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Full-power digital · channel 9 · CHATTANOOGA, TN
| Facility ID | 22590 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | WTVC LICENSEE, LLC |
| Community of licence | CHATTANOOGA, TN
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 35.16075, -85.31828 |
| Effective radiated power | 90 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 707 m above average terrain · directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
| Website | http://www.newschannel9.com/ |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | 9
|
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | none found |
Checked 2026-09-11 by fetching robots.txt
and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not
evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| WDEF-TV | 8 | DTV | WDEF-TV, INC. |
| facility 796648 | 10 | LPD | |
| facility 796649 | 13 | LPD | |
| WRCB | 13 | DTV | SARKES TARZIAN, INC. |
| WDSI-TV | 14 | DTV | NEW AGE MEDIA OF TENNESSEE LICENSE, LLC |
| WCNT-LD | 15 | LPD | EDGE SPECTRUM, INC. |
| WOOT-LD | 19 | LPD | DIGITAL NETWORKS-SOUTHEAST, LLC |
| WDNN-CD | 20 | DCA | GRAY TELEVISION LICENSEE, LLC |
| facility 794343 | 21 | LPD | |
| WDDA-LD | 24 | LPD | WORD OF GOD FELLOWSHIP, INC. |
| WYHB-CD | 25 | DCA | HC2 STATION GROUP INC. |
| W29GO-D | 29 | LPD |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/WTVC | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=WTVC | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.