WEAR is the ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 affiliated television station for the Mobile, Alabama

Mobile, Alabama

Mobile is the third most populous city in the Southern US state of Alabama and is the county seat of Mobile County. It is located on the Mobile River and the central Gulf Coast of the United States. The population within the city limits was 195,111 during the 2010 census. It is the largest...

/Pensacola, Florida

Pensacola, Florida

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 viewing area. It is licensed to Pensacola and is one of two major commercial stations in the market that is licensed on the Florida side of the market, the other being sister station WFGX

WFGX

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, a MyNetworkTV

MyNetworkTV

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 affiliate. WEAR is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group

Sinclair Broadcast Group

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.

Its transmitter is located near Robertsdale, Alabama

Robertsdale, Alabama

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, and its studios are located on Mobile Highway (US 90) in southwest Pensacola.
On June 12, 2009, WEAR-TV left channel 3 and moved to channel 17 when the analog to digital conversion completed.

On their 3.2 digital subchannel, WEAR used to carry The Tube until early 2007, when it was replaced with a Standard Definition feed of their main channel, which lasted until around 2010.