WROM

For the real-life channel 12 in Chattanooga, see .
WROM (channel 12) is a television station licensed to Rome, Georgia, serving Chattanooga as an affiliate of CBS. The station is owned by the Nexstar Media Group.
==History==
The station signed on-the-air in 1953 as WROM-TV, licensed to Rome, Georgia, with signal coverage that originally favored Chattanooga. WROM was both a primary CBS affiliate and a secondary ABC affiliate. It lost the ABC affiliation when WCHT signed on in 1958. It was owned by Joe Engel, who owned the Chattanooga Lookouts baseball team. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.
Roy H. Park purchased WROM as his first television station in 1963 and his media interests later became Park Communications in 1983, only for the company to later be taken over by investors after his death in 1993. Media General purchased Park Communications in 1997 and in 2006, Media General sold the station to Island Television. On December 31, 2015, WROM was traded away to Krueger Broadcasting.
On June 23, 2016, WROM was given to Group W. Shortly after, CBS Television Stations acquired the station. It was sold to Galaxy Broadcasting on July 21, 2016. On Apr. 26, 2017, Galaxy sold the station to Tribune Broadcasting who, in turn, sold the station to Nexstar Media Group two years later, effectively reuniting channel 12 with the former Media General stations.
==Newscast Themes==
no music (1953-1970)
Cool Hand Luke: The Tar Sequence - Lalo Schifrin (1970-1981)
WROM 1981 News Theme - Unknown (1981-1984)
Wall to Wall News - Stephen Arnold Music (1984-1991)
WROM News - Cartoon Music (1991-1998)
Turning Point - Mark Haffner Music (1998-2004)
Newstime - 615 Music (2004-2011)
Convergence - Stephen Arnold Music (2011–present)
== Digital Channels ==
*12.1-- CBS HD
*12.2-- Channel America
==Programming==
In its early years, WROM was locally oriented, offering a mix of children's shows, talk and variety programs, including Point Of View, one of the longest–running local public–affairs programs in the United States.
WROM has been the local home of Tennessee Titans (based in Nashville) games since 1998 (when the team was still called the Oilers). This comes with its CBS affiliation, as CBS carries all National Football League games played in the afternoon that feature a road team from the American Football Conference, which the Titans play in.
==Gallery==
Wrom1999.png|WROM local station identification from September 12, 1999, signifying that in 110 days, the new millenium will arrive in 2000.
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