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WTWC-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for North Florida and South Georgia. Licensed to Tallahassee, Florida, it broadcasts a 720p high definition digital signal on UHF channel 40 from a transmitter in unincorporated Thomas County, Georgia, southeast of Metcalf, along the Florida state line. Owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, the station operates CW affiliate WTLF and Me-TV outlet WTLH (owned by MPS Media and New Age Media, respectively) through a master service agreement. WTWC has studios on Deerlake South in unincorporated Leon County, Florida northwest of Bradfordville (with a Tallahassee postal address) while WTLF and WTLH maintain a separate facility together on Commerce Boulevard in Midway. Syndicated programming on WTWC includes ''The Insider'', ''Family Feud'', ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show'', and ''Dr. Phil'' among others. ==History== The station signed-on April 21, 1983 as the market's third commercial outlet, broadcasting an analog signal on UHF channel 40. It immediately joined NBC, making Tallahassee one of the last markets in the United States with full service from all three major networks. Tallahassee had a very long wait for full network service, even though it had been big enough to support at least two stations by the late-1950s and three by the 1960s. However, the Tallahassee market is a very large market geographically, stretching across most of the central Florida Panhandle and much of Southwestern Georgia. The only other VHF station in the market is PBS member outlet WFSU-TV. UHF stations do not carry well across large areas, making potential station owners skittish about applying for the available UHF channels in the area. By the 1970s, however, cable television had gained enough penetration to make a UHF station viable. Before WTWC launched, WALB from Albany, Georgia was the NBC affiliate of choice in the area, especially in the Southwestern Georgia part of the market, where it has city-grade quality. The station's original owners, Holt-Robinson TV, went bankrupt in the mid-1990s. In 1996, Guy Gannett Communications bought the station out of receivership. Sinclair bought WTWC, along with most of Guy Gannett's other television properties (in 1998) giving channel 40 its third owner in a decade. In 2001, Media Ventures Management (then owner of ABC affiliate WTXL-TV) entered into an outsourcing agreement with Sinclair which then began to operate that station. WTXL merged virtually all of its operations from its original studios on Thomasville Road/U.S. 319/SR 61 in Tallahassee into WTWC's facilities on March 17, 2002. This included the ABC outlet's advertising management and promotional control over cable-only WB affiliate "WBXT". The operational arrangement between WTWC and WTXL was the first of its kind in the country. The Southern Broadcast Corporation (now Calkins Media) acquired WTXL's license on November 30, 2005 but allowed the outsourcing agreement to continue. On February 20, 2006, the partnership between the two stations was dissolved when the Southern Broadcast Corporation gave notice to terminate the agreement with Sinclair. As a result, WTXL moved out of the WTWC building.〔(Sinclair Press release regarding WTWC/WTXL outsourcing agreement, 1 October 2001 )〕〔http://www.craini2i.com/em/archive.mv?count=3&story=em421356243792469710〕 On December 22, 2006, WTWC renewed its affiliation agreement with NBC keeping the station associated with the network through at least 2016.〔http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/12-22-2006/0004496058&EDATE=〕 On June 12, 2009, it turned off its analog transmitter and relocated its digital signal from VHF channel 2 to UHF channel 40.〔http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf〕 On September 25, 2013, New Age Media (owner of then-Fox affiliate WTLH and operator of WTLF) announced that it would sell most of its stations to Sinclair. In order to comply with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ownership restrictions, since Sinclair already owns WTWC, its partner company Cunningham Broadcasting planned to acquire the WTLH license but Sinclair was slated to operate the station (as well as WTLF, which would have been acquired by another sidecar operation, Deerfield Media) through shared services agreements. On October 31, 2014, New Age Media requested the dismissal of its application to sell WTLH; the next day, Sinclair purchased the non-license assets of WTLH and WTLF and began operating them through a master service agreement. At midnight on January 1, 2015, Sinclair moved the Fox affiliation to WTWC's second digital subchannel. This left Me-TV (formally on WTLH-DT3) to affiliate with WTLH's main channel while the simulcast of WTLF remained on a second subchannel of WTLH. 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「WTWC-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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