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WDTV

U.S. local TV news, center-right/mostly neutral

Owned byOwned by Gray Media (formerly Gray Television), a publicly traded U.S. broadcaster. Gray also owns sister station WVFX (Fox/CW+) in the same market. Gray bought WDTV and WVFX from Withers Broadcasting of West Virginia on May 1, 2017, for about $26.5 million.

FundingCommercial advertising (local and political), plus retransmission-consent fees paid by cable and satellite providers and network affiliate arrangements with CBS. It does not rely on subscriptions or donations.

On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

WDTV first signed on March 17, 1954, with the call letters WJPB-TV, which it kept until 1964. Over the years it carried NBC and ABC programming, including a stretch as a primary ABC station in the 1960s, before settling with CBS. The station serves the small Clarksburg-Weston market (DMA 169). It was later held by Withers Broadcasting of West Virginia, which also bought WVFX in 2007. In May 2017, Gray Television bought both stations for about $26.5 million, and the two share studios in Bridgeport. Gray's corporate parent is a national consolidator with a mixed political-news reputation, and some of its stations run corporate-supplied segments. I found no major editorial controversies specific to WDTV. As a typical local affiliate, it focuses on community news, crime, weather, high school sports and local government, and it tends to carry national political stories through network or Gray-supplied content rather than its own commentary. West Virginia is a strongly Republican state, but the station's coverage is mainly straight news and does not follow a distinct ideological line. This profile is based on limited search results and I did not do a content analysis of recent coverage.

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Profile compiled 2026-10-25; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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