WTRE-TV

WTRE-TV, virtual channel 2, is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Saint Charles, Ohio, United States. The station is owned by The E. W. Scripps Company.
==History==
===Early history===
Alice K. Bertman—owner of the Saint Charles Express and WGX radio—was a longtime engineer in the broadcasting industry. In 1942, her Bertman Publishing Company presented a six-day demonstration of television broadcasts and broadcast equipment at an unknown museum.
On March 23, 1946, Bertman submitted a construction permit to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to build a television station that would broadcast on channel 2. She wanted to receive approval from her submission as soon as the next coming months. After the construction permit was approved, on June 26, 1947, Bertman chose to assign WGX-TV as the television station's new call letters. The station began test broadcasts, accompanied by music on the test pattern slide, on October 23, 1947.
Channel 2 has been a primary NBC affiliate from its sign-on, inheriting those rights from WGX radio's longtime affiliation with the progenitor NBC Red Network, which had been affiliated with that station since January 1930. (WGX-TV did not air its first NBC program, Meet the Press, until Thursday). WGX-TV also originally had secondary affiliations with CBS and the DuMont Television Network, and later picked up a secondary affiliation with ABC when that network began television service.
===As WTGX===
On August 11, 1976, the Bertman Publishing Company sold WGX-TV to the broadcasting divison of New York City-based Metromedia for for $25.180 million. The Bertman family—who would later rechristen their broadcasting division as Bertman Broadcasting—sold channel 2 to comply with FCC rules of the time that prohibited a single company from owning more than five VHF television stations nationwide.
On March 29, 1977, the station's call letters were changed to WTGX, in order to comply with a since-repealed FCC rule that prohibited separately owned TV and radio stations that were based in the same media market from sharing the same call letters. The additional "T" was added between the "W" and "G" in the WGX call letters.
On April 16, 1982, the Gannett Company announced that it would purchase WTGX from Metromedia for $10.2 million. As FCC rules then prohibited a single company from owning two commercial television stations serving the same market, Gannett was required to divest either WTGX or WSCO-TV—the latter of which had been owned by Gannett since its 1979 merger with the Combined Communications Corporation.
===As WTRE-TV===
On April 13, 1990, the station's call letters were changed to WTRE-TV, in reference to its on-air analog channel assignment.
==Programming==
WTRE currently clears the entirety of NBC's programming schedule in pattern.
===Past programming preemptions===
Historically, even though NBC was far less tolerant of preemptions than its network rivals and channel 2 was one of NBC's stronger affiliates, the station has preempted certain NBC network programs to make room for other local or syndicated programs, including an occasional prime time show. For example, in 1986, WTGX preempted NBC's entire late night schedule to air Bob Braun.
==Branding==
===Slogan history===
*1981-1982 - TV-2, Our Pride is Showing! (localized version of NBC's 1981-82 slogan)
*1982-1983 - We're TV-2, just watch us now! (localized version of NBC's 1982-83 slogan)
*1983-1984 - TV-2 There, Be There! (localized version of NBC's 1983-84 slogan) 
*1984-1986 - TV-2, Let's All Be There! (localized version of NBC's 1984-86 slogan)
*1986-1987 - Come Home to TV-2 (localized version of NBC's 1986-87 slogan)
*1987-1988 -
*1988-1989 -
*1989-1990 -
*1990-1992 -
*1992-1993 -
*1993-1994 -
*1994-1995 -
===Newscast title history===
Category:NBC network affiliates
Category:Saint Charles, OH
Category:Ohio