Tallahassee had a very long wait for a second station, even though it had been big enough to support at least two stations by the late 1950s and three by the 1960s. However, the Tallahassee market is one of the largest geographic markets east of the Mississippi, stretching across most of the central Florida Panhandle and much of Southwestern Georgia. Only two VHF licenses were allocated to the Tallahassee area—WCTV on channel 6, and non-commercial educational (later PBS member) WFSU-TV on channel 11. UHF stations do not carry well across large areas, making potential station owners skittish about applying for the available UHF channels in the area. By the 1970s, however, cable had gained enough penetration to make a UHF station viable.