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unusual facts about Channel 2



Ephraim Sidon

In the 90’s Sidon gained status as the top writer for the Israeli Channel 2 satirical puppet show Chartzufim, the Israeli version of Spitting Image.

Ha-Comedy Store

Ha-Comedy Store (Hebrew: הקומדי סטור, 'The Comedy Store') was an Israeli entertainment program which was broadcast on the Israeli Channel 2 between the years 1994-1996.

Moni Moshonov

In 2004 he joined the sketch show Ktsarim on the Channel 2, for which he won an Israeli Film Academy Award for best actor in a comedy series, and in 2007 he hosted the Israeli version of Thank God You're Here on Channel 10.

Sayed Kashua

Avoda Aravit, or in English, Arab Labor, is a satirical sitcom written by Kashua and aired on Israel's Channel 2.

WKOB-LD

CBS, which ultimately selected Channel 33 for their post-transition operations, did not object and signed a Waiver Of Consent, ultimately accepting whatever interference a WKOB-LP operation over Channel 2 would have presented to WCBS-TV.


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A.C. Kleinheider

One of two full-time bloggers hired in a headline-making new media experiment by WKRN-TV Channel 2 in Nashville, Kleinheider went on to edit Post Politics, a branded political blog of NashvillePost.com.

Audrey Kuchen

Audrey also interned for KTVU Channel 2 in Oakland and reported for the Hometown News Network in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Barbara Simpson

Barbara Simpson was a prominent television news anchor in San Francisco (KTVU, Channel 2, in Oakland, KQED, Channel 9; and KOFY-TV Channel 20) and Los Angeles from the late 1970s through the 1990s.

Chris Twomey

Twomey won a National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences award as editor of "Channel 2 The people" and shared many other film industry awards while editing for CBS News "48 Hours."

CJFB-TV

It was broadcast on channel 5, cable 9 in Swift Current, channel 10 in Riverhurst, channel 2 in Cypress Hills, channel 3 in Ponteix, channel 2 in Eastend, channel 7 in Shaunavon, and channel 2 in Val Marie.

CKCK

CKCK-DT, a television station (channel 2) licensed to serve Regina

CKCY

CHBX-TV, a television station (channel 2) licensed to Sault Ste.

CKPG

CKPG-TV, a television station (channel 2) licensed to Prince George, British Columbia, Canada

CKPR-DT

CKPR-DT broadcasts on channel 2 and cable 5 in Thunder Bay, formerly and via a transmitter owned by the CBC in the Nipigon area (CBLK-TV, channel 16 with an ERP of 4.3 kW).

Hilla Nachshon

Also in that year, she began to host the Israeli version of the reality show "Dancing with the Stars" on the Israeli channel 2, along with Avi Kushnir.

James E. Rogers

He was the founder of Valley Broadcasting Company in 1971 and has served as the company's chief executive officer since 1979 on KVBC-TV (now KSNV-DT), the NBC affiliate in Las Vegas, The station went on the air as KLRJ-TV on channel 2 on January 23, 1955, licensed to Henderson and owned by the Donrey Media Group (now Stephens Media LLC) along with the Las Vegas Review-Journal and KORK radio (920 AM; now KBAD).

KAAH-TV

In its early days, it carried business news programming from Financial News Network, ethnic programming from the International Television Network, and carried ABC, CBS, and NBC programs that KITV (channel 4), KGMB (then on channel 9, now on channel 5) and KHON-TV (channel 2) chose to decline; programming from ABC's daytime lineup that was pre-empted by KITV was the most visible on KSHO's schedule.

KCWB

KCWQ-LP, a low-power television station (channel 2) licensed to Palm Springs, California, United States, which formerly used the call sign KCWB

KDKA

KDKA-TV, a television station (channel 2) licensed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

KEYU

Univisión Amarillo can also be seen in Amarillo, Texas on KEAT-LP channel 22, and locally on Suddenlink Cable channel 2 where actual TV station KACV-TV on channel 3.

KJWP

This was likely because it was sandwiched between KBCI-TV in Boise (now KBOI-TV), KTWO-TV in Casper, KTVQ in Billings, Montana, and KUTV in Salt Lake City; the channel 2 analog signal traveled a very long distance under normal conditions.

KJWY

KJWP, a television station (channel 2) licensed to Jackson, Wyoming, United States, which used the call sign KJWY from 1996 to 2013

KMPX

In 2004, Daystar acquired PBS member station KDTN (channel 2) from North Texas Public Broadcasting.

KPMP

KPMP-LP, a defunct low-power television station (channel 2) formerly licensed to serve Winnemucca, Nevada, United States

KTTU

KATN, a television station (channel 2) licensed to Fairbanks, Alaska, United States, which used the call sign KTTU-TV from 1981 to 1984

KTUU-TV

Channel 2 also carried a few PBS programs (particularly The Electric Company) until KAKM signed on in 1975.

On September 19, 1966, channel 2 became the first station in Alaska to transmit in color (NTSC) when it aired the premiere episode of the ABC situation comedy That Girl (entitled "Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!").

KVBC

KSNV-DT, a television station (channel 2/virtual channel 3) licensed to serve Las Vegas, Nevada, United States, which held the call sign KVBC or KVBC-DT until 2010

KVOO

KJRH-TV, a television station (channel 2) which used the call sign KVOO until 1971

KYUM-LP

With station KSWT being assigned channel 16 for their digital television operations, KYUM-LP was forced to move, and filed an application with the FCC in May 2001 to move to VHF channel 2.

Nationwide Communications

The company's second purchase was WXEX-TV (now WRIC-TV), Channel 8, Petersburg, Virginia in 1968, its third station was WBAY-TV, Channel 2, Green Bay, Wisconsin, purchased in 1974, and its fourth station purchase was KITN (now WFTC), Channel 29, in Minneapolis in 1985.

O Shopping

terr chan 1 = VHF Channel 2 (Every Late Nights; Mondays-Fridays after Banana Nite; Saturdays after Sports Unlimited

Queensland Softball Association

Softball games were televised on ABC Channel 2 and 1960/61 saw Downey Park the only ground used for the season.

Soma Valliappan

His talks and Interviews are aired by All India Radio’ Channel 2, Radio Mirchi, Aha FM, Radio City, Radio 1 and Singapore Oli.

Télé-Québec

Télé-Québec (and its predecessor, Radio-Québec) was also assigned channel 2 in Rivière-du-Loup, channel 10 in Lithium Mines and channel 21 in Mont-Laurier.

WCBW

WCBS-TV, a television station (channel 2), licensed to serve New York, New York, United States, which held the call sign WCBW from 1941 to 1946

WCIR

WCIR-LP, a low-power television station (channel 2) licensed to Beckley, West Virginia, United States

WCON

WCON-TV 2, an unbuilt TV station permit owned by the Atlanta Constitution newspaper, which merged in the 1950s with the Atlanta Journal and WSB-TV 8, which then moved to channel 2

WFMJ-TV

The station can also be seen on Time Warner Cable/Youngstown channel 3, Armstrong Cable channel 2, Time Warner Cable/Warren channel 4 and Comcast Xfinity channel 7 in the Western Pennsylvania towns of New Castle and Bessemer.

WGEM-DT3

Known on-air as WGEM Fox, the station can also be seen on Mediacom channel 2 in Iowa, US Cable channel 12 in Missouri, and Comcast channel 18 in Illinois.

WKAQ

WKAQ-TV, a television station (channel 2 analog/28 digital) licensed to San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States

WKOB-LD

This translator station relayed the signal of WCBS-TV, which for decades prior and at that time operated over VHF channel 2.

WLWD

WDTN channel 2, a television station in Dayton, Ohio, United States that previously held the WLWD callsign

Woodberry, Baltimore

Three of the TV outlets, WMAR-TV (channel 2), WBAL-TV (channel 11), and WJZ-TV (channel 13)–along with radio stations WIYY (97.9 FM) and WZFT (104.3 FM)–transmit from a red-colored, tri-mast candelabra tower, which stands 997 feet (304 meters) above ground level.

WVBG-LP

Until 2000, WVBG was, under Vision Broadcasting, co-owned with two other low-power stations, WVBK-LP channel 49 in Manchester, Vermont (now on channel 2) and WVBX-LP channel 47 in Glens Falls, New York (now WNYA-CA channel 15, the Albany repeater for WNYA), which both served as repeaters for the station.

Zenith Electronics

Zenith was the first company to experiment with subscription television, launching their Phonevision concept on experimental Chicago station KS2XBS (originally broadcasting on Channel 2 before the Federal Communications Commission forced them to relinquish it to WBBM-TV).