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WNWO-TV

WNWO-TV
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Toledo, Ohio
United States
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; 50 years ago (1966-05-03)
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) Retro TV (DT2; 2007–2017)
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 / 41.66750; -83.35611
Website nbc24.com

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.

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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