WTXL-TV (channel 27) is a television station in Tallahassee, Florida, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by the E. W. Scripps Company.

Prior to channel 27's arrival, CBS affiliate WCTV had been the sole commercial outlet in the area and carried ABC in off-hours.

Its original studios were on Thomasville Road (US 319/SR 61) in Tallahassee, and it aired an analog signal on UHF channel 27 from a transmitter located at the facilities.

[3] In 1984, Allen sold the station to Tallahassee 27 Limited Partnership, led by former Senator Joseph Tydings and former Representative Louis Frey, Jr.

The station's history page claims the new owners took over in 1985, but according to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) files, the call letters were switched in 1984.

On March 17, 2002, this outlet merged all of its operations into WTWC's studios (on Deerlake South in unincorporated Leon County, Florida northwest of Bradfordville).

The Southern Broadcast Corporation (which it would be renamed Calkins Media) acquired WTXL's license on November 30, 2005, but allowed the outsourcing agreement to continue.

[6][7] After leaving WTWC's facilities, WTXL temporarily rented studio space from WFSU-TV on the campus of Florida State University.

Because the FCC prohibits a direct duopoly between two of the top four stations in the same TV market, Gray opted to retain ownership of WCTV and sell WTXL to a third party.

[13] On August 20, it was announced that the E. W. Scripps Company would buy WTXL and sister station KXXV in Waco, Texas (along with semi-satellite KRHD-CD in Bryan), for $55 million.

More specifically, WTXL's on-air team provided WTWC with weekday morning local news and weather cut-ins seen at 7:27 and 8:26 during its airing of Today.

[18] In August 2007, after resuming operations independent of WTWC, WTXL debuted a new set from new studios in Midway, featuring the same design scheme as then-sister station WAAY-TV in Huntsville, Alabama.

The show, known as Bounce TV News at 7, could be seen for thirty minutes featuring a separate graphics package and music theme from the main channel's broadcasts.