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WTXL-TV is the ABC-TV affiliate station for Tallahassee, Florida and southern Georgia, broadcasting on channel 27. The station is owned by a Calkins Media-owned subsidiary, "Southern Broadcast Corporation of Sarasota", which also owns WWSB in Sarasota. It was owned by Media Ventures Management and operated by the Sinclair Broadcast Group in conjunction with Tallahassee NBC affiliate WTWC until 2006. WTXL was originally housed on Thomasville Road, across the street from Lawton Chiles High School. On March 17, 2001, WTXL moved into the WTWC building in Killearn Lakes Plantation (off of Deerlake Road). They would stay in that building until February 20, 2006. On February 20, 2006, the partnership between the stations was dissolved; WTXL no longer produces news briefs for WTWC, which it had done since 2000. WTXL also produced the "WB 6 News at Ten." It was a 30-minute, Monday through Friday newscast, produced by and anchored by WTXL staff. The newscast ran from 2000 until the end of August, 2003 and aired only on cable ("WB 6" was a station of The WB 100+ Station Group), as Tallahassee's only 10pm newscast. The newscast/cable channel had serveral other identities in the years before WB 6: "WB 28 News at Ten" and then "WB 11 News at Ten". The newscast on WB 6 was finally cancelled in the fall of 2003, due to lack of viewership and talk of a new 10pm newscast coming soon on Tallahassee's FOX station, WTLH.

In addition, WTXL is presently renting studio space from Florida State University's PBS station, WFSU until a new building can be completed for the station, news director Richelle Ridgeway said (a former anchor at sister WWSB). [link] WTXL broke ground on this new facility on June 20, 2006 in the 10/90 Commerce Park in nearby Midway, Gadsden County, Florida [link] , scheduled to be complete by the end of the year.

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Controversy

On June 2, 2006, a reporter and photographer from WTXL, photographer Phyllis Joy Ho and reporter Brandon York Beyer, were arrested in Doerun, Georgia for obstruction at the scene of a military helicopter crash at the tower of Albany, Georgia television station WFXL. They were booked at the Colquitt County Jail in Moultrie, Georgia, and later released on a $750 bond. [link]

Current Personalities

Past Personalities

Logos

Image:WTXL.PNG|Used from 1998 to February 19, 2006 Image:WTXLcircle27.PNG|Used from February 20, 2006 to the present. The logo is modeled after sister station WWSB's circle 7 logo.

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Broadcast television in the Tallahassee market  [(Nielsen DMA #109)]
W03AO 3 (TBN) - WCTV 6 (CBS) - WXGA 8 (PBS/GPB) - WACX-LP 9 (TBN) - WALB 10 (NBC) - WFSU 11 (PBS) - WABW 14 (PBS/GPB) - W21BK 21 (IND) - WTLF 24/WFXU 57 (The WB) - W25CP 25 (TBN) - WTXL 27 (ABC) - W38CM 38 (TBN) - WTWC 40 (NBC) - WBXT-CA 43 (MTV2) - WSWG 44 (UPN) - WVUP-CA 45 (CTN) - WTLH 49 / WBVJ-LP 35 (Fox) - WTBC-LP 65 (FamilyNet)
ABC Network Affiliates in the state of Florida
WEAR 3 () - WFTV 9 () - WPLG 10 () - WMBB 13 () - WCJB 20 () - WPBF 25 () -
WJXX 25 () - WZVN 26 () - WTXL 27 () - WFTS 28 () - WWSB 40 ()
See also: , , , , , , , and stations in the state of Florida

 

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