212 (talk) 20:24, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Band I]] vs. [[Band III]] VHF? 

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