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WTOV's news truck, a Subaru Forester, seen in nearby Pittsburgh.. WTOV was the first station in the Ohio Valley to broadcast its local newscasts in 16:9 widescreen enhanced definition in April 2009, and it currently runs almost all of its syndicated programming in HD (rival WTRF launched the first high-definition newscast in the market on December 29, 2011, during its noon newscast).
WGNT, originally WYAH-TV, was preceded on channel 27 by an earlier station, WTOV-TV (unrelated to the current WTOV-TV in Steubenville, Ohio), the second built in Norfolk proper and the market's third. It operated twice during the 1950s: from December 6, 1953, to October 3, 1954, and again under different ownership from May 25, 1955, to August 1959.
Although the FCC turned down CBS's request to buy the channel 9 license in nearby Steubenville, Ohio and move it to Pittsburgh (that station, initially CBS affiliate WSTV-TV, is now NBC affiliate WTOV-TV), CBS did score a major coup when Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Electric, a co-founder of NBC with RCA, bought WDTV from struggling DuMont and ...
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According to WTOV News in the Ohio Valley, tragedy struck one family in the Dallas area when a family who had lost their home to a fire last month had the rest of their belongings destroyed when ...
We are calling all history buffs to test your knowledge of inaugurations past with our quiz, curated by USA TODAY Network political editors.
Reynolds died in 1983, and shortly afterward Jennings was named sole anchor of World News Tonight; Robinson was relegated to the weekend anchor post, as well as reading hourly news briefs. Robinson left ABC in 1983 and joined WMAQ-TV in Chicago in March 1984; he was the station's first black anchor. His tenure with the station was rocky, and he ...
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