Originally owned by electrical engineer and radio dealer Hoyt Wooten (who had applied for one of the first television licenses in the country in 1928), along with WREC radio (600 AM and 102.7 FM, now WEGR), WREC-TV signed on New Year's Day 1956 and took the CBS affiliation from WHBQ-TV.
1962–1967
LOGO MISSING
Wooten sold channel 3 to Des Moines, Iowa-based Cowles Communications (no relation to the Spokane-based Cowles Company) in 1963.
1967–1975
In 1971, Cowles sold channel 3 to The New York Times Company, making it their first television station ever owned.
WREG-TV
Channel 3 signed off from the Peabody Hotel for the last time as WREC-TV on March 2, 1975, and returned to the air 45 minutes later, renamed WREG-TV, with its first transmission from its new studios on Channel 3 Drive.
1975–1982
1982–present
1982–1993
1982–1987
WREG Station ID (1982-1986)
1987–1993
"CBSpirit" (1987–1988)
"Get Ready for Channel 3" (1991–1992)
1993–1997
1997–present
Designer:
Unknown
Typography:
Gotham Medium (wordmark)
Helvetica Black ("3")
Launched:
1997
The Times left broadcasting entirely in 2007, selling their nine-station group to Local TV. Tribune Broadcasting would then acquire Local TV in 2013, and Tribune would be acquired by Nexstar Media Group in 2019, which they had sold WATN-TV and WLMT to Tegna to acquire WREG.
1Nexstar operates these stations owned by Mission Broadcasting. 2Nexstar operates this station owned by Cunningham Broadcasting. 3Nexstar operates this station owned by White Knight Broadcasting through an SSA. 4Nexstar operates this station owned by Vaughan Media. 5Predecessor company of LIN Media. 6Currently a repeater for WWLP. 7Joint venture with Warner Bros. Discovery in which Nexstar owns 31% while Warner Bros. Discovery owns the remaining 69%.
Former/defunct: Discovery Times | About.com | Fenway Sports Group1 (Boston Red Sox | Fenway Park | NESN (80%) | Liverpool FC | Roush Fenway Racing) | The Boston Globe | Boston.com | Telegram & Gazette | Baseline StudioSystems | The Gadsden Times | The Tuscaloosa News | The Press Democrat | The Gainesville Sun | The Ledger | Sarasota Herald-Tribune | Star-Banner | The Courier | The Daily Comet | The Dispatch | Times-News | The Star-News | Spartanburg Herald-Journal