As I sit wondering what it is I should write about, I hear, “On this day in history”. So, I did a Google search for the exact phrase.Interestingly enough, or maybe not, the first item in the search was this…

“On this day in 1941, WNBT-TV, channel 4 in New York City, was granted the first construction permit to operate a commercial TV station in the United States.

Owned by Radio Corporation of America (RCA), the station later changed its call letters to WRCA. As RCA developed the NBC Television Network and, especially, TV in ‘living’ color in the early 1950s, WRCA, as well as its TV counterpart in Los Angeles, KRCA-TV 4 (channel 4), changed call letters once again. To reflect the impact of network television, the station became WNBC-TV. On the west coast, KRCA was changed to KNBC-TV. Both stations remain the flagships of NBC television and are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the television network.”