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{{Short description|Television station in Homewood, Alabama}}
{{Distinguish|WTWO|WWTO-TV}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign = WTTO
| logo = Wtto the cw.png
| logo_upright = 1
| city = Homewood, Alabama
| atsc3 = yes
| branding = CW 21
| digital = 21 ([[UHF]])
| virtual = 21
| translators = 
| affiliations = {{ubl|'''21.1:''' [[The CW]]|''for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| owner = {{nowrap|[[Sinclair Broadcast Group]]}}
| licensee = WTTO Licensee, [[LLC]]
| operator = 
| location = [[Homewood, Alabama|Homewood]]–[[Birmingham, Alabama]]
| country = United States
| founded = November 6, 1979
| airdate = {{Start date and age|1982|4|21|p=y}}
| last_airdate = 
| callsign_meaning = Television Twenty-One<ref name="bob">{{cite web|title=Call Letter Origins|url=http://nelson.oldradio.com/origins.call-list.html|first=Bob|last=Nelson|website=The Broadcast Archive|date=October 18, 2008|access-date=October 31, 2008}}</ref>
| sister_stations = [[WABM]], [[ABC 33/40|WBMA-LD]]
| former_callsigns = 
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 21 (UHF, 1982–2009)|'''Digital:''' 28 (UHF, until 2020)}}
| former_affiliations = {{ubl|[[Independent station|Independent]] (1982–1990, 1996–1997)|[[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] (1990–1996)|[[Fox Kids]] (secondary, 1996–1999)|[[The WB]] (1997–2006)}}
| erp = 1,000 kW
| haat = {{convert|422|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id = 74138
| coordinates = {{coord|33|29|4.8|N|86|48|25.2|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|display=inline, title}}
| licensing_authority = [[FCC]]
| website = {{URL|http://wtto21.com/}}
}}

'''WTTO''' (channel 21) is a [[television station]] licensed to [[Homewood, Alabama]], United States, serving the [[Birmingham, Alabama|Birmingham]] area as an affiliate of [[The CW]]. It is owned by [[Sinclair Broadcast Group]] alongside [[MyNetworkTV]] affiliate [[WABM]] (channel 68) and [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] affiliate WBMA-LD (channel 58, branded as [[ABC 33/40]]). The stations share studios at the Riverchase office park on Concourse Parkway in [[Hoover, Alabama|Hoover]] (with a Birmingham [[United States Postal Service|mailing]] address); WTTO's transmitter is located atop [[Red Mountain (Birmingham)|Red Mountain]], near the Goldencrest neighborhood of southwestern Birmingham.

In [[Tuscaloosa]], west Alabama, and the western portions of the Birmingham area, WTTO's CW channel and two subchannels of WBMA-LD are rebroadcast on [[WDBB]] (channel 17), which is licensed to [[Bessemer, Alabama|Bessemer]]. It is owned by [[Cunningham Broadcasting]] and managed by Sinclair under a [[local marketing agreement]] (LMA); however, Sinclair effectively owns WDBB, as the majority of Cunningham's stock is owned by the family of deceased group founder Julian Smith.

WTTO had a tortuous history prior to starting operations. It took nearly two decades for the station to be approved and built. Once on air, the station was a successful independent for the Birmingham area. It served as the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] affiliate for the market from 1990 to 1996, when an affiliation shuffle resulted in the loss of the affiliation.