WHIZ-TV

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WHIZ-TV
Zanesville, Ohio

Branding	WHIZ-TV (general) WHIZ-TV News (newscasts)
Slogan	Our Focus is on You!
Channels	Digital: 40 (UHF, Virtual 18)
Subchannels	18.1 NBC
Owner	Southeastern Ohio Broadcasting System, Inc. (Southeastern Ohio Television System)
Founded	May 23, 1953
Call letters' meaning	We're Here In Zanesville
Sister station(s)	WHIZ (AM), WHIZ-FM
Former channel number(s)	50 (UHF analog, 1953-1955) 18 (UHF analog, 1955-2008)
Former affiliations	CBS/ABC (1953-1966) DuMont (1953-1955) all secondary
Transmitter power	620 kW
Height	169 m
Facility ID	61216
Transmitter coordinates	39°55′42″N 81°59′7″W / 39.92833°N 81.98528°W / 39.92833; -81.98528
Website	www.whiznews.com

WHIZ-TV is the NBC affiliate in Zanesville, Ohio and its media market. Although this station is somewhat overshadowed by network affiliates in the nearby Columbus, Ohio market such as WCMH-TV, WHIZ-TV provides local news to its limited local area. In addition, WHIZ-TV provides local sports programming, including local basketball games on Friday. It is the only major commercial television station in Zanesville, with the other local stations being PBS member station WOUC-TV (Ohio University at Athens) and a TBN repeater (W16BT). Syndicated programming on WHIZ-TV includes Anderson, Access Hollywood, Ellen, and Family Feud.

History

WHIZ-TV's 50th Anniversary logo

Construction on WHIZ-TV began in 1952 at the Downard Road site for Zanesville's first television station. On May 23, 1953, WHIZ-TV began broadcasting on channel 50, with just enough power to reach the 500 or so television sets in the Zanesville area. A year and a half later, WHIZ-TV moved to channel 18, and increased its power output to 186 kW in addition to operating broadcast translators on channel 71 (W71AB) in Coshocton and channel 80 (W80AA) in Cambridge. In 1986, channel 18 increased power output to 589 kW with a new antenna, and introduced stereo sound. WHIZ-TV has been a primary NBC affiliate since the station began, but until 1966 cherry-picked programming from CBS and ABC as well. It also aired some DuMont programming in the 1950s. As WHIZ is the only commercial station in the area, Time Warner Cable's area system supplements the area with the Columbus stations.

In 2003, WHIZ-TV began broadcasting in digital on channel 40.

On July 25, 2008, WHIZ was knocked off the air when its power combiner failed. While the station was able to restore its digital signal, it was determined that there was no way to restore the analog signal until early 2009. Since this meant the analog signal would have only been back online for two months before shutdown of analog signals for all full-service stations, WHIZ decided to permanently cease analog broadcasting.^[1]

News/Station presentation

Newscast titles

Your Esso Reporter (1953-1960)
The Zanesville & World Report (1960-1967)
WHIZ-TV Reports (1967-1992)
WHIZ-TV News (1992-Present)

Station slogans

Zanesville's Own TV Station (1970s-late 1990s)
WHIZ-TV is There (late 1990s-2002)
WHIZ-TV, Closer to Home (2002–2010)
Our Focus is on You! (2010–present)

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News Team

Current on-air staff

News

George Hiotis (Also, News Director)
Carolyn Fleegle - Weekday at 12:00 and 6:00 p.m.
Nichole Medaugh - General Assignment Reporter
Jennifer Bullock - General Assignment Reporter
Erika Brooks - General Assignment Reporter
Katie McGraw - General Assignment Reporter

Weather

Matt Albanese - Chief meteorologist; Weeknights
Brian Wagner (NWA Member)- meteorologist; Weekdays Live at Noon
Phil Sakal (AMS/NWA Member) - meteorologist; Weekday mornings
Katie McGraw - meteorologist; Weekends

Sports

J.T. Raymond - Sports Reporter
Chase Evans - Sports Reporter

Other stations

The WHIZ Media Group also owns and operates radio stations WHIZ AM and WHIZ-FM ("Z-92"). Formerly the company operated WCVZ-FM ("Highway 102") prior to its replacement by WWCD ("CD101 @ 102.5"); WWCD owner Fun With Radio, LLC. now operates the station via WHIZ Media Group through a local marketing agreement (technically, WHIZ Media Group still owns the station). WHIZ stands for "We're here in Zanesville".

Until early 2008, WHIZ also operated CW Plus stations in Zanesville, WBZV; and Parkersburg, West Virginia, WBPB. After their closure, it was replaced on cable lineups by WWHO in Zanesville, and WQCW in Parkersburg. The CW Plus has since been reinstated on Zanesville cable lineups, now operated directly by the various cable providers serving the market.

Former logos for cable television stations WBZV and WBPB
Former "Parkersburg CW" logo

References

↑ "DTV TRANSITION STATUS REPORT". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. 2008-10-16. Retrieved 2008-10-26.

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v t e Television stations in Muskingum County, Ohio, including Zanesville

Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television

Local stations	W16BT (16 silent) WHIZ (18.1 NBC) WOUC (44.1 PBS)

Adjacent locals	Columbus, OH WCMH (4.1 NBC, 4.2 Me-TV) WSYX (6.1 ABC, 6.2 MNTV) WBNS (10.1 CBS) WTTE (28.1 Fox) WOSU (34.1 PBS) WWHO (53.1 CW) WSFJ (51 TBN)

Cable-only stations	"Zanesville CW 13" (CW Plus)

Ohio broadcast television Charleston/Huntington, West Virginia Cincinnati Cleveland/Akron Columbus Dayton Ft. Wayne, Indiana Lima Marietta/Parkersburg, West Virginia Steubenville/Wheeling, West Virginia Toledo Youngstown Zanesville See also Parkersburg

v t e NBC Network Affiliates in the state of Ohio

WDTN 2 (Dayton) WKYC 3 (Cleveland) WCMH 4 (Columbus) WLWT 5 (Cincinnati) WLIO 8 (Lima) WTOV 9 (Steubenville) WHIZ 18 (Zanesville) WFMJ 21 (Youngstown) WNWO 24 (Toledo)

See also ABC CBS CW Fox ION MyNetworkTV NBC PBS Other stations in Ohio

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