WTVG TV Channel 13 Toledo, OH

Slogan: 13 ABC

Power/Height/Offset: 316,000 watts / 1001 feet / 0
- Analog Service Area

Digital Channel: 19

Final Digital Channel: 13

Digital Power/Height: 795,000 watts / 727 feet
directional antenna
- Digital Service Area

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On Air Date: July 21, 1948

Telephone: (419) 531-1313

Notes/History:

8/2007: The FCC's final digital channel assignment report shows that WTVG will be using Channel 13 once the conversion to all-digital broadcasts is completed on February 17, 2009.

11/5/1995: WTVG Begins broadcasting ABC programming. WNWO (Channel 24), the previous Toledo ABC affiliate, picks up NBC programming.

10/1994: Announced that Capital Cities/ABC will be purchasing WTVG and moving ABC affiliation to Channel 13 from Channel 24. It was widely reported that ABC's purchase of WTVG and WJRT-TV 12 Flint was done to keep a VHF presence for the network near Detroit in the event of a possible affiliate switch by WXYZ TV 7 which was being courted by CBS after that network lost Channel 2 in Detroit to FOX.

1984: Storer Broadcasting purchased Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR), which was then forced to sell WTVG within 18 months due to ownership concentration with two other nearby stations being acquired by KKR, WJBK Detroit and WJW Cleveland.

1970: WDHO-TV 24 becomes Toledo's ABC affiliate leaving WSPD-TV as an affiliate of only NBC.

1958: WTOL-TV 11 signs on and becomes Toledo's CBS affiliate and also takes some ABC shows from WSPD-TV. Both WSPD-TV and WTOL-TV are secondary ABC affiliates.

7/21/1948: On air as WSPD-TV, owner is Storer Broadcasting which co-owned WSPD AM 1370. The station's primary affiliation was with NBC but as it was Toledo's only TV station, it also carried shows from CBS, ABC, and DuMont as well.

Transmitter location:

Lucas County, OH