Despite being called "Storm Team 9 Weather Now", it was not affiliated with The Local AccuWeather Channel. On Saturday mornings, the subchannel broadcast educational shows to fulfill an E/I requirement. Programming consisted of current weather conditions with forecasts, a live feed of "Live Doppler 9", and severe weather alerts when conditions warrant. WTVM-DT2 previously carried a 24-hour local weather channel. On July 22, 2012, WTVM began airing newscasts in High Definition starting with Fox 54 News at 10. The new HD-ready set is to be completed in early March. On February 16, all WTVM newscasts and Fox 54 News at 10 moved to the newsroom, while a temporary weather office was constructed in the hallway between the editing bay and the newsroom. On February 2, 2012, Chief Meteorologist Derek Kinkade hinted on the WTVM Weather Facebook page that major studio changes were on the way. In 1997, AFLAC sold its entire broadcasting division, including WTVM, to an investment group that merged with Ellis Communications to form Raycom Media. AFLAC (which had owned WYEA at one point during the 1970s) bought the station in 1989, making channel 9 AFLAC's flagship station. A group of SFN managers formed Pegasus Broadcasting and purchased WTVM in 1986. SFN Publishing eventually became the owner in 1984. Fuqua sold-off his broadcast interests in 1980, with WTVM going to Western Broadcasting. The station switched to ABC full-time in October of that year when WYEA (now WLTZ) signed on and took over the NBC affiliation. Fuqua bought Martin Theaters in 1969, including both WTVM and WTVC.Įarly in 1970, Fuqua moved WTVM to its present studios on Wynnton Road. Martin realized that an ABC affiliation would not bring significant out-of-market competition. The nearest ABC affiliate that put even a Grade B into Columbus was WLWA-TV in Atlanta (now NBC affiliate WXIA-TV), which easily covered much of the northern portion of the market. In contrast, much of Western Georgia and Eastern Alabama did not have access to ABC full-time. Additionally, fellow NBC affiliates WSB-TV in Atlanta and WSFA-TV in Montgomery, Alabama, both transmitted fairly clear Grade B signals to the region. However, Martin Theaters wanted to get WTVM in line with WTVC, which has always been an ABC affiliate. ABC would not be on the same footing with CBS and NBC until the 1970s, especially with markets of Columbus' size. Usually, ABC, as the smallest and weakest network, was relegated to secondary status on one or both of existing stations. This was very unusual for a then two-station market, especially one of Columbus' size. On the same day WTVM moved to channel 9, it switched its primary affiliation to ABC, while relegating NBC to secondary status shared with WRBL. Eventually, WTVM's old channel 28 allotment was occupied by Georgia Public Broadcasting's WJSP-TV. The moves were permitted because two years earlier Martin Theaters had bought WROM-TV in Rome, Georgia, and moved it 70 miles (113 km) north to Chattanooga, Tennessee, while changing its calls to WTVC. It moved to VHF channel 9 in 1960 in a three-way switch-and-move approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in which WRBL moved from channel 4 to channel 3 and WTVY-TV in Dothan, Alabama, moved from channel 9 to channel 4. Woodall sold his interest in the station to Martin Theaters in 1956 and the call letters were changed to the current WTVM. Studios were located on 1st Avenue in downtown Columbus where Carmike's corporate headquarters were until December 2016. (owner of WDAK-AM 540) and Martin Theaters (forerunner of Carmike Cinemas and AMC Theatres). It was originally owned by Allen Woodall Sr. During the late-1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. WDAK was the first television station in the Columbus market (beating rival WRBL by just over a month) and is the fifth-oldest in the state of Georgia and second-oldest outside Atlanta. It was a primary NBC station with a secondary ABC affiliation. The station signed on for the first time on October 6, 1953, as WDAK-TV airing an analog signal on UHF channel 28. WTVM and WXTX share studios (which also house master control and most internal operations for WLTZ) on Wynnton Road ( GA 22) in the Dinglewood section of Columbus WTVM's transmitter is located in Cusseta, Georgia. It is owned by Gray Television, which provides certain services to dual NBC/ CW+ affiliate WLTZ (channel 38, owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting) and Fox affiliate WXTX (channel 54, owned by American Spirit Media) under separate shared services agreements (SSAs). WTVM (channel 9) is a television station in Columbus, Georgia, United States, affiliated with ABC.
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