WDCA
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| Washington, D.C. United States |
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| Branding | My20 |
| Slogan |
That Looks Good! (primary) C. More My20! (secondary) |
| Channels |
Digital: 35 (UHF) Virtual: 20 () |
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| Owner |
Fox Television Stations (Fox Television Stations Inc.) |
| First air date | April 20, 1966 |
| Call letters' meaning | Washington, District of Columbia (DCA is also the airport code for Ronald Reagan National Airport) |
| Sister station(s) | WTTG |
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| Transmitter power | 500 kW |
| Height | 227 m |
| Facility ID | 51567 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°57′22″N 77°4′59″W / 38.95611°N 77.08306°WCoordinates: 38°57′22″N 77°4′59″W / 38.95611°N 77.08306°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WDCA, channel 20, is a MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated television station in the American capital city of Washington, D.C. The station is owned by the Fox Television Stations division of 21st Century Fox, and is part of a duopoly with Fox owned-and-operated station WTTG (channel 5). The two stations share studio and transmitter facilities located on Wisconsin Avenue in the Tenleytown section of Washington's northwest quadrant.
WDCA-TV signed on as an independent station on April 20, 1966; it was originally owned by the Capitol Broadcasting Corporation. Channel 20 was Washington's third independent station, nearly 20 years younger than its future sister station WTTG, which had been founded as a DuMont affiliate, and after WOOK, the nation's first African American-oriented television station. Veteran Washington broadcaster Milton Grant, who previously worked at WTTG, was president of Capitol Broadcasting, and also served as WDCA's founding general manager. Grant would sell channel 20 three years later in 1969 to the Superior Tube Company, although he would stay on as WDCA's general manager for the next decade.
In 1979, Superior Tube sold WDCA to Cincinnati-based Taft Broadcasting, but only after an earlier proposed sale to the Chicago-based Tribune Company fell through. In the 1970s and 1980s, WDCA's best-known personality was Dick Dyszel, who played Bozo the Clown, horror movie host "Count Gore de Vol", and kids show host "Captain 20", and also served as the station's main announcer. The station was also home to Petey Greene's Washington, an Emmy award-winning show featuring the witicisms and observations of Ralph "Petey" Greene, civil-rights activist and native Washingtonian.
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