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1956–1961 1962–1967 1967–1975 1975–1982
1956–1961 1962–1967 1967–1975 1975–1982
1982–1987 1987–1993 1993–1997 1997–present
1982–1987 1987–1993 1993–1997 1997–present

WREC-TV[]

1956–1975[]

1956–1961[]

WREC-TV 1957
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Originally owned by electrical engineer and radio dealer Hoyt Wooten (who had applied for one of the first television licenses in the country in 1928), along with WREC radio (600 AM and 102.7 FM, now WEGR), WREC-TV signed on New Year's Day 1956 and took the CBS affiliation from WHBQ-TV.

1962–1967[]

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Wooten sold channel 3 to Des Moines, Iowa-based Cowles Communications (no relation to the Spokane-based Cowles Company) in 1963.

1967–1975[]

WREC logo

In 1971, Cowles sold channel 3 to The New York Times Company, making it their first television station ever owned.

WREG-TV[]

Channel 3 signed off from the Peabody Hotel for the last time as WREC-TV on March 2, 1975, and returned to the air 45 minutes later, renamed WREG-TV, with its first transmission from its new studios on Channel 3 Drive.

1975–1982[]

WREG 1979

1982–present[]

Helvetica Black 3

1982–1993[]

1982–1987[]
WREG 80s
1987–1993[]
WREG 1988

1993–1997[]

WREG (1993-1999)

1997–present[]

WREG NewsChannel 3 logo
Designer:  Unknown
Typography:  Helvetica ("3" and "NEWS")
Bank Gothic
Gotham (wordmark, 2015 version)
Launched:  1997

The Times left broadcasting entirely in 2007, selling their nine-station group to Local TV. Tribune Broadcasting would then acquire Local TV in 2013, and Tribune would be acquired by Nexstar Media Group in 2019, which they had sold WATN-TV and WLMT to Tegna to acquire WREG.

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