WTWC-TV

WTWC-TV

Tallahassee, Florida Thomasville–Valdosta, Georgia United States
City	Tallahassee, Florida
Channels	Digital: 22 (UHF) Virtual: 40
Branding	NBC 40; Fox 49
Programming
Affiliations	40.1: NBC 40.2: Fox 40.3: Charge!
Ownership
Owner	Sinclair Broadcast Group (WTWC Licensee, LLC)
Sister stations	WTLH, WTLF
History
First air date	April 21, 1983 (41 years ago) (1983-04-21)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 40 (UHF, 1983–2009) Digital: 2 (VHF, 2002–2009) 40 (UHF, 2009–2020)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	66908
ERP	560 kW
HAAT	600 m (1,969 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	30°40′50.3″N 83°58′20.6″W / 30.680639°N 83.972389°W / 30.680639; -83.972389
Translator(s)	WBFL-CD 13 Valdosta, Georgia WBVJ-CD 35 Valdosta, Georgia
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	wtwc40.com fox49.tv

WTWC-TV (channel 40) is a television station in Tallahassee, Florida, United States, affiliated with NBC and Fox. Owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, the station maintains studios on Deerlake South in unincorporated Leon County, Florida, northwest of Bradfordville (with a Tallahassee postal address), and its transmitter is located in unincorporated Thomas County, Georgia, southeast of Metcalf, along the Florida state line.

Sinclair also provides some engineering functions for Bainbridge, Georgia–licensed Heroes & Icons outlet WTLH, channel 49 (owned by New Age Media) and CW affiliate WTLF, channel 24 (owned by MPS Media and operated by New Age Media under a local marketing agreement (LMA)) and programs the latter station. Master control and some internal operations for WTLH and WTLF are based at WTWC-TV's studios.

WTWC-TV was the third commercial television station built in Tallahassee, debuting in April 1983. Technical and financial battles dominated its first 13 years on air, including a malfunction with the station's tower that contributed to a four-year-long bankruptcy proceeding in the 1990s. It has made two attempts at producing local newscasts, neither of which lasted more than a few years. It has not produced any longform newscasts at all since 2000. In 2015, the Fox affiliation moved from WTLH to a subchannel of WTWC-TV, still called "Fox 49". The Fox subchannel has newscasts produced by the region's CBS affiliate, WCTV.