![]() Usually, ABC, as the smallest and weakest network, was relegated to secondary status on one or both of existing stations. This was very unusual for a then two-station market, especially one of Columbus' size. On the same day WTVM moved to channel 9, it switched its primary affiliation to ABC, while relegating NBC to secondary status shared with WRBL. Eventually, WTVM's old channel 28 allotment was occupied by Georgia Public Broadcasting's WJSP-TV. The moves were permitted because two years earlier Martin Theaters had bought WROM-TV in Rome, Georgia, and moved it 70 miles (113 km) 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 were until December 2016. ![]() (owner of WDAK-AM 540) and Martin Theaters (forerunner of Carmike Cinemas and AMC Theatres). 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 a 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. WTVM and WXTX share studios (which also house master control and most internal operations for WLTZ) on Wynnton Road ( GA 22) in the Dinglewood section of Columbus WTVM's transmitter is located in Cusseta, Georgia. It is owned by Gray Television, which provides certain services to dual NBC/ CW+ affiliate WLTZ (channel 38, owned by SagamoreHill Broadcasting) and Fox affiliate WXTX (channel 54, owned by American Spirit Media) under separate shared services agreements (SSAs). WTVM (channel 9) is a television station in Columbus, Georgia, United States, affiliated with ABC.
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