22 Facts About WTTV

WTTV, licensed to Bloomington, Indiana, United States, and WTTK, licensed to Kokomo, Indiana, are television stations affiliated with CBS and serving the Indianapolis area.

WTTV's transmitter is located on State Road 252 in Trafalgar, while WTTK's transmitter sits on West 73rd Street on the northern outskirts of Indianapolis.

WTTV originally transmitted its signal from its studio just south of downtown Bloomington, shared with sister station WTTS, which went on the air in March 1949.

Also that same year the release of the FCC's Sixth Report and Order, which ended a four-year suspension of television station permit and license awards, saw a reallocation of VHF channel assignments across the United States—including in Bloomington, where WTTV was forced to move from channel 10 to the newly assigned channel 4.

In 1956, the station lost the NBC affiliation to WFBM-TV; WTTV rejoined ABC after WISH-TV took a primary affiliation with CBS.

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WTTV only provided a grade B signal to the city's northern suburbs and could not be seen at all in the far northern portions of the market.

WTTV merged its operations with those of WXIN in 2004, when the latter moved its operations into new facilities at 6910 Network Place at the Intech Park office development on the city's northwest side.

WTTV became the third television station in Indianapolis to affiliate with CBS.

WTTV became one of the few stations in the United States, and the second in Indianapolis to have served as a primary affiliate of all three heritage broadcast networks.

In preparation for the move to CBS, WTTV unveiled a separate website in November 2014, after three years of being relegated to a section of WXIN's website.

WTTV-DT2 is an independent television station, which operates as a second digital subchannel of WTTV and WTTK.

WTTV clears the entire CBS schedule; this differs from WISH-TV, which preempted select programs from the network and passed them to sister station WNDY from 2005 to 2014.

Over half a century, WTTV was central Indiana's home for college basketball games from the Big Ten Conference, with a focus on games involving Indiana University and Purdue University.

WTTV presented other Big Ten football and men's basketball telecasts on Saturdays, until the station lost the rights to those games when the conference launched the Big Ten Network in August 2007.

From 2007 to 2013, WTTV aired basketball games from the "old" Big East Conference, presumably due to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish's large following in the area.

WTTV regained some rights to Big Ten basketball upon its switch to CBS.

WTTV served as the television flagship for the Indiana Pacers from the team's days in the original American Basketball Association to 2006.

Additionally, both stations carried the Super Bowl from 2019 to 2021, with WTTV carrying CBS coverage of Super Bowl LIII, WXIN airing Fox's coverage of Super Bowl LIV and CBS airing Super Bowl LV.

Since 2018, WTTV serves as the main headquarters for Australia's 10 Sport during Indianapolis 500 coverage.

In 1950, WTTV began operating an in-house news department; after losing its ABC affiliation in 1957, it became one of the few independent stations outside of the ten largest television markets that had a functioning news department.

Since relaunching its news department, WTTV has waged a spirited battle for second place in the local news ratings against WRTV, WISH-TV and sister station WXIN.

In 1989, WTTV obtained the local rights to the Hoosier Lottery's daily drawings and its companion game show, Hoosier Millionaire; the station lost the lottery rights to WNDY-TV in September 1995; WTTV regained the rights to the lottery in 1999, partnering with WRTV in the production of the Hoosier Lottery's daily drawings to fulfill requirements of channel 4's contract with the lottery commission, which required the evening drawings to air during local newscasts.