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WJLA-TV
WJLA-TV, channel 7, is an ABC-affiliated television station serving the American capital city of Washington, D.C.. The station is owned by Hunt Valley, Maryland-based Sinclair Broadcast Group, which also operates local cable channel NewsChannel 8. The two stations share broadcast facilities located on Wilson Blvd in the Rosslyn section of Arlington, Virginia; WJLA-TV's transmitter is located in the Tenleytown neighborhood of northwest Washington.
==History==
The District of Columbia's third television station began broadcasting on October 3, 1947 as WTVW, owned by the ''Washington Star'', along with WMAL radio (630 AM and 107.3 FM, now WRQX). It was the first Band III VHF television station (channels 7-13) in the United States. A few months later, the station changed its callsign to WMAL-TV after its radio sisters. WMAL radio had been an affiliate of the NBC Blue Network since 1933, and remained with the network after it was spun off by NBC and evolved into ABC. However, channel 7 started as a CBS station since ABC had not yet established its television network. When ABC launched on television in 1948, WMAL-TV became ABC's third primary affiliate; the station continued to carry some CBS programming until WOIC (channel 9, now WUSA) signed on in 1949. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.〔 〕
In 1975 Houston businessman Joe Allbritton, the owner of Washington-based Riggs Bank, purchased a controlling interest the ''Stars media properties, which by that time also included WLVA radio and WLVA-TV (now WSET-TV) in Lynchburg, Virginia; and WCIV in Charleston, South Carolina.〔"Houston's Allbritton buys into 'Star-News' parent company, is expected to take active role." ''Broadcasting'', July 22, 1974, pg. 22. ()〕 As a condition of the purchase, Allbritton was given three years to break up the Washington newspaper/broadcast combination, which the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was seeking to prohibit under the tightening of its concentration of media ownership policy.〔"Allbritton gets his deal for Washington." ''Broadcasting'', December 22, 1975, pp. 19-20. ()()〕 WMAL-TV was separated first from its radio sisters when ABC purchased WMAL-AM-FM in March 1977.〔"ABC will buy Washington's WMAL-AM-FM for $16 million." ''Broadcasting'', October 10, 1976, pg. 40. ()〕 Upon the radio transfer, channel 7 changed its call letters to the current WJLA-TV, after the owner's initials.〔("His name in lights." ''Broadcasting'', May 16, 1977, pg. 45 )〕 In April 1977, Allbritton negotiated a deal to trade the station to Combined Communications Corporation in return for KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City,〔"WMAL-TV fetches $100 million, trading record." ''Broadcasting'', April 4, 1977, pp. 28-29. ()()〕 but called off the deal due to last-minute complications despite receiving FCC approval.〔"Allbritton backs out of WJLA-TV deal." ''Broadcasting'', March 27, 1978, pg. 27. ()〕 Allbritton instead sold the ''Washington Star'' to Time, Inc. in January 1978, and retained WJLA-TV and the Lynchburg and Charleston television stations for what would eventually become Allbritton Communications.
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