WTCI

WTCI

Chattanooga, Tennessee United States
Channels	Digital: 35 (UHF) Virtual: 45
Branding	WTCI PBS
Programming
Affiliations	45.1: PBS for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	The Greater Chattanooga Public Television Corporation
History
First air date	March 3, 1970 (54 years ago) (1970-03-03)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 45 (UHF, 1970–2009) Digital: 29 (UHF, 2003–2019)
Former affiliations	NET (March–October 1970)
Technical information[1]
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 / 35.20722; -85.28111
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.wtcitv.org

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 unincorporated Mile Straight.

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.