WTOL
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| WTOL | |
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| Toledo, Ohio | |
| Branding | WTOL 11 |
| Slogan | Toledo's News Leader |
| Channels | Analog: 11 (VHF) |
| Affiliations | CBS |
| Owner | Raycom Media, Inc. (WTOL License Subsidiary, LLC) |
| First air date | December 5, 1958 |
| Call letters’ meaning | TOLedo (TOL is also the IATA airport code for Toledo) |
| Former callsigns | WTOL-TV (1958-2003) |
| Former affiliations | Secondary: ABC (1958-1970) |
| Transmitter Power | 316 kW (analog) 735 kW (digital) |
| Height | 305 m (analog) 263 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 13992 |
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| Website | www.wtol.com |
WTOL is the CBS television affiliate in Toledo, Ohio. The station broadcasts on channel 11 (analog) and 17 (digital) and can be seen quite clearly throughout Northwest Ohio, Southeast Michigan (including Detroit), and southwest Ontario (including Windsor and Essex County, where it is also carried on cable, along with WTVG and WNWO.
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[edit] History
WTOL began broadcasting on December 5, 1958 as a CBS affiliate with a secondary ABC affiliation. It shared ABC with WSPD-TV (now WTVG) until 1970, when ABC went to formerly independent WDHO-TV (now WNWO-TV). WTOL has been exclusively affiliated with CBS ever since. WTOL is also the only station in Toledo to never change its primary affiliation.
The station was originally owned by the Clients of Toledo, Ohio Investors along with WTOL radio (AM 1230, now WCWA; and FM 104.7, now WIOT). and was then sold to Filmways (now part of Sony Pictures Television) in 1962. The Broadcasting Company of the South, a subsidiary of South Carolina insurer Liberty Life Insurance Company, bought WTOL in 1965 and later changed its name to Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation. Liberty reorganized itself as a holding company, The Liberty Corporation, in 1974, and WTOL came directly under the Liberty banner after Liberty sold off its insurance business in 2003. Liberty merged with Raycom Media in 2005. Raycom already owned WNWO, but couldn't keep both because the FCC does not allow one person to own two of the four biggest stations in a single market. It opted to keep the higher-rated WTOL and sold WNWO to Barrington Broadcasting.
In December 1994, WTOL replaced Detroit's WJBK on the lineup of Shaw Broadcast Services (formally known as CANCOM) which provided American networks to cable and satellite viewers across Canada. WJBK had recently switched from CBS to Fox, and WTOL was the nearest large-market CBS station to Detroit. WTOL was part of CANCOM until 1999, when it was replaced with Detroit's WWJ-TV.
WTOL preempted network programming for many years, but in recent years has carried the entire CBS network schedule, the only exceptions are for the airing of Billy Graham and St. Jude's Hospital specials. As of April 2006 it is still the most watched television station in Toledo. As of May, WTOL topped the ratings in every newscast, except for mornings, where WTVG took the ratings crown.
Since their debuts in syndication, both Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune have aired on WTOL.
[edit] Digital Channels
| Channel | Programming |
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| 11.1 / 17.1 | WTOL High Definition |
[edit] Personalities
[edit] News 11 Your Morning
- Brad Harvey
- Melissa Voetsch
- Meteorologist Mike Stone
- Larry Whatley
- Dan Bumpus with Breaking News
[edit] News 11 Your Day and at Noon
- Dan Bumpus
- Melissa Voetsch
- Meteorologist Mike Stone or meteorologist James Canterbury.
[edit] News 11 at 5
- Jerry Anderson
- Chrys Peterson
- Chief Meteorologist Robert Shiels
[edit] News 11 at 5:30
- Brad Harvey
- Shelley Brown
- Chief Meteorologist Robert Shiels
[edit] News 11 at 6
- Jerry Anderson
- Chrys Peterson
- Chief Meteorologist Robert Shiels
- Dan Cummins
[edit] News 11 at 11
- Jerry Anderson
- Chrys Peterson
- Chief Meteorologist Robert Shiels
- Dan Cummins
[edit] News 11 Your Morning Saturday and Your Morning Sunday
- Tim Miller
- Colleen Wells
- Meteorologist Chris Vickers
[edit] News 11 Weekend Edition
- Jonathan Walsh
- Meteorologist James Canterbury
- Sports with Gary Sensenstein
[edit] Reporters
- Dick Berry
- Jennifer Boresz
- Dave Carlson
- Mika Highsmith
- Tanieya Lewis
- Tim Miller
- Lisa Rantala
- Ryan Vetter
- Colleen Wells
- Rob Wiercinski
[edit] Past Personalities
- Evan Rosen author of The Culture of Collaboration
- Terry Thill
- Jeff Heitz
- Orris Tabner
- Marilou Johanek (Toledo Blade)
- Shelby Croft (WISN)
- Rachel Pfanner Wulff (WDSU)
- Rodney Tims
- Alva Taylor
- Jim Taylor
- Bob Jones (WEWS)
- Phil Jones (WTVF)
- Carly Walker
- Kimberly Craig (WXYZ)
- Eric Haubert (WNWO)
- Joe Nugent (WTVG)
- Kristian Brown (WTVG)
- Bill Hormann (WTVG)
- Joe Rychnovsky (BCSN, WUPW)
- Eric Richey
- Rebecca Fondessy
- Tess Rafols (KTVK)
- Patrice Kennedy
- Faith Murphy
- Chris Casquejo
- Janis Lane
- Jill Olmsted
- Amy Marsalis
- LuAnn Canipe (U.S. Rep. Brad Miller (NC-D)
- Steve Hartman (CBS News)
- Marshall McPeek (WCMH)
- Charlie Umpenhour
- Joscelyn Moes (WFMZ)
[edit] WTOL's HD launch
WTOL News Director Mitch Jacob says that WTOL is in the planning stages of its switch into HD. He says a date hasn't been set, but it will be announced soon.
[edit] Station Presentation
[edit] Newscast Titles
- George Thompson and the News (1958-1961)
- The Six O'Clock News/The Eleven O'Clock News (1961-1966)
- Eyewitness News (1966-1977)
- NewsCenter 11 (1977-1984)
- Toledo 11 News (1984-1995)
- Toledo 11: The News Channel (1995-2004)
- WTOL News 11 (2004-present)
[edit] Station Logos
 WTOL's test pattern from around 1984, with the current time on the screen. |
 WTOL's logo from 1987 |
 WTOL's "Italic 11" logo, from late 1980s to around 2000. This is from around 1992. |
 WTOL's former 1990s logo as "Newschannel 11". Logo is from 1998. |
 WTOL's News logo from the early 2000s. |
 WTOL's News logo. |
 WTOL's News logo. |
 Bumper advertisement for WTOL's news, from 2007. |
 Current logo of WTOL. |
[edit] External links
- WTOL Homepage
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WTOL
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WTOL-TV
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