The station first signed on the air on October 30, 1957, as WLWI. Founded by the Crosley Broadcasting Corporation, it originally operated as an ABC affiliate, taking the affiliation from Bloomington-licensed WTTV (channel 4, formerly a CW affiliate, now a CBS affiliate), which had affiliated with the network one year earlier.
1962–1965
SVG NEEDED
1965–1967
SVG NEEDED
1967–1969
1969–1971
SVG NEEDED
1971–1973
SVG NEEDED
1973–1975
SVG NEEDED
1975–1976
SVG NEEDED
WTHR
1976-1983
In 1976, WLWI became WTHR, as the station was acquired by Columbus, Ohio-based Dispatch Broadcast Group. The typeface for this 13 is Helvetica Black.
1976–1979
1979–1983
1979
On June 1, 1979, WTHR switched affiliations with WRTV; the station kept its 1976 Helvetica Black 13; which matched the font used by a number of NBC affiliates during this era.
1979–1983
1983–1995
The typeface used for this logo is Serpentine Bold; which was used for the logo of NBC News between 1982 and 1985.
1983–1986
1986–1988
1988–1995
1995–present
1995–2014
2014–present
On June 11, 2019, Dispatch announced it would sell its broadcasting assets, including WTHR, to Tegna Inc. for $535 million in cash. The sale was approved by the FCC on July 29 and was completed on August 8. It makes WTHR sister stations to WHAS-TV in adjacent Louisville and also result in Tegna owning its first station in Indiana since Gannett (its predecessor company) sold off Fort Wayne's WPTA to the now-defunct Pulitzer, Inc. in May 1983.
1Owns a 75% stake of the network, the other 12.5% stake is co-owned between Paramount Skydance Corporation and Warner Bros. Discovery. 2Joint venture with Warner Bros. Discovery, in which Nexstar owns 31% while Warner Bros. Discovery owns the remaining 69%. 3Nexstar operates these stations owned by Mission Broadcasting. 4Nexstar operates this station owned by Cunningham Broadcasting. 5Nexstar operates this station owned by White Knight Broadcasting through an SSA. 6Nexstar operates this station owned by Vaughan Media. 7Predecessor company of LIN Media. 8Nexstar operates this station owned by Londen Media Group. 9Nexstar operates this station owned by Gray Media through an SSA. 10Nexstar operates this station owned by American Spirit Media through an SSA. 11The station is yet to be sold to a third party as a condition of the Nexstar-Tegna merger. 12Co-owned by Cox Communications.
