WOTV
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Battle Creek/Kalamazoo/ Grand Rapids, Michigan United States |
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| City | Battle Creek, Michigan |
| Branding | WOTV 4 (general) 24 Hour News 8 (during simulcasts of WOOD-TV newscasts) |
| Slogan |
ABC for Grand Rapids and West Michigan or My ABC, WOTV 4 (general) Watching Out For You (news) |
| Channels |
Digital: 20 (UHF) Virtual: 41 () |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Affiliations | ABC |
| Owner |
Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| First air date | July 24, 1971 |
| Call letters' meaning | variation of WOOD-TV |
| Sister station(s) | WOOD-TV, WXSP-CD |
| Former callsigns | WUHQ-TV (1971–1992) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 41 (UHF, 1971–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
DT2: TheCoolTV (2010–2013) |
| Transmitter power | 255 kW |
| Height | 329 m |
| Class | DT |
| Facility ID | 10212 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°34′15″N 85°28′7″W / 42.57083°N 85.46861°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | wotv4women |
WOTV, virtual channel 41 (UHF digital channel 20), is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group as part of a duopoly with NBC affiliate WOOD-TV (channel 8), and is also a sister station to Class A MyNetworkTV affiliate WXSP-CD (channel 15). All three stations share studios on College Avenue Southeast in the Heritage Hill section of Grand Rapids, WOTV's transmitter is located on South Norris Road in Orangeville Township. The station brands itself based on its channel 4 positions on area cable systems, though it is on channel 41 on Dish, along with AT&T's DirecTV and U-verse.
The Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo market is one of a few instances where there are two affiliates of the same network (this situation exists in the Tampa Bay Area of Florida where WFTS-TV and WWSB both air ABC programming in the same market). ABC programming is also seen on WZZM (channel 13), which is based out of Grand Rapids. Although WZZM clears all network programming and operates a full news department, its VHF digital signal cannot reach the southern portions of the market (Battle Creek and Kalamazoo). This is because the transmitter is located northwest of Grand Rapids in Grant, farther north than the area's other network stations. While WOTV once focused primarily on the southern portion of the market in an area between WZZM and South Bend, Indiana's WBND-LD, in recent years it has billed itself as a full-market ABC affiliate, including Grand Rapids.
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