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WTWO, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 36), is an NBC–affiliated television station located in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States. The station is owned by Nexstar Broadcasting Group; Nexstar also operates ABC affiliate WAWV-TV (channel 38) under a joint sales agreement with owner Mission Broadcasting. The two stations share studio and transmitter facilities located on U.S. 41 in unincorporated Sullivan County (south of Farmersburg). On cable, WTWO is available on Time Warner Cable channel 7 in standard definition and in high definition on digital channel 707. ==History== The station first signed on the air on September 1, 1965. Founded by Illiana Telecasting, the first program ever broadcast on WTWO was NBC's morning news program ''Today'', which aired at 7:00 a.m. that morning. WTWO, whose call letters were originally assigned to what is now fellow NBC affiliate WLBZ in Bangor, Maine from 1954 to 1958, originally operated as a primary NBC affiliate with a secondary affiliation with ABC; it carried ABC network programs either on tape delay or by airing them live from the network feed through occasional preemptions of NBC programs (the most notable preemption being the 1967–1969 science fiction series ''Star Trek''). Eleven days after its sign-on, on September 12, 1965, WTWO began broadcasting network programming in color. Illiana Telecasting sold the station to Booth Newspapers in 1968. ABC programming was split between channel 2 and primary CBS affiliate WTHI-TV (channel 10) until April 1973, when the network moved to upstart WIIL-TV (channel 38, now WAWV-TV, which would eventually drop ABC to join Fox in September 1995 and rejoin ABC in September 2011). In July 1975, Booth Newspapers sold the station to Malcolm Glazer's Fabri Development Corporation. Malcolm Glazer sold WTWO and two of its sister stations WRBL in Columbus, Georgia and KQTV in St. Joseph, Missouri to TCS Television Partners in 1990. TCS Television Partners sold both WTWO and KQTV in St. Joseph to Irving, Texas-based Nexstar Broadcasting Group in 1997. In the spring of 2006, the station dropped on-air references to its channel 2 allocation in its branding, opting to brand simply by the WTWO call letters; the channel 2 branding was restored on October 18, 2010, when it changed its on-air brand to "NBC 2" (concurrent with the introduction of a new logo that was originally used by fellow NBC affiliate WGRZ in Buffalo, New York from 1998 to 2012). On July 9, 2012, Time Warner Cable replaced Cincinnati NBC affiliate WLWT with WTWO on its systems in southwestern Ohio and northeastern Kentucky, due to a carriage dispute with WLWT owner Hearst Television, that resulted in its stations being pulled from TWC's systems in several markets.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Time Warner-Hearst Retrans Fight Escalates Over Signal Imports – Adweek )〕 Nexstar complained that Time Warner Cable substituted the Hearst stations with its own outside of their market areas without permission, while the provider alleged it was within its rights to carry select Nexstar-owned stations as replacements until it reached a new agreement with Hearst,〔(Greensboro News-Record: "New twist in dispute between Time Warner and WXII", July 12, 2012. )〕 which Hearst and Time Warner Cable would reach on July 19, restoring WLWT on its Cincinnati area systems.〔(Broadcasting & Cable: "Hearst TV, Time Warner Cable End Viewer Blackout", July 19, 2012. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WTWO」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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