![]() The station also featured " Fritz the Nite Owl," who hosted midnight movies during the 1970s, and the Sunday state government talk show called Capital Square in the 1990s. WBNS-TV was known for its locally produced shows Flippo the Clown, Luci's Toyshop, Franz the Toymaker, The Judge, and programs hosted by popular Columbus Zoo and Aquarium personality Jack Hanna ( Hanna's Ark). ![]() The Wolfe family, who purchased the Dispatch in 1905, sold the newspaper and related assets to New Media Investment Group in June 2015. The FCC has largely prohibited common ownership of co-located print and broadcast media since the mid-1970s. Channel 10 maintained common ownership with The Columbus Dispatch, the city's lone remaining daily newspaper and the "N" in the station's call letters, until 2015 under an exemption of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s cross-ownership rules. ![]() The WBNS call letters stand for "Wolfe Bank Newspaper and Shoes", the businesses owned by the company's longtime owners, the Wolfe family. It is also one of only a few stations in the country to have had the same call letters and primary network affiliation throughout its history. Channel 10 has used the on-air branding of 10TV since 1977. It is currently the ninth longest-tenured CBS affiliate. WBNS radio had been a CBS Radio Network affiliate for almost 20 years, so channel 10 immediately joined the CBS television network. WBNS-TV began operations on October 5, 1949. WCMH-TV and most of Columbus' FM radio stations also broadcast from the candelabra tower. Former WBNS-TV broadcast tower (left), next to the candelabra tower from which WBNS-TV and WBNS-FM now broadcast.
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