WTTG
WTTG (channel 5) is a television station in Washington, D.C., serving as the market's Fox network outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division alongside MyNetworkTV station WDCA (channel 20). WTTG and WDCA share studios on Wisconsin Avenue in Bethesda, Maryland. Through a channel sharing agreement, the stations transmit using WTTG's spectrum from a tower also located in Bethesda on River Road at the site of WDCA's former studio facilities.
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Branding | Fox 5 |
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Owner | Fox Television Stations, LLC |
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Founded | May 19, 1945 (as experimental station W3XWT) |
First air date | December 10, 1946 |
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Call sign meaning | Thomas Toliver Goldsmith (chief engineer of founding company DuMont) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 22207 |
ERP | 1,000 kW |
HAAT | 235 m (771 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 38°57′49.9″N 77°6′17.2″W |
Translator(s) | W24ES-D (24 UHF) Moorefield, WV |
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Website | www |
WTTG's signal is rebroadcast on a low-power digital translator station, W24ES-D, in Moorefield, West Virginia (which is owned by Valley TV Cooperative, Inc.).
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