WTTE
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| WTTE (FOX) | ||
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| Slogan: N/A | ||
| Columbus, Ohio | ||
| Channel 28 Digital channel 36 | ||
| Owner | Sinclair Broadcasting Group | |
| Founded | 1986 | |
| Signal Radius | Columbus, Ohio | |
| Transmitter location | Columbus | |
| Callsign Meaning | W Television Twenty Eight | |
| Former Callsigns | none | |
| Address | N/A Columbus, Ohio 40??? | |
| Website: | www.wtte28.com | |
WTTE is the Fox television affiliate in Columbus, Ohio. The station broadcasts on channel 28 and broadcasts in Stereo. On most cable systems in the Columbus area, WTTE is channel 8. WTTE-DT (the digital service of WTTE) operates on channel 36.
WTTE began operations in 1986. The station is involved in a local marketing agreement with the Sinclair Broadcast Group, and shares news production with its Columbus-area ABC-affiliate, WSYX.
The station began a ten o'clock newscast in 1995, the first in Central Ohio. Yolanda Harris was one of the original anchors. By August of 1999, WTTE's newscast was absorbed into the WSYX Channel 6 news department, that currently produces the 10 o'clock news. It is the 12th highest rated 10 p.m. newscast in the country.