WPTA

==1957–1961==
WPTA first signed on the air on September 28, 1957. It was founded by Sarkes Tarzian, an Indianapolis engineer whose company owned Bloomington's WTTV and several other stations in Indiana. The WPTA call letters come from the long tradition of other Tarzian stations, including once former sister station WPTH, that base the call letters upon the initials of family members of company management. Upon its launch, channel 21 took all ABC programming from NBC affiliate WKJG-TV (channel 33, now WISE-TV) and CBS affiliate WANE-TV (channel 15).
==1961–1969==
==1969–1971==
==1971–1973==
==1973–1978==
On April 4, 1973, Tarzian sold the station to Combined Communications for $3.6 million. Under new management, WPTA purchased new cameras and a more modern switcher. On June 7, 1979, Combined merged with the Gannett Company.
==1978–1986==
On July 3, 1978, WPTA replaced its Eyewitness News format for its newscasts with the "Alive" (as "21 Alive") format, originating from a studio doubling as the station's newsroom; WXIA-TV in Atlanta is another former Combined station that currently uses the "Alive" brand, though it abandoned the open newsroom concept in the early 1980s.
On May 12, 1983, Gannett sold WPTA (along with WLKY in Louisville, Kentucky) to Pulitzer Publishing for an undisclosed amount after it purchased WLVI-TV in Boston from Field Communications and WTCN-TV (now KARE) in Minneapolis from Metromedia. This was because the WLVI-TV and WTCN purchases put Gannett with two stations over the Federal Communications Commission's seven-station ownership limit for television stations that was in effect at the time. The station was sold again to Granite Broadcasting on September 25, 1989, for $22.15 million.
==1986–1995==
==1996–1997 ==
==1997–2016==
===1997-2005 (primary); 2005-2008 (secondary)===
===1997–2005===
WPTA 1999.png|Station ID (1999-2005)
WPTA 21Alive ABC DOG.jpeg
===2005–2008===
WPTA.png|Station ID (2005)
Wbfw wb37 fort wayne.jpg|Cable-only The WB affiliation logo, as WBFW
FW CW 2008 logo.png|WPTA-DT2 (2006–2016)
MyTV Fort Wayne.png|WPTA-DT3 (2006–2011; 2013–present)
===2008–2013===
WPTA 2009.png
My Fox Fort Wayne.png|WPTA-DT3 (2011–2013)
===2013–2016===
==2016–present==
===2016–2022===
In a YouTube post on October 19, 2016, WPTA announced it would re-brand as "ABC 21" on November 7. With the rebranding, WPTA retired the "Alive" brand after 38 years.
Wpta-2016.png|Version without the call letters
Fort Wayne's NBC.svg|WPTA-DT2 (2016–23)
Fort Wayne's NBC (WPTA-DT2) 2020 ID.png|Fort Wayne's NBC 2020 ID
Oly-Affiliate-Logos - Wpta - Black.png|Fort Wayne's NBC Olympics logo (2016-2022)
===2022–present===
On October 12, 2022, the station posted a fall promo video to its Facebook page; it shows a revised logo without the ABC logo, and "ALIVE" where the station's call sign currently sits, teasing a brand revert in time for the November sweeps. On October 17, 2022, the station returned to the "21Alive" brand ahead of a planned reconsolidation of its news product across all of its subchannels.
WPTA 21Alive (2022, with ABC logo).svg|Version with ABC logo (unofficially used)
WPTA 2023.svg|Version with ABC logo (used in promos since 2023)
WPTA NBC21Alive.svg|WPTA-DT2 (Used since 4/8/2023, known as "NBC21")
WPTA NBC21.svg|WPTA-DT2 Alternate logo (unofficial)
Wpta-dt2-2023.svg|NBC21 Version without the call letters
WPTA-DT2 NBC Olympics 2024.svg|NBC Olympics logo (2024-)
==External links==
*21 Alive
Category:Television stations in the United States
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