WCTV

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WCTV

Tallahassee, Florida
City of license	Thomasville, Georgia
Branding	WCTV Eyewitness News
Slogan	Coverage You Can Count On
Channels	6 (VHF) analog, 46 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	CBS My Network TV on DT2
Owner	Gray Television
Founded	September 15, 1955
Call letters meaning	W Capital TeleVision
Former affiliations	ABC (secondary; 1955-76)
Website	wctv6.com

WCTV is the CBS television affiliate that is supposed to serve Thomasville, Georgia, but rather focuses entirely on the Tallahassee, Florida television market. It has virtually no community service in its primary license city of Thomasville. The station is owned by Gray Television and is licensed to Thomasville, Georgia. The station broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 6 and its digital signal on UHF channel 46. WCTV covers the middle part of the Florida Panhandle and extreme southern Georgia. Its transmitter is located in Metcalf, Georgia due to FCC regulations that the transmitter must be in the primary licensees county.

1 History
2 WCTV-DT2
- 2.1 Logos
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] History

Had it not been for Hoyt Wimpy of Thomasville, who worked the ham radio airwaves and years later pioneered WPAX Georgia's seventh station, WCTV might not even exist. It has always been recognized that Wimpy's pioneer status was the reason WCTV was licensed to Thomasville, Georgia.

The station signed on September 15, 1955, with live studios in Thomasville, Georgia, but has since abandoned them. The station was the only commercial station in the area until WECA-TV (now WTXL-TV) signed on in 1976. It has always been a CBS affiliate, but carried a secondary ABC affiliation until WECA signed on. It is still the only commercial VHF station in the market (the only other VHF stations are PBS members WFSU-TV and WXGA-TV).

It was owned by the Phipps family until it was sold to Gray Television in 1996. Gray's purchase of WCTV forced the sale of WALB, Gray's flagship station in Albany, Georgia, because of WALB's signal has city-grade quality in Thomasville and Valdosta and reaches Tallahassee. WCTV has all but abandoned it's primary licensee - Thomasville.

However, in 2004, Gray purchased. WSWG channel 44 in Valdosta, a UPN affiliate for the Albany market. WCTV operates this station from its Tallahassee facilities. This station will convert to CBS programming in September.

In March of 2006, WCTV moved from its longtime studios on County Road 12 in northern Leon County to new facilities on Halstead Boulevard in Tallahassee, not Thomasville. The Halstead Boulevard location used to house the now defunct Florida's News Channel.

[edit] WCTV-DT2

WCTV also operates a My Network TV affiliate for the Tallahassee area on one of its digital sub-channels.

[edit] Logos

WCTV DT2 current logo.

"My TV" logo, seen on WCTV's website; however, this logo is unofficial, used only for Gray-owned My Network TV affiliates (Lincoln's KOLN is another).

[edit] See also

WSWG

[edit] External links

Broadcast television in the Tallahassee market (Nielsen DMA #108)

W03AO 3 / WACX-LP 9 (Ind/Rel) - WCTV 6 (CBS) (MNTV on DT2) - WXGA 8 (PBS/GPB) - WALB 10 (NBC) - WFSU 11 (PBS) - WABW 14 (PBS/GPB) - W21BK 21 (Ind) - WTLF 24 / WFXU 57 (The CW) - W25CP 25 / W38CM 38 (TBN) - WTXL 27 (ABC) - WTWC 40 (NBC) - WBXT-CA 43 (MTV2) - WSWG 44 (CBS) (MNTV on DT2) - WVUP-CA 45 (CTN) - WTLH 49 / WBVJ-LP 35 (Fox) (The CW on DT2) - WTBC-LP 65 (FN)

Broadcast television in the Albany, Georgia market (Nielsen DMA #145)
WCTV 6 (CBS/MNTV on DT2) - WALB 10 (NBC) - WABW 14 (PBS/GPB) - WACS 25 (PBS/GPB) - WFXL 31 (FOX) (The Tube on DT2) - WSWG 44 (CBS/MNTV on DT2) - WSST 55 (Ind)

CBS Network Affiliates in the state of Florida
WFOR 4 (Miami) - WCTV 6 (Tallahassee) - WKMG 6 (Orlando) - WTSP 10 (St. Petersburg) - WINK 11 (Fort Myers) - WPEC 12 (West Palm Beach) - WTEV 47 (Jacksonville) - WGFL 53 (High Springs / Gainesville)
See also: ABC, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, Religious, Spanish and Other stations in the state of Florida

CBS Network Affiliates in the state of Georgia
WRBL 3 (Columbus) - WCTV 6 (Thomasville) - WTOC 11 (Savannah) - WRDW 12 (Augusta) - WMAZ 13 (Macon) - WNEG 32 (Toccoa/Athens) - WSWG 44 (Valdosta/Albany) - WGCL 46 (Atlanta)
See also: ABC, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, and Other stations in Georgia

MyNetworkTV Network Affiliates in the state of Florida

WEVU-CA 4 / WBSP-CA 7 / "WNFM" 8 (Fort Myers / Naples) - WJHG-DT 8.3 (Panama City) - WMYG-LP 11 / WGFL-DT 28.2 (High Springs / Gainesville) - WAWS-DT 32.2 (Jacksonville) - WBFS 33 (Miami / Fort Lauderdale) - WFGX 35 (Fort Walton Beach) - WTTA 38 (St. Petersburg / Tampa) - WTCN-CA 43 (Stuart / West Palm Beach) - WCTV-DT 46.2 (Tallahassee) - WRBW 65 (Orlando)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, NBC, PBS, Religious, Spanish and Other stations in Florida

MyNetworkTV Affiliates in the state of Georgia

WSAV-DT 3.2 (Savannah) - WCTV-DT 6.2 (Thomasville) - WRDW-DT 12.2 (Augusta) - WGXA-DT 24.2 (Macon) - WATL 36 (Atlanta) - WSWG-DT 44.2 (Valdosta/Albany) - WXTX 54 (Columbus)
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, NBC, PBS and Other stations in Georgia