WRTV (New Jersey)

WRTV
Channels
Programming
NetworkIndependent
Ownership
Owner
  • Walter Reade Organization
  • (Atlantic Video Corporation)
History
First air date
January 22, 1954 (1954-01-22)
Last air date
April 1, 1955 (1955-04-01)
Technical information
ERP17.1 kW[1]
HAAT440 ft (130 m)
Transmitter coordinates40°17′31″N 74°02′56″W / 40.29194°N 74.04889°W / 40.29194; -74.04889

WRTV was a television station that broadcast on channel 58 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States. It was owned by the Walter Reade Organization and broadcast as an independent station between January 22, 1954, and April 1, 1955, in hopes of securing a VHF channel for the station that never came. In the 1960s, Reade attempted to move the unbuilt station from channel 58 in Asbury Park to channel 68 in Newark, which was treated as an application for a new station; granted in 1970, Reade sold the permit before it went on air.

  1. ^ "WRTV" (PDF). Television Factbook. Spring 1955. p. 419. Retrieved March 11, 2021 – via World Radio History.