WTTA
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St. Petersburg–Tampa, Florida United States |
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| City | St. Petersburg, Florida |
| Branding |
Great 38 (general) NewsChannel 8 on Great 38 (newscast) |
| Channels |
Digital: 32 (UHF) Virtual: 38 () |
| Subchannels | See Below |
| Affiliations | MyNetworkTV |
| Owner |
Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| Founded | November 19, 1986 |
| First air date | June 21, 1991 |
| Call letters' meaning | Television TampA |
| Sister station(s) | WFLA-TV |
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| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 466.6 m |
| Facility ID | 4108 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 27°50′33″N 82°15′45.1″W / 27.84250°N 82.262528°WCoordinates: 27°50′33″N 82°15′45.1″W / 27.84250°N 82.262528°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | wfla |
WTTA, virtual channel 38 (UHF digital channel 32), is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station serving Tampa, Florida, United States that is licensed to St. Petersburg. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group, as a part of a duopoly of NBC affiliate, WFLA-TV channel 8. WTTA maintains studio facilities located on Bald Cypress Place in Tampa, and its transmitter in Riverview. On cable, it is available on Charter Communications and Wide Open West channel 6, and on Comcast Xfinity on channel 11 in Sarasota County and channel 29 in Hardee County.
The UHF channel 38 allotment in the Tampa-St. Petersburg market had previously been home to the area's first television station, WSUN-TV, which operated from 1953 to 1970. The station, along with WSUN-AM was originally licensed to the City of St. Petersburg. The transmitter was collocated in the WSUN-AM 620 kHz transmitter building on the north side of the Gandy causeway at the west end of the Gandy bridge. The transmitting antenna was mounted on top of the north tower of WSUN-AM which was modified to hold it without exceeding the original 502' AGL height. The north tower was and remains adjacent to the transmitter building used as a daytime 620 kHz non-directional radiator while the south tower, on the south side of the Gandy causeway was also used only at night as a directional array. The transmitter building still contains a ladder which descends into a bomb shelter below the bay water as 620 was the original Conelrad station for the area. The original towers, each located on pilings in Tampa Bay deteriorated with the salt water and sea bird roosting residues and were replaced with new shorter towers on the original pilings in the early 2000s, eliminating the final traces of channel 38 at the 620 kHz transmitting plant.
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