> On Nov 11, 2019, at 10:45 AM, M-D November <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Adam - it's not just you. Having done a semester in London when I was in
> college, I remember (being baffled by) the handovers to LWT (from, I want to
> say, Carlton) - trying to understand just what the smeg was going on sent me
> down a research rabbit hole instead of, you know, doing the reading I needed
> to do for class...
This kind of thing was not entirely unknown in the U.S., although with radio,
not TV -- in the early days, many stations were licensed to share frequencies,
although those arrangements gradually disappeared as either new broadcasting
frequencies opened up, or the two stations involved found it hard to make a go
of things and one ended up buying out the other.
I think the longest-lasting example was WFAA and WBAP in Dallas and Fort Worth,
which shared one frequency from the 1920s until 1947, and then shared two
frequencies between themselves -- switching off with each other several times a
day at first, and later just several times a week -- until 1970, when WBAP
finally paid off WFAA so they could be the full-time station on the better
signal.
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