Television Stations
As listed below, four TV stations with three-letter base call signs no longer use the "-TV" suffix. These stations were previously co-owned with AM stations which originally used three-letter call signs but have since adopted other call signs. In this case, the TV station is permitted to, but not required to, drop the suffix.
In addition, two other TV stations with three-letter base call signs now use the "-DT" suffix instead of the "-TV" suffix even though their former AM sister stations continue to use those same three-letter call signs.
- KGO-TV (7 RF/7 display, ABC) - San Francisco, California
- KGW (8/8, NBC) - Portland, Oregon
- KHQ-TV (15/6, NBC) - Spokane, Washington
- KOB (26/4, NBC) - Albuquerque, New Mexico
- KSL-TV (38/5, NBC) - Salt Lake City, Utah
- KYW-TV (26/3, CBS) - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- WBZ-TV (30/4, CBS) - Boston, Massachusetts
- WGN-TV (19/9, The CW) - Chicago, Illinois
- WHA-TV (20/21, PBS) - Madison, Wisconsin
- WHO-DT (13/13, NBC) - Des Moines, Iowa
- WHP-TV (21/21, CBS) - Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
- WIS (10/10, NBC) - Columbia, South Carolina
- WJW (8/8, Fox) - Cleveland, Ohio
- WJZ-TV (13/13, CBS) - Baltimore, Maryland
- WLS-TV (44/7, ABC) - Chicago, Illinois
- WMC-TV (5/5, NBC) - Memphis, Tennessee
- WOI-DT (5/5, ABC) - Ames, Iowa
- WRC-TV (48/4, NBC) - Washington, D.C.
- WSB-TV (39/2, ABC) - Atlanta, Georgia
- WWJ-TV (44/62, CBS) - Detroit, Michigan
- WWL-TV (36/4, CBS) - New Orleans, Louisiana
- This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
Read more about this topic: List Of Three-letter Broadcast Callsigns In The United States
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