WTLH (channel 49) is a television station licensed to Bainbridge, Georgia, United States, serving the Tallahassee, Florida–Thomasville, Georgia market as an affiliate of Heroes & Icons. The station is owned by New Age Media; Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of dual NBC/Fox affiliate WTWC-TV (channel 40) and CW Plus affiliate WTLF (channel 24), provides some engineering functions for WTLH under a local marketing agreement (LMA). The three stations share studios on Deerlake South in unincorporated Leon County, Florida, northwest of Bradfordville (with a Tallahassee postal address), and transmitter facilities in unincorporated Thomas County, Georgia, southeast of Metcalf, along the Florida state line.
History
WTLH began on February 12, 1989, airing an analog signal on UHF channel 49; the station immediately became Tallahassee's Fox affiliate. Originally owned by New South Television, it was put into receivership due to owner Timothy Brumlik's arrest on money-laundering charges.