TALL-TV

(channel 3) is a television station in Tamagotchi Town, Tamagotchi Planet affiliated with the Central Television Network. It is owned by the Silly Stations Group unit of Smiley Inc.
== History ==
=== Early Years ===
TALL-TV first signed-on at 5:00 PM on April 1, 1991 as an independent station. At launch, TALL only aired on during the primetime hours (often skipping Saturdays). 
=== Switch to UPN ===
On June 13, 1997, it was announced that TALL would become Tamagotchi Town's UPN affiliate after a long-time battle against TAMAX-TV. The change took place on September 10, 1997 and the network changed it's branding from TamaTown's 3 to UPN 3 TamaTown. This was also around the same time when the station increased programming time from just twelve hours a week to 133 hours a day, adding Saturday to their lineup. With the increase came new shows. Newly added included a daily three-hour morning newscast and the addition of sports programming.
=== Loss of UPN affiliation ===
In 2001, it was announced that TALL-TV would loose its UPN affiliation to Fox-owned TUPT (now known as TMYT) starting in October. The station originally had plans of joining the newly announced Freemont network the following year, but lost to TNTX (channel 58). So they had no choice but to revert back to an independent station. Once reverted back, the station aired the same programming, aside from the removal of all UPN primetime programming.
Despite the loss of network primetime, the station then was invested into sports. They specifically reserved Saturday nights for wrestling and Sunday nights for Soccer games. The station was also invested heavily in animated programming as well, where they aired the CBS Kidshow (later Nick on CBS) following CBS affiliate TBND rejecting the block.
=== Conversion to Central Television Network ===
In 2003, Smiley Inc. announced that they have entered a deal with The Pierre Péladeau Company for the station to become Tamagotchi Town's Central Television Network affiliate. They didn't announce what day they would start the affiliation, but on November 23, 2003, they selected March 8, 2004 as the day of Central Television Network's arrival in Tamagotchi Town.
Following the debut of the channel in the market, the results were noticeably good. As TALL won the night due to the network's high-tier programming on par with the big four networks.
== News operation ==
TALL started its news operation in 1999 when it was a UPN affiliate by signing a deal with CBS-affiliate TBND with a 10 PM newscast known as "CBS 31 News on UPN 3". The news block on UPN 3 would only last a short period of time as it was dropped in July 2000 due to the station announcing that they would drop UPN as an affiliate later in 2001.
TALL would later return with their news operations when they started the affiliation with the Central Television Network. Once that took place, TALL received all news programming provided by the network as well as additional newscasts (for local programming) that air on weekdays from 5:30 AM to 11 AM and weekends from 10 AM to 11 AM for the daytime newscasts and again from 11 PM to Midnight for the nighttime newscasts.
On May 29, 2020, the station launched a 24-hour news channel known as "News Channel 9" on cable for exclusively local news. The channel would eventually become free-to-air starting on July 3, 2021 when it started to air on TMGC-DT2.
==Subchannels==
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Channel	Display resolution	Aspect	PSIP short name	Programming
3.1 	720p 	16:9 	TALL 	Primary TALL-TV programming (Central Television Network)
3.2 	480i 	4:3 	TOON 	Toonyrama
3.3 	480i 	4:3 	ANIME 	Animania
3.4 	480i 	4:3 	CZ-TV 	Comedy Zone
3.5 	480i 	4:3 	Avant 	Avant Garde Network
=== Analog-to-digital conversion ===
TALL officially discontinued its analog signal on June 12, 2009 causing the station to move from its former VHF channel 3 (and then digital signal UHF channel 66) to UHF channel 51.
Category:Central affiliates
Category:Channel 3
Category:Former UPN affiliates
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1990
Category:Comedy Zone affiliates