WTOP Keep Your Eye On Promos 1977

[@1Soniccool]

ON THE ONE AND ONLY TV 9!

[@jacobtennyson9213]

Susan King later went to Detroit to be an anchor for WDIV Channel 4 NBC.

[@rjmcallister1888]

Post-Newsweek still had WTOP-TV then. Shortly afterward, the FCC's cross-ownership rule forced them to sell, or in this case, trade with the Detroit News' WWJ-TV. WTOP's calls stayed with radio, and the News came up with WDVM for channel 9; WWJ-TV became WDIV. After Gannett bought out the News, they changed it to the current WUSA. Tegna, created from Gannett's broadcast properties, is the current owner.

[@zshaw7549]

Gordon Peterson actually had a head full of hair. Maureen Buyan was actually young.

[@1Soniccool]

WUSA got a new graphics update from Gannett the logo changed to a lower cased wusa and the 9 is stylized to look like the old channel 9

[@jacobtennyson9213]

Used to be WTOP, then WDVM.

[@chrismc410]

I thought you couldn't have the same call letters as an existing radio station or did that regulation not exist back then?

[@eyeontv]

+chrismc410 As long as they were co-owned you could, there was a WTOP, WTOP-FM, and WTOP-TV, all owned by the Washington Post. The FM station was given to Howard University in 1971 and the call letters changed to WHUR-FM. Later in 1978 when the Post did a swap with the Detroit News for TV stations, channel 9 became WDVM . The WTOP call letters stayed with the AM station.

[@teflonmagnet]

susan king...she gets around. wink