WCTV is the CBS-affiliated television station for Southwestern Georgia and Tallahassee, Florida that is licensed to Thomasville, Georgia. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 46 (or virtual channel 6.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in unincorporated Thomas County, Georgia, southeast of Metcalf, along the Florida state line. The station can also be seen on Mediacom channel 5, CenturyLink channel 6, and Comcast channel 9. There is a high definition feed provided on Comcast digital channel 433, Mediacom digital channel 811, and CenturyLink digital channel 1006. Owned by Gray Television, WCTV has studios in Tallahassee on Halstead Boulevard along I-10. Syndicated programming on this station includes Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, The Dr. Oz Show, and Anderson among others.

The station first signed-on September 15, 1955 from studios on North Monroe Street in Tallahassee. WCTV was originally owned by John H. Phipps. Although it has always considered itself a Tallahassee station, it was licensed to Thomasville because the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had allocated only one VHF channel to Tallahassee, channel 11. Florida State University had managed to have the FCC designate that channel for noncommercial use so it could put WFSU-TV on-the-air. UHF was not considered viable at the time. Until the FCC required all sets to have all-channel capability in 1964, UHF stations were un-viewable without a converter. Even with one, the picture quality was marginal at best. Hoyt Wimpy, owner and founder of WPAX radio in Thomasville, persuaded the FCC to grant the Phipps family a license for channel 6 in Thomasville, the nearest city to Tallahassee that had a VHF allocation available. This could provide city-grade coverage of Tallahassee and north central Florida as well as southwestern Georgia. WCTV operated a live studio in Thomasville for many years and still has a bureau there.