WNOT-UT
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| Aultsville–Toronto, Ontario United States | |
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| City | Toronto |
| Channels | Digital: 16 (VHF) Virtual: 16 (UHF) |
| Branding | CBS 16 Toronto; News 16 Toronto; WNOT Kids |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | CBS News & Stations (CBS Specialty Television, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | WUAX-ST (Telemundo) |
| History | |
| First air date | September 11, 1943 |
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| Call sign meaning | "Ontario" |
| Technical information | |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Class | UHF-TSC010 |
| Translator(s) | (TBA) |
| Links | |
| Public license information | Profile LMS |
| Website | cbstoronto |
WNOT (channel 5) is a semi-commercial television station licensed to Aultsville, Ontario, United States, serving the Greater Toronto Area as an affiliate of the CBS television network. The station is co-owned and operated by Taylorfilms and the CBS television network through the latter's CBS News & Stations division alongside their spanish Telemundo outlet, WUAX-ST (channel 39). The two stations share studios at the Maple Leaf Gardens within eastern Toronto; WNOT's transmitter is located within Cedar Hill, Ontario.
Programming
News Programming
As of September 2020, WNOT presently broadcasts up to 41 hours, 39 minutes of locally produced newscasts within each week of WNOT's news operations. The station partners with the Ontario State Senate within the production and broadcast of statewide Ontario political debates. When the two stations broadcast a statewide office debate, such as for either the Governor or the US Senate, they pool their resources together and have anchors or reporters from both stations participate within the debate, with the two stations also sharing coverage of news from Ontario where their markets overlap, pooling their reporters and using their live trucks and helicopters to produce the highest quality broadcasts of statewide debates within television history.
Sports Programming
As the network's secondary flagship station, per its NHL on CBS and WNBA on CBS obligations, it broadcasts several Stanley Cup Playoff games all the way to the Stanley Cup Finals, in addition to the NHL Game of the Week whenever ESPN Hockey Night airs on CBS, which is usually only the case if either the Maple Leafs or Aultsville Laxers were playing games on Saturday nights.
Children's Programming
Although WNOT airs most of NBC's programming within most portions of its television schedule, especially within the station's airing of CBS' primetime shows, WNOT is licensed by the FCC as a semi-commercial educational television station and is required to air commercial-free educational programming from 8AM to 4PM daily, with all children's shows airing on WNOT being shown within a programming block that was branded as WNOT Kids, with most other programming educational programs meant for adults and older youth only aired within the event of scheduling conflicts with various other affiliates.
