13 Facts About WTTA

1.

WTTA is a television station licensed to St Petersburg, Florida, United States, serving the Tampa Bay area as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV.

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2.

WTTA affiliated in September 1990 with the Star Television Network, which offered a mix of older programming and infomercials.

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3.

On June 21,1991, WTTA signed on the air as an independent station consisting mainly of syndicated programs passed over by the market's other stations, barter programming, network shows not cleared by WFLA-TV, WTSP and WTVT and infomercials.

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4.

At one time WTTA was a local broadcast partner of the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey club.

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5.

In September 1999, WTTA became Tampa Bay's affiliate of The WB, two years after the network entered into a group deal with Sinclair to affiliate the company's independent stations and UPN affiliates with The WB.

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6.

In 1999, WTTA's operations were taken over by Sinclair after the company entered into a local marketing agreement with Bay Television, which over time had grown become one of the nation's largest television station owners.

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7.

Sinclair then announced WTTA would be the market's MyNetworkTV affiliate; the station rebranded as "My TV Tampa Bay" the week before that network's September 5,2006 debut.

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8.

In September 2013, WTTA rebranded as "Great 38", the branding it had used for much of the 1990s.

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9.

WTTA aired Rowdies home games during the 2014 and 2015 seasons.

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10.

WFLA and WTTA became part of the newly-minted Nexstar Media Group on January 17,2017.

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11.

Such was the case during Hurricane Irma in 2017, when WTTA carried the Sunday Night Football Week 1 contest between the New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys while WFLA-TV had hurricane coverage.

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12.

In October 2009, the FCC approved a request by WTTA to relocate its digital signal to UHF channel 32 to avoid adjacent channel problems from WFTV in Orlando.

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13.

WTTA moved its digital signal to channel 32 on August 23,2010.

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