- WTAC-TV
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call_letters = WTAC
city = Flint, Michigan
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analog = 16
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affiliations = Defunct
founded = 1953
location = Flint, Michigan
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owner = Trendle-Campbell Broadcasting Company
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former_affiliations = ABC, DuMont
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homepage =WTAC-TV was a
UHF TV station which was located inFlint, Michigan . It operated on channel 16 and went on the air onThanksgiving Day of1953 . It was owned by theTrendle-Campbell Broadcasting Company which was a partnership ofGeorge W. Trendle (creator of "The Lone Ranger ") andH. Allen Campbell which also owned WTAC(AM) which is nowWSNL 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 a1956 tornado. The WTAC-TV studios became theWJRT-TV studios in1958 .Today, the channel 16 allocation is home to
WSMH 's digital signal, which will remain on channel 16 after the analog television shutdown scheduled forFebruary 17 ,2009 .
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