WTVD-TV

Note: This has nothing to do with the real-life WTVD in Durham.
WTVD-TV, virtual channel 12 (UHF digital channel 29), is a CW owned-and-operated television station serving Texaville, Ohio, United States that is licensed to Claremore. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group.
==History==
===Early years with NET and PBS===
WTVD-TV was signed-on by the Texavillian Museum of Education on March 25, 1964, as a non-commercial television station under the callsign of WTME-TV, a National Educational Television member. Like most other public television stations in the United States, the station aired the first episodes of acclaimed PBS series Mister Roger's Neighborhood and Sesame Street.
On October 5, 1970, WTME-TV was made a charter member of the Public Broadcasting Service, having recently been established following the death of NET, whose programs moved to the new programming service. With PBS's news program, The MacNeil/Lerher Report (now the PBS Newshour), premiering in 1975, the station ocassionally preempted that program in favor of local news, either from the station itself, or from other stations in the Texavillian television market.
===As a WB/CW O&O===
On October 1, 1998, Tribune Broadcasting decided to purchase WTVD. Subsequently, WTVD ended its 29-year membership with PBS on February 1, 1999, becoming a WB owned-and-operated station. Meanwhile, the PBS membership moved to WTXK-TV, which was now the present-day WTPB. In 2006, WTVD became a CW station after The WB and UPN merged to create said network.
Category:Former PBS member stations
Category:Former NET affiliates
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1964
Category:Channel 12
Category:Texaville, Ohio
Category:Ohio
Category:Former WB network affiliates
Category:CW network affiliates
Category:Tribune Broadcasting
Category:Nexstar Media Group