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| Operator | Sinclair Broadcast Group via LMA) |
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First air date | June 1, 1984 |
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Call sign meaning | "Television Twenty-Eight"[1] |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 74137 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 271 m (889 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°56′14″N 83°1′16″W / 39.93722°N 83.02111°W |
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WTTE (channel 28) is a television station in Columbus, Ohio, United States, airing programming from TBD. It is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group—owner of ABC and Fox affiliate WSYX (channel 6)—for the provision of certain services, and is operated from studios on Dublin Road alongside CW affiliate WWHO (channel 53). WTTE's transmitter is located in the Franklinton section of Columbus.
WTTE was the third station built by Sinclair. It signed on June 1, 1984, as the first mainstream independent station in the Columbus market, joining the Fox network at its launch two years later. After years of false starts, it began airing a local newscast in 1996 produced by WSYX, which was then under separate ownership. When Sinclair was able to acquire WSYX from River City Broadcasting in 1998, it transferred the WTTE license to Glencairn, Ltd.—predecessor to Cunningham—and continued to run it under an LMA. The newscasts on WTTE were the highest-rated produced by the two stations' combined news operation. In 2021, the Fox program stream moved from WTTE to Sinclair-owned WSYX and was replaced on channel 28 by TBD, a Sinclair-owned digital multicast television network.
- ^ Seymour, Seth (August 19, 2003). "Broadcasters can't resist identifying themselves to the letter". The Columbus Dispatch. pp. D8, D7. Archived from the original on May 9, 2024. Retrieved May 9, 2024.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WTTE". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.