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During World War II , the company built the Bethany Relay Station in Butler County, Ohio 's Union Township , one mile west of its transmitter for WLW , for the Office Of War Information . It operated as many as five shortwave stations, using the callsigns WLWK, WLWL, WLWO, WLWR and WLWS. It operated the facility for the government until 1963 . In 1945 , the Crosley interests were purchased by Aviation Corporation . The radio and appliance manufacturing arm changed its name to Avco , but the broadcast operations continued to operate under the Crosley name, until they adopted the Avco name in 1968 . From the 1950s through the 1970s, Crosley (or Avco) operated a small television network in which programs were produced at one of its stations and broadcast on the other Crosley stations in the Midwest , and occasionally by non-Crosley stations as well. Since all of the Crosley television stations in Ohio were affiliated with NBC (with the exception of WLWI in Indianapolis, Indiana , an ABC affiliate), the Crosley programming fit into the NBC network program schedule, and some programs were even picked up for broadcast by the entire NBC network, such as ''Midwestern Hayride'' and ''Breakfast Party''. Other programs originated on the Crosley (or Avco) network included '' The Paul Dixon Show '' and ''The Ruth Lyons 50-50 Club'', later hosted by Bob Braun . '' The Phil Donahue Show '' started in 1967 originating from WLWD in Dayton, Ohio . '' The Jerry Springer Show '' also started from WLWT in Cincinnati, by then owned by Multimedia, Inc. , and was distributed nationwide by its syndication division, Multimedia Entertainment , which had formerly been owned by Avco (as Avco Embassy Program Sales). In 1968 Avco, which had just purchased Embassy Pictures , consolidated its television operations into Avco Embassy Television . Beginning in 1975 , Avco sold all of its broadcasting holdings. In 1975, it sold WLWC-TV in Columbus , WLWI-TV in Indianapolis, WOAI-AM/FM/TV in San Antonio , and WWDC-AM/FM in Washington D.C. ; in 1976 , it sold WLW-AM and WLWT-TV in Cincinnati, WLWD-TV in Dayton, and its Avco Embassy Television and Avco Embassy Program Sales divisions; in 1977 , it sold KYA-AM/FM in San Francisco and WRTH-AM in Wood River - St. Louis . The closest thing to a "successor" to Avco Broadcasting was Multimedia, Inc., to whom Avco sold flagship TV station WLWT, as well as Avco Embassy Television and Avco Embassy Program Sales in 1976. In December 1995 , Gannett (who, coincidentally, owned former Crosley station WXIA-TV in Atlanta ) acquired Multimedia, Inc., while the respective syndication division was acquired by MCA Universal . By 1997 , all of the original Crosley radio and television properties had been sold off by its successor companies, with the exception of WTHR in Indianapolis, which is still owned by an affiliate of the Dispatch Broadcast Group . Broadcast outlets operated by Crosley Broadcasting or its successor Avco included: AM RADIO STATIONS
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TELEVISION STATIONS : ''All are currently NBC affiliates (though '''WLWA/WXIA''' and '''WLWI/WTHR''' were ''' ABC ''' affiliates when they were owned by Crosley/Avco).'' |
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