Columbus' first television station began operations on April 3, 1949 as WLWC on channel 3. The station's original owner was the Cincinnati-based Crosley Broadcasting Corporation, a division of the Avco Company. Like all of the WLW television stations in Ohio, WLWC was an NBC affiliate, though it carried some programming from the DuMont network until WTVN-TV (now WSYX) took the DuMont affiliation when that station launched in September 1949.
1952–1956[]
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1956–1960[]
1960–1966[]
LOGO MISSING
1966–1974[]
1974–1976[]
WCMH-TV[]
1976–1980[]
In February 1976, Avco announced the sale of their TV stations, and WLWC-TV was bought by Outlet Communications, and changed its callsign to WCMH-TV; the call letters were selected to match the ATA airport code for Port Columbus International Airport, "CMH". This logo was used by KSAT-TV in San Antonio, WJAR-TV in Providence, WDBO-TV (now WKMG-TV) in Orlando, and WNYS-TV (now WSYR-TV) in Syracuse, New York.
1980–1996[]
1980–1992[]
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Station ID (1983)
The "4" resembles that of WNBC from the same year.
Outlet merged with NBC in 1996, and channel 4 became an NBC owned-and-operated station, spending much of the next decade as one of two stations in the market to hold such status. WCMH-TV was later sold to Media General along with sister stations WJAR-TV in Providence, WVTM-TV in Birmingham, Alabama, and WNCN-TV in Goldsboro, North Carolina in April 2006; the sale was finalized on June 26, 2006.
1Owns a 75% stake of the network, the other 12.5% stake is co-owned between Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery. 2Joint venture with Warner Bros. Discovery, in which Nexstar owns 31% while Warner Bros. Discovery owns the remaining 69%. 3Nexstar operates these stations owned by Mission Broadcasting. 4Nexstar operates this station owned by Cunningham Broadcasting. 5Nexstar operates this station owned by White Knight Broadcasting through an SSA. 6Nexstar operates this station owned by Vaughan Media. 7Predecessor company of LIN Media. 8Nexstar operates this station owned by Londen Media Group.
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