WCJB-TV

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WCJB-TV

Gainesville / Lake City / Ocala, Florida
Branding	WCJB TV 20 The CW Gainesville
Slogan	Your Home Team
Channels	20 (UHF) analog, 16 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	ABC The CW on DT2
Owner	Diversified Communications
Founded	April 5, 1971
Call letters meaning	Casey Jean & Bill (The Minshall Family's 1st Names)
Former affiliations	NBC(1971-1973)
Transmitter Power	2820 kW (analog) & 343.6 kW (digital)
Website	wcjb.com

WCJB-TV, channel 20, is the ABC affiliate station in Gainesville, Florida and also serves Lake City (in the Jacksonville market), Ocala (in the Orlando market) and most of Northern Florida. Its transmitter is located in Wacahoota, Florida. WCJB airs programming from The CW on its DT2 subchannel known as The CW Gainesville.

[edit] History

WCJB signed on April 5, 1971 as an NBC affiliate, owned by William E. Minshall. Its callsign bears the first initials of his family members -- Casey, Jean, and himself, "Bill".

In 1973, just two years after its first broadcast, WCJB switched its affiliation from NBC to ABC.

In 1977, WCJB was sold to Diversified Communications, a company based in Portland, Maine that specialises in trade publications, and is the owner of Bangor, Maine's WABI-TV.

In 2001, WCJB began a digital signal on channel 16.

Until July 2006, WCJB was the only ABC affiliate seen on the Cox Cable system there, since WCJB had exclusivity on that system for ABC programming, keeping co-owned, home-market WFTV from Orlando off that system. In July 2006, Cox received the green light to pick up WFTV's standard and high-definition feeds in Ocala, on cable channel 9 (standard feed) and channel 729 (HD feed).

WFTV and WCJB are also both seen on Bright House in Belleview and unincorporated Marion County.

In September 2006, WCJB began to air programming from the new CW television network on its DT2 subchannel which is known as The CW Gainesville. WCJB DT2 offers The Daily Buzz newscast shown weekdays 6-9 AM.

[edit] Newscasts

Monday-Friday

WCJB TV-20 News Morning Edition (6:00-7:00AM)
WCJB TV-20 News at Noon
WCJB TV-20 News at 5
WCJB TV-20 News at 6
WCJB TV-20 News at 11

Saturday-Sunday

WCJB TV-20 News Morning Edition (9:00-10:00 AM Saturday)
WCJB TV-20 News at 6 (Saturday)
WCJB TV-20 News at 6:30 (Sunday)
WCJB TV-20 News at 11

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Broadcast television in the Gainesville market (Nielsen DMA #162)

WESH 2 (NBC) - WJXT 4 (Ind) - WUFT 5 (PBS) - W07BP 7 (Edu.) - WLUF 10 (PBS) - WMYG 11 (MNTV) - WCJB 20 (ABC) (The CW on DT2) - WBXG 31 (MTV2) - WGEC 33 (Ind) - WYPN 43 (Ind) - WOGX 51 (Fox) - WGFL 53 (CBS) - W69AY 69 (Ind/Rel)
Local digital television channels
WYKE-LP 47 (FN)

Broadcast television in the Jacksonville market (Nielsen DMA #52)

WJXT 4 (Ind.) - WJCT 7 (PBS) - WXGA 8 (PBS/GPB) - WTLV 12 (NBC) - WCWJ 17 (The CW) - WPXC 21 (i) - WJXX 25 (ABC) - WWRJ 27 (Rel.) - WAWS 30 (Fox) (MNTV on DT2) - W54CS 36 (AS) - WBXJ 43 (MTV2) - WTEV 47 (CBS) - WJEB 59 (TBN)
Gainesville / Ocala channels serving portions of the Jacksonville market
WUFT 5 (PBS) - WCJB 20 (ABC) (The CW on DT2) - WOGX 51 (Fox)

Broadcast television in the Orlando / Daytona Beach / Melbourne market (Nielsen DMA #19)

WESH 2 (NBC) - WKMG 6 (CBS) - WFTV 9 (ABC) - WTMO 15 (TEL) - WCEU 15 (PBS) - WKCF 18 (The CW) - W21AU 21 (AZA) - WMFE 24 (PBS) - WVEN 26 (UNI) - WRDQ 27 (Ind) - WRCF 29 (A1) - WOFL 35 (Fox) - WZXZ 36 (MTV2) - WOTF 43 (TFU) - WLCB 45 (TLN / Faith TV) - WOGX 51 (Fox) - WTGL 52 (TBN) - WOPX 56 (i) - WRBW 65 (MNTV) - WBCC 68 (PBS)
Local digital television channels
WACX 40 (Ind/Rel)
Gainesville channels serving Ocala, part of the Orlando market
WUFT 5 (PBS) - WCJB 20 (ABC) (The CW on DT2)
Local cable television channels
Central Florida News 13

ABC Network Affiliates in the state of Florida

WEAR 3 (Pensacola) - WFTV 9 (Orlando) - WPLG 10 (Miami) - WMBB 13 (Panama City) - WCJB 20 (Gainesville) - WPBF 25 (Tequesta / West Palm Beach) - WJXX 25 (Orange Park / Jacksonville) - WZVN 26 (Naples) - WTXL 27 (Tallahassee) - WFTS 28 (Tampa) - WWSB 40 (Sarasota)
See also: CBS, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, Religious, Spanish and Other stations in the state of Florida

CW Network Affiliates in the state of Florida

WJHG-DT 7.2 (Panama City) - WCWJ 17 (Jacksonville) - WKCF 18 (Clermont) - WCJB-DT 20.2 (Gainesville) - WTVX 34 (Fort Pierce) WSFL 39 (Miami) - WTOG 44 (St. Petersburg) - WTVK 46 (Naples) - WTLH-DT 49.2 (Tallahassee)
See also: ABC, CBS, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS, Religious, Spanish and Other stations in the state of Florida