WTCI
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| Branding | WTCI PBS |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | The Greater Chattanooga Public Television Corporation |
| History | |
First air date | March 3, 1970 |
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| NET (March–October 1970) | |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 65667 |
| ERP | 200 kW |
| HAAT | 353 m (1,158 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 35°12′26″N 85°16′52″W / 35.20722°N 85.28111°W |
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Public license information | |
| Website | www |
WTCI (channel 45) is a PBS member television station in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. Owned by the Greater Chattanooga Public Television Corporation, the station maintains studios on Bonnyshire Drive in Chattanooga, and its transmitter is located on Sawyer Cemetery Road in Hamilton County, Tennessee.
WTCI was the third of four stations built by the Tennessee Department of Education to expand public television coverage in Tennessee, signing on March 3, 1970. Its original studios were on the campus of what is now Chattanooga State Community College. It operated as a state-owned station until 1984, when it was spun out to a local board in the wake of a scandal that revealed inefficiencies in Tennessee's state-run public TV stations. As a result, WTCI began fundraising in the community. In 2007, it relocated to its present studios. The station produces local programming, including coverage of Chattanooga city council meetings and public affairs and cultural programs of regional interest.