WDTN

Not to be confused with KDTN.
==WLWD==
===1949–1953===
Originally signed on the air on March 15, 1949 as WLWD, a primary NBC affiliate on VHF channel 5, owned by the Crosley Broadcasting Corporation.
===1953–1956===
===1956–1960===
===1960–1965===
===1965–1969===
===1969–1972===
WLWD - 1969 (horiz).svg|Horizontal version
===1972–1976===
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==WDTN==
===1976–1979===
In 1975, Avco decided to exit broadcasting. As a result, WLWD lost its grandfathered protection, and had to be sold off separately from WLWT and WLWC. WLWD ended up being the last of Avco's television stations to be sold off, going to Grinnell College in Iowa for $13 million in June 1975; the acquisition made Grinnell College one of the few universities to own a commercial television station. The school changed the call letters to the current WDTN shortly after the sale closed in spring 1976, and introduced this "flower 2" to go with the change.
WDTN - 1976 (2s only).svg|The symbol itself
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WDTN - 1978.svg|Variant from 1978
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====1979====
WDTN NBC 2 (1979) Monochrome.svg|Monochrome logo
====1979–1980====
WDTN NBC 2 (1979) 2.svg|Logo with callsign
====1980–1982====
On January 1, 1980, WDTN and WKEF swapped network affiliations with channel 2 joining ABC. Five months after joining ABC, Grinnell College announced that it would sell WDTN to the broadcasting division of the Hearst Corporation. The sale was finalized over a year later, in September 1981 for a price of over $47 million.
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File:WDTN TV ID 1981.JPG
===1982–1995===
WDTN - 1982.svg|Logo with callsign
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WDTN 1985.jpg|Station ID (1984–1989)
Wdtn 2 logo.jpg|"Turn to 2" ID (1989–1993)
Wdtn 2 abc logo.jpg|Station ID (1993–1996)
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===1996–2002===
In August 1997, Hearst's television group merged with Argyle Television Holdings II to form what was then known as Hearst-Argyle Television. Argyle had purchased WDTN's former sister station, WLWT, that January, as part of a trade deal between Argyle II and Gannett which caused WLWT and its Oklahoma City sister station, KOCO-TV, to swap ownership with WZZM in Grand Rapids, Michigan and WGRZ in Buffalo. For the same reason that forced the breakup of Avco's television group 20 years earlier, Hearst-Argyle could not keep both stations (common ownership of stations with overlapping city-grade signals would not be allowed until 2000). It opted to keep the larger WLWT and trade WDTN, together with WNAC-TV in Providence, to Sunrise Television for WPTZ in Plattsburgh, WNNE in Hartford, Vermont, and KSBW in Salinas. The sale was finalized on July 2, 1998. In February 2002, LIN Broadcasting purchased WDTN alongside six stations from Sunrise in other markers.
WDTN ID 2002.png|Station ID used on newscast intro (1995-2002)
===2002–present===
The 'red oval' 2 has been used by the station since 2002, surviving a network affiliation swap.
====2002–2004====
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====2004–2012====
In early 2004, NBC signed an affiliation agreement with LIN TV, in response to the agreement, ABC signed an affiliation deal with WKEF's onwers, the Sinclair Broadcast Group which renewed ABC's affilation agreements with the group's existing ABC stations and caused WKEF and sister stations WICS (channel 20) and WICD (channel 15) in Sprinfield/Decatur/Champaign/Urbana, Illinois to switch to that network. WDTN returned to NBC on August 30 of that same year, reversing the 1980 affiliation swap; WKEF would return to ABC. 
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====July–October 2012====
This logo was unveiled on July 21, 2012.
WDTN July 2012.jpg|3D version
====2012–present====
WDTN unveiled its new logo on October 7, 2012. In 2014, LIN merged with Media General, which owns sister station WCMH-TV (channel 4) in Columbus.
WDTN logo.png|3D version
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Stormteam-2-logo-600x188.png|"Storm Team 2" logo (2012-2021)
WDTN Olympics.svg|Olympics logo (2014-present)
WDTN Olympics Monochrome.svg|Monochrome Olympics logo
WDTN First at 4PM.png|2 News 4pm open (2021-present)
WDTN Five on 2.png|Five On 2 open (2021-present)
WDTN 6pm open 2021.png|2 News 6pm open (2021-present)
WDTN 11pm open 2021.png|2 News 11pm open (2021-present)
Storm Team 2.png|Storm Team 2 Forecast First Open (2021-present)
Storm Team 2 Main.png|Storm Team 2 Segment Open (2021-present)
WDTN-TV news opens
==External links==
*WDTN.com
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