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WATE 6 On Your Side history
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At the time, Mountcastle was chairman of the board of the Life and Casualty Insurance Company of Tennessee in Nashville, which signed on WLAC-TV (now WTVF) in that city in 1954.
The station changed its call letters to WATE-TV in 1955 with the new call letters not really standing for anything; the licensee also was renamed to WATE, Inc.
John Reese, the station's program director at the time stated "those call letters were the next available at the FCC." In 1956, WATE dropped ABC when WBIR-TV signed on and took the CBS affiliation from WTVK, leaving WTVK the ABC station by default.
WATE-TV had a role in the failure of WBIR to have its second antenna tower on House Mountain in 1965 for better coverage.
In 1965, Mountcastle and his group sold WATE-TV to Nationwide Communications of Columbus, Ohio.
The self-supporting tower on Sharp's Ridge was dismantled in 1975 when the station built a 1,153-foot (351 m) broadcasting tower alongside it.
On September 17, 1979, WATE swapped its NBC affiliation with WTVK to become an ABC affiliate.
In 1981, the station premiered PM Magazine with MayCay Beeler and Calvin Sneed.
In 1993, Nationwide sold its three ABC-affiliated television stations (WATE, WBAY-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and WRIC-TV in Richmond, Virginia) to Young Broadcasting.
Young Broadcasting emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in June 2010, and the new company was renamed New Young Broadcasting, Inc.
WATE-TV adopted its current "Circle 6" logo in 2011.
Young Broadcasting merged with Media General on November 12, 2013, which united East Tennessee's first TV station (WATE-TV) and the second TV station in East Tennessee (WJHL-TV, Johnson City) as sister stations.
That tower was dismantled in July 2016, owing to a newer, 1,525-foot (465 m) multi-plexed tower built beside it.
In 2017, Media General merged with Nexstar Broadcasting.
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