WTOL

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WTOL
Toledo, Ohio
Branding	WTOL News 11
Slogan	"Taking Action. Getting Results." "Toledo's News Leader"
Channels	11 (VHF) analog, 17 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	CBS
Owner	Raycom Media
Founded	October 13, 1958
Call letters meaning	W TOLedo (IATA airport code for Toledo)
Former affiliations	ABC (1958-1970; secondary)
Transmitter Power	316 kW/305 m(analog) 735 kW/263 m (digital)
Website	www.wtol.com

WTOL is the CBS television affiliate in Toledo, Ohio. The station broadcasts on channel 11 (analog) and 17 (digital) and can be seen quite clearly throughout Northwest Ohio, Southeast Michigan (including Detroit), and southwest Ontario (including Windsor and Essex County, where it is also carried on cable, along with WTVG and WNWO.

Contents 1 History 2 Newscasts 2.1 Monday-Friday 2.2 Saturday-Sunday 3 Personalities 3.1 News 11 Your Morning 3.2 News 11 at Noon 3.3 News 11 at 5 3.4 News 11 at 5:30 3.5 News 11 at 6 3.6 News 11 at 11 3.7 News 11 Your Morning Saturday 3.8 News 11 Weekend Edition 3.9 Reporters 4 Past Personalities 5 Digital Channels 6 External links

[edit] History

WTOL began broadcasting on October 13, 1958 as a CBS affiliate with a secondary ABC affiliation. It shared ABC with WSPD-TV (now WTVG) until 1970, when ABC went to formerly independent WDHO-TV (now WNWO-TV). WTOL has been exclusively affiliated with CBS ever since. WTOL is also the only station in Toledo to never change its primary affiliation.

The station was originally owned by the Clients of Toledo, Ohio Investors, and was then sold to Filmways (now part of Sony Pictures Television) in 1962. The Broadcasting Company of the South, a subsidiary of South Carolina insurer Liberty Life Insurance Company, bought WTOL in 1965 and later changed its name to Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation. Liberty reorganized itself as a holding company, The Liberty Corporation, in 1974, and WTOL came directly under the Liberty banner after Liberty sold off its insurance business in 2003. Liberty merged with Raycom Media in 2005. Raycom already owned WNWO, but couldn't keep both because the FCC does not allow one person to own two of the four biggest stations in a single market. It opted to keep the higher-rated WTOL and sold WNWO to Barrington Broadcasting.

In December 1994, WTOL replaced Detroit's WJBK on the lineup of Shaw Broadcast Services (formally known as CANCOM) which provided American networks to cable and satellite viewers across Canada. WJBK had recently switched from CBS to Fox, and WTOL was the nearest large-market CBS station to Detroit. WTOL was part of CANCOM until 1999, when it was replaced with Detroit's WWJ-TV.

WTOL preempted network programming for many years, but in recent years has carried the entire CBS network schedule, as it still does today. As of April 2006 it is still the most watched television station in Toledo. As of May, WTOL topped the ratings in every newscast, except for mornings, where WTVG took the ratings crown.

[edit] Newscasts

[edit] Monday-Friday

• WTOL News 11 Your Morning (5:00-7:00AM)
• WTOL News 11 at Noon (12Noon-12:30PM)
• WTOL News 11 at 5 (5:00-6:00PM)
• WTOL News 11 at 6 (6:00-6:30PM)
• WTOL News 11 at 11 (11:00-11:35PM)

[edit] Saturday-Sunday

• WTOL News 11 Your Morning Saturday(8:00-10:00AM)
• WTOL News 11 at 6 Weekend Edition (6:00-6:30PM)
• WTOL News 11 at 11 Weekend Edition (11:00-11:35PM)

[edit] Personalities

[edit] News 11 Your Morning

• Brad Harvey
• Melissa Voetsch
• "Breaking-News Anchor" Dan Bumpus
• Meteorologist Mike Stone
• Larry Whatley

[edit] News 11 at Noon

• Dan Bumpus
• Melissa Voetsch
• Meteorologist Mike Stone

[edit] News 11 at 5

• Jerry Anderson
• Chrys Peterson
• Chief Meteorologist Robert Shiels

[edit] News 11 at 5:30

• Jerry Anderson
• Shelley Brown
• Chief Meteorologist Robert Shiels

[edit] News 11 at 6

• Jerry Anderson
• Chrys Peterson
• Chief Meteorologist Robert Shiels
• Dan Cummins

[edit] News 11 at 11

• Jerry Anderson
• Chrys Peterson
• Reporter Shelley Brown
• Chief Meteorologist Robert Shiels
• Dan Cummins

[edit] News 11 Your Morning Saturday

• Dan Bumpus
• Shelley Brown
• Meteorologist Scott Brown (Dave Carlson will replace Brown)

[edit] News 11 Weekend Edition

• Jonathan Walsh
• Meteorologist James Canterbury
• Sports with Gary Sensenstein

[edit] Reporters

• Dick Berry
• Jennifer Boresz
• Mika Highsmith
• Lisa Rantala
• Ryan Vetter
• Colleen Wells
• Rob Wiercinski

[edit] Past Personalities

• Terry Thill, anchor/ reporter

[edit] Digital Channels

Digital channels

Channel	Programming
11.1 / 17.1	Main WTOL Programming
11.2 / 17.2	WTOL High Definition
11.3 / 17.3	Weather Radar

[edit] External links

• WTOL Homepage
• Michiguide's WTOL page
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WTOL

Broadcast television in the Toledo and Findlay, Ohio market (Nielsen DMA #70)
W09CG 9 (TBN) - WTOL 11 (CBS) - WTVG 13 (ABC) - W21BF 21 (IND) - WFND 22 (A1/Daystar) - W22CO 22 (TBN) - WNWO 24 (NBC) (The Tube on DT2, WX+ on DT3) - WDFM 26 (IND) - WBGU 27 (PBS) - WGTE 30 (PBS) - WBTL 34 (AS) - WUPW 36 (Fox) - W38DH 38 (MTV2) - WLMB 40 (FamilyNet) - WMNT 48 (MNTV/A1) - WGGN 52 (TBN)
Local cable television channels
WT05 (The CW) - CBET 9 (CBC, Windsor)
See also: Broadcast television stations in the Detroit-Windsor, Lansing, Cleveland, Columbus, Lima, Fort Wayne and London Markets

CBS Network Affiliates in the state of Ohio
WHIO 7 (Dayton) - WBNS 10 (Columbus) - WTOL 11 (Toledo) - WKRC 12 (Cincinnati) WOIO 19 (Shaker Heights/Cleveland) - WKBN 27 (Youngstown) - WLMO-LP 38 (Lima)
See also: ABC, Fox, NBC, PBS, MyNetworkTV, CW and Other stations in Ohio