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WJHG
WJHG-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Panama City, Florida, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Gray Media alongside low-power broadcasting#Television, low-power dual CBS/MyNetworkTV affiliate WECP-LD (channel 21). The two stations share studios on Front Beach Road/Florida State Road 30, SR 30 in Panama City Beach; WJHG-TV's transmitter is located on Florida State Road 20, SR 20 in unincorporated area#United States, unincorporated Youngstown, Florida. History WJHG went on the air December 1, 1953, as WJDM-TV; it was owned by local businessman J. D. Manley. The station became known by many people as "Wait Just a Darn Minute" (a play on its Call signs in North America, call letters) because it would frequently go off the air with technical problems. At first, WJDM-TV aired local programming such as church services and professional wrestling, wrestling and operated as an independent station before securing a primary affiliation with NBC and secondary affili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WECP-LD
WECP-LD (channel 21) is a low-power television station in Panama City, Florida, United States, affiliated with CBS, MyNetworkTV, and Telemundo. It is owned by Gray Media alongside NBC affiliate WJHG-TV (channel 7). The two stations share studios on Front Beach Road/ SR 30 in Panama City Beach; WECP-LD's transmitter is located on SR 20 in unincorporated Youngstown, Florida. Due to its low-power status, WECP's broadcast range is effectively limited to Panama City and surrounding areas in Bay County. In order to expand its off-air broadcasting reach, it is simulcast in 16:9 widescreen standard definition on WJHG-TV's third digital subchannel (7.3) from the same transmitter site. History On April 20, 2012, then owner MIK LLC announced it was selling the construction permit for the station (which initially held the call sign W18DR-D) to Gray Television. Under the transfer, MIK would receive $4,000 and would turn over the permit to DTV America Corporation which would, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WTVY (TV)
WTVY (channel 4) is a television station in Dothan, Alabama, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Gray Media alongside low-power dual NBC/ CW+ affiliate WRGX-LD (channel 23). The two stations share studios on North Foster Street in downtown Dothan; WTVY's transmitter is located in Bethlehem, Florida (in the Panama City market). WTVY is used to provide full-market over-the-air coverage of WRGX-LD1 (simulcast over WTVY-DT4) and WRGX-LD2 (simulcast over WTVY-DT3); however, these simulcasts are not presently in high definition. History WTVY's first broadcast was on February 12, 1955, originally on channel 9, as a CBS affiliate. During the late-1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. In a massive reallocation of signals in Alabama and Georgia mandated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to minimize signal interference, the station moved to channel 4 on November 2, 1960.''Dothan Eagle'', November 1, 1960, pg. 9 At the ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WMBB
WMBB (channel 13) is a television station in Panama City, Florida, United States, affiliated with ABC. Its second digital subchannel serves as an owned-and-operated station of The CW (via The CW Plus). Owned by Nexstar Media Group, the station maintains studios on Harrison Avenue/ US 231 in downtown Panama City, and its transmitter is located in unincorporated Youngstown along the Bay– Calhoun county line. History Channel 13 first began broadcast operations on October 4, 1973, as WDTB. The station was started by Panhandle Broadcasting Corporation (run by attorney Denver T. Brannen, from where the original call letters were derived from), financed by local businessman/car dealer Tommy Thomas, and attorneys Julian Bennett and Dick Arnold. When it first took to the air, the station was originally an NBC affiliate. The station was a relatively late start for a VHF frequency; most of the allocations on that band elsewhere in the U.S. had been taken by that point. On April 18, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panama City, Florida
Panama City is a city in and the county seat of Bay County, Florida, United States. Located along U.S. Route 98 in Florida, U.S. Highway 98 (US 98), it is the largest city between Tallahassee, Florida, Tallahassee and Pensacola, Florida, Pensacola. It is also the most populated city and a principal city of the Panama City, Florida metropolitan area, Panama City–Panama City Beach, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area with around 200,534 in the metropolitan area. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the city population was 32,939, down from the figure of 36,484 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. History Name The development in this once unincorporated part of Northwest Florida was created by combining the settlements and communities of Floriopolis, Harrison, Millville, Park Resort, and St. Andrews. In 1906, the development was named Panama City and it was first incorporated as Panama City in 1909. When Panama City was incorporated, its original city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The CW Plus
The CW Plus is a secondary national broadcast television broadcast syndication, syndication service feed of The CW, whose controlling stake of 75% is owned by Nexstar Media Group, with Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery holding their own 12.5% stakes. It is intended primarily for United States, American media market#Television, television markets ranked #100 and above by Nielsen Media Research estimates. The service is primarily carried on digital subchannels and Multichannel television in the United States, multichannel subscription television providers, although it maintains primary affiliations on full-power and low-power broadcasting, low-power stations in certain markets. Along with airing the network's prime time, One Magnificent Morning, Saturday morning and The CW Sports, live sports programming, The CW Plus offers a master schedule of first-run, off-network and brokered programming, brokered programs available for broadcast syndication, syndication distribution ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KTVE
KTVE (channel 10) is a television station licensed to El Dorado, Arkansas, United States, serving as the NBC affiliate for the Monroe, Louisiana–El Dorado, Arkansas market. It is owned by Mission Broadcasting, which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Nexstar Media Group, owner of West Monroe, Louisiana–licensed Fox affiliate KARD (channel 14), for the provision of certain services. The two stations share studios on Pavilion Road in West Monroe; KTVE's transmitter is located northwest of Huttig, Arkansas. KTVE's signal can be seen in 18 counties and parishes in Arkansas and Louisiana. On certain occasions, the signal can be seen as far north as Hot Springs, Arkansas, as far east as Jackson, Mississippi, and as far west as Texarkana, Texas. For many years, it was known as "Region 10", because when the station moved primary operations from El Dorado to Monroe, it kept a full news, advertising sales, and production staff in El Dorado. For a number of years, the 5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gray Media
Gray Media, Inc., doing business as Gray Television, is an American publicly traded television broadcasting company based in Atlanta. Founded in 1946 by James Harrison Gray as Gray Communications Systems, the company owns or operates 180 stations across the United States in 113 markets. Its station base consists of media markets ranging from as large as Atlanta to one of the smallest markets, North Platte, Nebraska. History James H. Gray started his communication business in Albany, Georgia with the purchase of The Herald Publishing Company (a company founded in 1897 to promote ''The Albany Herald'', a newspaper that started publication in 1891), in 1946 after he returned from World War II. The purchase included WALB radio. Gray launched WALB-TV in 1954. In 1960, Gray purchased WJHG-TV in Panama City, Florida, and followed it later in the decade with KTVE serving Monroe, Louisiana and southern Arkansas. In 1986 Gray died, leaving his 50.5% share of the stock in a trust fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WCTV
WCTV (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Thomasville, Georgia, United States, serving the Tallahassee, Florida, market as an affiliate of CBS and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Gray Media alongside Live Oak, Florida–licensed MeTV affiliate WFXU (channel 57). The two stations share studios on Halstead Boulevard in Tallahassee (along I-10); WCTV's transmitter is located in unincorporated Thomas County, Georgia, southeast of Metcalf, along the Florida state line. History WCTV was Tallahassee and southwest Georgia's first television station. On October 13, 1954, the '' Tallahassee Democrat'' first reported on plans for the new station. On August 29, 1955, the station began airing a test pattern. It signed on for the first time on September 15, 1955, from studios on North Monroe Street in Tallahassee. WCTV was originally owned by John H. Phipps. Although it has always considered itself a Tallahassee station, it was licensed to Thomasville because the Federal Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Dorado, Arkansas
El Dorado ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Union County, Arkansas, Union County, on the southern border of Arkansas, United States. According to the 2020 census, the population of the city is 17,755. El Dorado is headquarters of the Arkansas Oil and Gas Commission as well as Murphy USA, Deltic Timber Corporation and a DelekUS oil refinery. The city has a downtown arts district, the Murphy Arts District (MAD); a community college, South Arkansas College (SouthArk); and a multi-cultural arts center, South Arkansas Arts Center (SAAC). El Dorado is the population, cultural and business center of south central Arkansas. The city was the heart of the 1920s oil boom in the area. During World War II, it became a center of the chemical industry, which still plays a part in the economy, as do oil and timber. History Timeline * 1829, the territorial legislature took sections of Hempstead County, Arkansas, Hempstead and Clark County, Arkansas, Clark counties to establish Union Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent Station
An independent station is a broadcast station, usually a television station, not affiliated with a larger broadcast television network, network. As such, it only broadcasts broadcast syndication, syndicated programs it has purchased; brokered programming, brokered programming, for which a third party pays the station for airtime; and local programs that it produces itself. In North American and Japanese television, independent stations with general entertainment formats emerged as a distinct class of station because their lack of network affiliation led to unique strategies in program content, scheduling, and promotion, as well as different economics compared to major network affiliates. The Big Three (American television), Big Three networks in the United States — American Broadcasting Company, ABC, CBS, and NBC — traditionally provided a substantial number of program hours per day to their affiliates, whereas later network startups—Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox, UPN, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Media Market
A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area (DMA), television market area, or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same (or similar) television station, television and radio broadcasting, radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media such as newspapers and internet content. They can coincide with or overlap with one or more metropolitan areas, though rural regions with few significant population centers can also be designated as markets. Conversely, very large metropolitan areas can sometimes be subdivided into multiple segments. Market regions may overlap, meaning that people residing on the edge of one media market may be able to receive content from other nearby markets. They are widely used in audience measurements, which are compiled in the United States by Nielsen Media Research. Nielsen has measured both television and radio audiences since its acquisition of Arbitron, which was completed in Septemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bethlehem, Florida
Bethlehem is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Holmes County, Florida, Holmes County, Florida, United States (US). Telecommunications The WTVY (TV), WTVY-TV Tower, which measures 1,901 ft, is located in Bethlehem. The tower was built in 1978, and as of 2020, it is operated by Gray Media Group, Inc. It is the second tallest radio tower in Florida. References {{authority control Unincorporated communities in Holmes County, Florida Unincorporated communities in Florida ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
