WYLE (channel 26) was a television station in Florence, Alabama, United States, owned by ETC Communications, Inc.
The station's transmitter was located on Underwood Mountain Road in unincorporated southern Colbert County.
ETC's license to operate the station was canceled by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on March 12, 2009, due to failure to transmit for a period of 12 consecutive months.
In 2005, the combination of losing its primary prime time programming and the death of Lester White, president and CEO of ETC Communications, left the station in severe financial distress, and it was forced to go silent February 8, 2007.
[1][4] The loss of WYLE's license and the fact the station never aired a digital signal on channel 20 are among the reasons CBS affiliate WHNT-TV was allowed to move its digital broadcasts back to channel 19 after the analog shutdown.