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WOTV, virtual channel 41 ( UHF digital channel 20), is an ABC- affiliated television station located in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States. The station is owned by Media General, and is a sister station to NBC affiliate WOOD-TV (channel 8) and Class A MyNetworkTV affiliate WXSP-CD (channel 15). All three stations share studios on College Avenue Southeast in the Heritage Hill section of Grand Rapids, WOTV's transmitter is located on South Norris Road in Orangeville Township. It is known on air as WOTV 4, since it is carried on channel 4 on Charter Communications and Comcast. Syndicated programming on WOTV includes Steve Harvey, Rules of Engagement, The Real and The Wendy Williams Show. On early weekend mornings, the station simulcasts WOOD-DT3, which is a feed of WOOD-TV's weather radar (known as the "Storm Team 8 Live Doppler Network") with audio from NOAA Weather Radio station KIG63; since July 15, 2013, it is now carried full-time on WOTV-DT2.
The Grand Rapids/ Kalamazoo market is one of a few instances where there are two affiliates of the same network (this situation exists in the Tampa Bay Area of Florida where WFTS-TV and WWSB both air ABC programming in the same market). ABC programming is also seen on WZZM (channel 13), which is based out of Grand Rapids. Although WZZM clears all network programming and operates a full news department, its digital signal cannot reach the southern portions of the market (Battle Creek and Kalamazoo). This is because the transmitter is located northwest of Grand Rapids in Grant, farther north than the area's other network stations. While WOTV once focused primarily on the southern portion of the market, in recent years it has billed itself as a full-market ABC affiliate, including Grand Rapids.
In some cases, commonly from late spring through early fall, the signal from WOTV can be received in parts of southeastern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. This can cause interference in these areas with the signal from Chicago's WGN-TV, as WOTV broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 20 and WGN-TV broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 19.