WWTO-TV (channel 35) is a religious television station licensed to Naperville, Illinois, United States, serving as the Chicago area outlet for the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN).
[6] The sale, approved by the Federal Communications Commission on July 13, 1966, was for $3,088,650 ($29,004,800 adjusted for inflation) and transferred the stations to Mid-America Television Co., owned by Kansas City Southern Industries.
WWTO-TV began broadcasting operations in early December 1986 and was originally licensed to All American TV (not to be confused with an unrelated television syndication company of a similar name), owned by evangelists Nicky Cruz and Sonny Arguinzoni.
The station's first chief engineer and general manager was Glen Dingley, who would oversee the building of its studios and transmitter before returning to Houston in 1990.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) declared many communities served by Chicago-area cable systems to be outside of WWTO-TV's designated market, and denied must-carry status.