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WTXL-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for North Florida and South Georgia. Licensed to Tallahassee, Florida, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 27 from a transmitter, near unincorporated Fincher (in northwestern Jefferson County, Florida), along the Georgia state line. Owned by Calkins Media, WTXL has studios on Commerce Boulevard in Midway, Florida. ==History== The station debuted on September 16, 1976 as WECA-TV and was owned by local businessman Evans Craig Allen. In the early years, its slogan was "We Can Do It!" which was a play on the call letters. The station was the second commercial station to sign-on in the market. Prior to channel 27's arrival, CBS affiliate WCTV had been the sole commercial outlet in the area and carried ABC in off-hours. Tallahassee had a very long wait for a second station even though it had been big enough to support at least two stations by the late-1950s and three by the 1960s (the only other VHF station in the market was non-commercial PBS member WFSU-TV). However, the Tallahassee market is very large geographically stretching across most of the central Florida Panhandle and much of Southwestern Georgia. 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 had gained enough penetration to make a UHF station viable. By its fourth year of broadcasting, WECA used the slogan "Up & Coming".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1980 WTXL logo and slogan (bottom of page) )〕 Its original studios were on Thomasville Road (U.S. 319/SR 61) in Tallahassee and it aired an analog signal on UHF channel 27 from a transmitter located at the facilities. In 1984, Allen sold the station to Tallahassee 27 Limited Partnership led by former Senator Joseph Tydings and former Representative Louis Frey, Jr.. The call letters were the changed to the current WTXL-TV. The station's history page claims the new owners took over in 1985, but according to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) files, the call letters were switched in 1984. In September 1998, WTXL established a cable-only affiliate of The WB. Known as "WBXT" and originally on-air as "WB 28" (based on the cable channel location), it was part of the national WB 100+ service. Since it was available exclusively on cable, the call sign was fictional in nature and thus not officially recognized by the (FCC). WTXL provided local advertisement and performed promotional duties for "WBXT". On April 1, 2005, UPN affiliates WFXU/WTLF switched to The WB through The WB 100+. UPN promptly signed with WCTV which launched a new second digital subchannel to carry the network. As a result, the "WBXT" operation was shut down. In 2001, Media Ventures Management (then owner of WTXL) entered into an operational outsourcing agreement with rival NBC affiliate WTWC-TV (owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group) which resulted in that station controlling WTXL and "WBXT". On March 17, 2002, this outlet merged all of its operations into WTWC's studios (on Deerlake South in unincorporated Leon County, Florida northwest of Bradfordville). The agreement between WTXL and WTWC was the first of its kind in the United States and was something similar to arrangements known today as local marketing and shared service agreements. 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〕 After leaving WTWC's facilities, WTXL temporarily rented studio space from WFSU-TV on the campus of Florida State University. On June 20, 2006, this station broke ground on new studios in a commercial park in nearby Midway. WTXL fully moved into the new facility in August 2007. The station's broadcasts have been digital-only since February 17, 2009. Until April 27, 2011, WTXL served as the longtime default ABC affiliate for Albany, Georgia as that area did not have an affiliate of its own. On that date, WALB added ABC to its second digital subchannel. 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「WTXL-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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