WUAB Channel 43 has been licensed to Lorain, Ohio since its launch in 1968. For most of its life its studios were in suburban Cleveland, and are now located in downtown Cleveland with co-owned WOIO CBS 19.
Prior to the mid-1980s (possibly later), WUAB had an hour of Lorain programming on Saturday mornings. Lorain News aired at 10 AM, and Lorain Conversation aired at 10:30. Today you wouldn't know they're licensed outside Cleveland, other than their IDs. Their transmitter is co-located with the Cleveland VHFs at Parma too. WOIO, incidentially, is licensed to Shaker Heights, which is merely part of Cleveland.
In Upstate New York, WWNY TV7 is licensed to Carthage, and its original studios in 1954 were near Carthage. Today it operates out of Watertown, but its transmitter remains closer to Carthage. Also in that area is WPTZ, licensed to North Pole but serving Plattsburgh. They have attempted to get their license changed to Plattsburgh, but as is my understanding, the FCC isn't too keen on making that change.
Just across the border to the south, how much does XETV serve Tijuana?
And, just across the border to the north, there's a station near Kitchener on Channel 6, licensed to Paris. That station, CIII, doesn't even give two hoots about that area - they pretend they're a Toronto station. CHWI is licensed to Wheatley (Leamington) but serves Windsor; CKVR is licensed to Barrie but for awhile was pretending to be a Toronto station while ignoring Barrie; and all over the place full-power relay stations broadcast generic signals with the local programming of other markets. I doubt in my lifetime I'll ever see WABC's Eyewitness News on an ABC affiliate in Ohio, but those kinds of distances between studios and transmitters are very common north of the border.
Prior to the mid-1980s (possibly later), WUAB had an hour of Lorain programming on Saturday mornings. Lorain News aired at 10 AM, and Lorain Conversation aired at 10:30. Today you wouldn't know they're licensed outside Cleveland, other than their IDs. Their transmitter is co-located with the Cleveland VHFs at Parma too. WOIO, incidentially, is licensed to Shaker Heights, which is merely part of Cleveland.
In Upstate New York, WWNY TV7 is licensed to Carthage, and its original studios in 1954 were near Carthage. Today it operates out of Watertown, but its transmitter remains closer to Carthage. Also in that area is WPTZ, licensed to North Pole but serving Plattsburgh. They have attempted to get their license changed to Plattsburgh, but as is my understanding, the FCC isn't too keen on making that change.
Just across the border to the south, how much does XETV serve Tijuana?
And, just across the border to the north, there's a station near Kitchener on Channel 6, licensed to Paris. That station, CIII, doesn't even give two hoots about that area - they pretend they're a Toronto station. CHWI is licensed to Wheatley (Leamington) but serves Windsor; CKVR is licensed to Barrie but for awhile was pretending to be a Toronto station while ignoring Barrie; and all over the place full-power relay stations broadcast generic signals with the local programming of other markets. I doubt in my lifetime I'll ever see WABC's Eyewitness News on an ABC affiliate in Ohio, but those kinds of distances between studios and transmitters are very common north of the border.