The History of UHF Television site was primarily created because there were some stories that needed to be told because they never had been, and there were other stories that needed to be properly told because the existing versions were riddled with inaccuracies such as the presumption of anecdotal information as correct.

We have therefore written those stories ourselves and present them for your reading here. Some of them originally appeared at Peter Q. George's former "UHF Morgue" website and have been corrected and expanded; most have been created from scratch. The one thing we will promise the reader is that Broadcasting has been used for the majority of fact-checking, with additional corrections coming from Television Digest (through 1963) and articles found in various newspaper archive sites. We are therefore confident that these articles are reasonably accurate (90% or better) as presented. The FCC has also made available the old history cards for stations and we updated articles with additional information from those, as applicable; however, these are only available for stations which are presently on the air and which signed on prior to 1980, so only a limited number of articles were able to be updated.

In this section, we have listed articles alphabetically by call letters; if you are looking for information on a station but cannot remember the call letters, we suggest consulting our "Channels" pages for listings by channel number; there are many stations on those lists which contain notes of what limited information is available (insufficient for a complete article).

Clarke Ingram's original website on the history of the DuMont television network has been restored here.

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• Sixth Report and Order - Broadcasting-Telecasting transcript of the FCC lifting of the TV allocation "freeze" and creation of the UHF allocations (April 14, 1952). (Courtesy WorldRadioHistory.com)
• "Status of UHF and Multiple Ownership" - Transcript of May 19, 1954 U.S. Senate hearings on early UHF broadcasting and the question of station ownership limits.
• "How Well Can UHF Sell?" - First of a two-part Sponsor magazine look at the difficulties of selling airtime on the pioneer UHF stations (July 26, 1954).
• "Some Plain Facts About UHF" - Conclusion of Sponsor magazine series (August 9, 1954).
• "Where VHF Isn't Missed" - Broadcasting-Telecasting magazine report on two UHF-only television markets (May 7 & 14, 1956).
• "Analysis of ABC Network Programming, February 1953-October 1959" - Future network programmer Fred Silverman's master's thesis on the then-struggling American Broadcasting Company (1959).
• "The Darkened Channels" - Harvard Law Review report on UHF television (1962).
• "Is Pay-TV Worth Paying For?" - From an unknown TV Guide-like magazine, two articles on UHF being used for subscription television in 1963.
• "U-Day and You" - TV Guide article on the then-pending arrival of mandated all-channel television sets (April 25, 1964).
• "Day-to-Day Living With UHF" - William L. Putnam's thoughts after the first 12 years of UHF operation, from Sponsor, August 10, 1964.
• "Planning a Successful UHF Operation" - Article by William Lowell Putnam on how to properly plan a new UHF station, from Broadcast Management/Engineering, October 1965.
• "Inequities in Mass Communication Law: The FCC's Application of the Duopoly Rule to Public Broadcasting" - Paper on a petition by to allow multiple-station ownership in individual markets by educational broadcasters (1976).