By the early 1980s, Rutland had full-power service from Vermont ETV (now called something different) on WVER, channel 28, and translator service from Burlington's WCAX-TV (3, CBS) and WVNY/WEZF-TV (22, ABC). I don't believe WIRI/WPTZ (5 North Pole, N.Y., NBC) ever had translators in Vermont, although WCFE-TV (57 Plattsburgh, PBS) did.
The Albany stations were late movers to the VHF dial; the Capital District's only original V was General Electric's WRGB (4 Schenectady), which moved to channel 6 in the Great VHF Shuffle of the early 1950s. The ancestor of today's WTEN (10 Albany) was a network of three "full-power" UHFs: WROW-TV/WCDA (41 Albany), WCDB (29 Hagaman), and WCDC (19 North Adams, Mass.); WCDA moved to channel 10, WCDB was shut off, and WCDC has remained on Mount Greylock to serve areas shadowed from the main channel 10 site in the Helderbergs. Today's WNYT (13 Albany) began as WTRI (35 Troy), sister to WTRY (980 Troy).
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