WNWO-TV

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WNWO-TV is a television station in Toledo, Ohio and affiliated with the NBC-TV network. The stations serves Northwestern Ohio, Southeastern Michigan and can be viewed in Windsor, Ontario and Essex County over the air and on cable. Its transmitter is located in Oregon, Ohio.

History

Overmeyer Broadcasting founded the station that would be known as WNWO-TV as an independent UHF station, the first in Toledo not to be affiliated with any television network. That however, wasn't the original plan. WDHO (for Daniel H. Overmeyer) signed on the air on May 3, 1966 initially as the unlikely flagship of The Overmeyer Network very soon renamed The United Network (no relation to UPN), which began operations one year later, on May 1, 1967. The sole program on the United Network, The Las Vegas Show (starring comedian Bill Dana) was cancelled after being on the air for a month and the network closed down with it. WDHO soldiered on as an independent station carrying syndicated and local programming plus CBS and NBC network shows not cleared by WTOL or WSPD-TV (now WTVG).

The station affiliated with the American Broadcasting Company in 1970; previously, ABC had been split between WTOL and WSPD. WDHO's affiliation with ABC wasn't a successful one . Creditors threatened the station's existence and even the trailer housing the station's business office was in danger of repossession. It didn't help that WXYZ-TV in Detroit was available over the air in much of the Toledo market. Overmeyer Broadcasting (which once also owned a chain of independent stations including KEMO in San Francisco, WATL in Atlanta and WPHL in Philadelphia) declared bankruptcy during the 1980s and the station was seized by the Bank of Boston (now Bank of America).

In 1986, the station was sold through a bankruptcy proceeding for $19.6 million to a local group, Toledo Television Investors, LTD. The new owners changed the station's call letters to WNWO-TV, the new call letters standing for North West Ohio, on June 1, 1986. In October 1994, Capital Cities Communications/ABC announced it would buy WTVG. Almost out of desparation, WNWO approached NBC, which was about to be evicted from WTVG. On November 5, 1995, WNWO became the new affiliate for NBC in Toledo.

Ironically (for being unsolicited by WNWO), this network swap increased the value of WNWO as a television station, owing to the ratings of NBC relative to ABC in 1995. The station was soon sold to the Malrite Communications Group. Malrite invested heavily in its new property, reportedly spending (according to the station's present owner) $3 million to upgrade the station. A new studio and offices were built on the site of the former WDHO on Byrne Road in Toledo, expanding the facility by 10,000 ft². The station went from a newsroom of 8 people and one half-hour newscast a day to over 30 people and 3 hours of news a day. In 1997 the completely revamped newscast went on the air with anchors Dan Lovett and Lissa Guyton, Bill Spencer presenting the weather and Jim Tichy, the only hold over from the previous newscast, presenting sports. Despite a large ad campaign with the slogan "Building a better station for you", the newscast did not do well in the ratings. There was a lot of turnover on the anchor desk, and a number of personalities (including Jon Clark, Angela Atalla and Nora Murray) have left the station. Current anchors include Jim Blue and Jennifer Stacy.

Raycom Media, Inc. bought all of the Malrite stations in 1998. However, Raycom owned Toledo's Fox affiliate, WUPW at the time and had to sell it to avoid breaking the FCC's duopoly rules. One person is not allowed to own two of the four largest stations in a single market.

WNWO was once again put up for sale in 2005 after Raycom merged with The Liberty Corporation, which included WTOL. The sale was necessary to help meet federal restrictions on station ownership.

On March 27, 2006, Raycom announced that Barrington Broadcasting will be acquiring 12 Raycom stations, including WNWO. The FCC approved the deal in June 2006. Upon finalization, WNWO will join Marquette's WLUC-TV, Saginaw's WEYI-TV and Northern Michigan's WPBN & WTOM as part of Barrington's family of stations serving Michigan and northwestern Ohio.

Newscasts & Anchors

NBC 24 Today

Airs from 4:56 am till 7:00 am, features morning headlines, weather, and traffic.

• Tom Bosco
• Shenikwa Startford
• Meteorologist Norm Van Ness
• Pin Point Traffic with Christy O'Neil

NBC 24 News at 5, 5:30, and 6 and NBC 24 News Tonight

• Jim Blue
• Jennifer Stacy
• Chief Meteorologist Bill Spencer
• Jim Tichy

NBC 24 Weekends

NBC 24 News and NBC 24 News Tonight both air on weekends, with an additional newscast at 7 PM on Saturdays.

• Andrea Mock
• Meteorologist Michael Schlesinger
• Eric Haubert

Reporters

• Aaron Brillbeck
• Kylie Conway
• Rob Packard
• Paul Stelzer
• Matt Trezza

Triple Doppler Weather Team

• Chief Meteorologist Bill Spencer
• Meteorologist Norm Van Ness
• Meteorologist Michael Schlesinger

Sports Team

• Jim Tichy
• Eric Haubert
• Ryan Fowler

Changeup

NBC 24's ownership will switch from Raycom Broadcasting to Barrington Broadcasting within the next two months.

Tower

The WNWO Tower is a 438-meter high guy-wired aerial mast for the transmission of FM radio and TV programs in Oregon, Ohio, USA (Geographical coordinates: [41°40′03″N, 83°21′22″W]). The WNWO Tower was completed in 1983 and is property of Raycom Media, Inc..

See also: List of masts

External links

• [WNWO website]
• [WNWO entry on Michiguide.com]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for WNWO-TV]
• [FCC Antenna Structure Registration for WNWO-TV]
• [Google archive of Genovese v. Television of Toledo, Inc.], as filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, No. 395CV01423 DJS

Broadcast television in the Toledo and Findlay, Ohio market [(Nielsen DMA #70)]
W09CG 9 (TBN) - WTOL 11 (CBS) - WTVG 13 (ABC) - W21BF 21 (IND) - WFND 22 (A1/Daystar) - WNWO 24 (NBC) (The Tube on DT2) - WDFM 26 (IND) - WBGU 27 (PBS) - WGTE 30 (PBS) - WBTL 34 (AS) - WUPW 36 (Fox) - W38DH 38 (MTV2) - WLMB 40 (FamilyNet) - WNGT 48 (UPN) - WGGN 52 (TBN)
Local cable television channels
WT05 (The WB/The CW) - CBET 9 (CBC, Windsor)
See also: Broadcast television stations in the , , , , , and Markets

'''NBC Network Affiliates in the state of Ohio
WDTN 2 () - WKYC 3 () - WCMH 4 () - WLWT 5 () - WTOV 9 () - WHIZ 18 () - WFMJ 21 () - WNWO 24 () - WLIO 35 ()
See also: , , , , , and stations in Ohio

 

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