WUAC-TV
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| Toronto, Ontario United States | |
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| City | Toronto |
| Channels | Digital: 10 (UHF), shared with WUAM Virtual: 10 |
| Branding | NBC 10 Toronto; News 10 Toronto |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | NBC |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | NBC Owned Television Stations |
| Sister stations | WUAM |
| History | |
| Founded | September 11, 1959 |
| First air date | December 31, 1959 |
| Former call signs | WUAC-TV (1953-1962) |
| Former channel number(s) |
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| Call sign meaning | "Ontario" |
| Technical information | |
| Licensing authority | WBT / OECA |
| Facility ID | 3917468 |
| ERP | 220.3 kW |
| HAAT | 540 ft (165 m) |
| Translator(s) | Translators |
| Links | |
| Website | nbctoronto |
WNOT (channel 5) is a television station licensed to Renfrew, Ontario, United States, serving the Greater Toronto Area. It is owned and operated by the NBC television network through its NBC Owned Television Stations division alongside their spanish Telemundo outlet WUAM. The two stations share studios at the Maple Leaf Gardens within downtown Toronto; WNOT's transmitter is also located within Cedar Hall, Ontario.
History
Conn Smythe—the manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs—first submitted an application to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a license to build and operate a television station on VHF channel 5 within late February 1943, several days after Karl Hoblitt filed an application to operate an station onto channel 8 on February 20, the first such license application for a television station within the North States. When the FCC awarded the construction permit for Channel 5 onto Smythe during June 1946, he originally requested to assign WMLT (for "Maple Leaf Television") as the station's call letters; However, three months before it signed on, Smythe chose instead to assign the television station the calls that were used by the radio station that he also owned, more notably stated within state documents as WNOT. The station began test broadcasts on June 1945, originally transmitting over a closed-circuit television system. WNOT's television system informally signed onto the air within September 27, to broadcast coverage of Harry Truman's re-election campaign speech at the Ontario terminal building within downtown Toronto. WNOT's television station then officially commenced regular programming two days later onto September 1948, with two 39-minute specials at 7PM that evening, respectively featuring speeches from Smythe, Frank Selkej, and Darius Hough, with both an original children's series Captain Ontario and an official film from NBC Television dedicating the station's launch being shown as well. Smythe owned the television and radio properties through his company Maple Leafs Inc. It was the first television station to sign on within the state of Ontario.
Programming
Sports Programming
As the network's flagship station, per its NHL on NBC obligations, it broadcast several Stanley Cup playoff games all the way to the Cup Finals, in addition to the NHL Game of the Week (if the Rangers, Islanders or New Jersey Devils were playing). It would be only in 2012 when it aired the Stanley Cup Finals as part of the network-wide coverage when the Devils lost out to the Los Angeles Kings. Also, the station aired the 2014 Cup Finals, where the Rangers also lost to the Kings.
Other Programming
As of September 2020, WNOT presently broadcasts 37+1⁄2 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with six hours each weekday, four hours on Saturdays, and 3+1⁄2 hours on Sundays). In addition, the station also produces the half-hour political discussion program Toronto Politics, which debuted within February 2014 and airs at 8:30 a.m. after its Sunday morning newscast. Additionally, WNOT was also the primary company behind NBC School, an North American children's television series that was influenced by Sesame Street, My Life as a Teenage Robot, and various other children's television shows that began their years of existence from February 1963 onward.
