WNWO-TV is a television station in Toledo, Ohio and affiliated with the NBC-TV network. The stations serves Northwestern Ohio, Southeastern Michigan and can be viewed in Windsor, Ontario and Essex County over the air and on cable. Its transmitter is located in Oregon, Ohio.
Overmyer Broadcasting founded the station that would be known as WNWO-TV as an independent UHF station, the first in Toledo not to be affiliated with any television network. That however, wasn't the original plan. WDHO (for Daniel H. Overmyer) signed on the air on May 3, 1966 initially as the unlikely flagship of The Overmyer Network, very soon renamed The United Network (no relation to UPN), which began operations one year later, on May 1, 1967. The sole program on the United Network, The Las Vegas Show (starring comedian Bill Dana) was cancelled after being on the air for a month and the network closed down with it. WDHO soldiered on as an independent station carrying syndicated and local programming plus CBS...
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