WOWT (channel 6) is a television station in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Gray Media.

Another prominent former employee is former ABC Good Morning America reporter Steve Bell, who worked for Channel 6 during the early and mid-1960s.

[5] When Meredith sold channel 6 to the San Francisco-based Chronicle Publishing Company in 1975, it changed its call letters to WOWT on July 9, due to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) restrictions regarding the usage of the same call letters by different owners at the time.

During the analog era, WOWT-TV was relayed in Clarinda, Iowa, on a UHF repeater, K58AE, which has since been shut down and deleted from the FCC database.

In 2021, WOWT reunited with some former sister stations after being separated for 46 years when Gray Television acquired Meredith.

[6] Until 2014, WOWT was considered the default NBC affiliate for Lincoln, the state capital, located 52 miles (84 km) from Omaha.

Until 2016, WOWT was carried in standard definition on digital channel 83 in Lincoln and surrounding Spectrum systems.

After a dispute lasting several days, a new agreement was reached on January 11, 2015, and the three Gray Television stations returned to Cox cable lineups.

The station's signal is multiplexed: WOWT ended regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 6, on February 17, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television (which Congress had moved the previous month to June 12).

[12] Upon the switch to digital, WOWT aired a 60-second farewell video bookending the analog era from beginning to end.

It began with the words "Welcome to the Future", followed with archived film footage of WOW-TV's transmitter being turned on 1949 as it was covered by then-sister station WOW radio (now KXSP), outdoor scenes set to the song "America the Beautiful", and concluded with the station logo and digital call sign "WOWT-DT Omaha" set to the NBC chimes.

Voiceover artist Charlie Van Dyke provided narration: "Sixty years ago, WOWT turned on its analog signal to be the first television station in Omaha.

"[13] As part of the SAFER Act,[14] WOWT kept its analog signal on the air temporarily to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a scrolling message.