#Channel 7 meteorologist dui dayton license

ĭigital subchannel 7.3 was added as a Laff affiliate on April 15, 2015, the network's launch date. The subchannel also runs jingles from the 'Hit Radio' and 'Warp Factor' packages created by JAM Creative Productions in Dallas. The subchannel's on-air advertisements include old WHIO radio jingles running over clips of former WHIO-TV anchors and current MeTV shows. A longtime, formerly-used lower-case WHIO logo was included along with the MeTV logo. The subchannel is branded as 'MeTV WHIO Classic Television'. WHIO-TV's digital subchannel 7.2 became an affiliate of MeTV on December 1, 2014. WHIO-TV's newscasts, known as NewsCenter 7 since the mid-1970s, have been in first place in the Nielsen ratings for many years, and that trend continues to this day. WHIO-TV began broadcasting from the new facility at 2:35 a.m. On December 15, 2009, Cox Media Group announced that it would move WHIO-TV and its Dayton radio cluster–WHIO AM- FM, WHKO and WZLR–from its home since the 1950s on Wilmington Avenue in Dayton (at the Kettering city line), to the Cox Media Center building (also the current home of the Daily News) on South Main Street in Dayton, by December 2010. McCarthy, then-vice president and general manager of the station, for $47.5 million, but the deal apparently fell through due to a lack of Federal Communications Commission approval. Mouse, executive vice president of Cox Broadcasting, and Jack P. In 1979, Cox Broadcasting almost filed to sell WHIO to locally based Ohio Valley Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of M&M Broadcasting and Dyson-Kissner Associates during a proposed General Electric merger with Cox Broadcasting, with its new group being led by Stanley G. WHIO-TV also remains on Spectrum's Lima cable systems, along with Columbus CBS affiliate WBNS-TV. This was especially the case before a low-powered CBS affiliate, WLMO-LP, went on the air in Lima. (The station reaches most of the Lima DMA with a Grade B signal). WHIO-TV also served as the default CBS affiliate for most of the Lima, Ohio market. The station moved to channel 7 in 1952 following the release of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s Sixth Report and Order, which reorganized VHF channel assignments throughout much of Ohio and the Midwest. WHIO-TV has been a CBS affiliate from the very beginning, and is the only station in Dayton never to have changed its primary affiliation it did air some programming from the long-defunct DuMont Television Network during its first three years on the air. WHIO-TV's licensee, Miami Valley Broadcasting, was originally used as the official name for Cox Media's television arm for decades. In fact, WHIO-TV is only the second of three television stations built by Cox from the ground up, merely five months after its sister property WSB-TV in Atlanta, where Cox Media Group is headquartered now. The station has been owned by the Cox publishing family and their related companies since its inception Cox also publishes the Dayton Daily News, the first newspaper ever purchased by Cox Enterprises founder James M.

#Channel 7 meteorologist dui dayton license

It was the first television station in Dayton to begin broadcasting, although WLWD (then channel 5, now WDTN, channel 2) was the first to have its license granted. WHIO-TV signed on February 23, 1949, on channel 13. It shares facilities with sister properties the Dayton Daily News and Cox's Miami Valley radio stations in the Cox Media Center building on South Main Street near downtown Dayton. WHIO-TV's transmitter is located off Germantown Street in the Highview Hills neighborhood of southwest Dayton. It has been owned by Cox Media Group since its inception, making it one of two stations that have been built and signed on by Cox (alongside company flagship WSB-TV in Atlanta). WHIO-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Dayton, Ohio, United States, affiliated with CBS.