WDTN

WDTN

Dayton, Ohio United States
Channels	Digital: 31 (UHF), shared with WBDT and WKOI-TV Virtual: 2
Branding	2 News
Programming
Affiliations	2.1: NBC 2.2: Ion Mystery
Ownership
Owner	Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar Media Inc.)
Sister stations	WBDT
History
Founded	April 4, 1947 (1947-04-04)[1]
First air date	March 15, 1949 (75 years ago) (1949-03-15)
Former call signs	WLWD (1949–1976)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 5 (VHF, 1949–1953), 2 (VHF, 1953–2009) Digital: 50 (UHF, 2000–2019)
Former affiliations	NBC (1949−1980) DuMont (secondary, 1949–1955) ABC (secondary 1949–1971, primary 1980–2004)
Call sign meaning	Dayton
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	65690
ERP	1,000 kW
HAAT	330 m (1,083 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	39°43′8″N 84°15′21.1″W / 39.71889°N 84.255861°W / 39.71889; -84.255861[3]
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.wdtn.com

WDTN (channel 2) is a television station in Dayton, Ohio, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group, which provides certain services to Springfield, Ohio–licensed WBDT (channel 26), a de facto owned-and-operated station of The CW, under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Vaughan Media. The two stations share studios on South Dixie Drive in Moraine, Ohio.

WDTN's transmitter facility is located off Frytown Road in an exclave of Jefferson Township surrounded by the southwest Dayton neighborhoods of Germantown Meadow, Highview Hills and Stoney Ridge; through a channel sharing agreement, it shares its digital channel with WBDT, along with unrelated Richmond, Indiana–licensed Ion Television O&O WKOI-TV (channel 43).