Editing General Electric (section)

===Television===
In 1927, [[Ernst Alexanderson]] of GE made the first demonstration of television broadcast reception at his [[General Electric Realty Plot]] home at 1132 Adams Road in Schenectady, New York.<ref name="inventors.about.com">{{cite web|url=http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blalexanderson.htm|title=Ernst Alexanderson|work=About.com Inventors|access-date=January 8, 2015|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130116052437/http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blalexanderson.htm|archive-date=January 16, 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cherishedtelevision.co.uk/history2.html |title=Dr Ernst Frederick Werner Alexanderson |publisher=Cherished Television UK |access-date=December 1, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208051924/http://www.cherishedtelevision.co.uk/history2.html|archive-date=December 8, 2015}}</ref> On January 13, 1928, he made what was said to be the first broadcast to the public in the United States<ref name="inventors.about.com"/> on GE's [[W2XAD]]: the pictures were picked up on 1.5 square inches (9.7 square centimeters) screens in the homes of four GE executives. The sound was broadcast on GE's [[WGY (AM)]].{{citation needed|date=January 2017}}

Experimental television station W2XAD evolved into the station [[WRGB]], which, along with WGY and WGFM (now [[WRVE]]), was owned and operated by General Electric until 1983.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Schenectady Country Historical Society|title=Niskayuna: Images of America|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|year=2009|isbn=978-1439-63-7500|location=United States of America}}</ref> In 1965, the company expanded into cable with the launch of a franchise, which was awarded to a non-exclusive franchise in Schenectady through subsidiary General Electric Cablevision Corporation.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1965-02-08|title=GE gets franchise for Schenectady CATV|page=51|work=[[Broadcasting & Cable|Broadcasting Magazine]]}}</ref> On February 15, 1965, General Electric expanded its holdings in order to acquire more television stations to meet the maximum limit of the FCC, and more cable holdings through subsidiaries General Electric Broadcasting Company and General Electric Cablevision Corporation.<ref>{{Cite news|date=1965-02-22|title=GE plans more TV and CATV|page=53|work=[[Broadcasting & Cable|Broadcasting Magazine]]}}</ref>

The company also owned television stations such as KOA-TV (now [[KCNC-TV]]) in Denver<ref>{{cite web |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/68-OCR/1968-03-23-BC-OCR-Page-0024.pdf |title=New Way to Break Up Groups |magazine=Broadcasting |date=March 25, 1968 |page=24 |access-date=June 30, 2021 |archive-date=July 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709181707/https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/68-OCR/1968-03-23-BC-OCR-Page-0024.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> and WSIX-TV (later WNGE-TV, now [[WKRN-TV|WKRN]]) in Nashville,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/67-OCR/1967-03-20-BC-OCR-Page-0107.pdf |title=GE Executive got his orders: build a group |magazine=Broadcasting |date=March 26, 1967 |page=103 |access-date=June 30, 2021 |archive-date=July 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709182429/https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/67-OCR/1967-03-20-BC-OCR-Page-0107.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> but like WRGB, General Electric sold off most of its broadcasting holdings, but held on to the Denver television station<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/16/business/ge-divestiture.html |title=G.E. Divestiture |work=The New York Times |agency=Associated Press |date=November 16, 1982 |access-date=August 11, 2021 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=July 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712093631/https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/16/business/ge-divestiture.html |url-status=live }}</ref> until in 1986, when General Electric bought out [[RCA]] and made it into an [[owned-and-operated station]] by [[NBC]]. It even stayed on until 1995 when it was transferred to a joint venture between [[CBS]] and [[Westinghouse Broadcasting|Group W]] in a swap deal, alongside [[KUTV]] in [[Salt Lake City]] for longtime [[CBS]] O&O in Philadelphia, [[WCAU|WCAU-TV]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-12-13-ca-16849-story.html |title=No NBC Shake-up Seen In Takeover |work=Los Angeles Times |last=Sharbutt |first=Jay |date=December 13, 1985 |access-date=August 11, 2021 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=July 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210711200319/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-12-13-ca-16849-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

====Former General Electric-owned stations====
Stations are arranged in alphabetical order by state and [[city of license]].
* (**) Indicates a station that was built and signed on by General Electric.
{| class="wikitable"
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
! [[City of license]] / [[Media market|Market]]
! Station
! Channel<br>[[Virtual channel|TV]] ([[Digital terrestrial television|RF]])
! Years owned
! Current ownership status
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
| [[Denver, Colorado]]
| '''[[KCNC-TV]]'''
| 4 (35)
| 1968–1986
| '''[[CBS]]''' [[owned-and-operated station]], owned by [[CBS News and Stations]] 
|- style="vertical-align: top;" text-align: left;" 
| [[Albany, New York]]
| '''[[WRGB]]''' **
| 6 (35)
| 1942–1983
|'''CBS''' affiliate owned by [[Sinclair Broadcast Group]] 
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" 
| [[Nashville, Tennessee]]
| '''WNGE'''
| 2 (27)
| 1966–1983
|'''[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]''' affiliate '''[[WKRN-TV]]''' owned by [[Nexstar Media Group]]
|}