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WTXL Tallahassee Covering local news, sports and weather across North Florida and South Georgia since 1976. The call letters were the initials of the stations founding owner, E.

ABC 27 is the Tallahassee ABC affiliate covering communities across the Big Bend and South Georgia. ABC 27 serves audiences and businesses across the area by delivering information through television, social media and digital media brands. Meaningful storytelling and creating authentic connections with the people who live here are at the cornerstone of what we do here at ABC 27. As part of this commitment to the communities we serve, we are dedicated to bringing people accurate, unbiased information as it happens on any screen people have access to. ABC 27 first signed on the air in September of 1976 under the call letters WECA. C. Allen. E. C., as he was known to many, was a local businessman and owner of Mobile Home Industries. Back in those early days the station slogan was "WE CAN do it!", cleverly incorporating the call sign into the slogan. WECA was the third TV station to service the Tallahassee-Thomasville market, following the CBS and PBS stations. In 1985, E. Allen sold the station to Tallahassee 27 Limited Partnership, whose majority partners were Maryland Senator Joseph Tydings and Florida Congressman Lou Frey. It was under this ownership that the call letters were changed to WTXL. The station went through two more ownership changes before its current owners, Southern Broadcast Corporation of Sarasota took over on November 30, 2005. In 2007, ABC 27 completed a new digital television facility located in Midway, Florida. With this new station, ABC 27 is the first local television station in the Thomasville-Tallahassee market to originate local news in High Definition. In January 2019, ABC 27 joined the E.W. Scripps Company, increasing the number of TV stations Scripps owns in Florida to five.

FSU expanded its no-vehicle zone around Doak Campbell Stadium, cutting off pedicab access and prompting a community peti...
11/09/2026

FSU expanded its no-vehicle zone around Doak Campbell Stadium, cutting off pedicab access and prompting a community petition with 1,200+ signatures.

Republicans opened the second and final day of their midterm convention in Dallas on Thursday knowing that history is no...
11/09/2026

Republicans opened the second and final day of their midterm convention in Dallas on Thursday knowing that history is not on their side this election season.

Florida’s race for governor pits Republican warnings about socialism against Democratic attacks on rising costs and dono...
11/09/2026

Florida’s race for governor pits Republican warnings about socialism against Democratic attacks on rising costs and donor influence.

Oil prices keep climbing as the war with Iran keeps clogging the global flow of crude, and they leaped Thursday to their...
11/09/2026

Oil prices keep climbing as the war with Iran keeps clogging the global flow of crude, and they leaped Thursday to their highest levels since before the summer.

Scripps News spoke with online sports journalist Christian Basnight about this year's U.S. Open semifinal and what it me...
10/09/2026

Scripps News spoke with online sports journalist Christian Basnight about this year's U.S. Open semifinal and what it means for the history of tennis.

Anthropic says it has blocked multiple accounts that used the company’s artificial intelligence models in ways that coul...
10/09/2026

Anthropic says it has blocked multiple accounts that used the company’s artificial intelligence models in ways that could support the development of biological weapons.

Europe's International Space Summit in Paris is bringing together leaders from 120 countries to advance sovereign space ...
10/09/2026

Europe's International Space Summit in Paris is bringing together leaders from 120 countries to advance sovereign space capabilities and compete in a market dominated by the U.S. and China.

The City of Madison voted to stop funding its fire department. Starting in November, Madison County Fire Rescue will ser...
10/09/2026

The City of Madison voted to stop funding its fire department. Starting in November, Madison County Fire Rescue will serve as the sole emergency responder in the area.

The community day is September 12th from 10:00 a.m. to. 2:00 p.m. Free lunch is provided for the first 150 people.
10/09/2026

The community day is September 12th from 10:00 a.m. to. 2:00 p.m. Free lunch is provided for the first 150 people.

The Bainbridge Housing Authority is upgrading 70 public housing units with new appliances and electrical updates.
10/09/2026

The Bainbridge Housing Authority is upgrading 70 public housing units with new appliances and electrical updates.

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