WTVC

For the station on 97.7 FM originally called WROM-FM and later WKCX K-98, see WGPB-FM.

WTVC
Channels
Branding
  • NewsChannel 9
  • Fox Chattanooga (on DT2)
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
WDSI-TV, WFLI-TV
History
First air date
  • March 13, 1953; 71 years ago (1953-03-13) (in Rome, Georgia)
  • February 11, 1958; 66 years ago (1958-02-11) (license moved to Chattanooga)
Last air date
December 1957; 66 years ago (1957-12) (in Rome, Georgia)
Former call signs
  • WROM-TV (1953–1957)
  • WTVC (1957–?)
  • WTVC-TV (?–1998)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 9 (VHF, 1953–2009)
  • Digital: 35 (UHF, 2000–2009)
Call sign meaning
Television Chattanooga
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID22590
ERP90 kW
HAAT316 m (1,037 ft)
Transmitter coordinates35°9′38.7″N 85°19′5.8″W / 35.160750°N 85.318278°W / 35.160750; -85.318278
Translator(s)25 WPDP-CD Cleveland
Links
Public license information
Website

WTVC (channel 9) is a television station in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with ABC and Fox. The station is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, and maintains studios on Benton Drive in Chattanooga; its transmitter is located on Signal Mountain in the town of Walden.

Sinclair also provides some engineering functions for Chattanooga-licensed True Crime Network/Comet affiliate WDSI-TV, channel 61 (owned by New Age Media) and Cleveland-licensed dual CW/MyNetworkTV affiliate WFLI-TV, channel 53 (owned by MPS Media and operated by New Age Media under a local marketing agreement (LMA)) and programs the latter station.[2] WDSI-TV and WFLI-TV maintain separate facilities on East Main Street (SR 8/US 41/US 76) in Chattanooga's Highland Park section; master control and some internal operations for the two stations are based at WTVC's studios.

In addition to its main digital signal, WTVC can be seen off-air on a low-power, Class A repeater, WPDP-CD (channel 25). Licensed to Cleveland and owned by New Age Media, this station has a transmitter on Oswald Dome in unincorporated Polk County (northeast of Benton) in the Cherokee National Forest.[3]

Although parts of the Chattanooga market are in the Central Time Zone, all schedules are listed in Eastern Time.

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WTVC". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ Flessner, Dave (September 11, 2015). "Sinclair buys Chattanooga TV stations WDSI-TV and WFLI-TV". Chattanooga Times Free Press. Archived from the original on September 14, 2015. Retrieved September 19, 2015.
  3. ^ "Digital TV Market Listing for WPDP-CD". Archived from the original on March 20, 2017. Retrieved March 19, 2017.