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WTCN may refer to: WTCN-CD , a low-power television station (channel 17, virtual 43) licensed to Palm Beach, Florida, United States KLBB (AM) , a defunct radio station (1220 AM) formerly licensed to serve Stillwater, Minnesota, United States, which held the call sign WTCN from 1985 to 1993
WTCN-CD (channel 43) is a low-power, Class A television station licensed to Palm Beach, Florida, United States, serving the West Palm Beach area as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside CBS affiliate WPEC (channel 12), CW affiliate WTVX (channel 34), and Class A TBD owned-and-operated station WWHB-CD ...
Chris-Craft Industries agreed to purchase WTCN-TV alone for $4 million in a deal announced in May 1964; it was the company's third TV property after two other independents, KCOP in Los Angeles and KPTV in Portland, Oregon. [51] [52] WTCN radio was sold separately to the Buckley-Jaeger Company [53] and became WWTC that October. [54]
The company's history dates back to August 1952, when it was formed as Midwest Radio and Television as a merger of WCCO (AM) and WTCN-TV. The company was a joint-venture of Mid-Continent Radio-Television (itself a partnership of the Saint Paul Pioneer Press and the Minneapolis Tribune Company, 53%) and CBS (47%). [1]
Rebuilding the broadcasting facilities together with his sister station WTCN, WWHB served the Treasure Coast's rapidly growing Hispanic population. [9] In 2005, Viacom bought WWHB and sister station WTCN (channel 43) from Brothers for $7.7 million. [10] Viacom moved the studios back to West Palm Beach and improved the station's signal. [11]
WTCN followed its TV sister to Radio City in September 1949. WTCN-FM also moved to the Radio City location around the same time. [12] However, WTCN-TV channel 4 was short-lived. Twin Cities Newspapers decided to sell WTCN-AM-FM and purchase a majority share of WCCO Radio from CBS three years later. The TV station's call letters were changed to ...
KMSP-TV took over the ABC affiliation from WTCN-TV on April 16, 1961. [31] Throughout its years with ABC, KMSP was perennially the lowest-rated network affiliate in the Twin Cities, with only one-third of the viewing audience of each of their two competitors, CBS affiliate WCCO-TV and NBC affiliate KSTP-TV.
In 1949, WTCN-TV was launched on channel 4 with studios at Radio City Theater at 9th Street and LaSalle Avenue in downtown Minneapolis. WTCN's radio studios moved to the TV facility in September 1949, with WTCN-FM joining them by February 1950. [5] All three stations were sold in 1952.