![]() ![]() The VHF bands were more desirable because they carried longer distances. In the early days of broadcast television, there were twelve VHF channels available and 69 UHF channels (later reduced to 55 in 1983). The station was a major beneficiary of a quirk in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s plan for allocating stations. It lost DuMont in 1956 following the network's closure, and lost CBS soon afterward following a dispute with the network after that, WHEN-TV/WTVH in Syracuse served as the default CBS affiliate for the Utica area until 2015. As the only station in its area, it was affiliated with all four major networks at the time: NBC, DuMont, ABC, and CBS, with NBC being its primary affiliation. It was owned by Copper City Broadcasting Corporation, controlled by Myron Kallet, along with WKAL (1450 AM). This made Utica one of the smallest cities in the nation with a television station. It was the 93rd television station in the United States to sign on. The station launched on December 1, 1949, as Utica's first television station, operating on very high frequency (VHF) channel 13. ![]() Owned by Heartland Media, the station has studios on Smith Hill Road in Deerfield (with a Utica postal address), and its transmitter is located in the Eatonville section of Fairfield. WKTV (channel 2) is a television station in Utica, New York, United States, affiliated with NBC, CBS, and The CW Plus. ![]()
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