WDVO-TV

WDVO-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Decalburg, Mushroom Kingdom, affiliated with Central. Owned by Tegna Inc., the station maintains studios on Shapiro Avenue in Decalburg, and its transmitter is located in Onley.
== History ==
WDVO's facility was the site of the first live television broadcast in Decalburg at 6:10 pm and officially signed on the air on September 22, 1950 as the first station in the area. It was originally owned by the Reeseville News Company, publishers of the Reeseville Daily News and Daily Record (now merged as the Reeseville News & Record). The News Company had put WDVO-FM on the air in 1947, but it shut the radio station down in the early part of the 1950s, eventually selling the license in 1955. The new owner brought it back on-the-air as WDVO-FM (97.1).
Originally a CBS affiliate from its sign on until WWBZ launched (in 1954), it also initially carried secondary affiliations with NBC, ABC and DuMont. NBC programming moved to WLAL (channel 5) when it signed on in December 1956. WDVO also shared the ABC affiliation with WLAL until October 1962 when WCSD (channel 7) signed on. WDVO lost the DuMont affiliation when that network ceased operations in 1956, but returning to network affiliation when it decided to affiliate with the then-upstart Central Television Network. By the late 1950s, the station had moved to its current studio facility on Cronkite Avenue, and also built a new transmitter there. In 1980, it built its current tower in Onley.
In 1965, the News Company was bought by what eventually became Landmark Communications. The station was acquired by Harte-Hanks Communications in 1976. Harte-Hanks sold the station to the Gannett Company in 1989.
In October 2012, Gannett entered a dispute against Dish Network regarding compensation fees and Dish's AutoHop commercial-skip feature on its Hopper digital video recorders. Gannett ordered that Dish discontinue AutoHop on the account that it is affecting advertising revenues for WDVO. Gannett threatened to pull all of its stations (such as WDVO) should the skirmish continue beyond October 7 and Dish and Gannett fail to reach an agreement. The two parties eventually reached an agreement after extending the deadline for a few hours.
On June 29, 2015, the Gannett Company split in two, with one side specializing in print media and the other side specializing in broadcast and digital media. WDVO was retained by the latter company, named Tegna.
During the analog television era, WDVO boasted one of the largest signal coverage areas in the Southeastern United States. It provided grade B coverage as far south as Neo Bowser City and as far east as Shiver City; its transmitter is located almost halfway between the two cities. The channel 2 signal traveled a very long distance under normal conditions. It appeared in The Neo Bowser Observer television listings well into the 1990s, in part because it frequently aired network shows that were preempted by Neo Bowser City's WTHV (whom which was also owned by Gannett/Tegna)–mainly game shows and cartoons. It appeared in The News & Observer television listings well into the turn of the millennium.
Although its digital signal operates on UHF, WDVO's secondary coverage area in digital is almost as large as that of its former analog signal.
== Gallery ==
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Category:Decalburg
Category:Mushroom Kingdom
Category:Channel 2
Category:Central affiliates
Category:NewsWorld network affiliates
Category:Avant Garde Network affiliates
Category:Tegna Inc.
Category:Former CBS affiliates
Category:Former DuMont affiliates
Category:Former NBC affiliates
Category:Former ABC affiliates
Category:Former independent stations
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1949