For nearly six decades, a building tucked away in northeast St. Petersburg served as the headquarters of one of Tampa Bay’s best-known television stations. Its studios produced local programming, its equipment kept broadcasts running and its offices housed the people who put Channel 44 on the air.
Now the building is empty, and the people who bought it weren’t particularly interested in owning a television studio.
The former WTOG-TV headquarters at 365 105th Terrace NE is on the market for $1.4 million, offering more than 21,000 square feet of studios, offices and technical facilities that once supported a major independent broadcasting operation.
Mike Schultz, a commercial real estate broker with Insta Real Estate Solutions, said the property’s sale last year grew out of an arrangement with Rec Deck, a neighboring recreational sports facility associated with Tampa Bay Club Sport…