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WTWC-TV is the NBC affiliate station for Tallahassee, Florida
Tallahassee, Florida

Tallahassee is the Capital of the Florida, USA, and the county seat of Leon County, Florida. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida in 1824....
, owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group
Sinclair Broadcast Group

The Sinclair Broadcast Group is the operator of the largest number of local television stations in the United States with a total of 57 stations across the country in 35 primarily small and medium markets, many of which are located in Southern United States and the Midwestern United States....
.

The station was started on April 21, 1983 by Guy Gannett Communications
Guy Gannett Communications

Guy Gannett Communications -- no relation to the larger Gannett communications chain -- was a family-owned business consisting of newspapers in Maine and a handful of television stations in the eastern United States....
. Before WTWC signed on, Albany
Albany, Georgia

Albany is a city in and the county seat of Dougherty County, Georgia, Georgia , United States, in the Southwest Georgia of the state. It is the principal city of the Albany, Georgia metropolitan area....
's WALB
WALB

WALB channel 10 , is the NBC television affiliate in Albany, Georgia, serving the southwestern part of the state. It is currently owned by Raycom Media....
 was the NBC affiliate of choice in the Tallahassee area. Sinclair bought the station, along with most of Guy Gannett's other television properties, in 1998.

The station currently runs no full-length newscast; it had produced one 1987 to 1988 and again from 1997 until 2000.






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WTWC-TV is the NBC affiliate station for Tallahassee, Florida
Tallahassee, Florida

Tallahassee is the Capital of the Florida, USA, and the county seat of Leon County, Florida. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida in 1824....
, owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group
Sinclair Broadcast Group

The Sinclair Broadcast Group is the operator of the largest number of local television stations in the United States with a total of 57 stations across the country in 35 primarily small and medium markets, many of which are located in Southern United States and the Midwestern United States....
.

The station was started on April 21, 1983 by Guy Gannett Communications
Guy Gannett Communications

Guy Gannett Communications -- no relation to the larger Gannett communications chain -- was a family-owned business consisting of newspapers in Maine and a handful of television stations in the eastern United States....
. Before WTWC signed on, Albany
Albany, Georgia

Albany is a city in and the county seat of Dougherty County, Georgia, Georgia , United States, in the Southwest Georgia of the state. It is the principal city of the Albany, Georgia metropolitan area....
's WALB
WALB

WALB channel 10 , is the NBC television affiliate in Albany, Georgia, serving the southwestern part of the state. It is currently owned by Raycom Media....
 was the NBC affiliate of choice in the Tallahassee area. Sinclair bought the station, along with most of Guy Gannett's other television properties, in 1998.

The station currently runs no full-length newscast; it had produced one 1987 to 1988 and again from 1997 until 2000. The latter newscast was canceled due to poor ratings and budget cuts. The original 1987 newscast was called News 40, while the 1997 newscast was branded NBC News 40. For the next 6 years, WTWC only ran news briefs at 7:27 a.m., 8:26 a.m. (during NBC's Today Show), 5:58 p.m. and 6:28 p.m. These were produced in conjunction with Tallahassee's ABC affiliate WTXL-TV, which was operated by Sinclair as a result of an outsourcing agreement made by Media Ventures Management and inherited by Calkins Media. These newsbriefs ended February 20, 2006, when both stations parted ways with each other after Media Ventures sold WTXL.

On December 22, 2006, WTWC renewed its affiliation agreement with NBC, keeping the station affiliated with the network through the end of 2016.

Digital TV

Digital channels>
Channel Programming
40.1 / 2.1 WTWC-TV programming / NBC HD
40.2 / 2.2 WTWC-TV programming / NBC SD


Post-analog shutdown

After the analog television shutdown scheduled for June 12, 2009 , WTWC-TV will move back to channel 40.

Current personalities

Since February 2009, WTWC has utilized the weather team from sister station WEAR-TV
WEAR-TV

WEAR is the American Broadcasting Company affiliate for the Mobile, Alabama/Pensacola, Florida viewing area. It is licensed to Pensacola and is one of two major commercial stations in the market that is licensed on the Florida side of the market, the other being sister station WFGX, a MyNetworkTV affiliate....
 in Pensacola for morning weather forecasts during The Today Show tailored to the Tallahassee viewing area. These forecasters include WEAR chief meteorologist Allen Strum and weekend forecasters Jim Carmack and Kathryn Daniel.

Past personalities


NBC News 40

  • Max Taylor (1987-1988) (evening news anchor)
  • Penny Renee (1987-1988) (evening news anchor)
  • Gil Frank (Frankeberger) (1987-1988) (Sports anchor)
  • Chris Collins (1987-1988) (Chief Meteorologist)
  • Barry Golden (1987-1988) (reporter)
  • Melanie Mowry (1987-1988) (reporter)
  • Rebecca Ruddock (1987-1988) (reporter)
  • Kevin Christopher (1997-2000) (evening news anchor) (Currently at WLEX)
  • Stacey Adams (1997-2000) (evening news anchor) (Currently at WINK-TV
    WINK-TV

    WINK-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for Southwest Florida that is licensed to Fort Myers, Florida. The station broadcasts a High-definition television digital signal on VHF channel 9....
    )
  • Theresa Marsenburg (1997-2000) (news anchor) (Currently at The Florida Channel
    The Florida Channel

    The Florida Channel is a Public affairs programming television network operated by Florida State University's WFSU-TV and the Florida State Legislature....
    )
  • Doug Luciani (1997-1998) (Sports anchor and reporter)
  • Tina Dunbar (1997-2000) (news anchor)
  • Mike Rucker (1997-2000) (Chief Meteorologist)
  • Jeff Donald (1997-2000) (Morning Meteorologist)
  • Nancy Dignon (1997-2000) (Weekend Meteorologist)
  • Jason Alpert (1999-2000) (Sports anchor)
  • Damany Lewis (2000) (Sports reporter) (Currently at WJXT
    WJXT

    WJXT channel 4 is an Independent station television station serving Jacksonville, Florida and surrounding communities. Its transmitter is located in the Kilarney Shores section of Jacksonville with the WTLV transmitter....
    )
  • Derek Slap (1997-1999) (reporter) (Currently Director of Public Information, New Haven, Connecticut
    New Haven, Connecticut

    New Haven is the third largest municipality in Connecticut, after Bridgeport, Connecticut and Hartford, with a core population of about 124,000 people....
     Mayor's Office)
  • Tran Bui (1997-2000) (reporter)
  • Lisa Behrens (1997-1998) (reporter)
  • Jeff Hager (1997-?) (reporter)
  • Kimberly Moore (late 1990s) (reporter)
  • Todd Sloan (1997-2000) (reporter)
  • Krysta Brown (2000) (reporter) (Currently at The Florida Channel
    The Florida Channel

    The Florida Channel is a Public affairs programming television network operated by Florida State University's WFSU-TV and the Florida State Legislature....
    )
  • Sandy Gallant (freelance reporter) (Currently at WEEK-TV
    WEEK-TV

    WEEK-TV, channel 25, is a television station licensed to Peoria, Illinois, which serves as the NBC affiliate for the Peoria-Bloomington, Illinois television market....
    )


NBC 40 Newsbriefs

  • Stacey Brenan (2003-2004)
  • Lenita (Williams) Wesson (2004, 2005-2006)
  • Lisa Remillard (2004-2005) (Currently at KTNV
    KTNV

    KTNV is a United States television channel located in Paradise, Nevada, Nevada. It is the American Broadcasting Company station serving the Las Vegas, Nevada area, and is owned and operated by Journal Broadcast Group....
    )
  • Stephanie Abrams
    Stephanie Abrams

    Stephanie Abrams is an on-camera meteorologist for The Weather Channel , a 24 hour United States cable television weather program....
     (2002-2003) (meteorologist, Today Show weatherbriefs) (Currently at The Weather Channel)
  • Jordan DeTillio (2003) (meteorologist, Today Show weatherbriefs)
  • Casanova Nurse (2003-2006) (meteorologist, Today Show weatherbriefs)
  • Bill Tucker (2005-2006) (Fill-In) (Currently at CNN
    CNN

    Cable News Network, almost always referred to by its initialism CNN, is a major US Cable News Network founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first station to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television network in the United States....
    )
  • Tony Pagnotti (2006-2009) (Sinclair News Central
    News Central

    News Central was a Prime time newscast on Sinclair Broadcast Group television stations in the United States, mixing locally produced news with nationally produced news and an opinion segment from Sinclair's Hunt Valley, Maryland studios....
     forecaster, Today Show weatherbriefs; weatherbriefs originated from Sinclair Broadcasting headquarters in Hunt Valley, Maryland)


Note: All of the above in this section except Tucker and Pagnotti were/are primarily on-air anchors at WTXL and appeared on WTWC as part of the stations' previous outsourcing agreement.

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