WMC-TV
 
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Memphis, Tennessee United States |
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| Branding | WMC-TV Channel 5 (general) WMC Action News 5 (newscasts) |
| Slogan | First To Care. First To Serve. |
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Digital: 5 (VHF) Virtual: 5 () |
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| Owner |
Raycom Media (WMC License Subsidiary, LLC) |
| First air date | December 11, 1948 |
| Call letters' meaning |
We're the Memphis Commercial television station (also variation of original WMCT calls) |
| Former callsigns | WMCT (1948–1967) |
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| Transmitter power | 34.5 kW |
| Height | 308 m |
| Facility ID | 19184 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°10′9″N 89°53′10″W / 35.16917°N 89.88611°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WMC-TV, VHF digital channel 5, is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. The station is owned by Raycom Media. WMC maintains studios located at 1960 Union Avenue in Memphis, and its transmitter is located between Crestview Drive and Fletcher Creek, near Bartlett. The station serves roughly the western third of Tennessee, northern Mississippi, eastern Arkansas and the southeastern corner of Missouri over the air, on satellite, and on various cable systems.
The station first signed on the air on December 11, 1948 as WMCT, broadcasting on VHF channel 4 as the first television station in Tennessee. The station originally broadcast from studios located inside the Goodwin Institute Building in Downtown Memphis. It was owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, along with the city's main newspaper, The Commercial Appeal and WMC radio (AM 790 and FM 99.7). As the only television station in Memphis for its first several years of operation, WMCT aired programming from all four national networks of the time: NBC, CBS, ABC and the now-defunct DuMont Television Network. However, it carried NBC as a primary affiliation, owing to WMC-AM's longtime affiliation with NBC Blue Network. It lost CBS programming when WHBQ-TV (channel 13) signed on in September 1953, but continued to share ABC programming with WHBQ until January 1956, when WREC-TV (channel 3, now WREG-TV) launched as a full-time CBS affiliate with WHBQ taking over the ABC affiliation full-time. It lost DuMont when that network ceased operations in 1956. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.
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