WPTA-DT2
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Fort Wayne, Indiana United States |
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| City | Fort Wayne |
| Branding | Fort Wayne's NBC (general) Fort Wayne's NBC News (news) |
| Channels |
Digital: WPTA-DT 24.2 (UHF) Virtual: 21.2 (PSIP) |
| Affiliations | NBC (2016–present) |
| Owner |
Quincy Media (WPTA License, LLC) |
| First air date | September 21, 1998 |
| Sister station(s) | WPTA-DT3 |
| Former callsigns | "WBFW" (1998–2006) |
| Former affiliations |
The WB (1998–2006) The CW (2006–2016) |
| Transmitter power | 335 kW |
| Height | 224.4 m |
| Facility ID | 73905 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°6′7.7″N 85°11′3.7″W / 41.102139°N 85.184361°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
WPTA-DT2, virtual channel 21.2 (UHF digital channel 24.2), is a NBC-affiliated television station located in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States. It operates as a second digital subchannel of ABC affiliate WPTA (channel 21), which is owned by Quincy Media. Its parent station's studios and transmitter are located on Butler Road in Northwestern Fort Wayne. WPTA-DT2 is available on Verizon FiOS channel 4, Comcast channel 13 and on Mediacom channel 8 in outlying areas.
The channel's history traces back to the late-1998 launch of "WBFW", an affiliate of The WB 100+ Station Group, a group of cable-only channels affiliated with The WB. Since it was cable-exclusive and therefore not licensed by the Federal Communications Commission, the channel's call letters were used in a fictional manner. It was managed and promoted by WPTA, which at the time was owned by Granite Broadcasting outright. When that station's license was transferred to Granite partner company, the Malara Broadcast Group in 2005, "WBFW" became managed by the company. Prior to the sign-on of WBFW, Fort Wayne viewers received their WB programs via Chicago-based superstation WGN, and for a few months in 1998, WTTV when that station dropped UPN in January of that year and picked up the The WB in April of that year.
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