WTCN

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The WTCN callsign has been used by multiple broadcasters, originally by a radio station in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region of Minnesota dating to at least the 1930s. A frequency-modulated signal was put out on W9XTC at 26.05 MHz by 1939, but was only activated intermittently according to later records in 1944. Television spinoffs followed:

• The first was a predecessor to WCCO-TV, beginning in 1949 until 1952
• The second was a predecessor to KARE-TV, from 1953 to 1984

WTCN radio eventually became WWTC 1280 AM.

Today, WTCN-CA is a low-power (class A) television station in the area of West Palm Beach, Florida.

In all of its Minnesota incarnations, WTCN's call letters stood for Twin Cities Newspapers, as the original station had been a joint venture between the area's then-four dominant papers, Minneapolis' Star and Tribune (now the Star Tribune) and St. Paul's St. Paul Pioneer and St. Paul Dispatch (now the St. Paul Pioneer Press).

WTCN (along with two other Florida stations) were bought by Viacom in 2004. WTCN is now owned by CBS Corporation after CBS and Viacom broke up in 2005.

On the web: www.wtcn.com