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{{short description|NBC affiliate in Columbus, Ohio}}
{{about|the television station which formerly used the WLWC callsign|the television station in [[Providence, Rhode Island]] that currently uses that callsign|WLWC}}
{{Infobox television station
| callsign = WCMH-TV
| city =
| logo = WCMH-TV logo.png
| logo_size = 220px
| branding = NBC 4
| digital = 14 ([[Ultra high frequency|UHF]])
| virtual = 4
| subchannels =
| translators =
| affiliations = '''4.1:''' [[NBC]]<br />'''4.2:''' [[Court TV]]<br />'''4.3:''' [[Ion Television]]<br />'''4.4:''' [[Laff (TV network)|Laff]]
| owner = [[Nexstar Media Group]]
| licensee = Nexstar Media Inc.
| location = [[Columbus, Ohio]]
| country = United States
| founded = November 1946<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/46-OCR/1946-11-25-BC-OCR-Page-0092.pdf "Crosley receives two video grants."] ''[[Broadcasting and Cable|Broadcasting - Telecasting]]'', November 25, 1946, pg. 92.</ref>
| airdate = {{start date and age|1949|04|03|p=y}}
| last_airdate =
| callsign_meaning = [[John Glenn Columbus International Airport|Columbus Municipal Hangar]]<br />("CMH" is Columbus's [[IATA airport code]])
| sister_stations =
| former_callsigns = WLWC (1949–1976)<ref>{{Cite web|title=FCC History Cards for WCMH-TV|url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/getimportletter_exh.cgi?import_letter_id=86038|url-status=live}}</ref>
| former_channel_numbers = '''[[Analog television|Analog]]:'''<br />3 ([[Very high frequency|VHF]], 1949–1953)<br />4 (VHF, 1953–2009)
| former_affiliations = '''DT2:'''<br />[[Retro TV]] (until 2011)<br />[[MeTV]] (2011–2019)
| erp = 902 [[kilowatt|kW]]
| haat = {{convert|264|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id = 50781
| coordinates = {{nowrap|{{coord|39|58|15.5|N|83|1|39.2|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}}}
| licensing_authority = [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]]
| website = {{URL|https://www.nbc4i.com/}}
}}

'''WCMH-TV''' (channel 4) is a [[television station]] in [[Columbus, Ohio]], United States, affiliated with [[NBC]] and owned by [[Nexstar Media Group]]. The station's studios are located on [[Ohio State Route 315|Olentangy River Road]] near the [[Ohio State University]] campus, and its transmitter is located on Twin Rivers Drive, west of [[Downtown Columbus, Ohio|downtown Columbus]].

==History==
Columbus' first television station began operations on April 3, 1949 as '''WLWC''' on channel 3.<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/49-OCR/1949-04-04-BC-OCR-Page-0041.pdf "WLWC starts; Columbus video outlet opened by Crosley."] ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', April 4, 1949, pg. 41.</ref> The station's original owner was the [[Cincinnati]]-based [[Crosley Broadcasting Corporation]], a division of the [[Avco|Avco Company]]. Crosley also owned [[WLW|WLW radio]] and [[WLWT|WLWT television]] in Cincinnati, as well as WLWD television (now [[WDTN]]) in [[Dayton, Ohio|Dayton]]. Together these stations comprised the "WLW Television Network", a regional group of inter-connected stations.<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/49-OCR/1949-03-14-BC-OCR-Page-0036.pdf "Television transmission; Crosley plans interconnection facilities."] ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', March 14, 1949, pg. 35.</ref><ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/49-OCR/1949-04-11-BC-OCR-Page-0193.pdf Crosley Broadcasting Corp. advertisement] ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', April 11, 1949, pg. 193.</ref> Until the mid-1960s, the stations emphasized their connection to each other within their on-air branding; the Columbus station was known as '''WLW-C'''. The station's studios were originally located in the [[The Seneca Hotel|Seneca Hotel]] in downtown Columbus before WLWC moved into their present facility on Olentangy River Road, five months after the station signed on.

Like all of the WLW television stations in Ohio, WLWC was an NBC affiliate, though it carried some programming from the [[DuMont Television Network|DuMont]] network until WTVN-TV (now [[WSYX]]) took the DuMont affiliation when that station launched in September 1949. In 1952, following the release of the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC)'s ''Sixth Report and Order'' which ended the four-year freeze on station license awards, a VHF frequency realignment resulted in WLWC being forced to move to channel 4, trading channels with then-NBC-owned WNBK (now [[WKYC]]) in [[Cleveland]];<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/52-OCR/BC-1952-05-19-OCR-Page-0078.pdf "TV coverage; RTMA predicts expansion."] ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', May 19, 1952, pg. 78.</ref><ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/52-OCR/BC-1952-12-15-OCR-Page-0069.pdf "Crosley is granted; FCC okays channel changes."] ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', December 15, 1952, pg. 59.</ref> the switch took place in June 1953.<ref>"WLW-C first in Columbus." ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', April 2, 1962, pp. 169-170 (Crosley Broadcasting Corp. special supplement pp. 23-24). [http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/62-OCR/1962-04-02-BC-OCR-Page-0169.pdf][http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/62-OCR/1962-04-02-BC-OCR-Page-0170.pdf]</ref>

The Crosley TV station group would later grow to include WLWA (now [[WXIA-TV]]) in [[Atlanta]], WLWI (now [[WTHR]]) in [[Indianapolis]], and [[WOAI-TV]] in [[San Antonio]]. Along with NBC programming, the Crosley stations in Ohio and Indianapolis also aired common programming, including ''[[Paul Dixon (entertainer)|The Paul Dixon Show]]'', ''[[Midwestern Hayride]]'', ''The [[Ruth Lyons (broadcaster)|Ruth Lyons]] 50-50 Club'' (later to become ''[[Bob Braun|The Bob Braun Show]]''), ''[[The Phil Donahue Show]]'', and telecasts of [[Cincinnati Reds]] baseball; WLWC originated coverage of the [[Ohio State Fair]], which was also carried in Cincinnati and Dayton. The Crosley broadcast division took the name of its parent company in 1968, becoming Avco Broadcasting Corporation.

[[File:Wlwc bob braun 1.JPG|thumb|left|1969 Advertisement for ''The Bob Braun Show'' appearing in TV Guide.]]

In 1969, the FCC enacted its [[concentration of media ownership|"one-to-a-market" rule]], which prohibited common ownership of AM radio and television stations with overlapping coverage areas under certain conditions while [[Grandfather clause|grandfathering]] some already existing instances. Avco's ownership of WLWC, WLWT, WLWD, and WLW radio (a 50,000-[[watt]], [[clear-channel station]] which can also be heard throughout much of eastern North America at night) was granted protection under the clause. But as a condition of maintaining three television stations with common coverage areas Crosley/Avco operated WLWC, WLWT, and WLWD with shorter transmission towers. In 1975, Avco announced the sale of its broadcasting outlets; channel 4 was sold in February 1976 to the [[Providence, Rhode Island]]-based [[The Outlet Company|Outlet Company]], who then changed the station's call letters to the current '''WCMH-TV'''.<ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/75-OCR/1975-05-26-BC-OCR-Page-0042.pdf "Avco sells off another TV."] ''Broadcasting'', May 26, 1975, pg. 42.</ref><ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/76-OCR/1976-01-19-BC-OCR-Page-0031.pdf "Changing Hands–Approved."] ''Broadcasting'', January 19, 1976, pg. 33.</ref><ref>[http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/76-OCR/1976-02-23-BC-OCR-Page-0077.pdf WCMH-TV/Outlet Broadcasting advertisement.] ''Broadcasting'', February 23, 1976, pg. 77.</ref> The call letters were selected to match the [[Airlines for America|ATA]] airport code for [[Port Columbus International Airport]], "CMH".

[[Image:Chopper4.jpg|thumb|200px|The old WCMH TV "Chopper 4" landed at Wellston [[Heliport]] Base while covering a [[breaking news]] story, as [[Grant Medical Center|Grant]] Lifeflight II's BK 117 N4493X sits nearby]]
[[Image:Wcmhnbc4hd.PNG|thumb|180px|left|WCMH-TV logo, 2008 to 2011.]]

For many years, WLWC/WCMH-TV has shared NBC programming in the eastern part of the market with [[WHIZ-TV]] (channel 18) in [[Zanesville, Ohio|Zanesville]] despite channel 4 itself covering Zanesville and covering weather reports as far east as [[Cambridge, Ohio|Cambridge]] (part of the [[Wheeling, West Virginia]]/[[Steubenville, Ohio]] market and served by [[WTOV-TV]] for NBC) and all other major network affiliates in Columbus covering [[Muskingum County, Ohio|Muskingum County]] as default affiliates, since Zanesville is considered a separate TV market from Columbus. WHIZ-TV would also serve somewhat as a buffer for WCMH-TV after [[WTAE-TV]] in [[Pittsburgh]] signed on in 1958 and had to "box in" its signal to protect then-WLWC and [[WRC-TV|three]] [[WIVB-TV|other]] [[WOAY-TV|stations]] also broadcasting on channel 4.

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; the other was [[UPN]]'s [[WWHO]], (channel 53, owned by that network's corporate parent [[Viacom (1952–2006)|Viacom]] from 1997 to 2005). From 1996 to 1999, channel 4 was technically a sister station to Cleveland's WKYC through NBC's minority ownership of that station, though they had ceded operational control to [[Gannett]] (now [[Tegna Inc.]], which now also owns [[WBNS-TV]]) by that point.

WCMH-TV was placed up for sale by [[NBCUniversal]] on January 9, 2006, along with sister stations [[WJAR-TV]] in Providence, [[WVTM-TV]] in [[Birmingham, Alabama]], and [[WNCN-TV]] in [[Goldsboro, North Carolina]]. [[Media General]], the [[Richmond, Virginia]]-based company which already owned five NBC affiliates in the southeastern United States, announced it would purchase the four stations on April 6, 2006; the sale was finalized on June 26, 2006.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mediageneral.com/press/2006/june26_06.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-02-20 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120905193051/http://www.mediageneral.com/press/2006/june26_06.htm |archive-date=2012-09-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref> As a result, channel 4 became Media General's first station in the [[Great Lakes]] region.

For several months after the sale closed, WCMH's website and those of the other three stations remained in the format used by the websites of NBC-owned stations. In December 2006, WNCN and WJAR launched redesigned websites, which are no longer powered by [[Internet Broadcasting]]. On December 11, 2006, WVTM's website followed suit, followed by WCMH on December 14. Media General has since located the [[master control]] for all Media General NBC affiliates at its Columbus studios.<ref>{{cite web
| title = Media General Mid-Year Media Review
| publisher = Media General
| url = http://www.media-general.com/investor/presentations/mymr_07/MYMR2007.pdf
| access-date = 2008-03-13}}</ref> In 2013, Media General migrated its television station web sites to [[Worldnow]] (who provided video services to the company's in-house web site operations prior to the hosting deal). Following the company's takeover by the principal staff of LIN, the Media General station web sites are now hosted by WordPress.com.

With subsequent sales and affiliation switches involving the other three stations NBC sold to Media General in 2006, WCMH was the last of the four that had had both the same owner and the same network affiliation that it had since 2006. (WJAR and WVTM were sold to Sinclair and [[Hearst Television]], respectively, in 2014, while WNCN switched its network affiliation from NBC to [[CBS]] in 2016.) WCMH would be reunited with WDTN (the former WLWD) in 2014 when Media General purchased LIN Media, which also made WCMH a sister station to LIN's properties in [[Youngstown, Ohio|Youngstown]] ([[CBS]] affiliate [[WKBN-TV]], [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] affiliate [[WYFX-LD]], and [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]-affiliated [[Local marketing agreement|SSA]] partner [[WYTV]]) within Ohio.

On January 27, 2016, it was announced that the [[Nexstar Media Group|Nexstar Broadcasting Group]] would buy Media General for $4.6 billion. WCMH became part of "Nexstar Media Group." The deal closed on January 17, 2017.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mediageneral.com/press/2016/jan27_2016nexs.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2017-05-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160130083411/http://www.mediageneral.com/press/2016/jan27_2016nexs.html |archive-date=2016-01-30 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Following the acquisitions of [[West Virginia Media Holdings]] (which closed two weeks after the Media General deal) and [[Tribune Media]] in 2019, WCMH is now a sister station to four other stations serving Ohio: Fox affiliate [[WJW (TV)|WJW]] in Cleveland, CBS affiliates [[WOWK-TV]] in [[Charleston, West Virginia|Charleston]]–[[Huntington, West Virginia]] and [[WTRF-TV]] in Wheeling–Steubenville, and NBC affiliate WDTN in Dayton.

== News operation ==
[[Image:Columbus Capital Square2.jpg|thumb|200px|WCMH-TV's former studio in downtown Columbus, at the northeast corner of Broad and High streets.]]
[[Image:Nbc4chopper.jpg|thumb|200px|WCMH's former helicopter.]]
[[File:WLWC Advertisement (1957).jpg|thumb|200px|1957 TV Guide Advertisement for WLW-C (WCMH) News with longtime anchor Hugh DeMoss, later [[Franklin County, Ohio]] Commissioner.]]
[[File:Wlwc 1503948 1405104566394437 899799547 n.jpg|thumb|200px|WLWC's studio building, 3165 Olentangy River Road in Columbus, under Avco ownership in the 1960s.]]
[[File:WCMHstudios.jpg|thumb|200px|right|WCMH-TV's studios in 2021.]]
WCMH presently broadcasts 49 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with eight hours each weekday, five hours on Saturdays and four hours on Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output among the Columbus market's television stations on an individual basis, though WSYX currently broadcast 63½ hours of local newscasts per week on both its main signal and WSYX 6.3.

For most of its history, WLWC/WCMH-TV has been second in the Columbus ratings, except for the station's 11:00&nbsp;p.m. news, which occasionally beats market leader WBNS-TV.

From 1957 to 1980 [[Hugh DeMoss]] anchored channel 4's evening newscasts, called ''The DeMoss Report''; following the sale of the station to Outlet, the broadcasts were rebranded as ''NewsWatch 4''. During the late 70s into the early 80s, the station languished in third place. But channel 4's fortunes began to change when, in 1983, the station brought in veteran news anchor [[Doug Adair]] and his then-wife, reporter Mona Scott, from WKYC-TV in Cleveland as the station's main anchoring team. They continued the "[[happy talk]]" format as well as launching the 5:30&nbsp;p.m. newscast. WCMH began a slow rise that would result in the station overcoming WBNS to reach number-one in the market, and in the process, the mid-1980s ''NewsWatch 4'' team of Adair, Scott, meteorologist Jym Ganahl (with the station from 1979 until retiring in September 2016, currently at WSYX), and sportscaster Jimmy Crum (who joined the station shortly after its 1949 debut) became the most popular anchor team in Columbus television history. This also coincided with NBC's becoming the number one network during that time.

The 1990s brought changes to the normally stable WCMH-TV. In 1990, personal reasons forced Mona Scott to leave channel 4, and she was replaced at the anchor desk by Angela Pace. Pace would leave for WBNS-TV in 1992, and Doug Adair and Jimmy Crum both retired in 1994. WCMH's new anchoring team featured Colleen Marshall, who had been a reporter for the station since the mid-1980s; and Cabot Rea, a former weekend sports anchor and weekday features reporter. The pair helmed WCMH-TV's evening newscasts until Rea's retirement on December 18, 2015. Marshall and Rea worked together overall for 23 years, the longest tenured co-anchoring team in Columbus television history.

The changes resulted in an earlier audience fall-off, but channel 4 once again passed WBNS-TV for the overall lead for a time in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and often won 11 o'clock news ratings over WBNS (due to NBC winning prime time and late night ratings over CBS during those years). For much of the first decade of the new millennium, WCMH also won the morning news race, but the numbers dropped precipitously after the broadcast was moved into ''NBC 4 on the Square'', a downtown studio facility located on [[U.S. Route 40 in Ohio|Broad]] and High streets, in 2008.

On January 4, 2008 WCMH became the second major Columbus station to begin broadcasting local newscasts in [[High-definition television|high definition]]. Prior to the opening of ''NBC 4 on the Square'' on May 27, channel 4 had planned to move its entire news operation to that facility. However, when those plans fell through, WCMH's main studio was upgraded to high definition. (Ultimately, ''NBC 4 on the Square'' was used only for some of the station's weekday morning shows.) Like most other stations with high-definition newscasts, WCMH relied mostly on upconverted [[16:9]] widescreen [[Standard-definition television|standard definition]] footage for its remote field reports until the summer of 2014 where all remote field operations were upgrade to [[16:9]] 1080i HD. On May 11, 2011, ''NBC 4 on the Square'' came to an end due to dismal ratings (it has remained a distant second to WBNS-TV on weekday mornings ever since ''NBC4 on the Square'' was founded), with the morning newscast productions returning to the main WCMH facility full-time, and the downtown space was soon leased to WBNS-TV.<ref>http://www.10tv.com/live/content/local/stories/2011/05/11/story-columbus-10tv-broad-high.html?sid=102</ref>

In January 2011, the station debuted a new rounded logo and new image promos emphasizing its long-time personalities and community involvement.

===Notable current on-air staff===
* [[Brad Johansen]] – 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. anchor

===Notable alumni===
* [[Doug Adair]] (anchor, 1983-1994; deceased)
* [[Leon Bibb]] (now at [[WKYC]] in [[Cleveland]])
* [[Diann Burns]] (last with [[WBBM-TV]] in [[Chicago]])
* [[Nick Clooney]] – host of ''The Nick Clooney Show''
* [[Bill Hindman]] – news anchor and later a stage actor
* [[Robin Meade]] (now morning anchor with [[CNN]] [[HLN (TV network)|Headline News]])
* [[Larry Mendte]] (last at [[KYW-TV]] in [[Philadelphia]]; last at [[WPIX]] in [[New York City]])
* [[Dean Miller (broadcaster)|Dean Miller]] – Prior to joining WLW-C, Miller was co-star of the [[CBS]] sitcom ''[[December Bride]]'' (1954–1959); and co-host of the NBC celebrity interview program ''[[Here's Hollywood]]''; later a news anchor for [[WDIV-TV]] in [[Detroit]] and owner of radio station [[WMVR-FM]] (105.5) in [[Sidney, Ohio]] (which is still owned by the Miller family)
* [[Erin Moriarty (journalist)|Erin Moriarty]] – lawyer, news reporter and correspondent for ''[[60 Minutes]]'', ''[[48 Hours (TV series)|48 Hours]]'', ''[[CBS This Morning]]'' and ''[[CBS Evening News]] with [[Dan Rather]]'' and formerly co-anchor of ''[[PM Magazine]]'' while in Columbus in 1979-1980. She has also been seen narrating recent episodes of ''[[48 Hours (TV series)|48 Hours Mystery]]''.
* [[Cabot Rea]] – Now retired after 30 years
* [[Marty Reid]] – last with [[ESPN]]

==Technical information==

===Subchannels===
The station's digital signal is [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! [[Display resolution|Video]]
! [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! Short name
! Programming<ref>[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WCMH#station RabbitEars TV Query for WCMH]</ref>
|-
| 4.1 || [[1080i]] || rowspan=4|[[16:9]] || WCMH-DT || Main WCMH-TV programming / [[NBC]]
|-
| 4.2 || [[480i]] || CourtTV || [[Court TV]]
|-
| 4.3 || [[720p]] || ION TV || [[Ion Television|Ion]]
|-
| 4.4 || 480i || Laff TV || [[Laff (TV network)|Laff]]
|}

WCMH replaced RTV with [[MeTV]] on September 26, 2011, as part of a groupwide affiliation agreement with Media General; the channel replaced RTV on some Media General-owned stations in other markets.<ref>[http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2011/09/15/54029/metv-beefs-up-roster-with-10-new-stations Me-TV Beefs Up Roster With 10 New Stations], ''TVNewsCheck'', September 15, 2011.</ref> MeTV was replaced by [[Court TV]] on September 26, 2019.

As part of a deal between Nexstar and [[Sinclair Broadcast Group]] (owner of [[WSYX]] and operator of [[WTTE]] and [[WWHO]]), on January 7, 2021, WCMH-TV started hosting the ATSC 1.0 channel for WWHO 53.3 as part of Columbus's adoption of [[ATSC 3.0]]. Simultaneous with the move, WCMH-TV's main signal is now broadcasting in ATSC 3.0 on WWHO alongside WWHO's main signal, WSYX 6.3 (the former intellectual property of WTTE), and WTTE 28.2.<ref>https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WWHO#station/</ref> The move left WBNS-TV as the only major-network station in Columbus not broadcasting in ATSC 3.0 in some capacity.

=== Analog-to-digital conversion ===
WCMH-TV shut down its analog signal, over [[Very high frequency|VHF]] channel 4, on June 12, 2009, as part of the [[Digital television transition in the United States|federally mandated transition from analog to digital television]].<ref>[http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf List of Digital Full-Power Stations]</ref> The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition [[Ultra high frequency|UHF]] channel 14,<ref name="FCCForm387">[http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101233853&formid=387&fac_num=50781 CDBS Print<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> using [[Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP]] to display WCMH-TV's [[virtual channel]] as 4 on digital television receivers.

==Video links==
[[File:Lex's live wrestling sponsored by lex mayers chevrolet on wlw-c tv=4.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Crowds gathering in the 1950s to watch Lex's Live Wrestling broadcast from Memorial Hall in Columbus, Ohio on WLW-C (now WCMH).<ref>[http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1985-02-25/features/8501110481_1_wrestling-tex-mex-ringside Lex Had a Hold on Pro Wrestling], by Bob Greene, Chicago Tribune, February 28, 1985</ref>]]

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9M_0Gsrmzk 1955 WLW Weathercast] - Weather and news reports originated from WLW-T and were relayed to each station by microwave link for broadcast to Columbus, Cincinnati and Dayton audiences. The "Three City Final" newscast aired on WLW-C until December, 1957; WLW-T weather forecasts continued to air until 1965 or 1966.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=qwg6e3yc2kMC&lpg=PA48&ots=R5pCjfREoU&dq=%22three%20city%20final%22&pg=PA48#v=onepage&q=%22three%20city%20final%22&f=false Three City Final Studio] Cincinnati Television
By Jim Friedman, Page 48</ref>
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqcWIe8RvQY Jack Hanna Visits Bob Braun] - [[Bob Braun]] and his predecessor [[Ruth Lyons (broadcaster)|Ruth Lyons]] hosted a talk show live weekdays at noon on the WLW stations in Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Dayton.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5qFhXnoXBY Paul Dixon Show] - Another staple of WLW regional programming was the [[Paul Dixon Show]] originating in Cincinnati and airing mornings on all WLW stations. Comedian and talk show host [[David Letterman]] credits Paul Dixon as being the inspiration for his show.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aEOMeGj648 1956 WLWC Sign-Off (Audio Only)] - Original WLWC audio from 1956.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxhyHHtfNog 1980s WCMH-TV Sign-Off]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eaqqf-6h22E Spook Beckman's Coffee Club (mid-1960s)]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq9ZlcFR0hg Dance Party Video] The Edicates performing live on WLWC's "Dance Party", hosted by Jerry Rasor (November 11, 1969)
* [http://www.historicfilms.com/search/?type=all&q=wlwc#p1t4035i747o820 Kate Smith Tribute to WLW-C] - [[Kate Smith]]'s Third Birthday Tribute to WLW-C (April 3, 1952)

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Official website|https://www.nbc4i.com/}}

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