WTAP-TV (channel 15) is a television station in Parkersburg, West Virginia, United States, affiliated with NBC.
The three stations share studios on Market Street (official address is One Television Plaza) in downtown Parkersburg; WTAP-TV's transmitter is located in Independence Township, Ohio.
Original plans called for WTAP to join WJPB and turn the Parkersburg and Clarksburg areas into one giant television market.
Suddenlink's system in Washington County, Ohio (home to Marietta) supplements the area with stations from Columbus, as does the Parkersburg–Marietta DirecTV feed.
CAS Cable and Suddenlink's systems in Wood and Pleasants counties in West Virginia supplement coverage with stations from the Huntington–Charleston market.
It had a number of owners in its early days including the Zanesville Publishing Company which bailed WTAP out when it almost went off-the-air in the mid-1950s.
The West 7th Street facilities were also home to WTAP-AM 1230 until the radio station was spun off and sold to a separate entity.
A long-time WTAP on-air personality, Glenn Wilson, suggested and got Parkersburg's approval to rename the last block of Market Street "Television Plaza".
[2] In late 2005 Gray purchased NBC affiliate WSAZ-TV in Huntington making that station and WTAP sisters.
After Gray Television bought WSAZ, there were rumors WTAP would scrap its news operation and simulcast newscasts from that station.