WREG-TV

==WREC-TV==
===1956–1975===
====1956–1961====
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====
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 1986.jpg
WREG Station ID (1982-1986) 
=====1987–1993=====
WREG 1987-88.png|"CBSpirit" (1987–1988)
WREG Get Ready 1989.jpg|"Get Ready for Channel 3" (1989-1990)
Screenshot 2021-12-23 134449.jpg|"Get Ready for Channel 3" (1991–1992)
====1993–1997====
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WREG 1.JPG
====1997–present====
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.
WREG 1.2.svg|Current primary version used since 2015
Wreg c.png|3D logo
WREG logo hirescall letters 1.webp|News Channel 3 3D logo
WREG 10pm open 2019.png|News Channel 3 10pm open (2019-present)
WREG-TV news opens
==External links==
*WREG.com
Category:Television stations in the United States
Category:CBS network affiliates
Category:Memphis
Category:Tennessee
Category:Nexstar Media Group
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1956
Category:Former Tribune stations
Category:Overmyer/United Network