User:Lolcatistan/sandbox-MTMstations

In general

 * Some influence from El TV Kadsre in the islands, as well as Global and CTV up north, Japanese-language sister ABS, and BDT in Pikeland.
 * For the aesthetics: ABN, Central, RDN, and PBC on FTVSW + BFDI TV in Pikeland canon + UltraToons Network from DLFW + Kaylor’s CER2.

KMTM-TV channel 3 Bellingham/Seattle/Tacoma, WA + CJBA-TV channel 31 Abbotsford/Vancouver/Victoria, BC

 * Flagship of regional “Network Northwest” stations.
 * KMTM was one of the very first TV stations in the PNW: KX03BY from 1930-45, KBY-TV from 1945-1949, KKBY from 1949-1953, KDO-TV from 1953-1961, and KQRC from 1961-1970. Mary Tyler Moore’s company bought out the station in 1970, making it into one of the first Superstations.
 * CJBA launched in 1963 as a CTV affiliate for Abbotsford. It has been a repeater of KMTM across the border since 1979 (being operated through an LMA with the Jim Pattison Group which owns the station on paper; the CRTC weren’t very happy about an American company (MTM/Argosy) operating a Canadian station, but could do nothing about it anyway, due to that pesky free market).
 * As a result of consisting both of a US and a Canadian station, has to comply with both FCC (E/I, EAS) and CRTC (CanCon, AlertReady) regulations.
 * Never an affiliate of any of the big networks; at the time the station launched during the Interwar Period, most of the big networks were based in NYC, and the only way to get network programming from there to Seattle was via copper phone lines, which were prohibitively expensive. However, it did use Global in Ontario’s branding elements (and air some of their programming) before Canwest expanded their network across Canada, as well as using BBS (Baton Broadcast System) branding and programming for a while in the mid-90s. The *MTM stations also aired Operation Prime Time programming, and in fact during the 80s, advertised themselves as being “part of the Operation Prime Time network” (by which point OPT was just another brand belonging to Argosy/MTM).
 * Both the US and Canadian stations have high-powered transmitters, both in the old analog format and in digital TV; at night, KMTM can be received across much of the northwestern part of Washington State, and CJBA can be received across much of southern Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland of BC.
 * Has 6 Anglophone sister stations, a result of Argosy being legally considered a venture capital firm by the FCC. They are:
 * within the MTM Enterprises Broadcasting unit: KSEA-CD channel 2 (mostly reruns of Argosy's vast library of kids' shows, and licensed under an Educational Independent license, also airing some offerings from PBS/NET/ADTV syndicator APT), KITN-TV channel 62 (using the "CityVision" format also used on stations under AMTM's "USA Broadcasting" unit, most notably WAMI-69 Miami), and KNWN-LD channel 97 (an US adaptation of the Filipino "TeleRadyo" format)
 * within the Argosy Media Entertainment unit: KARG-TV channel 19 (a low-budget station, often airing old game show reruns and "TeleRadio" of conservative and/or liberal talk shows), KWAC-CD channel 23 (mostly reruns of old classic Argosy library programming, mainly from the Belisarius, Big Ticket, Connell, and Mark VII units, with some religious stuff and obscure sports as well), and KXDX-TV channel 49 (which exists solely to simsub with CHEK and CIVI)

WMTM-TV channel 7 Charlotte/Concorde/Kannapolis, NC

 * Founded in 1943 as WUGN-TV, taking its callsign from its sister radio station (which itself deliberately chose its calls to be similar to the more well-known WGN radio in Chicago). In 1973, it became an MTM station, and got its current callsign.
 * Used to have its own syndication infrastructure “UGNBC”. That name disappeared when MTM bought the station, in favour of MTM's then-current syndication company “Victory Television”.
 * Got a UHF sister station, the revived WUGN on channel 57, in 1999.

JMTM-TV channel 5 Tokyo, Kanto

 * Founded in August 1952, not that long after the USA annexed Japan (which had a coup to restore the pre-WWII Imperial government ITTL, which was only stopped by US intervention and annexation), as JKTO-TV. One of the first English-language stations in Japan. Acquired by MTM in 1981; received current callsign in 1989.
 * Still one of the few English-language stations in Tokyo on a VHF channel rather than UHF.

MTM Enterprises Broadcasting

 * WTHQ-TV channel 11 Buffalo, New York (acquired in 2003)
 * Used to be owned by a video game publisher.
 * KFWD-TV channel 16 Irving/Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas (acquired in 2016)
 * Almost became a religious station, but AMTM quickly bought out and relaunched it, including a new channel number, before the conversion was complete.
 * KTMA-TV channel 23 Minneapolis/Saint Paul/Twin Cities, Minnesota (acquired in 1989)
 * WCHI-CD channel 51 Chicago, Illinois (launched in 2007)
 * Brands itself in an idiosyncratic manner inspired by Chinese bootleg products crossed with old pirate radio stations.
 * Uses an educational independent license, which is really just an excuse to air weird "multicultural" programming.
 * Has Max Headroom as its mascot, recalling the infamous Chicago TV hijacking.

Field Communications, remnants of

 * WNAT-TV channel 25 Nextonville, Tennessee
 * KCER-TV channel 42 Benton/Little Rock/Hot Springs, Arkansas
 * The black sheep of MTM Television Stations, operated out of a converted prefab house and mainly serving as a rerun farm.
 * Has a sister station, KWAB channel 22.
 * WKBS-TV channel 48 Burlington/Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sunbeam Television (acquired 2018)

 * WRTB-TV channel 1 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 * This station was grandfathered onto the Channel 1 bandwidth, and could not be picked up by many TV sets. For much of its life as an independent station, it has had poor programming, and ended up being briefly owned by the McDonalds Corporation, as the Fox network didn't want it after buying Metromedia. It was eventually sold to Sunbeam (being its only independent station not on Channel 7), which itself was sold to Argosy/MTM in 2018.
 * WHDH-TV channel 7 Boston, Massachusetts
 * WSUI-TV channel 7 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
 * WSVN-TV channel 7 Miami, Florida
 * JNBT-TV channel 7 Nagasaki, Kyushu
 * Like JMTM, a long-standing Anglophone independent station in the Japanese Isles.
 * Basically ABS (Argosy's Japanophone network) but in English.