WTOL
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WTOL is the CBS television affiliate in Toledo, Ohio. The station broadcasts on channel 11 (analog) and 17 (digital) and can be seen quite clearly throughout Northwest Ohio, Southeast Michigan (including Detroit), and southwest Ontario (including Windsor and Essex County, where it is also carried on cable, along with WTVG.
History
WTOL began broadcasting on October 13, 1958 as a CBS affiliate with a secondary ABC affiliation. It shared ABC with WSPD-TV (now WTVG) until 1970, when ABC went to formerly independent WDHO-TV (now WNWO-TV). WTOL has been exclusively affiliated with CBS ever since. WTOL is also the only station in Toledo to never change its primary affiliation.
The station was originally owned by the Clients of Toledo, Ohio Investors, and was then sold to Filmways (now part of Sony Pictures Television) in 1962. The Broadcasting Company of the South, a subsidiary of South Carolina insurer Liberty Life Insurance Company, bought WTOL in 1965 and later changed its name to Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation. Liberty reorganized itself as a holding company, The Liberty Corporation, in 1974, and WTOL came directly under the Liberty banner after Liberty sold off its insurance business in 2003. Liberty merged with Raycom Media in 2005. Raycom already owned WNWO, but couldn't keep both because the FCC does not allow one person to own two of the four biggest stations in a single market. It opted to keep the higher-rated WTOL and sold WNWO to Barrington Broadcasting.
In December 1994, WTOL replaced Detroit's WJBK on the lineup of CANCOM which provided American networks to cable and satellite viewers across Canada. WJBK had recently switched from CBS to Fox, and WTOL was the nearest large-market CBS station to Detroit. WTOL was part of CANCOM until 2001, when it was replaced with Detroit's WWJ-TV.
WTOL preempted network programming for many years, but in recent years has carried the entire CBS network schedule, as it still does today. As of April 2006 it is still the most watched television station in Toledo. As of May, WTOL topped the ratings in every newscast, except for mornings, where WTVG took the ratings crown. 13ABC RULES!
Newscasts
Monday-Friday
- ''WTOL News 11 Your Morning" (5:00-7:00AM)
- WTOL News 11 at Noon (12Noon-12:30PM)
- WTOL News 11 at 5 (5:00-6:00PM)
- WTOL News 11 at 6 (6:00-6:30PM)
- WTOL News 11 at 11 (11:00-11:35PM)
Saturday-Sunday
- ''WTOL News 11 AM Saturday(8:00-10:00AM)
- WTOL News 11 at 6 Weekend Edition (6:00-6:30PM)
- WTOL News 11 at 11 Weekend Edition (11:00-11:35PM)
Personalities
News 11 Your Morning
- Dan Bumpus- filling in
- Melissa Voetsch
- Meteorologist Mike Stone
- Larry Whatley
News 11 at Noon
- Melissa Voetsch
- Meteorologist Mike Stone
News 11 at 5
- Jerry Anderson
- Chrys Peterson
- Chief Meteorologist Robert Shiels
News 11 at 6
- Terry Thill (leaving in August)
- Chrys Peterson
- Chief Meteorologist Robert Shiels
- Dan Cummins
News 11 at 11
- Jerry Anderson
- Chrys Peterson
- Chief Meteorologist Robert Shiels
- Dan Cummins
News 11 AM Saturday
- Dan Bumpus
- Shelley Brown
- Meteorologist Scott Brown
News 11 Weekend Edition
- Jonathan Walsh
- Shelley Brown
- Meteorologist James Canterbury
- Gary Sensenstein
Reporters
- Dick Berry
- Mika Highsmith
- Bob Jones
- Phil Jones
- Joe Nugent
- Ryan Vetter
- Colleen Wells
- Rob Wiercinski
- *Note** Terry Thill's final day is September 1. Jerry Anderson will take over for him. Dan Bumpus has been flling in for him with Melissa Voetsch in the mornings. WTOL News Director Mitch Jacob told the Toledo Blade recntly that they were looking for Anderson's replacement in Dallas, TX.
External links
- [WTOL Homepage]
- [Michigan's Radio and TV Broadcast Guide: WTOL TV Channel 11 Toledo, OH]
- [Query the FCC's TV station database for WTOL]
| Broadcast television in the Toledo and Findlay, Ohio market [(Nielsen DMA #70)] | ||
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| 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 | ||
| '''CBS Network Affiliates in the state of Ohio | |
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| WHIO 7 () - WBNS 10 () - WTOL 11 () - WKRC 12 () - WOIO 19 () - WKBN 27 () - WLMO-LP 38 () | |
| See also: , , , , , and stations in Ohio | |
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ABC Network Affiliates: KAIT | KLTV | KTRE | KTVO1 | WLOX | WTVM
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CBS Network Affiliates: KFVS | KGBT1 | KOLD | KSLA | WAFB | WOIO | WTOC | WTOL | WTVR
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Fox Network Affiliates: KASA | KXRM1 | WACH1 | WDFX | WFLX | WFXG | WFXL1 | WPGX | WTNZ | WXIX
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NBC Network Affiliates: KCBD | KHNL/KHBC/KOGG | KPLC | WAFF | WALB | WAVE | WDAM | WECT | WFIE | WIS | WLBT | WLUC1 | WMC | WNWO1 | WPBN/WTOM1 | WSFA | WSTM1
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UPN Network Affiliates: KXTU12 | WBXH3 | WQTV/WQWQ2 | WSTQ12 | WUAB3
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The WB Network Affiliate: KFVE3
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1Stations to be sold to Barrington Broadcasting. The FCC has approved the sale of these stations; the sale is now awaiting finalization. |
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2Stations confirmed to affiliate with The CW starting September 18, 2006.
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3Stations confirmed to affiliate with My Network TV starting September 5, 2006.
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| Annual Revenue: Unknown at this time. | Employees: 4,200 | Stock Symbol: None, privately held. | Website: [www.raycommedia.com] |
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