Gevers discovered the body when he went to Parcell's apartment to deliver mail to her. Tim Miller is an Emmy award winning reporter and co-anchor for WTOL 11 Your Morning. WTOL's broadcasts became digital-only, effective June 12, 2009. In March 2019, WTOL attracted viral attention for video it posted on Facebook to motivate local high school students heading into their exams, which featured its anchors excessively using slang. WTOL-TV began broadcasting on December 5, 1958 as a CBS affiliate with a secondary ABC affiliation. [18] In February, Kristi Leigh (formerly of WNWO, WUPW and WTVG) was named co-anchor of the 5, 5:30, 6 and 11 p.m. Gever said Parcell was too weak to return to her broadcasting job, but she had been working on an hourlong special on China at home. Through the shared services agreement with WUPW, WTOL may also simulcast long-form severe weather coverage on channel 36 in the event that a tornado warning is issued for any county in its northwest Ohio viewing area. broadcasts. [16] On April 24, 2014, it was officially announced that Emilie Voss would succeed Chrys Peterson and join Jerry Anderson as the evening anchor on WTOL.[17]. Parcell, who went to WTOL from a Kansas City, Mo., station in November, became ill May 9 following a dinner sponsored by officials in Qinhuangoa, Toledo's sister city in China. Jordan Strack was named the new sports director. Nov. 4 (UPI) -- A Kentucky woman won a $100,000 prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket 13 years after collecting a $1 million lottery jackpot. Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Animal rescuers in Colorado shared photos from the unusual rescue of a dog that was trapped in the narrow space between a fence and cement wall. Nov. 4 (UPI) -- A Kentucky town is celebrating the election of a mayor whose support transcends political divides: a French bulldog named Wilbur. [20] Morning anchor Andrew Kinsey was promoted to the evening shift[21] while longtime reporter and fill-in anchor Tim Miller assumed morning anchor duties as of June 18, 2018. Many VHF stations are applying to the FCC for power increases to restore their coverage area after moving from UHF back to VHF. [2] Digital channel 11 transmits at a lower power than it did on digital channel 17, so in some locations, there has been a reduction in coverage. WUPW's remaining staff now operate from WTOL's facilities (though its management and sales departments will remain separate). California kayakers end up in mouth of humpback whale. Peterson decided to leave the station in order to spend more time with her family. Gevers said Parcell, who had been convalescing at her Sylvania Township home for three weeks after being diagnosed as suffering from viral encephalitis and meningitis, was to have returned to work Friday. Raycom already owned WNWO, but couldn't keep both because the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) does not allow one entity to own two of the top four rated stations in a single market. She was taken to the local hospital for a day before she was flown to Shanghai, where she was admitted to the East China Hospital. [12] The deal was completed on January 2, 2019. WTOL also carries preseason Cleveland Browns games from WEWS-TV. says. Even with the ownership changes that have occurred since 2006, WTOL retains its Liberty-era logo. Because Gray owned WTVG (which the company acquired in 2014 from SJL Broadcasting), and since WTOL and WTVG rank among the four highest-rated stations in the Toledo market in total day viewership, Gray announced that it would retain WTVG and sell WTOL to an unrelated third party, in order to comply with FCC ownership rules; the SSA involving WUPW would be included in the sale of WTOL. Trick-or-treater finds wedding ring at bottom of candy bag. She was 31. Copyright © 2020 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Andrew Kinsey is being promoted to anchor the evening shows at WBNS-TV in Columbus, 10tv. The station was originally owned by the Reams family along with WTOL radio (AM 1230, now WCWA; and FM 104.7, now WIOT). [3] In January 2012, LIN TV Corporation announced it would sell its local Fox affiliate WUPW to American Spirit Media for $22 million. Kentucky woman wins a second lottery jackpot 13 years later. Morning anchor Andrew Kinsey was promoted to the evening shift while longtime reporter and fill-in anchor Tim Miller assumed morning anchor duties as of June 18, 2018. Boy, 5, identifies 50 cartoon characters in 1 minute for world record. [13] This made WTOL a sister station to NBC affiliate WKYC in Cleveland (and later to fellow CBS affiliate WBNS-TV in Columbus from a separate deal), while separating it from WOIO/WUAB. [6][7][8][9][10][11] On August 20, it was announced that McLean, Virginia-based Tegna Inc. would purchase WTOL and sister station KWES-TV in Odessa, Texas for $105 million. 3,555 talking about this. Dan Cummins. The station provides city-grade coverage to most of Monroe County and much of southern Wayne and Washtenaw counties, and grade B coverage to most of Detroit itself. Nov. 4 (UPI) -- A 5-year-old boy in India broke a Guinness World Record when he identified 50 cartoon characters in 1 minute. In January 2017, Emilie Voss announced she would leave WTOL after five years. The segment received mixed attention, with some observers considering it to be an exaggerated attempt to appeal to the demographic, but others applauding the anchors willingness to participate in the video. 'Sue had a terrific attitude and a willingness to work.'. No official cause of death was listed, pending the autopsy. During this time, WTOL was the de facto CBS affiliate for the southern part of the Detroit market, as WWJ-TV was all but unviewable in that area at the time. Kinsey joined the WTOL 11 news team in 2014, at the dawn of the Toledo water crisis. On January 30, 2012, WTOL replaced its News 11 Now on 11.2 with MeTV. Melissa Andrews | WTOL 11 anchor 1 / 15 × WTOL . Melissa is a main anchor for WTOL 11’s evening news. Dog rescued from between fence and concrete wall in Colorado. Nov. 4 (UPI) -- An Australian man is crediting his pet parrot with saving his life after the bird shouted out his name and alerted him to a house fire. WTOL then became exclusively affiliated with CBS. The station is owned by Tegna Inc., which also operates Fox affiliate WUPW (channel 36) under a shared services agreement (SSA) with owner American Spirit Media. [4] On April 20, 2012, WUPW finalized its acquisition and its shared services agreement with WTOL. Car stopped for hauling snowmobile on the roof. It was quickly removed by the station, but mirrored copies on sites such as Twitter reached as high as 3 million views. Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Authorities in Indiana said an overturned semi truck spilled cases of beer across the lanes of a highway in Dearborn County. It shared ABC with then-NBC affiliate WSPD-TV (channel 13, now WTVG) until 1969, when WDHO-TV (channel 24, now WNWO-TV) replaced WSPD-TV as the ABC affiliate. On June 25, 2018, Atlanta-based Gray Television announced it had reached an agreement with Raycom to merge their respective broadcasting assets (consisting of Raycom's 63 existing owned-and/or-operated television stations, and Gray's 93 television stations) under Gray's corporate umbrella, in a cash-and-stock merger transaction valued at $3.6 billion. Longtime sports director Dan Cummins, a fixture at WTOL since 1980, also moved to the news desk and is co-anchor of the noon news. Longtime sports director Dan Cummins, a fixture at WTOL since 1980, also moved to the news desk and is co-anchor of the noon news. Jordan Strack was named the new sports director. In October 2011, WTOL was certified by WeatheRate as having the most accurate forecasts for Northwest Ohio and Southeast Michigan. Raycom Media announced its acquisition of Liberty Media in 2005. Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Transportation officials in Wisconsin shared a photo from an unusual traffic stop featuring a small car with a snowmobile perched sideways on its roof. The two stations share studios on North Summit Street in downtown Toledo; WTOL's transmitter is located on Cedar Point Road in Oregon, Ohio. Melissa Andrews, part of the Emmy-award-winning WTOL 11 morning team. Chrys Peterson's final news broadcast was on February 28, 2014 and an hour-long special aired at 8:00 p.m. in celebration of Peterson's twenty years at WTOL. As most of American Spirit Media's stations are operated as duopolies with a Raycom-owned station in the same market, it was expected that WTOL would establish a shared services agreement with WUPW. [15], On January 2, 2014, it was officially announced that longtime evening news anchor Chrys Peterson would be leaving WTOL after nearly twenty years at the station. Overturned semi spills cases of beer across lanes of highway. 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; WTOL was that company's only station located outside the Southern United States. The station's digital signal is multiplexed: WTOL airs regional and national sports programming from CBS Sports. WBNS-TV is WTOL … From the mid-1970s to 2003, WTOL was known on-air as "Toledo 11" (sometimes spelled out as "Toledo Eleven").

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