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KAJM

In June 2007, KAJM moved its signal at 104.3 MHz from a location north of Payson, to Wildflower Mountain near Crown King, and changed its city of license to Camp Verde.

KEYT-TV

Licensed to Santa Barbara, the station broadcasts a high definition digital on UHF channel 27 (virtual channel 3.1 via PSIP) with its transmitter located atop Broadcast Peak, between Santa Barbara and Santa Ynez in the Santa Ynez Mountains.

KLJB

Licensed to Davenport, Iowa, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 49 (or virtual channel 18.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter along US 150 in Orion of Western Township, Illinois.

KSNR

In 2005, KSNR changed its city of license from Thief River Falls to Fisher, which would allow it to move its transmitter tower closer to Grand Forks in the future.

KZGL

In 2006, the calls and format briefly moved to 98.3 FM in Prescott Valley, the former home of KKLD, until the signal was moved closer to the Phoenix market (with City of license in Mayer) and became the new home for KKFR.

Ted Mallie

By the time Channel 9 moved its studios to Secaucus, New Jersey in 1986, three years after they transferred their city of license there, he and Phil Tonken were the last of the WOR radio announcers from the old-time radio era to still be employed at the station.

WFMJ-TV

Licensed to Youngstown, Ohio, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 20 (or virtual channel 21.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter located on Mabel Street in Youngstown.

WIIL

In April 2010 the station received FCC approval to change its city of license from Kenosha to the Racine County community of Union Grove.

WMWC-TV

Licensed to Galesburg, Illinois, it broadcasts a standard definition digital signal on VHF channel 8 (virtual channel 53.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in Orion, Illinois that is also occupied by KWQC-TV, KLJB and WQAD-TV.

WNYJ-TV

WNYJ-TV is a non-commercial educational, independent television station licensed to West Milford, New Jersey, USA.

WPCB-TV

WPCB-TV, UHF channel 50, is a television station that is licensed to Greensburg, Pennsylvania, United States serving Pittsburgh as the flagship station of the Christian broadcast network Cornerstone Television, which originates most of its programs from the station.

WYTV

Licensed to Youngstown, Ohio, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 36 (or virtual channel 33.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter on Shady Run Road in the city along East Midlothian Boulevard/OH 170.

WZOR

The station is licensed to the Manitowoc County community of Mishicot, Wisconsin, and airs an active rock music format as "Razor 94-7." The station launched in 1994, and previously aired adult contemporary and classic country formats before being sold to current owner Woodward Communications, who launched "Razor 94-7" in 2000.


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Bristol Mountain Ski Resort

In 2001, WNVE left its Bristol Mountain transmitter site for the last time, changing city of license from South Bristol to Honeoye Falls, New York in a swap with sister station WLCL (107.3), which took the South Bristol city of license and the Bristol Mountain transmitter site.

KMJM-FM

On October 2, 2010, WSDD moved its transmitter to Overland, Missouri and its city of license to Bridgeton, Missouri.

Morningside, Maryland

Morningside is also the city of license of one of Washington, D.C.'s most prominent radio stations, from the 1960s to the present, WJFK and WPGC-FM.

WBUK

WBUK "The Big Buck" originally broadcast from 1991 to 2002 at 107.5 in the city of license of Ft. Shawnee with studios located on South Metcalf Street near the Ottawa River.

WFGA

Although its city of license is in Ohio, WFGA now primarily concentrates on serving the Auburn and Garrett area in northeastern Indiana, where its signal is much stronger than in Fort Wayne.

WHMA-FM

The station will change its city of license again to Alexandria, Alabama in conjunction with this change.

WJXQ

The TM format was maintained until 1981, when the station moved its tower and transmitter location from Jackson (also the station's then-city of license) to a location four miles east-north-east of the town of Springport in the northwestern part of Jackson County and increased power from 20,000 watts to 50,000 watts in preparation to invade the Lansing market with a brand new format.

WKOI-TV

Even though the transmitter is in Butler County, Ohio (within the Cincinnati television market), its city of license, Richmond, is part of the Dayton, Ohio market.

WTKT

WTKT first signed on the air on March 16, 1929 as WHP on 1430 kHz with the city of license listed as Lemoyne, Pennsylvania.

WVIB

In January 2002, the Noordyks were granted a construction permit to change WSHN-FM's city of license from Fremont to Holton and move into the Muskegon market (WSHN-AM 1550 remained in Fremont and remains owned by Noordyk to this day).

WZRK

In November 2010 WZRK was granted a Federal Communications Commission construction permit to change its city of license to Northbrook, Illinois with a power of 1,500 watts nondirectional daytime only.