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Surfin’: Looking for Channel 1, But Finding WNBC

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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor

This week, Surfin’ discovers that call letters can have an interesting -- and unexpected -- history.



I have something leftover from last year: an error in the “Where's Channel 1?” story from two columns ago. It turns out that the call letters WNBT were not used by the TV station in New Britain, Connecticut, which is now WVIT Channel 30.

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