WTVA

Updated 04-May-2020.

Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about WTVA!

WTVA sale complete; new general manager named | Biz Buzz: WTVA‘s sale to Atlanta-based Heartland Media was completed today, and a new general manager also was named. The sale – announced last fall – of WTVA officially ends more than 57 years of ownership by the Spain family, but Heartland Media president and CEO Bob Prather said viewers would likely not notice. “It’s been a … Read More

My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: a dual NBC/ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Tupelo, Mississippi, United States . the station is owned by Allen media broadcasting, a subsidiary of los angeles-based entertainment studios the station began airing on march 18, 1957 with the call letters WTWV . its equipment (antenna, transmitter, cameras, etc.) was hand-built in Spain’s garage, backyard, and basement in spanish station engineers switched to and from the signal when network programming aired . station also carried secondary affiliation with ABC . in the mid-1960s, NBC made WTWV an official NBC affiliate . it still carried some ABC programming in off-hours until 1983 . starting in 1972, wtwv operated a full the call sign is now in use by a Memphis-based TV station . Neither the Massachusetts nor the Memphis station are related to the current WTVA . Frank Spain served as CEO of wtva until his death his widow Jane assumed the CEO position until the station was sold in September 2014 . the outlet was the first commercial television station in Mississippi to devote its entire morning broadcast schedule to educational programming . it also made history as the first in the state each station has its own station manager and owner in accordance with FCC policy . WTVA operates WLOV through local marketing agreement (LMA) and previously operated ABC affiliate WKDH through similar arrangement . sister station WLOV broadcasts network programming in high definition over low-powered transmitter . allowable power levels on channel 8, WTVA’s post-transition digital channel, will be limited . heartland media announced on heartland media assumed control of the station on February 11, 2015 . WLOV Fox News at Nine broadcast can be seen for thirty minutes . station expanded to seven nights a week on July 1, 2017 . compared nationwide, it was the smallest market outlet that made the change . with the addition of ABC network programming on WTVA-DT2, the subchannel also airs local news programming . the station operates a weather radar chief meteorologist escorted station’s crew to basement when EF3 tornado struck nearby . called the national weather service in Memphis and operated without any radar data for three hours . later won an Emmy in 2015 for his