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2 unusual facts about independent station


Independent Television

Independent station, a terrestrial television station not affiliated to networks.

Vic Piano

Vic Piano, along with his brother Claude, was the founder and the operator of the Mizlou Television Network, a leading Independent TV Network that was started in 1968.


Global National

In addition to Global's owned-and-operated stations (O&Os), Global National also airs on affiliate CHFD-DT in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and independent station CJON-DT (NTV) in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

KLAX-TV

KLAX was launched on March 3, 1983 originally operating as an independent station, owned by the late Don Lyons and his wife, the former Rebecca Payton (1937-2012), a native of Saline in Bienville Parish.

KTXH

The station first signed on the air on November 7, 1982, becoming the third independent station in Houston, after KRIV (then owned by Metromedia), and Gaylord Broadcasting's KHTV (channel 39, now Tribune Broadcasting-owned KIAH).

KUOK

Prior to affiliating with Univision, KOKT-LP operated as an independent station from 1994 to 1995, before becoming the UPN affiliate for the Ada, Oklahoma-Sherman, Texas television market between 1995 and 2004; however Oklahoma City area and North Texas editions of TV Guide (during the magazine's local listings era) claimed that the market's NBC affiliate KTEN ran select UPN programs as an additional affiliation from 1995 to 2002.

KZJL

In 2001, the station was purchased by Liberman Broadcasting and became a Spanish-language independent station; in 2009, KZJL became a charter owned-and-operated station of Liberman's Spanish-language broadcast network Estrella TV.

Nippon BS Broadcasting

It is an independent television station and is a subsidiary of Bic Camera.

Sutro Tower

Sutro Tower also leases space to other Bay Area radio and television stations, including PBS outlet KQED; independent station KOFY-TV; and KBCW, a sister station to KPIX.

VasalloVision


Relaunched as English-language independent station KUBE-TV September 27, 2010.

WATN-TV

The station first signed on the air on September 10, 1978 as WPTY-TV, and was the first station on the UHF band and first independent station in the market, as well as the first new commercial station to sign on in Memphis since WREG-TV (channel 3) debuted 23 years earlier.

WEBR-CD

former affiliations = independent via WPIX translator (1970-1992)
Independent (1992-1999)
Primary KBS/Korean programming (1999-2005)
GCN (2005-2013)
OnTV4Us (2013) Secondary KBS/Korean programing (1995-1999) HSN(esp) (2001-2002)

WFGX

The station signed on the air on April 7, 1987 as an independent station; it was the second independent station on the Florida side of the market, after Pensacola-based WJTC.

WICA

WICA-TV, Channel 15, a defunct independent television station in Ashtabula, Ohio, which existed from 1953 to 1956, and again from 1965 to 1967

WKOB-LD

former affiliations = CBS (via WCBS-TV translator) (1970-1989);
Asian Programming (1989-1996); Independent (1996-2006 and 2010-2013)
Almavision (2006)
LATV on 42.2 (October 18–25, 2010)
Tuff TV on 42.4 (January 19, 2011-March 30, 2011)
RTV

WNPX-TV

The station signed on January 23, 1989 as WMTT an independent station serving Cookeville.

WXLV-TV

It was the first independent station in the Piedmont Triad region, and broadcast its signal from a transmitter located west of Gap in Stokes County.

WXMS-LP

On January 1, 2006, WXMS lost its UPN affiliation to WRBJ and became an independent station.


see also

Brian Bram

In 1983 Bram produced and hosted an all-night movie program on WUHF (Channel 31; then an independent station; now part of the Fox network).

KLIF Triangle Point Studios

KLIF-AM was operating on the 1190 AM frequency and was an independent station with a Top 40 format.

San Francisco Chronicle

KRON was sold in 1999 and, after years of being San Francisco's NBC affiliate, became an independent station on January 1, 2002 when NBC -- tired of the DeYoungs' repeated refusal to sell KRON to the network -- purchased KNTV in San Jose from Granite Broadcasting Corporation for $230 million.

TVX Broadcast Group

KRRT (now KMYS) in Kerrville, Texas was signed-on in November 1985 as the San Antonio market's first English-language independent station.

Wick Allison

In February, 2013, Allison launched "D: The Broadcast," a two-hour daily morning talk show, on local Dallas independent station KTXD.

WPXH-TV

Despite the stations' relatively strong program lineup, fellow independent station WTTO (channel 21) in Homewood had stronger ratings than channels 44 and 17.

WSST-TV

WSST-TV is a locally-owned independent station in the South-Central Georgia town of Cordele, featuring news and other local programming for the region—more than any other station, plus top-rated syndicated fare, like Extra, Martha Stewart, Entertainment Tonight, The People's Court, Matlock and many more.