WDTN

WDTN (channel 2) is a television station in Dayton, Ohio, affiliated with the NBC network since August 30, 2004. The station was previously an ABC affiliate from 1978 until the switch.

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WDTN's local news department, 2 News First, has usually placed second to WHIO-TV's news department in the ratings.

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It originially signed on as WLW-D, one of several stations owned by Powell Crosley's company, whose flagship was WLW AM.

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The license for WLW-D was granted to the Crosley Broadcasting Corporation in 1947. It was the first broadcast television license granted by the Federal Communications Commission to the Dayton television market. The station began broadcasting in 1949 as an affiliate of NBC. The first program broadcast was the Texaco Star Theater with Milton Berle.

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