| Dayton/Springfield, Ohio United States |
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| Branding | WHIO-TV Channel 7 (general) NewsCenter 7 (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Coverage You Can Count On |
| Channels | Digital: 41 (UHF) Virtual: 7 (PSIP) |
| Affiliations | CBS 7 Weather Now (DT2) |
| Owner | Cox Enterprises (Miami Valley Broadcasting Corporation) |
| First air date | February 23, 1949 |
| Call letters' meaning | OHIO |
| Sister station(s) | WHIO (AM), WHIO-FM, WHKO FM, WZLR FM |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 13 (VHF, 1949-1952) 7 (VHF, 1952-2009) |
| Former affiliations | DuMont (secondary, 1949-1952) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW (digital) |
| Height | 290 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 41458 |
| Website | www.whiotv.com |
WHIO-TV, virtual channel 7, is the CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Dayton, Ohio, serving that state's Miami Valley area. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 41 from its transmitter on Germantown Street in western Dayton.
The station is owned by Cox Media Group and its studios are co-located with sister properties the Dayton Daily News and Cox's Miami Valley radio stations in the Cox Media Center building near downtown Dayton.
Syndicated shows on WHIO-TV include Live! with Kelly, Dr. Phil, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Wheel of Fortune, and Entertainment Tonight.
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WHIO-TV signed on February 23, 1949, on channel 13. It was the first television station in Dayton to begin broadcasting, although WLWD (channel 2, now WDTN) was the first to have its license granted.
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[1] by Cox Enterprises founder James M. Cox. 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 flagship property WSB-TV in Atlanta, where Cox Media Group is headquartered now.
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.
The station moved to channel 7 in 1952 following the release of the Federal Communications Commission's Sixth Report and Order, which reorganized VHF channel assignments throughout much of Ohio and the Midwest.
WHIO-TV also has served as the default CBS affiliate for most of the Lima, Ohio DMA. (The station reaches most of the Lima DMA with a Grade B signal). This was especially the case before a low-powered CBS affiliate, WLMO-LP, went on the air in Lima. WHIO-TV also remains on Time Warner's Lima cable systems, along with Columbus CBS affiliate WBNS-TV.
On December 15, 2009, Cox Media Group announced that it would move WHIO-TV (as well as Cox Radio stations WHIO, WHIO-FM, WHKO and WZLR) from its home since the 1950s, on Wilmington Avenue in Kettering -- to the Cox Media Center building (also the current home of the Daily News), on South Main Street in Dayton, Ohio, by December, 2010. WHIO-TV began broadcasting from the new facility at 2:35 a.m. on December 12th, 2010.[2][3]
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.
Digital channels
| Channel | Programming |
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| 7.1 | Main WHIO-TV programming / CBS |
| 7.2 | 7 Weather Now |
WHIO-DT began transmitting its digital signal on channel 41-1 in October 2001.[4]
WHIO-TV ended its analog broadcast on VHF channel 7, on June 12, 2009, as part of the DTV transition in the United States.[5] It remained on its digital channel, 41,[6] using PSIP to display its virtual channel as 7.
The logo for the station is their version of the "Circle 7" logo—an orange 7 against a blue background, encompassed by a thin orange circle, and juxtaposed by "WHIO-TV" written in blue on a white background, underlined in red. Both the logo and the slogan ("Coverage you can count on") identify WHIO-TV as the sister station of other Cox stations; particularly WSB-TV in Atlanta, which has a similar logo and identical slogan. Its sister station in Seattle, KIRO-TV, also has a similar logo, but a different version of the "Circle 7".
Until early 2007, the "7" in the logo was "broken" -- it had a diagonal line running where the two lines in the "7" meet. This logo had been used by WHIO-TV since the early-1970s at the latest. In early 2007, at the latest, the logo underwent a slight revision, removing this "break" from the "7".[7][8][9] The anchor desk, however, continued to show the "7" in the logo to be "broken", until the move to the Cox Media Center building in December, 2010, with a new news set.[10]
WHIO-TV currently calls its team of meteorologists the "Storm Center 7 weather team". The team is led by Chief Meteorologist Jamie Simpson and also features meteorologists Rich Wirdzek and Erica Collura. WHIO-TV bills its radar (which is powered by Baron Services) as "Live Doppler 7".
WHIO-TV did not use its own professional meteorologists until 1993, with the hiring of Penn State meteorology graduate Heidi Sonen.[11][12] The station dropped the AccuWeather service it had previously featured and hired other meteorologists to fill out the staff, including former Weather Channel meteorologist Fred Barnhill. USAF meteorologist Warren Madden was hired from nearby Wright-Patterson Air Force Base; he went to The Weather Channel in December, 1996.
After Sonen's retirement in 1997, the station hired more Penn State graduates for the role of Chief Meteorologist, including Brian Orzel and Jamie Simpson.
In December, 2004, the station introduced StormCenter 7, which is a weather center created by FX Group that doubles as a set where weather reports can be done.
On June 29, 2007, WHIO-TV debuted its new doppler weather radar, initially billed as "New Live Doppler 7", currently called "Live Doppler 7". The radar is available anytime on the station's website.
On December 15, 2006, WHIO-TV launched 7 Weather Now, programmed 24 hours a day, with frequently updated forecasts. Live coverage of developing severe weather can be found on 7 Weather Now, as well as the latest watches and warnings. Weekday mornings from 7 to 8 a.m., the final hour of News Center 7 Daybreak airs exclusively on the channel.[13][14] 7 Weather Now can be found on digital channel 7.2, channel 23 on Time Warner cable, and on Time Warner's digital tier at channel 372. A live stream of 7 Weather Now can be accessed on the WHIO-TV website at http://www.whiotv.com/s/weather/7weathernow.
WHIO-TV began broadcasting its newscasts in a 16:9 widescreen standard definition format on April 1, 2007; it was the first Ohio station outside of Cleveland to switch to this new format.
In the station's December 12, 2010 move to the Cox Media Center, all of its cameras, graphics and equipment were replaced with full high definition equipment. Beginning with that day's late-night newscast (which was delayed to 11:26 p.m. due to an overrun of CBS network programming), WHIO-TV began broadcasting all locally-shot portions of its newscasts — studio segments and live field reports — in high definition.[15]
WHIO-TV remains the only station in the Dayton area that broadcasts local newscasts in high definition or 16:9 widescreen, as its chief rivals (WDTN and WKEF) continue to broadcast their local newscasts in pillarboxed 4:3 standard definition. Local commercials on WHIO-TV, however, continue to be stretched from their original 4:3 standard definition to widescreen dimensions.
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