WMTW (TV)

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WMTW

Poland Spring–Portland–Lewiston, Maine United States
City	Poland Spring, Maine
Channels	Digital: 8 (VHF) Virtual: 8
Branding	Channel 8 WMTW; WMTW News 8 MeTV Portland (DT2)
Programming
Affiliations	8.1: ABC for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Hearst Television (Hearst Properties Inc.)
Sister stations	WPXT
History
First air date	September 25, 1954 (69 years ago) (1954-09-25)
Former call signs	WMTW-TV (1958–2007)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 8 (VHF, 1954–2009) Digital: 46 (UHF, 2002–2009)
Former affiliations	DuMont (secondary, 1954–1955)
Call sign meaning	Mount Washington (site of station's original transmitter)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	73288
ERP	29.8 kW
HAAT	612 m (2,008 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	43°50′44″N 70°45′41″W / 43.84556°N 70.76139°W / 43.84556; -70.76139
Translator(s)	26 (UHF) Portland
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.wmtw.com

WMTW (channel 8) is a television station licensed to Poland Spring, Maine, United States, serving the Portland area as an affiliate of ABC. It is owned by Hearst Television alongside CW affiliate WPXT (channel 51). The two stations share studios on Ledgeview Drive in Westbrook; WMTW's transmitter is located in West Baldwin, Maine.

WMTW also operates a low-power digital fill-in translator on UHF channel 26 (also mapped to virtual channel 8) from the Time and Temperature Building in downtown Portland's Monument Square. The translator serves the immediate part of Portland and some surrounding areas to serve viewers that have difficulty receiving the main signal.

In addition to WPXT, WMTW shares common coverage areas with four other Hearst-owned sister stations in New England: fellow ABC affiliates WCVB-TV in Boston and WMUR-TV in Manchester, New Hampshire; and its duopoly of NBC affiliate WPTZ and CW affiliate WNNE in Vermont.