WTTG

WTTG

Washington, D.C. United States
Channels	Digital: 36 (UHF), shared with WDCA Virtual: 5
Branding	Fox 5
Programming
Affiliations	5.1: Fox 5.2: Buzzr 5.3: Start TV
Ownership
Owner	Fox Television Stations, LLC
Sister stations	WDCA
History
Founded	May 19, 1945; 79 years ago (1945-05-19) (as experimental station W3XWT)[1][2]
First air date	December 10, 1946 (77 years ago) (1946-12-10)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 5 (VHF, 1946–2009)
Former affiliations	DuMont (1946–1956) Independent (1956–1986)
Call sign meaning	Thomas Toliver Goldsmith (chief engineer of founding company DuMont)
Technical information[3]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	22207
ERP	1,000 kW
HAAT	235 m (771 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	38°57′49.9″N 77°6′17.2″W / 38.963861°N 77.104778°W / 38.963861; -77.104778
Translator(s)	W24ES-D (24 UHF) Moorefield, WV
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.fox5dc.com

WTTG (channel 5) is a television station in Washington, D.C., serving as the market's Fox network outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division alongside MyNetworkTV station WDCA (channel 20). WTTG and WDCA share studios on Wisconsin Avenue in Bethesda, Maryland. Through a channel sharing agreement, the stations transmit using WTTG's spectrum from a tower also located in Bethesda on River Road at the site of WDCA's former studio facilities.

WTTG's signal is rebroadcast on a low-power digital translator station, W24ES-D, in Moorefield, West Virginia^[4] (which is owned by Valley TV Cooperative, Inc.).