WTAC-TV

WTAC
Flint, Michigan
City	Flint, Michigan
Channels	Analog: 16
Affiliations	Defunct
Owner	Trendle-Campbell Broadcasting Company
Founded	1953
Last air date	1954
Former affiliations	ABC, DuMont

WTAC-TV was a UHF TV station which was located in Flint, Michigan. It operated on channel 16 and went on the air on Thanksgiving Day of 1953. It was owned by the Trendle-Campbell Broadcasting Company which was a partnership of George W. Trendle (creator of The Lone Ranger) and H. Allen Campbell which also owned WTAC(AM) which is now WSNL in Flint. It was affiliated with ABC-TV and DuMont. The TV station went out of business less than a year later, in the middle of ABC's coverage of the Army-McCarthy hearings, because too few TVs at the time were equipped to receive UHF channels. The broadcast tower was destroyed in an April 1956 Hudsonville-Standale tornado. The WTAC-TV studios became the WJRT-TV studios in 1958.

Today, the signal space for channel 16 is home to WSMH's digital signal, which remains on channel 16 after that station shut down its analog signal May 21, 2009, and following the nationwide analog television shutdown that took place June 12, 2009.

Broadcast television in the Mid Michigan region, including Flint, Saginaw, Bay City and Midland

Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television

Local stations	WNEM-TV 5 (.1 CBS, .2 MNTV, .3 COZI) W09CK (Ind) WJRT-TV 12 (.1 ABC, .2 MeTV, .3 WxN) WUWB-LD 20 (.1 This TV, .2 Movies!, .3 PBJ, .4 The Family Channel, .5 Tuff TV, .7 Classifieds/WUPS, .8 Classifieds/WKJC-FM) W24DL-D 24 (.1 3ABN) WEYI-TV 25 (.1 NBC, .2 CW, .3 Bounce TV) WBSF 46 (.1 CW, .2 NBC, .3 Grit) WAQP 49 (.1 TCT, .2 TCT HD, .3 TCT Family) WSMH 66 (.1 Fox, .2 Antenna TV, .3 Comet)

Public television	WCMU-TV 14 / WCMZ-TV 28 (.1 PBS (HD), .2 PBS (SD), .3 Create) WDCQ-TV 19 (.1 PBS, .2 MHz WV, .3 Create, .4 Kids)

Cable channels	Fox Sports Detroit

Defunct stations	WTAC 16 (ABC / DuMont) WXON-LP 54 (Ind) MGTV Comcast Television

Michigan broadcast television areas by city Alpena Detroit Duluth, MN Flint–Saginaw–Bay City Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo Green Bay, WI Lansing/Jackson Marquette Northern Michigan South Bend, IN Toledo, OH

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