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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,319 posts)
Fri May 19, 2017, 09:16 AM May 2017

Happy 72nd birthday, WTTG.

[link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTTG|WTTG]

Early years

The station traces its history to May 19, 1945, when television set and equipment manufacturer Allen B. DuMont founded W3XWT, the second experimental station in the nation's capital (after NBC's W3XNB, forerunner to WRC-TV).
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