georgia united states city tallahassee branding nbc 40 fox 49 dt2 slogan your entertainment station channels digital 40 uhf virtual 40 psip subchannels 40.1 nbc 40.2 fox 40.3 get tv affiliations nbc owner sinclair broadcast group wtwc licensee llc first air date april 21 1983 ; 33 years ago 1983 04 21 call letters meaning watching tv with celine girlfriend of first co owner charlie holt sister station s tallahassee wtlh wtlf albany ga wfxl gainesville wnbw dt wgfl tv wmyg lp wyme cd pensacola fl mobile al wear tv wfgx wpmi wjtc former channel number s analog 40 uhf 1983 2009 digital 2 vhf until 2009 transmitter power 1 000 kw height 600 m class dt facility id 66908 transmitter coordinates 30 40 51 n 83 58 21 w 30.68083 n 83.97250 w 30.68083 ; 83.97250 website wtwc40.com wtwc tv is the nbc affiliated television station for north florida and south georgia . licensed to tallahassee florida it broadcasts a 720p high definition digital signal on uhf channel 40 from a transmitter in unincorporated thomas county georgia southeast of metcalf along the florida state line . owned by the sinclair broadcast group the station operates cw affiliate wtlf and me tv outlet wtlh owned by mps media and new age media respectively through a master service agreement . wtwc has studios on deerlake south in unincorporated leon county florida northwest of bradfordville with a tallahassee postal address while wtlf and wtlh maintain a separate facility together on commerce boulevard in midway . syndicated programming on wtwc includes the insider family feud the ellen degeneres show and dr. phil among others . contents 1 digital channels 2 history 3 news operation 3.1 notable staff 4 references 5 external links digital channels edit channel video aspect psip short name programming 1 40.1 720p 16 9 wtwc nb main wtwc tv programming nbc 40.2 wtwc fx wtwc dt2 fox 40.3 480i 4 3 wtwc tc gettv history edit the station signed on april 21 1983 as the market s third commercial outlet broadcasting an analog signal on uhf channel 40 . it immediately joined nbc making tallahassee one of the last markets in the united states with full service from all three major networks . tallahassee had a very long wait for full network service 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 a very large market geographically stretching across most of the central florida panhandle and much of southwestern georgia . the only other vhf station in the market is pbs member outlet wfsu tv . 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 television had gained enough penetration to make a uhf station viable . before wtwc launched walb from albany georgia was the nbc affiliate of choice in the area especially in the southwestern georgia part of the market where it has city grade quality . the station s original owners holt robinson tv went bankrupt in the mid 1990s . in 1996 guy gannett communications bought the station out of receivership . sinclair bought wtwc along with most of guy gannett s other television properties in 1998 giving channel 40 its third owner in a decade . in 2001 media ventures management then owner of abc affiliate wtxl tv entered into an outsourcing agreement with sinclair which then began to operate that station . wtxl merged virtually all of its operations from its original studios on thomasville road u.s. 319 sr 61 in tallahassee into wtwc s facilities on march 17 2002 . this included the abc outlet s advertising management and promotional control over cable only wb affiliate wbxt . the operational arrangement between wtwc and wtxl was the first of its kind in the country . the southern broadcast corporation now calkins media acquired wtxl s license on november 30 2005 but allowed the outsourcing agreement to continue . on february 20 2006 the partnership between the two stations was dissolved when the southern broadcast corporation gave notice to terminate the agreement with sinclair . as a result wtxl moved out of the wtwc building . 2 3 on december 22 2006 wtwc renewed its affiliation agreement with nbc keeping the station associated with the network through at least 2016 . 4 on june 12 2009 wtwc shut off its analog signal on channel 40 and moved its digital signal from vhf channel 2 to uhf channel 40 . 5 on september 25 2013 new age media owner of then fox affiliate wtlh and operator of wtlf announced that it would sell most of its stations to sinclair . in order to comply with federal communications commission fcc ownership restrictions since sinclair already owns wtwc its partner company cunningham broadcasting planned to acquire the wtlh license but sinclair was slated to operate the station as well as wtlf which would have been acquired by another sidecar operation deerfield media through shared services agreements . 6 7 on october 31 2014 new age media requested the dismissal of its application to sell wtlh ; 8 the next day sinclair purchased the non license assets of wtlh and wtlf and began operating them through a master service agreement . 9 10 at midnight on january 1 2015 sinclair moved the fox affiliation to wtwc s second digital subchannel . this left me tv formally on wtlh dt3 to affiliate with wtlh s main channel while the simulcast of wtlf remained on a second subchannel of wtlh . news operation edit compared with the market s other big three television stations wtwc has never had much success operating a news department of its own . the most recent attempt lasted from 1997 until november 2000 broadcasts were branded as nbc news 40 but this effort was ultimately shuttered due to poor viewership and budget cuts . meanwhile wtxl has traditionally been a distant runner up in the ratings to longtime dominant wctv which was the only commercial station in the area until wtxl s sign on . throughout the duration of the operational outsourcing agreement between wtwc and wtxl the abc station produced some limited newscast programming on wtwc . more specifically wtxl s on air team provided wtwc with weekday morning local news and weather cut ins seen at 7 27 and 8 26 during today . there were also news and weather briefs aired weeknights at 5 58 and 6 28 on wtwc . the aforementioned programming was taped in advance since wtxl already had prior commitments with its own local newscasts . in addition there was severe weather coverage presented when conditions warranted . since february 2009 this nbc station has utilized the weather team from sister outlet wear tv in pensacola for weekday morning weather cut ins again recorded in advance during today from 7 until 9 a.m. that are tailored to the tallahassee viewing area . otherwise the station does not currently offer any full length local news programming on its main channel . ironically wtwc s fox subchannel the programming originally seen on the main channel of wtlh airs local newscasts that continue to be produced by cbs affiliate wctv owned by gray television through a pre existing news share agreement . this specifically includes an hour long weekday show known as fox 49 morning news seen from 7 until 8 a.m. that offers a local alternative to the national broadcasts airing on the big three networks . there is also a nightly thirty minute prime time newscast known as fox 49 news at 10 . all news programming airing in 720p high definition features a separate graphics package and music theme from wctv . the shows originate from the cbs affiliate s primary set at its studios on halstead boulevard in tallahassee along i 10 with unique duratrans indicating the fox branded shows . notable staff edit vester flanagan later worked at wdbj murderer of alison parker and adam ward ; deceased references edit http www.rabbitears.info market.php request station search & callsign wtwc station sinclair press release regarding wtwc wtxl outsourcing agreement 1 october 2001 http www.craini2i.com em archive.mv count 3 & story em421356243792469710 http www.prnewswire.com cgi bin stories.pl acct 109 & story www story 12 22 2006 00044 96058 & edate http hraunfoss.fcc.gov edocs public attachmatch da 06 1082a2.pdf permanent dead link haber gary september 25 2013 . sinclair broadcast group to pay 90m for eight new age media tv stations . baltimore business journal . retrieved september 25 2013 . sinclair to buy 8 new age stations for 90m . tvnewscheck . september 25 2013 . retrieved september 25 2013 . kirkpatrick daniel a. october 31 2014 . re new age media of tallahassee license llc pdf . cdbs public access . federal communications commission . retrieved november 15 2014 . sinclair reports third quarter 2014 financial results pdf press release . baltimore sinclair broadcast group . november 5 2014 . retrieved november 15 2014 . sinclair broadcast group inc. form 10 q . sbgi.edgarpro.com . november 10 2014 . retrieved november 15 2014 . external links edit wtwc tv nbc 40 wtwc dt2 fox 49 me tv website wtlf the cw tallahassee query the fcc s tv station database for wtwc tv v t e television stations in the big bend and southwest georgia regions including tallahassee thomasville and valdosta reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television tallahassee area wctv 6.1 cbs 6.2 mntv decades wwrp lp 9 ind rel wfsu tv 11.1 pbs wtlf 24.1 the cw wtxl tv 27.1 abc 27.2 bounce tv 27.3 wxnow 27.4 qvc wtwc tv 40.1 nbc 40.2 fox 40.3 gettv wbxt ca 43 mtv2 wvup cd 45 ctn wtlh 49.1 metv 49.2 the cw outlying areas wsfd ld 15 ind perry wswg 44.1 cbs 44.2 mntv metv 44.3 the cw valdosta wfxu 57.1 soul of south live oak adjacent locals albany walb 10.1 nbc 10.2 abc wabw tv 14.1 pbs gpb 14.2 kids 14.3 knowledge panama city wjhg tv 7.1 nbc 7.2 the cw 7.3 cbs wmbb 13.1 abc 13.2 metv wecp ld 18.1 cbs 18.2 mynetworktv jtv 18.3 accuwx dothan 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