11 Facts About WTHR

WTHR is a television station in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, affiliated with NBC.

The switch to NBC eventually provided a major windfall for WTHR starting when the NFL's Indianapolis Colts moved from Baltimore in 1984; until NBC lost the rights to the NFL to CBS in 1998, WTHR aired the bulk of the team's regular season games under the AFC package.

On September 2,2007, WTHR celebrated its 50th anniversary; the station used the song "Carousels " by Columbus-based rock band Alamoth Lane in an image campaign to promote the event.

In February 2009, WTHR began affiliating its third sub-channel with Universal Sports.

WTHR formerly operated the SkyTrak Weather Network, which was carried on WALV-CD and simulcast on digital subchannel 13.

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Since 2006, regular season games currently televised over-the-air locally are split between WISH, and since 2015 WTTV, WXIN, with WTHR carrying non-preseason games and select Colts NFL games broadcast by NBC as part of the network's Sunday Night Football package.

WTHR provided local coverage of Super Bowl XLVI, which was hosted at Lucas Oil Stadium.

WTHR's newscasts surged to second place in 1996 after it hired former CBS News correspondent John Stehr as anchor of its evening newscasts around the same time that WRTV saw its ratings plummet following a botched format change.

The station's ratings lead—which WTHR emphasizes in the slogan it adopted upon taking first place full-time, "Indiana's News Leader"—began to narrow in 2010 as WISH-TV and Fox affiliate WXIN saw viewership gains that year as WTHR's ratings steadily decreased in certain timeslots, especially on weekday mornings.

In June 2011, WTHR began offering newscast segments for free streaming on the Roku digital video player.

In 2012, WTHR earned two Murrow Awards for its breaking news coverage of the Indiana State Fair stage collapse and in the spot news category, which was given to WTHR videographer Steve Rhodes.