From 1988-1990, I was in college in Dayton, Ohio. At the time, there was a
5-year-old TV station (WRGT/45) which had just signed on as a FOX
affiliate.

Today I was at the website for another Dayton TV station, WHIO-TV 7. Their
website also has information on Dayton's UPN station. Dayton's UPN station
is apparently at Channel 44.

I've never heard of two TV stations in the same market separated by one
position on the dial. I know that for technical reasons, you can't do that
with radio, and I'm trying to figure out how it's being done here.

The Dayton FCC listing includes all of the stations that were there when
I was in school (2, 7, 16, 22, 45), an active HDTV license on Channel 30,
and HDTV applications on 41, 50 and 58. And there is an LP license on
Channel 66. Nothing on 44.

In Springfield, the other major city in the area (radio and TV stations
generally identify themselves as "WXYZ Dayton/Springfield"), I see a
WBDT-TV26, WBDT-DT18, and a couple miscellaneous LP licenses.

The only stuff I can find at Channel 44 in Ohio: WTLW-TV Lima,
WOUC-TV Cambridge, and W53BN Youngstown. There is not a single license
for Channel 44 *anywhere* near Dayton. Not in Montgomery County, not in
Clark County, not in any of the counties surrounding Dayton or
Springfield. In fact, there are only a handful of records referring to
TV44 anywhere in Ohio, according to the search I did on the FCC website.

I'm going to e-mail the station, but they have a note that "due to
the volume we receive, personal replies will not always be possible."

I hope someone answers my e-mail. I'm really curious about this.

References:

http://www.Fox45.com/
http://www.whiotv.com/upn44/

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