WTAC-TV was a television station broadcasting on ultra high frequency (UHF) channel 16 in Flint, Michigan, United States.
It was owned by the Trendle-Campbell Broadcasting Company alongside radio station WTAC (600 AM) and was affiliated with ABC.
Early economic difficulties with UHF television in the United States and competition from the very high frequency (VHF) stations in Detroit, whose signals reached Flint, largely precipitated its demise.
[2] That month, a second group filed for the channel: the Trendle-Campbell Broadcasting Company, a partnership of George W. Trendle and H. Allen Campbell and owners of Flint radio station WTAC (600 AM).
[5] Construction began on the station site at 2302 Lapeer in June; the transmitter would be located here as well as 12,000 square feet (1,100 m2) of studio and office space.
[1] The Television Tips column run by local dealers in The Flint Journal noted that this was a new use for the land; the site had previously been a circus grounds.
[15] Interior work was nearly completed on the studios by the end of February 1954, allowing for the expansion of local programming.
[16] The station also signed to carry the full television schedule of Detroit Tigers baseball games for the 1954 season.