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Photographer: Mike Wintermantel
Taken: 1963
Caption:
WQED Building | Additional Description: After acquiring local television station WENS-TV, WQED changes its call letters to WQEX and returned it to the airwaves in 1963 for use as its secondary channel for educational programs. On a chilly Sunday in 1963, more than 5,000 people jammed WQED's Fifth Avenue building to tour the new station.
Courtesy of Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Submitted: July 26, 2011, by Mike Wintermantel of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p164186
File Size: 0.047 Megabytes
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