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WTAC-TV was a UHF TV station which was located in Flint, Michigan. It operated on channel 16 and went on the air on Thanksgiving Day of 1953. It was owned by the Trendle-Campbell Broadcasting Company which was a partnership of George W. Trendle (creator of The Lone Ranger) and H. Allen Campbell which also owned WTAC(AM) which is now WSNL in Flint. It was affiliated with ABC-TV and DuMont. The TV station went out of business less than a year later because too few TVs at the time were equipped to receive UHF channels. The broadcast tower was destroyed in a 1956 tornado. The WTAC-TV studios became the WJRT-TV studios in 1958.
Today, the channel 16 allocation is home to WSMH's digital signal.
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Broadcast television in the Mid-Michigan (Flint / Saginaw / Bay City / Midland) market (Nielsen DMA #66) |
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Local television stations
WNEM 5 (CBS/MNTV on DT2) - WJRT 12 (ABC, AccuWeather on DT3) - WCMU 14 / WCML 6 (PBS) - WDCP 19 / WDCQ 35 (PBS) - WEYI 25 (NBC/WBSF on DT2)- WFUM 28 (PBS) - WHNE-LP 32 (A1) - W42DI 42 (3ABN) - WBSF 46 (The CW) - WAQP 49 (TCT) - WXON 54 (Ind) - WSMH 66 (FOX)
Local Cable Television Channels
FSN Detroit
Defunct stations
WTAC 16 (ABC / DuMont)
Significantly Viewed Out-of-Market Broadcast Stations
Reception may vary by geographical location
WDIV 4 (NBC, Detroit) - CBMT 6 (CBC, Montreal) - WLNS 6 (CBS, Lansing) - CBET 9 (CBC, Windsor) - WWTV 9 (CBS, Cadillac) - WBKB 11 (CBS, Alpena) - WZZM 13 (ABC, Grand Rapids) - WMYD 20 (MyNetworkTV, Detroit) - WKAR 23 (PBS, East Lansing) - WSYM 47 (Fox, Lansing) - WKBD 50 (The CW, Detroit)
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