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WDTN (channel 2) is a television station in Dayton, Ohio affiliated with the NBC network since August 30, 2004. Station OverviewThe station was previously an ABC affiliate from 1980 until the network switch to NBC in 2004. Its transmitter is located at the west side of Dayton on Frytown Road; also known to local residents as the "antenna farm.". It is Dayton's first television station, established in 1947. However, it did not go on the air until late 1949, a couple months after local CBS affiliate WHIO-TV signed on the air in July of that same year.WDTN's local news department, 2NEWS (known in the 1970s and 1980s as Eyewitness News), has usually placed second to WHIO-TV's news department in the ratings. The 2NEWS team is led by Mark Allan, Michelle Kingsfield, Mike Schell, Marsha Bonhart, Carl Day, Meteorologist Jamie Jarosik and Chief Meteorologist Carl Nichols. WDTN is known for their Turn to 2 segments, which viewers can contact reporter Kennan Oliphant if they need help with consumer issues. 2NEWS is an Emmy Award winning newscast. WDTN and local cable television provider Time Warner Cable are in talks in providing the cable system with access to their High Definition digital channel. The current logo is very similar to the one used by KMID, the ABC affiliate in Odessa-Midland, Texas. Station HistoryIt originally signed on as WLWD (identified on-air as "WLW-D"), one of several stations owned by Powel Crosley Jr.'s company Crosley Broadcasting Corporation , whose flagship was WLW AM.WLWD and competitor WHIO-TV were the only television stations in Dayton at that initial time until 1964 with the emergence of WKEF and independent station WKTR-TV (now public television station WPTD) in 1967. The license for WLW-D was granted to the Crosley Broadcasting Corporation in March 3, 1947. It was the first broadcast television license granted by the Federal Communications Commission to the Dayton television market. The station began broadcasting in 1949 as an affiliate of NBC; it also carried programming from DuMont [2] and from ABC. The first program broadcast was the Texaco Star Theater with Milton Berle. Their offices, studios and Studio-Transmitter Link KUQ-43 were established at 4595 South Dixie Highway in the Dayton suburb of Moraine in a building which previously housed a skating rink. The studios and offices remain there to this day. In 1968 Crosley merged with Avco. The address has a slight change although the studios were not moved. As Dixie Drive is a northbound one-way street, the southbound one way street running parallel with Dixie is the present-day Kettering Boulevard (the former Avco Drive), hence the address changed briefly to 4590 Avco Drive. In 1976 Avco sold WLWD to Grinnell College, who changed the call letters to WDTN with the mailing address reverted back to 4595 South Dixie Drive. In 1981, Hearst Broadcasting bought the station. In August of 1997, Hearst's television group merged with Argyle Television Holdings II (which had purchased Cincinnati's WLWT in January of that year) to form Hearst-Argyle Television. WDTN's city-grade signal covers most of the Cincinnati area, while WLWT's city-grade signal reaches most of the Dayton area. At the time, the FCC normally did not allow common ownership of two stations with overlapping signals and would not even consider granting a waiver for stations with overlapping city-grade coverage. As a result, Hearst-Argyle opted to keep WLWT and sell WDTN to the Sunrise Television Group. (Ironically, both stations were owned by Crosley Broadcasting and its successor Avco for nearly three decades; under Crosley/Avco, they were grandfathered.) The sale was finalized on July 2, 1998. Sunrise merged with LIN TV four years later. On May 18, 2007, LIN TV announced that it was exploring strategic alternatives that could result in the sale of the company.[3] In early June 2007, WDTN's website, along with those of several other LIN-owned stations not affiliated with Fox (WNDY-TV, WWHO, WAND, WWLP and WLFI-TV), underwent a redesign; they are now operated by the Local Media Network division of WorldNow. Previously, these websites were powered by Web-Pros. On Thursday, July 5th, 2007 WDTN began to air a daily 10:00PM news broadcast on local CW affiliate WBDT. Station ProgrammingWhile NBC shows aired on WLWD, its main speciality was local programming and news serving Dayton. This provided an alternative not found anywhere else. Across town, WHIO signed on a few weeks later with a similar format with CBS programs. Dayton received clear pictures from stations in Cincinnati (45 miles south) and Columbus. Game show announcer Johnny Gilbert hosted his own local daytime variety/talk show immediately after the local airing of WLW Television's "The Paul Dixon Show" in the mid 1960s. Phil Donahue formerly of WHIO (AM)'s "Conversation Piece" talk show debuted on WLWD in 1967 and went national in 1970. Since most programs on the regional network "WLW Television" originated from WLWT in Cincinnati, it was the first time WLWD was the originator of a program. Aside from Paul Dixon's morning show, other shows aired by WLWD included "The 50-50 Club" hosted by Ruth Lyons (later hoted by Bob Braun when Lyons retired in 1967) and the Saturday evening country music program "Midwestern Hayride" which were also originated by WLWT. Due to this heavy programming schedule, many programs from NBC and ABC were recorded on film as a kinescope for later broadcast. On rare occasions when a program wasn't available, sometimes due to network technical difficulties, or if fill time was available before or after a network sportscast, a half-hour series entitled "Star Performance" consisting mostly of dramatic pilot episodes from the 1950s would air. 15 minute mini-documentaries or newsreels would also air as a time filler under the title "Miniature Theater."By the mid 1970s, ABC had become the leading network. Dayton's ABC affiliate, WKEF, was only a part-time affiliate. It ran ABC's prime time shows, sports, Saturday and Sunday cartoons and ABC shows pre-empted by WKRC-TV (then Cincinnati's ABC affiliate). ABC wanted a primary affiliate that had news and was better-rated. It approached WDTN for a deal and on January 1, 1980 WDTN and WKEF swapped affiliations. Under the deal they were to run all of ABC's programming that was being pre-empted by WKRC but was exempt from running the afternoon soaps after 2 p.m. In place of One Life to Live and General Hospital, WDTN ran cartoons and off-network sitcoms. NBC's programming would go to less desirable WKEF. Later in the 1980s, the cartoons and sitcoms made way for first run talk shows like Oprah Winfrey at 4 p.m. but also younger talkers like Montel Williams and Jerry Springer. WDTN would begin their talk block at 2 p.m. weekdays. Dayton has always had a high percentage of cable subscribers. As new satellite channels were signing on cable systems needed more space so Dayton's largest cable system took duplicate network affiliates from Cincinnati in 2000 to make room for more satellite channels. As a result ABC soap viewers could no longer see One Life or General Hospital while over the air viewers still could. As a result in the Fall of 2000 General Hospital was added to WDTN's schedule. But One Life To Live would be pre-empted another 2 years. In 2002, after LIN Television acquired the station, One Life To Live was added to the schedule as well. After that WDTN ran ABC's entire schedule. On August 30, 2004, in a reversal of the 1980 swap, WDTN returned to NBC to take advantage of NBC's more popular programming. In spite of this however, WDTN still remains a strong second in the Dayton market to WHIO-TV. Jeopardy! has aired on WDTN since its launch. Wheel of Fortune, on the other hand, airs on WHIO. Storm Team 2WDTN'S Weather Dept, Storm Team 2 is led by Chief Meteorologist Carl Nichols and consists of Meteorologists Brian Davis, Jamie Jarosik, and Erik Zarnitz. WDTN bills their radar as Live Doppler 2X and is located on the west side of Dayton. WDTN also uses the Weather Bug network. The team has a weather blog on their website for viewers that gives an inside eye of what happens behind the scenes at WDTN.Anchors And Reporters
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