WCTV Tower
 
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Thomasville, Georgia- Tallahassee, Florida United States |
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| Branding |
WCTV Eyewitness News WCTV 2 (DT2) |
| Slogan |
Coverage You Can Count On |
| Channels |
Digital: 46 (UHF) Virtual: 6 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Translators | 44 (UHF) WSWG Valdosta, Georgia |
| Affiliations | CBS |
| Owner |
Gray Television (Gray Television Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date | September 15, 1955 |
| Call letters' meaning | We're Capital TeleVision |
| Sister station(s) |
WJHG-TV, WECP-LD, WTVY, WRGX-LD |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 6 (VHF, 1955–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Primary: NBC (1955–1956) Secondary: ABC (1955–1976) |
| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 566 m (1,857 ft) |
| Class | DT |
| Facility ID | 31590 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 30°40′14.2″N 83°56′25.5″W / 30.670611°N 83.940417°W |
| Website | wctv.tv |
WCTV is the CBS-affiliated television station for South Georgia and Florida's Big Bend. Licensed to Thomasville, Georgia, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 46 (or virtual channel 6.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in unincorporated Thomas County, Georgia, southeast of Metcalf, along the Florida state line. Owned by Gray Television, WCTV has studios on Halstead Boulevard in Tallahassee, Florida (along I-10).
WCTV was Tallahassee and southwest Georgia's first, and until 1960 (WFSU-TV) its only television station. The station first signed on on September 15, 1955, using channel 6, from studios on North Monroe Street in Tallahassee. WCTV was originally owned by John H. Phipps. Although it has always considered itself a Tallahassee station, it was licensed to Thomasville because the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had allocated only one VHF channel to Tallahassee, channel 11.
Florida State University had managed to have the FCC reserve that channel for noncommercial use so it could put WFSU-TV on the air. UHF was not considered viable at the time. Until the 1964 FCC requirement that all new sets have all-channel capability, UHF stations were un-viewable without a converter, and even with one, the picture quality was marginal at best. Additionally, the FCC had just collapsed a large portion of southwest Georgia into the Tallahassee market, and UHF stations have never carried well across large areas.
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