But wait… there’s more…!
May 20, 2020Thanks to our good friend and DuMont expert, Clarke Ingram, we have the station history hat trick today! Channel 2 started out as Channel 3 in 1949 and went on the air as WDTV for the DuMont Television network.
The top plate came out sometime between November 23, 1952 (the day the station switched from channel 3 to channel 2) and December 3, 1954 (when Westinghouse bought the station for over $9 Million and changed the call letters to KDKA-TV). Could you imagine having to call a serviceman in to adjust your ossilator coil? Sounds kinda dirty!
Note: I corrected the word “ossilator” in my paragraph above which, with a blur in my eye, a brain that lacks dopamine, and perhaps just a dirty mind… saw the first letter in the Pennservice ad as an “a”. Oi, oi, oi…
No sooner had we posted what’s above then Clarke sent us a few more items!
Looks like WDTV had a Zippo lighter (much like WTAE’s Scripto!). Again, this was after the 1952 channel reallocation.
