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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: KNXT-TV becomes KCBS-TV
Message-ID: <292@vortex.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Apr-84 21:04:03 EST
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Posted: Thu Apr  5 21:04:03 1984
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For those of you who follow such things, the CBS O&O here in L.A.,
KNXT-TV (2), changed their callsign to KCBS-TV as of last Monday
(April 2) at sign-on.  KNXT was one of the earlier VHF outlets here
in Los Angeles -- the television service associated with KNX radio 
(which still exists).  With the callsign change, L.A. now has
KCBS, KNBC, and KABC, while New York City has WCBS, WNBC, and WABC.
All six of these stations are owned and operated by their respective
networks; they are not merely affiliates. 

Why the change was made now, after all these years, is unclear.  This
is the first local change in a VHF callsign in my memory (and I've lived
in L.A. my entire life).  I guess the CBS exec's finally decided that
there was something to be said for symmetry in callsigns...

--Lauren--