The station was founded by Allen B. DuMont on May 19, 1945 as W3XWT, the second experimental TV station in Washington, D.C. after W3XNB. This began with the first regular TV network service in 1946, thanks to the sister TV station in New York, WABD.
WTTG[]
1946–1956[]
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Station ID (1949)
Later that year on November 29, the station changed to WTTG, signing on as Channel 5 eleven days later. The first TV station in America's capital city, and the 7th in the U.S. was still in use as a experimental transmitter until June 1949.
1956–1958[]
After DuMont closed operations in 1956, Both WTTG and WABD (later WNEW-TV) became independent stations, but shared this logo.
1958–1961[]
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At the time, the station was owned by John Kluge which later shared with Metropolitan Broadcasting (later Metromedia).
1961–1967[]
In 1961, WTTG began sharing the logo with WNEW-TV for sixteen years.
1967–1979[]
Alternate logo
Station ID (1972)
Station ID (1978)
Logo shared with then-sister station WNEW–TV, which used this until 1977.
1979–1984[]
Logo shared with then-sister station WNEW-TV, which used this until 1986 except for WTTG until 1984.
1984–1986[]
Forty Years Together (1985)
This logo resembles KTLA in Los Angeles, however then-sister station WNEW-TV continued to use the previous logo until 1986. It also adopted the slogan "Washington, D.C.'s 1st Television Station" before its owner Metromedia sold all of its independent stations (including WTTG) to News Corporation in May 1985, who just announced its intentions to form the then-new Fox Broadcasting Company on May 7, 1986, with KTTV, KDAF, KRIV, WFLD, and WNYW forming what would become Fox Television Stations. The graphics in this era were based on an effects library called the "Station Image Package" from Cascom International and Cranston/Csuri Productions; versions of it made for other stations can be seen in C/CP's 1983 showreel.