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  ggn information systems - Photo of the Month - KPTV the nations first UHF - KC2XAK
RCA/NBC wanted to prove that the UHF frequencies were viable for broadcasting.
Experimental station KC2XAK (529-535 mc ~ CH 24) began operating on January 4, 1950.
The station was a satellite (re-broadcasting) the signal of NBC's NY outlet WNBT, via a microwave relay from the Empire State Building to Success Hill in Bridgeport, CT. Using a 1 KW transmitter with antenna gain of 20 on a 210 tower with an elevation of 450 feet above average terrain.
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 1949 in television
August 25 - RCA announces the development of a compatible color TV system.
December 29 - KC2XAK[?] of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first ultrahigh frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
Martin Kane, Private Eye premieres on NBC, becoming the first detective series on television.
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 WVIT/30   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Channel 30 in New Britain, CT started life in 1952 as an experimental UHF station operating as KC2XAK, a repeater for WNBT/4 in New York.
This was THE test station for the FCC's soon to be expanding group of frequencies for new TV stations.
When FCC adopted the UHF plan, KC2XAK became WNBC-TV, Channel 30 until the time WRCA-TV took the WNBC call-letters and sold Channel 30 to a local group who renamed it WHNB-TV.
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The transmitter building was completed on November 15, 1949, and a 40-foot specially designed antenna was placed atop a 210-foot tower.
Station equipment was designed by RCA and was installed and operated by NBC, under the call letters of KC2XAK, on 530 megacycles.
This experimental station went on the air on December 30, 1949, as the first and only UHF station in this country to operate on a regular daily basis.
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 Central High School - Bridgeport was First
On April 15, 1878 the world's first private telephone toll line was connected between Bridgeport and Black Rock.
December, 29, 1949 - KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF) television station to operate a daily schedule.
November 17 1972 - Walter Luckett becomes the first high school basketball player to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
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 RCA-
The RCA television Antenaplex System - multiple-outlet master device which offers solution of TV antenna problems for apartment houses, hotels, stores, schools, hospitals and office buildings was made commercially available.
NBC's experimental ultra-high-frequency satellite television station, KC2XAK, in Bridgepot, Conn., was placed in operation.
A new system of industrial television, simpler, more compact and less costly was demonstrated before the Institute of Radio Engineers.
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 CNN Interactive - Almanac - December 29, 1999
In 1945, Sheb Wooley recorded the first commercial record in Nashville, Tennessee.
In 1949, KC2XAK of Bridgeport, Conneticut, was the first ultra-high frequency television station to began operating on a regular daily schedule.
In 1972, the last weekly issue of "LIFE" hit the newsstands.
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