WNWO
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Toledo, Ohio United States |
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| Branding | NBC 24 (general) NBC 24 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Life is Better Here |
| Channels |
Digital: 49 (UHF) Virtual: 24 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 24.1 NBC 24.2 ASN 24.3 Comet TV 24.4 TBD |
| Owner |
Sinclair Broadcast Group (WNWO Licensee, LLC) |
| Founded | May 3, 1966 |
| Call letters' meaning | We're NorthWest Ohio |
| Former callsigns | WDHO-TV (1966–1986) |
| Former channel number(s) | 24 (UHF analog, 1966–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Independent (1966–1970) United Network (1967) ABC (1970–1995) The Tube (DT2; 2006–2007) |
| Transmitter power | 118 kW |
| Height | 409 m (1,342 ft) |
| Facility ID | 73354 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°40′3″N 83°21′22″W / 41.66750°N 83.35611°W |
| Website | nbc24 |
WNWO-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station in Northwest Ohio that is licensed to Toledo. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 49 (virtual channel 24.1) from a transmitter northeast of Oregon. Owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, the station has studios on South Byrne Road. It can be viewed over-the-air and on cable in Southeastern Michigan, Windsor, Ontario, and Essex County, Ontario.
The affiliation agreement with Retro TV dates back to the Barrington era, and the station often pre-empts blocks of that network's programming with paid programming; WNWO is among the few full-power stations owned by a large station group still carrying the network as of 2016.
Overmyer Broadcasting founded the station on May 3, 1966 as WDHO-TV (for Daniel H. Overmyer). Overmeyer owned several independent stations across the country, including KEMO in San Francisco, WATL in Atlanta, and WPHL-TV in Philadelphia. Logically, WDHO should have signed on either as a full-time ABC or NBC station. However, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had just required all-channel tuning two years earlier. As a result, even though Toledo was big enough to support three full network affiliates, ABC opted to retain its affiliation with WSPD-TV (now WTVG). NBC opted to retain its secondary affiliations with WSPD-TV and CBS affiliate WTOL, and have WIMA-TV (now WLIO) in Lima cover the southern part of the Toledo market. Instead, WDHO signed-on as the unlikely flagship of "The Overmyer 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 canceled along with the network after being on the air for only a month.
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