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This is the history of analog UHF television broadcasting (or at least, the parts of it worth telling).
In 2011 (and again in 2014) Los Angeles-based radio programming consultant K.M. Richards undertook a complete review of the Dorner list, verifying and correcting entries, as well as adding dozens of stations, the existence of which were apparently not known to Dorner (undoubtedly due to the lack of easy access to such reference material when he did his research). That list now comprises the "Channels" section of this website, and K.M. serves as content coordinator for this site. As that second update was being finished, it became obvious that there were stations on the list whose stories could be told in greater detail than the footnotes provided, that there were articles on other sites which gave more information on individual stations than was possible in the footnotes, and that there was a plethora of photographs, station logos and test patterns, and the like that were practically begging to be seen by a wider and appreciative audience. Thus this website was born.
Our sincerest thanks go to David Gleason, who provides the online library of archived Broadcasting Magazines and Broadcasting Yearbooks at www.americanradiohistory.com as a research resource, for his assistance both in the original updates to what are now the "Channels" lists and in the writing of many of the articles that appear here. Thanks are also in order for Maureen Carney, whose access to newspaper archives resulted not only in valuable information for articles but many, many photographs and print ads for local stations. Additional reference books used for this site include The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, Seventh Edition by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The TV Schedule Book by Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik, and Syndicated Television by Hal Erickson. We also appreciate Peter Q. George (K1XRB)'s allowing us to include the articles that had previously appeared in his now-defunct "UHF Morgue" at his former RadioDXer site and we thank him for his kind permission to do so.
We are pleased to present this website in tribute to the pioneering UHF broadcasters who made television as we know it today possible. Please feel free to send us feedback with your thoughts and recollections, as well as any additions or corrections to (or questions about!) the stations on the site.
This is a non-commercial website meant for educational purposes. It is our belief that the judicious use of articles, clippings and pictures, at web resolution, and intended only for non-commercial educational purposes, constitutes fair use under the provisions of 17 U.S.C. § 107. All articles, features, and pictures on the site remain the property of their original creators and/or copyright holders. Upon proof of copyright ownership, submitted under penalty of perjury, any items infringing upon copyrights still in force will be promptly removed.
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Site concept © Clarke Ingram. Site design by K.M. Richards.
The roots of the site go back to 1999, when Clarke Ingram adapted the article "A Trail of Bleached Bones", written by Mike Dorner, Jr. of Metairie, Louisiana, from the May 1977 issue of VHF-UHF Digest, published by the Worldwide TV-FM DX Association. Dorner did not specify his sources for his original research, and he did not differentiate between formerly operating stations and unbuilt construction permits. The original adaptation was part of Clarke's 
The site is organized into three sections: Channels, as noted above, is the updated version of the Dorner-originated list from the DuMont History website, and now includes links to external sources for some stations, as available; Articles is a series of original articles on individual station histories and other related topics; and Galleries are a collection of images, organized by station and/or subject matter. All can be reached by the menu in the upper left area of each page, and pages within the site are cross-linked to each other as applicable.
We would also like to pay tribute to the true UHF pioneers ... the 16 stations that got their original first-year construction permits on the air within the required eight-month construction period, and stayed there, through thick and thin, without ever going dark or jockeying for a lower channel number. The call letters may be different on many of them now, but here are the longevity champions, listed by channel, with their original calls from 1952-53:
