On Tuesday, February 14th, 2012, at 12:41:25h -0500, Michael A. Terrell wrote:

All FCC records are supposed to be there, somewhere.

Supposed.

Using the search facility at

http://www.fcc.gov/data/search-gallery

returns no record before 1979 under the item

Consolidated Public Database System €“ Application Search Results

and no record before 2001 under the item

Consolidated Public Database System €“ Ownership Report Search

Has the station always had the same call letters?

To the best of my knowledge since it went on air in 1955, it
has always been WTVS