![]() WTVM-DT2 can be seen on Knology digital channel 170 and Mediacom digital channel 803. Despite being called Weather Now, it is not affiliated with AccuWeather. This features a live stream of "TrueView Doppler 9", current conditions, and updated forecasts by WTVM meteorologists. It operates a 24-hour weather channel known as "9 Weather Now" on a second digital subchannel. There are two in Columbus, and one each in Pine Mountain, Georgia Auburn, Alabama Opelika, Alabama and Eufaula, Alabama. WTVM operates six skycams (all are sponsored by ALFA Insurance) throughout the viewing area. The station also has access to four different Level 2 NEXRAD radars called "TrueView Tracker" which includes the capability to use three dimensional graphics to track storms during newscasts. ![]() It operates the Chattahoochee Valley's only live regional weather radar called "TrueView Doppler 9". However, this production (called Fox 54 Morning News) was canceled. At one point, there was also an hour long broadcast seen weekday mornings at 7 on that station. ![]() WTVM produces a nightly prime time show for sister station WXTX known as Fox 54 News at 10. WTVM's news open.In addition to the main studios, the station operates an East Alabama bureau on Executive Park Drive in Opelika. In 1997, Aflac sold its entire broadcasting division, including WTVM, to an investment group which merged it with Ellis Communications to form the station's current owner, Raycom Media. Aflac (which had owned WYEA at one point during the 1970s) bought the station in 1989. A group of SFN managers formed Pegasus Broadcasting and purchased WTVM in 1986. and SFN Publishing became the owner in 1984. The station switched to ABC full-time in October of that year, when WYEA (now WLTZ) signed on and took over the NBC affiliation.įuqua sold off his broadcast interests in 1980, with WTVM going to Western Broadcasting. Early in 1970, Fuqua moved WTVM to its present studios on Wynnton Road. Fuqua bought Martin Theaters in 1969, including both WTVM and WTVC. However, Martin Theaters wanted to get WTVM in line with WTVC, which has always been an ABC affiliate.Īugusta businessman J. Usually, ABC, as the smallest and weakest of the three major networks, was relegated to secondary status on one or both of the 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, channel 28 (WTVM's old channel) 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, moved it 70 miles (115 km) north to Chattanooga and changed 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 are today. It was originally owned by Allen Woodall Sr., owner of WDAK radio, and Martin Theaters, forerunner of Carmike Cinemas. During the late-1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. It was the first television station in the Columbus market and is the fifth-oldest in the state and second-oldest outside Atlanta. It was a primary NBC station with secondary ABC affiliation. The station signed-on for the first time on Octoas WDAK-TV on UHF channel 28.
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