Not quite, Jim.

When analog television for full-power stations was discontinued, stations 
had three options:

   - Call letters plus the suffix -DT
   - Call letters plus the suffix -TV
   - Call letters only, unless also on a co-owned radio station somewhere, 
   in which case a suffix is required

Go back and look at the database again and you will find that, among other 
things, the Univision stations have the calls KMEX-DT and KFTR-DT.

Several L.A. stations have the -TV suffix even though it is not required 
(KDOC-TV, KWHY-TV, KPXN-TV, to name three).

The only two stations that *have* to have a suffix are KCBS-TV and KABC-TV, 
and (if you count them as a Los Angeles market station, as DirecTV does) 
KVCR-TV in San Bernardino.

I had thought that three-letter calls on television stations which were 
grandfathered in after they separated from their radio stations still 
required a suffix, but I checked the only one of those I could think of, 
KOB in Albuquerque, and it does not have one.


On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 3:56:21 PM UTC-7, Jim Ellwanger wrote:
>
> I believe all "DT" suffixes either dropped off or were automatically 
> changed back to "TV" once the analog channels went away. 
>
>
>

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