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The Allbritton Communications Company is a Washington, D.C.-area owner of television stations-all affiliated with ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. It first broadcast on television in 1948...

 after signing an affiliation agreement in 1997.

Currently owned

Market Calls Channel Branding Link Notes
11 Washington, DC WJLA 7 "ABC7 News" http://www.wjla.com Flagship station of Allbritton; RTN on DT3
11 Washington, DC News Channel 8
News Channel 8
News Channel 8 is a regional cable television network serving Washington D.C., Northern Virginia, and Suburban Maryland. The cable station is seen in more than 1.1 million cable television homes. News Channel 8 is owned by Allbritton Communications, along with ABC affiliate WJLA. The station...

8 "NewsChannel 8" http://www.news8.net A 24-hour local cable news station
44 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Harrisburg is the capital of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the United States of America. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 48,950, making it the tenth largest city in Pennsylvania, after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Erie, Reading, Scranton, Bethlehem, Lancaster, and...

WHTM
WHTM-TV
WHTM-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for South Central Pennsylvania that is licensed to Harrisburg. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 10 from a transmitter on the ridge north of I-81 along the Cumberland and Perry County line...

27 "ABC27 News" http://www.whtm.com RTN
Retro Television Network
The Retro Television Network is a system of television stations primarily airing classic television programming from the 1950s through the 1980s, such as Leave it to Beaver, Kojak, McHale's Navy, Adam-12, Emergency!, and The Rockford Files, as well as the horror film showcase Midnight Monster Hop...

 on DT2
45 Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama
Birmingham is the largest city in the state of Alabama in the United States. It is the county seat of Jefferson County and includes part of Shelby County. According to a 2007 estimate, the city had a population of 229,800 The Birmingham-Hoover Metropolitan Area, as of the 2008 census estimates,...

/Anniston
Anniston, Alabama
Anniston is a city in Calhoun County in the state of Alabama, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population of the city is 24,276. According to the 2005 U.S. Census estimates, the city had a population of 23,741...

/Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Tuscaloosa is a city in and the seat of Tuscaloosa County in the west central part of the U.S. state of Alabama. Located on the Black Warrior River, it is the fifth-largest city in Alabama with an estimated population of 90,221 in 2008. Tuscaloosa is named after the Choctaw chieftain Tuskaloosa...

WBMA/WJSU/WCFT
WBMA-LP
WBMA-LP is the ABC television affiliate for Birmingham and central Alabama. Its transmitter is located in Birmingham, while its studio is in Hoover, a suburb of Birmingham....

58, 33 and 40 "ABC33/40 News" http://www.abc3340.com Originally separate stations, WJSU and WCFT were former CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American television network, one of television's original "big three", which also include NBC and ABC. Like NBC, CBS started out as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System...

 affiliates before the agreement. WBMA-LP was launced in 1996 to complement ABC coverage only after WBRC
WBRC
WBRC channel 6 is the Fox-affiliated television station serving the Birmingham, Alabama designated market area. The station is owned by Raycom Media, and its transmitter is located atop Red Mountain in Birmingham. The station broadcasts on digital channel 50, although through the use of PSIP...

 switched to Fox.
59 Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and 45th-largest in the United States. With an estimated population of 385,635 in 2008, it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Statistical Area, a region of 916,079 residents projected to reach one million between 2010...

KTUL
KTUL
KTUL is the ABC affiliate in Tulsa, Oklahoma, owned by Allbritton Communications Company. KTUL broadcasts from its studios on Lookout Mountain in west Tulsa. KTUL transmits from a high guy-wired aerial mast in Coweta, which was completed in 1988.The station broadcasts its digital signal on VHF...

8 "NewsChannel 8" http://www.ktul.com
60 Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Arkansas and the county seat of Pulaski County. The Metropolitan Statistical Area, had a population of 675,069 people, according to 2008 census estimates...

KATV
KATV
KATV is an ABC affiliated television station serving the Little Rock television market and central Arkansas. The station is owned by Allbritton Communications Company....

7 "Channel 7 News" http://www.katv.com
64 Lynchburg, Virginia
Lynchburg, Virginia
Lynchburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The population was 72,596 at the 2008 U.S. census estimate. Located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains along the banks of the James River, Lynchburg is known as the "City of Seven Hills", "The Hill City" and sometimes...

/Roanoke, Virginia
Roanoke, Virginia
For the metropolitan area, see Roanoke Metropolitan Area.Roanoke is an independent city located in the Roanoke Metropolitan Area and the tenth-largest city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Roanoke is also part of the Roanoke Region of Virginia, and is the largest city in the Roanoke Valley...

WSET
WSET-TV
WSET-TV is the ABC television network affiliate for the Roanoke/Lynchburg, Virginia market. The station is licensed to Lynchburg, and transmits its digital signal on VHF channel 13. WSET is owned by the Allbritton Communications Company. Its transmitter is located near Thaxton, Virginia...

13 "ABC13 News" http://www.wset.com RTN
Retro Television Network
The Retro Television Network is a system of television stations primarily airing classic television programming from the 1950s through the 1980s, such as Leave it to Beaver, Kojak, McHale's Navy, Adam-12, Emergency!, and The Rockford Files, as well as the horror film showcase Midnight Monster Hop...

 on DT2
115 Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston is a city in Charleston County, South Carolina in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It is the largest city and county seat of Charleston County. The city was founded as Charlestown or Charles Towne, Carolina in 1670, and moved to its present location from a location on the west bank of...

WCIV
WCIV
WCIV ABC News 4 is the ABC affiliate for the Charleston, South Carolina television market. Its transmitter is located in Awendaw.-History:...

4 "ABC News 4" http://www.abcnews4.com Originally an NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices in Burbank,California...

 affiliate before agreement; swapped with WCBD

Formerly owned

Market Calls Channel Current Owner Notes
Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida, and is the county seat of Duval County. Since 1968, as a result of the consolidation of the city and county government, and a corresponding expansion of the city limits to include almost the entire county, Jacksonville became the...

WJXX
WJXX
WJXX is the ABC-affiliated television station for Jacksonville, Florida. The station broadcasts a digital signal on VHF channel 10. The station is owned by Gannett as part of a duopoly with the area's NBC affiliate, WTLV...

25 Gannett was Independent until 1997, sold in 1999
Brunswick, Georgia
Brunswick, Georgia
Brunswick is an American city in the state of Georgia and the seat of Glynn County. The municipality is located in southeastern Georgia on a harbor on the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 30 miles north of Florida. It was founded in 1771 by the Province of Georgia and incorporated on February 22, 1856...

WPXC-TV
WPXC-TV
WPXC-TV is the Ion Television television station in the Jacksonville, Florida market, but licenced to serve Brunswick, Georgia. Owned by ION Media Networks , the station broadcasts on digital channel 24...

21 ION Media Networks
ION Media Networks
ION Media Networks is an American television broadcasting company that owns and operates over 60 television stations in most major American markets. It is now a privately owned company.-History:...

became ABC in 1996, sold in 2001

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Allbritton launched The Politico
The Politico
The Politico is an American political journalism organization based in Arlington, Virginia, that distributes its content via television, the Internet, newspaper, and radio. Its coverage includes Congress, Washington lobbying, and the Presidency. It extensively reported on the 2008 presidential...

, a political news website and newspaper on January 23, 2007, the day of the 2007 State of the Union Address
2007 State of the Union Address
The 2007 State of the Union Address was a speech given by United States President George W. Bush on Tuesday, January 23, 2007. The President was introduced at 21:09 Eastern Standard Time and began speaking at 21:13 EST...

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Albritton owned the Washington Evening Star (1975–1978).