separate application for a station there), was supported by Fort Industry Stations, owner of competing Toledo station WSPD, and it was thought that WSPD might control the latter. The FCC denied the move in 1937 and instead allowed the Toledo company to start its own station there, WTOL, on an application filed in 1936, finding that the proposals for new stations in Toledo proper on 1200 kHz would not be subject to the same interference concerns. Becoming WHIZ Ronald B. Woodyard, who served as general manager, president and majority stockholder of the WALR Broadcasting Corporation from 1937 to 1939, left WALR to run WSMK in Dayton. He transferred his shares in the company to the West Virginia Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of Fort Industry. On November 19, 1939, WALR adopted its present call sign of WHIZ. New studio facilities were built in the Lind Arcade downtown, while the transmitter was relocated. WHIZ also joined NBC, having been briefly affiliated with CBS since the start of the year; it was the 180th affiliate of the network. The station was allowed to go to 250 watts in 1940, and it relocated to 1240 kHz with NARBA in 1941. After World War II, the Littick family—then publishers of the local Times Recorder and Signal newspapers—purchased WHIZ in 1947. It expanded from an AM station into a radio and television operation. Television came to southeastern Ohio on May 23, 1953, when WHIZ-TV (channel 50, later moved to 18) began broadcasting. In 1961, WHIZ-FM 102.5 began broadcasting. All three originated from the same tower, a site on Downard Road selected a year before the launch of the television station. The AM station was not neglected, increasing power to 1,000 watts in 1962. It later relocated to another site in 2003 as part of the replacement of the FM/TV mast for digital television use. WHIZ AM-FM remained an NBC affiliate for nearly 60 years, switching to ABC News Radio in April 1999 after Westwood One (NBC Radio's corporate parent) discontinued production of hourly newscasts. Sale to Marquee Broadcasting In April 2022, the sale of the entire WHIZ Media Group to Marquee Broadcasting was announced after four generations of Littick family ownership. WHIZ-AM-FM and WZVL will be Marquee's first radio properties. WHIZ president Hank Littick made the decision to sell their broadcasting assets following recent ownership consolidation throughout the television industry and selected Marquee, which operates similar