![]() The moves were permitted because two years earlier Martin Theaters had bought WROM-TV in Rome, Georgia and moved it 70 miles north to Chattanooga, Tennessee while changing its calls to WTVC. It moved to VHF channel 9 in 1960 in a three-way switch-and-move approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in which WRBL moved from channel 4 to channel 3 and WTVY-TV in Dothan, Alabama moved from channel 9 to channel 4. ![]() Woodall sold his interest in the station to Martin Theaters in 1956 and the call letters were changed to the current WTVM. Studios were located on 1st Avenue in Downtown Columbus where Carmike's corporate headquarters are today. (owner of WDAK-AM 540) and Martin Theaters (forerunner of Carmike Cinemas). It was originally owned by Allen Woodall Sr. During the late-1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. WDAK was the first television station in the Columbus market (beating rival WRBL by just over a month) and is the fifth-oldest in the state of Georgia and second-oldest outside Atlanta. It was a primary NBC station with secondary ABC affiliation. The station signed-on for the first time on October 6, 1953, as WDAK-TV airing an analog signal on UHF channel 28. The channel is available on all cable systems in the viewing area. It was replaced with Bounce TV on September 26, 2011. Despite being called "Storm Team 9 Weather Now", it was not affiliated with The Local AccuWeather Channel. On Saturday mornings, the subchannel broadcast educational shows to fulfill an E/I requirement. Programming consisted of current weather conditions with forecasts, a live feed of "Live Doppler 9", and severe weather alerts when conditions warrant. WTVM-DT2 previously carried a 24-hour local weather channel. The station's digital signal is multiplexed. 2.2 Live Doppler 9 Weather Center and Alfa Insurance Skycam Network.2.1 Raycom News Network and Raycom Alabama Weather Network.Syndicated programming on this channel includes: Entertainment Tonight, Inside Edition, The Doctors, and Ellen. The two share studios on Wynnton Road ( GA 22) in the Dinglewood section of Columbus. Owned by Raycom Media, WTVM operates primary ABC and secondary Fox affiliate WXTX (owned by American Spirit Media) through a shared services agreement (SSA). There is a high definition feed offered on Charter digital channel 707, Mediacom digital channel 810, and Knology digital channel 901. The station can also be seen on Charter, Knology, and Mediacom channel 10. ![]() It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 11 from a transmitter in Cusseta. WTVM is the ABC-affiliated television station for Columbus, Georgia. ![]() Lua error in a at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Tele Vision Martin (from Martin Theaters, former owner) For the middle and end of next week, a shot of cooler air will be moving back in with highs dropping into the 50s and lows dropping back to the 30s and 40s.Not to be confused with WVTM-TV. It won’t be the beset of days for getting out and playing with those new toys from Santa! Rain will mostly be out of here by next Tuesday and Wednesday, but we’ll leave in a slim chance just in case we have some lingering showers. It may end up being a steady, soaking rain for a lot of folks, and totals could be close to one inch when all is said and done. Unfortunately, we’ll bring our next chances for rain back in on Christmas Day. We’ll mention a slim chance of showers on Sunday evening or Sunday night, but most of those last-minute shoppers and others out and about this weekend will stay dry. The weekend weather looks fantastic with highs back in the mid 60s on Saturday and Sunday with rain chances staying near zero. The morning lows will still be quite chilly with 20s and 30s early Thursday morning and mostly 30s early Friday. (WTVM) - Going through the end of the week, our forecast will remain dry with highs warming up a little bit each day - upper 50s on Thursday and lower 60s on Friday.
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