WEAR-TV

WEAR-TV
CityPensacola, Florida
Channels
BrandingWEAR ABC 3 or Channel 3; WEAR News
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
WFGX, WPMI-TV, WJTC
History
First air date
January 13, 1954 (70 years ago) (1954-01-13)
Former channel number(s)
Analog: 3 (VHF, 1954–2009)
  • CBS (1954–1955)
  • ABC (secondary, 1954–1955)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID71363
ERP1,000 kW
HAAT579 m (1,900 ft)
Transmitter coordinates30°36′45.4″N 87°38′41.6″W / 30.612611°N 87.644889°W / 30.612611; -87.644889
Links
Public license information
Websiteweartv.com

WEAR-TV (channel 3) is a television station licensed to Pensacola, Florida, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for northwest Florida and southwest Alabama. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Fort Walton Beach–licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate WFGX (channel 35); Sinclair also provides certain services to Mobile, Alabama–licensed NBC affiliate WPMI-TV (channel 15) and Pensacola-licensed independent station WJTC (channel 44) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Deerfield Media.

WEAR-TV and WFGX share studios—which also house master control and some internal operations for WPMI-TV and WJTC—on Mobile Highway (US 90) in unincorporated Escambia County, Florida (with a Pensacola mailing address); WEAR-TV's transmitter is located in unincorporated Baldwin County, Alabama (northeast of Robertsdale).

Although WEAR-TV's call letters represent both the words "wear" and "ear", the station spells out its calls as "W-E-A-R", rather than any word.

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WEAR-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.