WEAR-TV

WEAR-TV
CityPensacola, Florida
Channels
Branding
  • 3.1: WEAR ABC 3 or Channel 3; WEAR News
  • 3.2: NBC 15
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
WFGX, WPMI-TV, WJTC
History
First air date
January 13, 1954 (1954-01-13)
Former channel numbers
Analog: 3 (VHF, 1954–2009)
  • CBS (1954–1955)
  • ABC (secondary, 1954–1955)
  • Roar (3.2, until 2025)
Call sign meaning
derived from WEAR radio, randomly assigned
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID71363
ERP1,000 kW
HAAT579 m (1,900 ft)
Transmitter coordinates30°36′45.4″N 87°38′41.6″W / 30.612611°N 87.644889°W / 30.612611; -87.644889
Links
Public license information
Website

WEAR-TV (channel 3) is a television station licensed to Pensacola, Florida, United States, serving northwest Florida and southwest Alabama as an affiliate of ABC and NBC. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Fort Walton Beach–licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate WFGX (channel 35); Sinclair also provides certain services to Mobile, Alabama–licensed WPMI-TV (channel 15) and Pensacola-licensed independent station WJTC (channel 44) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Deerfield Media.

WEAR-TV and WFGX share studios—which also house master control and some internal operations for WPMI-TV and WJTC—on Mobile Highway (US 90) in unincorporated Escambia County, Florida (with a Pensacola mailing address); WEAR-TV's transmitter is located in unincorporated Baldwin County, Alabama (northeast of Robertsdale). Weekday newscasts and any remaining operations for "NBC 15" that were once part of WPMI-TV prior to October 20, 2025, remain in Mobile at the studios of WPMI and WJTC.

Although WEAR-TV's call letters represent both the words "wear" and "ear", the station spells out its calls as "W-E-A-R", rather than any word.