WBNS-TV, from 1933 to present

• October 1933: WCAH Radio is purchased by the Wolfe family, owners of The Columbus Dispatch and WBNS radio. With the intention of making this a television station, they change the station’s call letters to those used for WBNS radio, derived from the Wolfe family businesses — banks, newspapers and shoes — thus, Wolfe’s Banks News & Shoes.

• January 1948: With Channels 3 (now 4) and 6 already assigned to the Columbus market, The Wolfe family applies for an FCC license to operate WBNS Television on Channel 10. Ground is broken for the studio and transmitter building at 525 Olentangy River Rd. The station starts with 24,300 watts of power. WBNS radio had been a CBS affiliate for almost 20 years, so Channel 10 immediately joins the CBS television network.

• August 1948: The first antenna is erected — a 595foot tower.

• Oct. 5, 1949: Staff announcer Bill Pepper signs WBNS-TV on the air, uttering these 11 words: “This is WBNS television signing on for its first broadcast day.” Pepper remains the solo anchor at 11 p.m. until Roy Briscoe joins him as co-anchor in 1964. Pepper is replaced by Lou Forrest in 1975.

• 1950s: Programming includes “Look to Lazarus” is a 30-minute daily daytime show featuring new products, celebrity guests and a different set each day. “Homemaker’s Hobnob,” and hourlong morning show featuring Bob Marvin (who later starred as Flippo the Clown). All Cleveland Browns games are filmed and edited down to a 30-minute program once a week. “Haft’s Wrestling” airs once a week. “Aunt Fran’s TV Babysitters”(fran Norris) entertains young viewers.

• October 1950: WBNS-TV becomes the first television station in central Ohio to broadcast in color with the CBS Saturday afternoon football games.

• 1955: WBNS TV’S antenna height is increased from 595 feet to 839 feet. The tower is the tallest structure in Columbus at the time.

• 1957: Chuck White makes history as the first African-american television personality in Ohio and stays with the station for 50 years.

• 1960s: Programming includes live musical variety programs like Flippo the Clown, starring Bob Marvin (aka Flippo the Clown) and Chuck White, and “Chuck White Presents.” “Luci’s Toyshop” features Luci Gasaway (Van Leeuwen) and her puppets, whose characters are brought to life by White, who later is 10TV’S public affairs director.

• 1967: 10TV begins using color locally. The first live local color telecast out of the WBNS TV studio features Flippo the Clown.

• 1974: Fritz Peerenboom, “the Nite Owl,” comes to 10TV and hosts Nite Owl Theater until 1991.

• 1976: Marlynn Singleton becomes the first female anchor at the station.

• 1979: WBNS is the first local TV station and second in the state to acquire a news helicopter. It is called Sky Cam and its original pilot was Robert “Terry” Alt, who continued flying with WBNS-10TV for more than 30 years.

• 1980: Jack Hanna appears with his daughter Kathy and the zoo animals on “Hanna’s Ark.”

• June 1980: Jerry Revish makes his debut on 10TV.

• 1985: The station introduces its first male/female co-anchor team. Bob Orr, who worked as a reporter and anchor for 10TV, is paired with newcomer Carol Costello. The co-anchor partnership lasts for 10 years.

• 1991: Andrea Cambern begins a 20-year reporting and anchor career with WBNS-TV.

• March 8, 1993: Angela Pace begins anchoring at Channel 10. Previously an anchor for WCMH-TV, she is first an anchor with Dave Kaylor, then with Jerry Revish, and remains on-air until 2006. She remains the station’s director of community affairs.

• Sept. 5, 1998: WBNS becomes the first television station in the nation to broadcast in full AC3/HDTV (true high definition) with a live telecast of the OSU-WEST Virginia football game.

• July 3, 2006: Chris Bradley signs on as chief meteorologist.

• Nov. 7, 2008: Anchorw Heather Pick loses a courageous and public battle with breast cancer at the age of 38. She appears on the noon newscast for the last time on Oct. 6 from home, wearing a pink wig in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

• June 2012: Following the departure of Cambern in May, WBNS welcomes Kristyn Hartman to the main anchor desk with Jerry Revish.

• July 5, 2017: Yolanda Harris joins WBNS-TV as a news anchor, replacing Kristyn Hartman, who left the station in March after five years. Harris, a Columbus native, had a combined 24 years at WSYX-TV (Channel 6) and WTTE-TV (Channel 28) in Columbus.

• Dec. 5, 2018: Channel 10 chief meteorologist Bradley dies at his home in Worthington after a 20-month battle with acute myeloid leukemia. He was 53.