WDTN
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Dayton, Ohio United States |
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| Branding | WDTN (general) 2 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Working for you |
| Channels |
Digital: 50 (UHF) Virtual: 2 (PSIP) |
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| Owner |
Nexstar Media Group (WDTN Broadcasting, LLC) |
| Founded | April 4, 1947 |
| First air date | March 15, 1949 |
| Call letters' meaning | DayToN |
| Sister station(s) | WBDT |
| Former callsigns | WLWD (1949–1976) |
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| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 323 m (1,060 ft) |
| Facility ID | 65690 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°43′7″N 84°15′22″W / 39.71861°N 84.25611°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | wdtn |
WDTN, virtual channel 2, is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Dayton, Ohio, USA. WDTN is owned by Nexstar Media Group, and also operates CW affiliate WBDT (owned by Vaughan Media LLC) through a local marketing agreement. The two stations share studios located on South Dixie Drive in Moraine, Ohio (though with a Dayton mailing address), and WDTN's transmitter, on digital channel 50, is located in the Frytown section of Dayton. However, master control and some internal operations of WDTN are based within centralcasting facilities at sister station WISH-TV in Indianapolis.
The construction permit for what is now WDTN was awarded to the Crosley Broadcasting Corporation of Cincinnati on April 4, 1947. It was the first broadcast television license granted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to Dayton. However, due to several delays, the station did not actually go on the air until March 15, 1949, twenty days after CBS affiliate WHIO-TV began broadcasting. Originally called WLWD and broadcasting on channel 5, the station operated from an office and studio facility established in a former skating rink on Dixie Drive in Moraine.
WLWD was the third link of a group of inter-connected stations which made up the "WLW Television Network", and was named for Crosley's flagship Cincinnati radio station WLW (World's Largest Wireless) + Dayton. The other stations were WLWT in Cincinnati and WLWC (now WCMH-TV) in Columbus, both also owned by Crosley. The three outlets shared common local programming, most of which was produced in Cincinnati and sent by way of microwave link to Dayton and Columbus. All three stations were also NBC affiliates, and had secondary relationships with the DuMont Television Network; WLWD also carried ABC programs. The first program shown on WLWD was NBC's Texaco Star Theater, with Milton Berle. To reflect their connection to each other, the WLW Television stations hyphenated their call signs on air; the Dayton outlet was known as WLW-D. The Crosley television group would later expand to include WLWA (now WXIA-TV) in Atlanta, WLWI (now WTHR) in Indianapolis, and WOAI-TV in San Antonio.
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