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WPTA (channel 21) is a television station in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States, affiliated with ABC, NBC, and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Gray Television alongside CW+ affiliate WISE-TV (channel 33). Both stations share studios on Butler Road in Northwest Fort Wayne, where WPTA's transmitter is also located. History The station first signed on the air on September 28, 1957. It was founded by Sarkes Tarzian, an Indianapolis engineer whose company owned Bloomington's WTTV and several other stations in Indiana. The WPTA call letters come from the long tradition of other Tarzian stations that base the call letters upon the initials of family members of company management—in this case, Tarzian's children, Patricia and Thomas. Upon its launch, channel 21 took all ABC programming from NBC affiliate WKJG-TV (channel 33, now WISE-TV) and CBS affiliate WANE-TV (channel 15). Under Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules at that time, the Fort Wayne market was deemed too small ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WPTA ABC 21 Fort Wayne
WPTA (channel 21) is a television station in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States, affiliated with American Broadcasting Company, ABC, NBC, and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Gray Television alongside The CW Plus, CW+ affiliate WISE-TV (channel 33). Both stations share studios on Butler Road in List of neighborhoods in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Northwest Fort Wayne, where WPTA's transmitter is also located. History The station first signed on the air on September 28, 1957. It was founded by Sarkes Tarzian, an Indianapolis engineer whose company owned Bloomington, Indiana, Bloomington's WTTV and several other stations in Indiana. The WPTA call letters come from the long tradition of other Tarzian stations that base the call letters upon the initials of family members of company management—in this case, Tarzian's children, Patricia and Thomas. Upon its launch, channel 21 took all ABC programming from NBC affiliate WKJG-TV (channel 33, now WISE-TV) and CBS affiliate WANE-TV (channel 15). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WISE-TV
WISE-TV (channel 33) is a television station in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States, affiliated with The CW Plus. It is owned by Gray Television alongside ABC/NBC/MyNetworkTV affiliate WPTA (channel 21). Both stations share studios on Butler Road in Northwest Fort Wayne, where WISE-TV's transmitter is also located. WISE-TV originally operated as an NBC affiliate from its establishment through 2016, where as the result of Quincy Media's acquisition of WPTA (which had previously been operated by WISE's former owner, Granite Broadcasting, as part of a shared services agreement), the NBC affiliation became the property of Quincy and was moved to WPTA's second digital subchannel in exchange for its CW affiliation. History WISE-DT1 The station was founded on November 21, 1953, with the call letters WKJG-TV. It was the first television station in Fort Wayne and affiliated with NBC. The station was owned by William Kunkel, owner of ''The Journal Gazette'' newspaper (with both entities fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
