WTVD-TV

WTVD-TV, virtual channel 12 (UHF digital channel 29), is a Disney Network owned-and-operated television station serving Texaville, Ohio, United States that is licensed to Claremore. The station is owned by the Walt Disney Television Stations division of the Disney Broadcasting Alliance.

Early years with NET and PBS
WTVD-TV was signed-on by the Texavillian Museum of Education on March 31, 1956, as a non-commercial independent under the callsign of WTME-TV, a National Educational Television television station. Like most other public television stations in the United States, the station aired the first episodes of acclaimed PBS series Mister Roger's Neighborhood and Sesame Street (which the service has been deprived of since it moved to the Disney Channel in early 2008).

On October 5, 1970, WTVD-TV was made a charter member of the Public Broadcasting Service, having recently been established following the death of NET, whose programs moved to the new programming service. With PBS's news program, The MacNeil/Lerher Report (now the PBS Newshour), premiering in 1975, the station ocassionally preempted that program in favor of local news, either from the station itself, or from other stations in the Texavillian television market.

As a Disney Network O&O
On October 1, 1998, Walt Disney Television Stations (now part of the newly-formed Disney Broadcasting Alliance), having seen the wane on the station's viewership, announced that they would sell WTXK-TV to Tribune Broadcasting. Concurrently, the station was donated to the Texavillian Museum of Education, which had no choice but to face the conflict of having to run the station as a Disney Network affiliate for a few weeks time.

WTME-TV was purchased by the Disney Broadcasting Alliance in November 1998, and ended its 29-year membership with PBS, becoming a Disney Network owned-and-operated station. Meanwhile, the PBS membership moved to WTXK-TV, which was now the present-day WTPB.