WTTG Channel 5 is an owned-and-operated TV station of the Fox Broadcasting Company. It's located in Washington, D.C. and serves the entire Washington metropolitan area (including Northern Virginia, Maryland and the Martinsburg, West Virginia area) from a studio and transmitter located in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Washington. WTTG's sister station is MyNetworkTV O&O; WDCA, forming a duopoly owned by Fox Television Stations Group.
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WTTG Channel 5 is an owned-and-operated TV station of the Fox Broadcasting Company. It's located in Washington, D.C. and serves the entire Washington metropolitan area (including Northern Virginia, Maryland and the Martinsburg, West Virginia area) from a studio and transmitter located in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Washington. WTTG's sister station is MyNetworkTV O&O; WDCA, forming a duopoly owned by Fox Television Stations Group.
The station traces its history to May 19, 1945, when television set and equipment manufacturer Allen B. DuMont founded W3XWT, the second experimental station in the nation's capital (after NBC's W3XNB, forerunner to WRC-TV).
Later in 1945, DuMont Laboratories began a series of experimental coaxial cable hookups between W3XWT and its other television station, WABD in New York City (the current channel 5, later WNEW and now WNYW). These hookups were the beginning of the DuMont Television Network, the world's first licensed commercial television network....
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