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WTKR, channel 3, is a television station licensed to Norfolk, Virginia, USA, serving as the CBS Television Network affiliate for the Hampton Roads area of Virginia (comprising the cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, Hampton, Virginia Beach and environs), and the Outer Banks region of North Carolina. WTKR is owned by Dreamcatcher Broadcasting, LLC, and is part of a duopoly with CW affiliate WGNT (channel 27); Tribune Broadcasting operates WTKR and WGNT under a shared services agreement. WTKR and WGNT share a studio/office facility on Boush Street in downtown Norfolk, and has additional studios in Virginia Beach (at the Oceanfront) and inside the office of the ''Daily Press'' in Newport News. WTKR's transmission tower is located in northwest part of Suffolk, Virginia. ==History== The station began operation on channel 4 on April 2, 1950 as WTAR-TV, Virginia's second television station. It carried programming from all four networks of the time – NBC, CBS, ABC, and DuMont – but was a primary NBC affiliate. It was owned by Norfolk Newspapers, publisher of ''The Virginian-Pilot'' and ''The Ledger-Star,'' along with WTAR radio (AM 790, now on AM 850), Virginia's first radio station. It moved to channel 3 in 1952. When WVEC-TV signed on a year later as an NBC affiliate, WTAR-TV became a primary CBS affiliate, retaining its secondary ABC and DuMont affiliations (DuMont folded two years later). WTAR became solely affiliated with CBS in 1957, when WAVY-TV signed on as the ABC affiliate (WAVY and WVEC would swap affiliations in 1959 making the latter station the ABC affiliate). In 1967, Norfolk Newspapers was reorganized as Landmark Communications, WTAR-AM-FM-TV became the flagship stations. The station was one of several in the country to produce a local version of ''PM Magazine'' from the late 1970s to mid-1980s. The Federal Communications Commission began tightening its ownership restrictions in the 1970s, eventually barring common ownership of newspapers and broadcasting outlets. Landmark was able to get grandfathered protection for its flagship Hampton Roads cluster. However, in 1981, it opted to sell channel 3 to Knight-Ridder, who changed the station's calls to WTKR on March 4. The new calls not only reflected the new ownership, but also sounded similar to the old ones. Knight-Ridder sold WTKR and sister station WPRI-TV in Providence, Rhode Island to Narragansett Television in 1989. Narragansett sold WTKR to The New York Times Company in 1995. On May 7, 2007; the ''Times'' sold its entire broadcasting division, including WTKR, to Local TV.〔(NY Times CO. Sell TV Group to Equity Firm for $530M; Second equity group to buy a media business in two weeks. ), NewsInc. (via HighBeam Research), January 8, 2007.〕 In June 2010, Local TV announced that it would be acquiring The CW affiliate WGNT from CBS Corporation's Television stations group. WTKR managed the station through a time brokerage agreement from that point until Local TV closed on the purchase on August 4. This purchase created the market's second co-owned duopoly operation, after the LIN TV-owned combination of WAVY and Fox affiliate WVBT. On July 1, 2013, Local TV announced that its 19 stations would be acquired by the Tribune Company, the owner of the ''Daily Press'' in Newport News, for $2.75 billion; Since this would conflict with FCC regulations that prohibit newspaper-television crossownership within a single market (although Tribune has maintained crossownership waivers for its newspaper-television station combinations in four other media markets), Tribune spun off WTKR and WGNT to Dreamcatcher Broadcasting, an unrelated company owned by former Tribune Company executive Ed Wilson. Tribune will provide services to the stations through a shared services agreement, and will hold an option to buy back WTKR and WGNT outright in the future.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101561022&qnum=5140©num=1&exhcnum=1 )〕 The sale was completed on December 27.〔(Company Completes Final Steps of Transaction Announced in July ), Tribune Company, 27 December, 2013〕 Tribune later announced on July 10, 2013 that it would spin off its newspapers (including the ''Daily Press'') into a separate company, the Tribune Publishing Company, in 2014, pending shareholder and regulatory approval. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WTKR」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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