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WLOK applied for a new television channel on the ] band on July 1, 1952, as one of 95 applicants following the FCC's lifting of their "]". The station also proposed to build a new television facility on the radio stations' Rice Avenue site.<ref name="LimaNe19520701p3">{{Cite news |date=July 1, 1952 |title=WLOK Files TV Channel Application |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-wlok-files-tv-channel-appl/161897951/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=3 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The upgrades required rezoning of the land from residential to commercial. Several residents objected to the request under concerns other businesses could attempt the same, while one attorney claimed WLOK-FM's transmissions impaired his television reception.<ref name="LimaNe19520624p3">{{Cite news |date=June 24, 1952 |title=Hearing Slated for TV Transmitter Zoning Plea |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-hearing-slated-for-tv-tran/161893070/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=3 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Lima city council approved the zoning request and the construction permits.<ref name="LimaNe19520801p13">{{Cite news |date=August 1, 1952 |title=Westinghouse Rezoning OKd: Commission Gets No Objections |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-westinghouse-rezoning-okd/161900373/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=13 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="LimaNe19520930p3">{{Cite news |date=September 30, 1952 |title=Bicycle Ordinance Passed by Council: City Lawmakers To Remove Hospital Issue from Ballot |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-bicycle-ordinance-passed-b/161906008/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=3 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> A new {{Convert|300|ft|m|adj=on}} tower for WLOK was also erected, replacing the original {{Convert|175|ft|m|adj=on}} mast.<ref name="LimaNe19520902p13">{{Cite news |date=September 2, 1952 |title=New WLOK Radio Tower Arrives |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-new-wlok-radio-tower-arriv/161892624/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=13 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The FCC granted a permit for WLOK-TV on channel 73 on November 20, 1952; by then, WLOK was in the process of moving out from the First National Bank Building to the Rice Avenue site.<ref name="LimaNe19521120p1">{{Cite news |date=November 20, 1952 |title=WLOK Gets TV Green Light |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-wlok-gets-tv-green-light/161890707/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Competing radio station ] also received a permit to operate on channel 35.<ref name="LimaNe19521231p56">{{Cite news |date=December 31, 1952 |title=Lima Will Get Television in 1953 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-lima-will-get-television-i/161888997/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=56 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="LimaNe19521109p47">{{Cite news |date=November 9, 1952 |title=The Business Beat: Cuffnotes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-the-business-beat-cuffnot/161905827/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=47 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> WLOK applied for a new television channel on the ] band on July 1, 1952, as one of 95 applicants following the FCC's lifting of their "]". The station also proposed to build a new television facility on the radio stations' Rice Avenue site.<ref name="LimaNe19520701p3">{{Cite news |date=July 1, 1952 |title=WLOK Files TV Channel Application |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-wlok-files-tv-channel-appl/161897951/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=3 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The upgrades required rezoning of the land from residential to commercial. Several residents objected to the request under concerns other businesses could attempt the same, while one attorney claimed WLOK-FM's transmissions impaired his television reception.<ref name="LimaNe19520624p3">{{Cite news |date=June 24, 1952 |title=Hearing Slated for TV Transmitter Zoning Plea |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-hearing-slated-for-tv-tran/161893070/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=3 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Lima city council approved the zoning request and the construction permits.<ref name="LimaNe19520801p13">{{Cite news |date=August 1, 1952 |title=Westinghouse Rezoning OKd: Commission Gets No Objections |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-westinghouse-rezoning-okd/161900373/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=13 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="LimaNe19520930p3">{{Cite news |date=September 30, 1952 |title=Bicycle Ordinance Passed by Council: City Lawmakers To Remove Hospital Issue from Ballot |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-bicycle-ordinance-passed-b/161906008/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=3 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> A new {{Convert|300|ft|m|adj=on}} tower for WLOK was also erected, replacing the original {{Convert|175|ft|m|adj=on}} mast.<ref name="LimaNe19520902p13">{{Cite news |date=September 2, 1952 |title=New WLOK Radio Tower Arrives |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-new-wlok-radio-tower-arriv/161892624/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=13 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The FCC granted a permit for WLOK-TV on channel 73 on November 20, 1952; by then, WLOK was in the process of moving out from the First National Bank Building to the Rice Avenue site.<ref name="LimaNe19521120p1">{{Cite news |date=November 20, 1952 |title=WLOK Gets TV Green Light |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-wlok-gets-tv-green-light/161890707/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Competing radio station ] also received a permit to operate on channel 35.<ref name="LimaNe19521231p56">{{Cite news |date=December 31, 1952 |title=Lima Will Get Television in 1953 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-lima-will-get-television-i/161888997/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=56 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="LimaNe19521109p47">{{Cite news |date=November 9, 1952 |title=The Business Beat: Cuffnotes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-the-business-beat-cuffnot/161905827/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=47 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>


WLOK staffers were notified on July 30, 1954, that the stations were in the process of being sold, which was confirmed to ''The Lima News'', but the buyer's name was not disclosed.<ref name="LimaNe19540730p15">{{Cite news |date=July 30, 1954 |title=Sale Of WLOK Announced To Station Staff |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-sale-of-wlok-announced-to/156819064/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=15 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The following day, Lloyd Pixley died at the age of 54; he suffered a heart attack while attending the ] game the previous November, and had been in hospital care since.<ref name="LimaNe19540731p1">{{Cite news |date=July 31, 1954 |title=L. A. Pixley, OSU Grid Great, Part Owner Of WLOK, Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-l-a-pixley-osu-grid-gre/161899801/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="LimaNe19531112p4">{{Cite news |date=November 12, 1953 |title=New Stock Issued By WLOK Owners |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-new-stock-issued-by-wlok-o/161899617/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=4 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The buyer was revealed on October 30 to be the Northwestern Ohio Broadcasting Corp., owner of WIMA, who intended to move WLOK-TV onto channel 35 by using their existing permit.<ref name="LimaNe19541029p1">{{Cite news |date=October 29, 1954 |title=WIMA Asks Federal OK On Purchasing WLOK-TV: Application Filed With Commission; Radio WLOK To Be Closed If Sale Approved |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-wima-asks-federal-ok-on-pu/156819354/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Due to the ban on duopolies, WLOK radio was slated to be silenced and its license surrendered.<ref name="LimaNe19541030p2">{{Cite news |date=October 30, 1954 |title=FCC May Take 60 Days To Act On Sale Of WLOK To WIMA |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-fcc-may-take-60-days-to-ac/156817511/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=2 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The total price was $750, met by purchasing all 750 shares of stock in WLOK, Inc. for $1, with Northwestern assuming $188,691 in obligations.<ref name="LimaNe19541104p13">{{Cite news |date=November 4, 1954 |title=WIMA-WLOK Purchase Before U.S. Commission: Change In Channel Embodied In Request For Official OK |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-wima-wlok-purchase-before/156817466/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=13 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="BC541101p50">{{Cite magazine |date=November 1, 1954 |title=Sales, approvals total over $14 million in week |magazine=Broadcasting |pages=50, 52, 54 |volume=47 |issue=18}}</ref> The FCC approved the deal on December 1, 1954; WLOK left the air seven days later, leaving the city without an NBC radio affiliate<ref name="LimaNe19541202p13">{{Cite news |date=December 2, 1954 |title=WLOK Radio May Leave Air Within Next Week |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-wlok-radio-may-leave-air-w/156817333/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=13 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and with one radio station and one television station.<ref name="BC541101p50" /> WIMA's downtown studios and WLOK-TV's studios were to be maintained.<ref name="LimaNe19541209p4">{{Cite news |date=December 9, 1954 |title=WLOK Radio Leaves Air; TV Continues |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-wlok-radio-leaves-air-tv/156817389/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=4 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> WLOK staffers were notified on July 30, 1954, that the stations were in the process of being sold, which was confirmed to ''The Lima News'', but the buyer's name was not disclosed.<ref name="LimaNe19540730p15">{{Cite news |date=July 30, 1954 |title=Sale Of WLOK Announced To Station Staff |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-sale-of-wlok-announced-to/156819064/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=15 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The following day, Lloyd Pixley died at the age of 54; he suffered a heart attack while attending the ] game the previous November, and had been in hospital care since.<ref name="LimaNe19540731p1">{{Cite news |date=July 31, 1954 |title=L. A. Pixley, OSU Grid Great, Part Owner Of WLOK, Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-l-a-pixley-osu-grid-gre/161899801/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="LimaNe19531112p4">{{Cite news |date=November 12, 1953 |title=New Stock Issued By WLOK Owners |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-new-stock-issued-by-wlok-o/161899617/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=4 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The buyer was revealed on October 30 to be the Northwestern Ohio Broadcasting Corp., owner of WIMA, who intended to move WLOK-TV onto channel 35 by using their existing permit.<ref name="LimaNe19541029p1">{{Cite news |date=October 29, 1954 |title=WIMA Asks Federal OK On Purchasing WLOK-TV: Application Filed With Commission; Radio WLOK To Be Closed If Sale Approved |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-wima-asks-federal-ok-on-pu/156819354/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=1 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Due to the ban on duopolies, WLOK radio was slated to be silenced and its license surrendered.<ref name="LimaNe19541030p2">{{Cite news |date=October 30, 1954 |title=FCC May Take 60 Days To Act On Sale Of WLOK To WIMA |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-fcc-may-take-60-days-to-ac/156817511/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=2 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The total price was $750, met by purchasing all 750 shares of stock in WLOK, Inc. for $1, with Northwestern assuming $188,691 in obligations.<ref name="LimaNe19541104p13">{{Cite news |date=November 4, 1954 |title=WIMA-WLOK Purchase Before U.S. Commission: Change In Channel Embodied In Request For Official OK |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-wima-wlok-purchase-before/156817466/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=13 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="BC541101p50">{{Cite magazine |date=November 1, 1954 |title=Sales, approvals total over $14 million in week |magazine=Broadcasting |pages=50, 52, 54 |volume=47 |issue=18}}</ref> The FCC approved the deal on December 1, 1954; WLOK left the air seven days later, leaving the city without an NBC radio affiliate<ref name="LimaNe19541202p13">{{Cite news |date=December 2, 1954 |title=WLOK Radio May Leave Air Within Next Week |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-wlok-radio-may-leave-air-w/156817333/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=13 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> and with one radio station and one television station.<ref name="BC541101p50" /> Northwestern promised to maintain both WIMA's downtown studios and WLOK-TV's studios, and there was no loss of personnel.<ref name="LimaNe19541209p4">{{Cite news |date=December 9, 1954 |title=WLOK Radio Leaves Air; TV Continues |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-wlok-radio-leaves-air-tv/156817389/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=4 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>


WLOK-TV moved to channel 35 on April 24, 1955, concurrent with a rename to WIMA-TV.<ref name="LimaNe19550317p23">{{Cite news |date=March 17, 1955 |title=WLOK-TV Shift To Channel 35 Slated April 24: Changes Required On Sets Operating With Strip Tuners |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-wlok-tv-shift-to-channel-3/156817672/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=23 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The WLOK calls were subsequently reused at ] in ].<ref name="Memp560403">{{Cite news |last=Johnson |first=Robert |date=April 3, 1956 |title=Lawrence Welk Was Big Hit for Years On Coast and in Corn Country |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101583132/lawrence-welk-was-big-hit-for-years-on-c/ |access-date=May 10, 2022 |newspaper=The Memphis Press-Scimitar |location=Memphis, Tennessee |page=15 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The television station continues to broadcast from the Rice Avenue facilities and transmitter tower under the current WLIO call sign.<ref name="n142">{{cite web |last=Fybush |first=Scott |date=April 27, 2012 |title=Site of the Week 4/27/12: Lima, Ohio, summer 2010 |url=https://www.fybush.com/site-of-the-week-42712-lima-ohio-summer-2010/ |access-date=December 31, 2024 |website=Fybush.com}}</ref> WLOK-TV moved to channel 35 on April 24, 1955, concurrent with a rename to WIMA-TV.<ref name="LimaNe19550317p23">{{Cite news |date=March 17, 1955 |title=WLOK-TV Shift To Channel 35 Slated April 24: Changes Required On Sets Operating With Strip Tuners |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-lima-news-wlok-tv-shift-to-channel-3/156817672/ |access-date=December 30, 2024 |newspaper=The Lima News |location=Lima, Ohio |page=23 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The WLOK calls were subsequently reused at ] in ].<ref name="Memp560403">{{Cite news |last=Johnson |first=Robert |date=April 3, 1956 |title=Lawrence Welk Was Big Hit for Years On Coast and in Corn Country |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101583132/lawrence-welk-was-big-hit-for-years-on-c/ |access-date=May 10, 2022 |newspaper=The Memphis Press-Scimitar |location=Memphis, Tennessee |page=15 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> The television station continues to broadcast from the Rice Avenue facilities and transmitter tower under the current ] call sign.<ref name="n142">{{cite web |last=Fybush |first=Scott |date=April 27, 2012 |title=Site of the Week 4/27/12: Lima, Ohio, summer 2010 |url=https://www.fybush.com/site-of-the-week-42712-lima-ohio-summer-2010/ |access-date=December 31, 2024 |website=Fybush.com}}</ref>
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For the Memphis radio station currently using the call sign, see WLOK.Radio station in Ohio, United States
WLOK and WLOK-FM
Frequencies
  • WLOK: 1240 kHz
  • WLOK-FM: 103.3 MHz
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
  • WLOK: December 10, 1937 (1937-12-10)
  • WLOK-FM: September 1948 (1948-09)
Last air date
  • WLOK: December 8, 1954 (1954-12-08)
  • WLOK-FM: c. 1952 (1952)
Former call signs
  • WLOK: WBLY (1936–1939)
Former frequencies
  • WLOK: 1210 kHz (1936–1941)
Call sign meaningDerived from CKOK, original call sign for CKLW in Windsor, Ontario
Technical information
Power
  • WLOK: 250 watts (unlimited)
ERP
  • WLOK-FM: 340 watts
Transmitter coordinates

WLOK and WLOK-FM were a pair of radio stations licensed to Lima, Ohio, United States, and broadcast at 1240 AM and 103.3 FM. The AM station signed on in 1937, while the FM was launched in 1948. Both stations transmitted from facilities on Rice Avenue, northwest of downtown Lima.

For most of its history, WLOK was owned by the Fort Industry Company, predecessor to Storer Communications, and later owned by famed Ohio State Buckeyes football player Lloyd Pixley. Under Pixley, WLOK radio signed on a television adjunct at channel 73, WLOK-TV. After Pixley's death in 1953, WLOK radio and television were sold to the owners of WIMA radio, which held a permit for channel 35; it surrendered the licenses for WLOK radio outright in December 1954 and transferred WLOK-TV to the lower dial position in April 1955, renaming it WIMA-TV.

History

WBLY became the first licensed radio station in the United States to be named after its owner, which Bly personally sought.

The call sign changed to WLOK on February 19, 1939. Storer and Ryan chose the calls to mimic CKOK, a radio station in Windsor, Ontario, that Fort Industry had an ownership stake in when it launched in 1931 but renamed CKLW in 1932 concurrent with Canadian interests taking over. The new WLOK name came with the inauguration of new studios in the First National Bank and Trust Building.

Fort Industry sold WLOK AM/FM to a group headed by Lloyd Pixley for $137,500; this was so Fort Industry could purchase WSAI and WSAI-FM in Cincinnati.

WLOK applied for a new television channel on the UHF band on July 1, 1952, as one of 95 applicants following the FCC's lifting of their "freeze of 1948". The station also proposed to build a new television facility on the radio stations' Rice Avenue site. The upgrades required rezoning of the land from residential to commercial. Several residents objected to the request under concerns other businesses could attempt the same, while one attorney claimed WLOK-FM's transmissions impaired his television reception. Lima city council approved the zoning request and the construction permits. A new 300-foot (91 m) tower for WLOK was also erected, replacing the original 175-foot (53 m) mast. The FCC granted a permit for WLOK-TV on channel 73 on November 20, 1952; by then, WLOK was in the process of moving out from the First National Bank Building to the Rice Avenue site. Competing radio station WIMA also received a permit to operate on channel 35.

WLOK staffers were notified on July 30, 1954, that the stations were in the process of being sold, which was confirmed to The Lima News, but the buyer's name was not disclosed. The following day, Lloyd Pixley died at the age of 54; he suffered a heart attack while attending the Ohio State-Michigan game the previous November, and had been in hospital care since. The buyer was revealed on October 30 to be the Northwestern Ohio Broadcasting Corp., owner of WIMA, who intended to move WLOK-TV onto channel 35 by using their existing permit. Due to the ban on duopolies, WLOK radio was slated to be silenced and its license surrendered. The total price was $750, met by purchasing all 750 shares of stock in WLOK, Inc. for $1, with Northwestern assuming $188,691 in obligations. The FCC approved the deal on December 1, 1954; WLOK left the air seven days later, leaving the city without an NBC radio affiliate and with one radio station and one television station. Northwestern promised to maintain both WIMA's downtown studios and WLOK-TV's studios, and there was no loss of personnel.

WLOK-TV moved to channel 35 on April 24, 1955, concurrent with a rename to WIMA-TV. The WLOK calls were subsequently reused at a radio station in Memphis, Tennessee. The television station continues to broadcast from the Rice Avenue facilities and transmitter tower under the current WLIO call sign.

References

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  2. "Station WBLY Plans Formal Opening Soon". The Lima News. Lima, Ohio. December 29, 1936. p. 2. Retrieved December 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. "Welcome to WBLY (editorial)". The Lima News. Lima, Ohio. December 10, 1936. p. 6. Retrieved December 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "New Radio Studios To Be Dedicated Sunday; Call Letters Changed". The Lima News. Lima, Ohio. February 19, 1939. p. 9. Retrieved December 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. Wellman, John Floyd (1973). Storer Broadcasting Company--Its History, Organization, and Operation (PhD thesis). Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan. ProQuest 302651830.
  6. "Toledo Group Seeks to Buy Station WBLY". The Lima News. Lima, Ohio. August 22, 1937. p. 9. Retrieved December 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. "Kerns on the Move Again, This Time to Cincinnati". The Zanesville Signal. Zanesville, Ohio. September 26, 1951. p. 9. Retrieved December 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. "Fifth Estater; Hugh Downs: TV's marathon man". Broadcasting. Vol. 118, no. 6. February 2, 1990. p. 103. ProQuest 1016934729.
  9. Sharbutt, Jay (May 29, 1989). "Downs' 50 Years in Broadcasting: It All Began in a Tiny Station..." The Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles, California. pp. V:1, 12. Retrieved December 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. "Radio Station Transfers Okayed". Telegraph-Forum. Bucyrus, Ohio. March 31, 1951. p. 6. Retrieved December 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. "WLOK Files TV Channel Application". The Lima News. Lima, Ohio. July 1, 1952. p. 3. Retrieved December 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. "Hearing Slated for TV Transmitter Zoning Plea". The Lima News. Lima, Ohio. June 24, 1952. p. 3. Retrieved December 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. "Westinghouse Rezoning OKd: Commission Gets No Objections". The Lima News. Lima, Ohio. August 1, 1952. p. 13. Retrieved December 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  14. "Bicycle Ordinance Passed by Council: City Lawmakers To Remove Hospital Issue from Ballot". The Lima News. Lima, Ohio. September 30, 1952. p. 3. Retrieved December 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. "New WLOK Radio Tower Arrives". The Lima News. Lima, Ohio. September 2, 1952. p. 13. Retrieved December 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. "WLOK Gets TV Green Light". The Lima News. Lima, Ohio. November 20, 1952. p. 1. Retrieved December 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. "Lima Will Get Television in 1953". The Lima News. Lima, Ohio. December 31, 1952. p. 56. Retrieved December 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. "The Business Beat: Cuffnotes". The Lima News. Lima, Ohio. November 9, 1952. p. 47. Retrieved December 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  19. "Sale Of WLOK Announced To Station Staff". The Lima News. Lima, Ohio. July 30, 1954. p. 15. Retrieved December 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. "L. A. Pixley, OSU Grid Great, Part Owner Of WLOK, Dies". The Lima News. Lima, Ohio. July 31, 1954. p. 1. Retrieved December 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  21. "New Stock Issued By WLOK Owners". The Lima News. Lima, Ohio. November 12, 1953. p. 4. Retrieved December 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  22. "WIMA Asks Federal OK On Purchasing WLOK-TV: Application Filed With Commission; Radio WLOK To Be Closed If Sale Approved". The Lima News. Lima, Ohio. October 29, 1954. p. 1. Retrieved December 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  23. "FCC May Take 60 Days To Act On Sale Of WLOK To WIMA". The Lima News. Lima, Ohio. October 30, 1954. p. 2. Retrieved December 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  24. "WIMA-WLOK Purchase Before U.S. Commission: Change In Channel Embodied In Request For Official OK". The Lima News. Lima, Ohio. November 4, 1954. p. 13. Retrieved December 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
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  26. "WLOK Radio May Leave Air Within Next Week". The Lima News. Lima, Ohio. December 2, 1954. p. 13. Retrieved December 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  27. "WLOK Radio Leaves Air; TV Continues". The Lima News. Lima, Ohio. December 9, 1954. p. 4. Retrieved December 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
  28. "WLOK-TV Shift To Channel 35 Slated April 24: Changes Required On Sets Operating With Strip Tuners". The Lima News. Lima, Ohio. March 17, 1955. p. 23. Retrieved December 30, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
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