WTWC-TV
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WTWC-TV is the NBC
affiliate television station for Tallahassee, Florida
, owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group
.
. This made Tallahassee one of the last markets in the country with full service from all three networks. Before WTWC signed on, Albany
's WALB
was the NBC affiliate of choice in the Tallahassee area, especially in the southwestern Georgia
part of the market. Sinclair bought the station, along with most of Guy Gannett's other television properties, in 1998.
The station currently runs no full-length newscast; it had produced one 1986 to 1988 and again from 1997 until 2000. The latter newscast was canceled due to poor ratings and budget cuts. The original 1987 newscast was called News 40, while the 1997 newscast was branded NBC News 40. For the next 6 years, WTWC only ran news briefs at 7:27 a.m., 8:26 a.m. (during NBC's Today Show), 5:58 p.m. and 6:28 p.m. These were produced in conjunction with Tallahassee's ABC
affiliate WTXL-TV
, which was operated by Sinclair as a result of an outsourcing agreement made by Media Ventures Management and inherited by Calkins Media. These newsbriefs ended February 20, 2006, when both stations parted ways with each other after Media Ventures sold WTXL. http://www.tdo.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060210/BREAKINGNEWS/60210005
On December 22, 2006, WTWC renewed its affiliation agreement with NBC, keeping the station affiliated with the network through the end of 2016. http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/12-22-2006/0004496058&EDATE=
Digital channels>
Channel
Programming
40.1
Main WTWC-TV programming / NBC
40.2
TheCoolTV
40.3
The Country Network
in Pensacola for morning weather forecasts during The Today Show tailored to the Tallahassee viewing area. These forecasters include WEAR chief meteorologist Allen Strum and weekend forecasters Jim Carmack and Kathryn Daniel.
Note: All of the above in this section except Tucker and Pagnotti were/are primarily on-air anchors at WTXL and appeared on WTWC as part of the stations' previous outsourcing agreement.
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
affiliate television station for Tallahassee, Florida
Tallahassee, Florida
Tallahassee is the capital of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Leon County, and is the 128th largest city in the United States. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida, then the Florida Territory, in 1824. In 2010, the population recorded by...
, owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group
Sinclair Broadcast Group
The Sinclair Broadcast Group is an American telecommunications company that operates the largest number of local television stations in the United States. Headquartered in Hunt Valley, Maryland, it owns a total of 57 stations across the country in 35 primarily small and medium markets, many of...
.
History
The station was started on April 21, 1983 by Guy Gannett CommunicationsGuy Gannett Communications
Guy Gannett Communications -- no relation to the larger Gannett communications chain -- was a family-owned business consisting of newspapers in Maine and a handful of television stations in the eastern United States. The company was founded by its namesake, Guy P...
. This made Tallahassee one of the last markets in the country with full service from all three networks. Before WTWC signed on, Albany
Albany, Georgia
Albany is a city in and the county seat of Dougherty County, Georgia, United States, in the southwestern part of the state. It is the principal city of the Albany, Georgia metropolitan area and the southwest part of the state. The population was 77,434 at the 2010 U.S. Census, making it the...
's WALB
WALB
WALB is the NBC- and ABC-affiliated television station for Southwestern Georgia licensed to Albany. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 10 from a transmitter in Doerun along the Colquitt and Worth County line...
was the NBC affiliate of choice in the Tallahassee area, especially in the southwestern Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)
Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...
part of the market. Sinclair bought the station, along with most of Guy Gannett's other television properties, in 1998.
The station currently runs no full-length newscast; it had produced one 1986 to 1988 and again from 1997 until 2000. The latter newscast was canceled due to poor ratings and budget cuts. The original 1987 newscast was called News 40, while the 1997 newscast was branded NBC News 40. For the next 6 years, WTWC only ran news briefs at 7:27 a.m., 8:26 a.m. (during NBC's Today Show), 5:58 p.m. and 6:28 p.m. These were produced in conjunction with Tallahassee's ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
affiliate WTXL-TV
WTXL-TV
WTXL-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for Tallahassee, Florida. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 27 from a transmitter northwest of Monticello, Florida along the state line with Georgia. It can also be seen on Charter channel 3 as well as Mediacom and Comcast...
, which was operated by Sinclair as a result of an outsourcing agreement made by Media Ventures Management and inherited by Calkins Media. These newsbriefs ended February 20, 2006, when both stations parted ways with each other after Media Ventures sold WTXL. http://www.tdo.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060210/BREAKINGNEWS/60210005
On December 22, 2006, WTWC renewed its affiliation agreement with NBC, keeping the station affiliated with the network through the end of 2016. http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/12-22-2006/0004496058&EDATE=
Digital TV
TheCoolTV
THECOOLTV is a United States over-the-air digital subchannel launched in March 2009. The network's current program schedule consists of an all-music video lineup that can be customized to meet an affiliate's preference, along with the three hours per week of E/I programming as required by the...
Post-analog shutdown
After the analog television shutdown scheduled for June 12, 2009 , WTWC-TV moved back to channel 40.Current on-air staff
Since February 2009, WTWC has utilized the weather team from sister station WEAR-TVWEAR-TV
WEAR is the ABC affiliated television station for the Mobile, Alabama/Pensacola, Florida 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, a MyNetworkTV affiliate...
in Pensacola for morning weather forecasts during The Today Show tailored to the Tallahassee viewing area. These forecasters include WEAR chief meteorologist Allen Strum and weekend forecasters Jim Carmack and Kathryn Daniel.
NBC News 40
- Max Taylor (1987-1988) (evening news anchor)
- Penny Renee (1987-1988) (evening news anchor)
- Gil Frank (Frankeberger) (1987-1988) (Sports anchor)
- Chris Collins (1987-1988) (Chief Meteorologist)
- Barry Golden (1987-1988) (reporter)
- Melanie Mowry (1987-1988) (reporter)
- Rebecca Ruddock (1987-1988) (reporter)
- Kevin Christopher (1997-2000) (evening news anchor) (currently at WLEX)
- Stacey Adams (1997-2000) (evening news anchor) (currently at WINK-TVWINK-TVWINK-TV, virtual channel 11, is the CBS-affiliated television station for Southwest Florida that is licensed to Fort Myers. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 50 from a transmitter north of Fort Myers Shores near the Lee and Charlotte County line in Punta Gorda. The...
) - Theresa Marsenburg (1997-2000) (news anchor) (currently at The Florida ChannelThe Florida ChannelThe Florida Channel is a government-access television network operated by Florida State University's WFSU-TV and the Florida State Legislature. The channel is currently carried by 46 cable TV systems throughout the State of Florida either on a part-time or full-time basis as well as through nine...
) - Doug Luciani (1997-1998) (Sports anchor and reporter)
- Tina Dunbar (1997-2000) (news anchor)
- Mike Rucker (1997-2000) (Chief Meteorologist)
- Jeff Donald (1997-2000) (Morning Meteorologist)
- Nancy Dignon (1997-2000) (Weekend Meteorologist)
- Jason Alpert (1999-2000) (Sports anchor)
- Damany Lewis (2000) (Sports reporter) (currently at WJXTWJXTWJXT, channel 4 , is an independent television station serving Jacksonville, Florida, and surrounding communities. Its transmitter is in the Kilarney Shores section of Jacksonville, with the WTLV transmitter. The station originally broadcast an analog signal on VHF channel 4 and a digital signal...
) - Derek Slap (1997-1999) (reporter) (currently Director of Public Information, New Haven, ConnecticutNew Haven, ConnecticutNew Haven is the second-largest city in Connecticut and the sixth-largest in New England. According to the 2010 Census, New Haven's population increased by 5.0% between 2000 and 2010, a rate higher than that of the State of Connecticut, and higher than that of the state's five largest cities, and...
Mayor's Office) - Tran Bui (1997-2000) (morning anchor, weekend anchor, reporter)
- Lisa Behrens (1997-1998) (reporter)
- Jeff Hager (1997-?) (reporter)
- Dave Leval (?-2000) (morning anchor, evening news anchor, reporter)
- Kimberly Moore (late 1990s) (reporter)
- Todd Sloan (1998-1999) (reporter)
- Krysta Brown (2000) (reporter) (currently at The Florida ChannelThe Florida ChannelThe Florida Channel is a government-access television network operated by Florida State University's WFSU-TV and the Florida State Legislature. The channel is currently carried by 46 cable TV systems throughout the State of Florida either on a part-time or full-time basis as well as through nine...
) - Sandy Gallant (freelance reporter) (currently at WEEK-TVWEEK-TVWEEK-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for West-Central Illinois licensed to Peoria. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 25 from a transmitter at studios on Springfield Road in East Peoria. The station can also be seen on Comcast channel 10 and in high definition...
)
NBC 40 Newsbriefs
- Stacey Brenan (2003-2004)
- Lenita (Williams) Wesson (2004, 2005-2006)
- Lisa Remillard (2004-2005) (currently at KTNVKTNVKTNV-TV, channel 13, is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Las Vegas, Nevada which is owned by Journal Broadcast Group and serves as the ABC affiliate for the Las Vegas Valley, Southern Nevada and northwest Arizona...
) - Stephanie AbramsStephanie AbramsStephanie Abrams is an American on-camera meteorologist for The Weather Channel, a 24-hour American cable television weather program. She has also done live reporting for the 2010 Winter Olympics at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.-Early life:...
(2002-2003) (meteorologist, Today Show weatherbriefs) (currently at The Weather Channel) - Jordan DeTillio (2003) (meteorologist, Today Show weatherbriefs)
- Casanova Nurse (2003-2006) (meteorologist, Today Show weatherbriefs) (Currently at WTXL)
- Bill Tucker (2005-2006) (Fill-In) (currently at CNNCNNCable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
) - Tony Pagnotti (2006-2009) (Sinclair News CentralNews CentralNews Central was a primetime newscast on Sinclair television stations in the United States, mixing locally produced news with nationally produced news and an opinion segment from Sinclair's Hunt Valley, Maryland studios...
forecaster, Today Show weatherbriefs; weatherbriefs originated from Sinclair Broadcasting headquarters in Hunt Valley, MarylandHunt Valley, MarylandHunt Valley is an affluent unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. It lies just north of the city of Baltimore, along Highway 145 off Interstate 83. Loch Raven Reservoir...
)
Note: All of the above in this section except Tucker and Pagnotti were/are primarily on-air anchors at WTXL and appeared on WTWC as part of the stations' previous outsourcing agreement.
Newscast titles
- News 40 (1986-1988)
- NBC News 40 (1997-2000; newscasts ended after 2000)
Station slogans
- WTWC, Just Watch Us Now (April-September 1983: localized version of NBC ad campaign)
- WTWC There, Be There (1983-1984; localized version of NBC ad campaign)
- WTWC, Let's All Be There (1984-1986; localized version of NBC ad campaign)
- Come Home to Channel 40 (1986-1987; localized version of NBC ad campaign)
- Come on Home to TWC (1987-1988; localized version of NBC ad campaign)
- Come Home to the Best, Only on Channel 40 (1988-1990; localized version of NBC ad campaign)
- Channel 40, is the Place to Be (1990-1991; localized version of NBC ad campaign)
- Channel 40 is the Only One (1991-1992; localized version of NBC ad campaign)
- It's a Whole New TWC (1992-1993; localized version of NBC ad campaign)
- The Stars are Back on Channel 40 (1993-1994; localized version of NBC ad campaign)
- It's Channel 40 (1994-1995; localized version of NBC ad campaign)
- The Year to Be on Channel 40 (1995-1996; localized version of NBC ad campaign)
- Your Entertainment Station (2004-present)