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  Station Logo
  Station Slogan The Most Powerful Name in Local News
  Station Branding Fox 5 DC
  Analog 5 ( VHF )
  Digital 36 ( UHF )
  Other Chs
  Affiliations Fox
  Network
  Founded January 1 , 1947
  Location Washington, DC
  Callsign Meaning '''W'''<br>'''T'''homas<br>'''T'''oliver<br>'''G'''oldsmith
  Former Callsigns W3XWT (1945-1947)
  Former Channel Numbers
  Owner Fox Television Stations
  Licensee
  Sister Stations WDCA
  Former Affiliations DuMont (1946-1956)<br>independent (1956-1986)
  Effective Radiated Power 100 KW (analog)<br>1000 kW (digital)
  HAAT 235 M (analog)<br>201 m (digital)
  Class
  Facility Id 22207
  Coordinates
  Homepage wwwMyFoxDCcom


WTTG is an Owned-and-operated TV Station of the Fox Broadcasting Company . It is located in Washington, D.C. and serves the entire Washington metropolitan area (including Northern Virginia , Maryland , and the Martinsburg, West Virginia area) from a studio and transmitter located in the Tenleytown section of Washington. WTTG's sister station is MyNetworkTV O&O WDCA , forming a duopoly owned by Fox Television Stations Group .


HISTORY

The station traces its history to May 19 , 1945 , when television set and equipment manufacturer Allen B. DuMont founded W3XWT, the second experimental station in the nation's capital (after NBC 's W3XNB, forerunner to WRC-TV ).

Later in 1945, DuMont Laboratories began a series of experimental Coaxial Cable hookups between W3XWT and its other television station, WABD in New York City (now WNYW ). These hookups were the beginning of the DuMont Television Network , the world's first licensed commercial television network. DuMont began regular network service in 1946 . Almost a year later, on January 3 , 1947 , W3XWT received a commercial license--the first in the nation's capital--as WTTG. The station was named for Thomas T. Goldsmith , Dr. DuMont's best friend and the DuMont network's chief engineer.

Like its New York sister station, WTTG was far more successful than the network as a whole. In 1956 , after DuMont ended network operations, WTTG and WABD were spun off as the "DuMont Broadcasting Corporation." It later changed its name to Metropolitan Broadcasting due to the failure associated with DuMont. In 1958 , Washington investor John Kluge bought controlling interest in Metropolitan Broadcasting and installed himself as its chairman. He changed the company's name to Metromedia in 1961 . Goldsmith sat on Metromedia's board for over a quarter-century.

At first, WTTG ran on a low budget. However, in the late 1960s, it benefited from Metromedia's aggressiveness in acquiring top syndicated programming, giving it a significant leg up on WDCA, which signed on in 1966 . By the 1970s , WTTG was one of the leading independent stations in the country, running a broad lineup of cartoons, off-network sitcoms, first-run syndicated shows, old movies, local news and locally produced programs. During this time period, and well into the early 1990s, WTTG was the flagship station for the Georgetown Hoyas Men's Basketball team. Its main claim to fame was ''Panorama'', an afternoon talk show hosted by John Willis, and Maury Povich .

When Cable Television began in the 1970s , WTTG became a regional Superstation . At one point, it appeared on every cable system in Maryland and Virginia , as well as most of Delaware and in parts of North Carolina , South Carolina and Pennsylvania . Though not distributed as widely as it once was, the popularity of WTTG has kept it available on cable on several Maryland and Virginia cable systems. It still serves as the default Fox affiliate for the Harrisonburg, Virginia market. It also served as the default Fox affiliate for Salisbury, Maryland until the debut of new default Fox affiliate, FOX21 Delmarva, a subsidiary of WBOC-TV , on 21 August 2006).

Metromedia owned the station until 1986 when Rupert Murdoch , after buying 20th Century Fox , purchased the Metromedia television stations to form the nucleus of the Fox network. WTTG has since become a Fox owned-and-operated station (O&O), but has retained consistently high ratings, a rarity for a Fox station. Initially, its programming was similar to what it had run as a true independent station, since Fox only programmed for a few hours on weekends. Then, in the summer of 1990 , the morning cartoon block was ended in favor of Fox 5 Morning News. It was the second Fox O&O to have a morning newscast and the fourth or fifth Fox affiliate with morning news.

In the 1990s , Fox 5 added more syndicated talk shows and reality shows. It continued to air afternoon cartoons from Fox Kids until the fall of 2001 , when they moved to WDCA (only to be cut to Saturdays everywhere in 2002). But WTTG later on brought back Fox children's programming under the banner 4Kids TV . On October 29 , 2001 , WDCA became WTTG's sister station when Fox bought it from Viacom . Fox 5 continued to run top rated off-network sitcoms in the evenings. In 2002, it added an evening 5 to 6 p.m. newscast. Today, FOX5 has 40 hours a week of local news.

On May 15 , 2006 WTTG launched a new website, which features more news and video with the "MyFox" name and interface. (The "My" in the MyFox name may be a reference to Fox's new network My Network TV , which will be shown locally on WDCA .) It is at www.myfoxdc.com .

The new logo and set premiered on , 2006 . "NewsEdge", which is anchored solo by 10pm co-anchor Brian Bolter, follows its 10-11pm newscast. Also with the launch of the 11pm broadcast, Fox 5 has now expanded it's 5pm broadcast to 7 days a week. The 5pm on the weekend is only a half-hour long as opposed to the weekday hour-long broadcast. Plus the new "NewsEdge" has also gone to 7 days as well. The weekend 11pm broadcast is 15-minutes long followed by "Sports Extra."

On ' coverage of the 2006 Major League Baseball postseason, the first half-hour of the 10 PM newscast was seen on Washington's FOX-owned WDCA under the banner of ''FOX 5 News at Ten Special Edition''. {Link without Title}

On July 2 , 2007, WTTG discontinued its noon newscast and replaced it with an hour long newscast at 11am, titled ''FOX 5 News Midday''.

on September 10 , 2007, WTTG will expand "NewsEdge" at 6pm which also be anchored solo by Brian Bolter,will follows it's 5pm-6pm Newscast.


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In , as seen at the 1988 Republican National Convention , uncut; they were told to run a piece from '' A Current Affair '' that "rehashed the whole matter of [Senator Ted Kennedy 's deadly car accident at] Chappaquiddick which had zero news value;" and an obsessive attitude over airing stories related to wedge issues such as Race Relations and AIDS .


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