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WTAC-TV
WTAC-TV, UHF analog channel 16, was an ABC- affiliated television station licensed to Flint, Michigan, United States. The station was owned by the Trendle-Campbell Broadcasting Company. History WTAC went on the air on Thursday, November 26 Thanksgiving Day of 1953. It was owned by the Trendle-Campbell Broadcasting Company which was a partnership of George W. Trendle (creator of ''The Lone Ranger'') and H. Allen Campbell which also owned WTAC (AM) which is now WSNL in Flint. The station went out of business less than a year later, on Friday, April 30, 1954, in the middle of ABC's coverage of the Army-McCarthy hearings, because too few TVs at the time were equipped to receive UHF channels. The broadcast tower was destroyed in a tornado in 1956. The WTAC-TV studios at 2302 Lapeer Road in Flint became the WJRT-TV studios in 1958. Today, the signal space for channel 16 is home to WSMH WSMH (channel 66), branded on-air as Fox 66, is a television station licensed to Flint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WJRT-TV
WJRT-TV (channel 12) is a television station licensed to Flint, Michigan, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for northeastern Michigan. Owned by Allen Media Broadcasting, the station maintains studios on Lapeer Road in Flint, with offices and a second newsroom for the Tri-Cities in Saginaw. Its transmitter is located on Burt Road in Albee Township, Michigan. History Goodwill Stations In May 1952, Goodwill Stations, owner of WJR radio in Detroit, announced the intent of applying for four station licenses which would operate as a regional network: channel 50 in Detroit, channel 11 in Toledo, Ohio, channel 12 in Flint and channel 5 in Bay City. TV outlets would eventually appear on all four of these channels in these cities, but only one was actually founded by Goodwill Stations: WJRT-TV, in 1958. Goodwill won out over two other companies seeking to operate channel 12: the Trebit Corporation (which owned WFDF), and W. S. Butterfield Theatres, Inc. ( WPAG-TV, airing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
