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CBS/MyNetworkTV affiliate in Shaker Heights, Ohio

Boob tube station in Ohio, United States

WOIO

Shaker Heights/Cleveland, Ohio U.s.
City	Shaker Heights, Ohio
Channels	Digital: x (VHF) (shared with WUAB) Virtual: 19
Branding	CBS 19; 19 News
Programming
Affiliations	19.1: CBS nineteen.2: MeTV/MyNetworkTV 19.3: Dabl 19.four: Rewind TV
Ownership
Owner	Grey Tv set (Grayness Goggle box Licensee, LLC)
Sister stations	WOHZ-CD, WUAB, WTCL-LP
History
Commencement air date	May 19, 1985 (36 years ago)  (1985-05-19)
Former aqueduct number(due south)	Analog: xix (UHF, 1985–2009)
Quondam affiliations	Independent (1985–1986) Pull a fast one on (1986–1994)
Call sign meaning	Ohio
Technical data
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	39746
ERP	ix.5 kW
HAAT	304 k (997 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	41°23′fifteen″Due north 81°41′42″West  /  41.38750°Due north 81.69500°Westward  / 41.38750; -81.69500
Translator(s)	24 (UHF) Shaker Heights 18 (UHF) Akron
Links
Public license information	Profile LMS
Website	www.cleveland19.com

WOIO (aqueduct 19) is a television station licensed to Shaker Heights, Ohio, U.s.a., serving the Cleveland area equally an affiliate of CBS. It is owned by Gray Tv alongside Lorain-licensed CW chapter WUAB (channel 43) and two low-power stations: Telemundo affiliate WTCL-LP (aqueduct 6) and Canton-licensed WOHZ-CD (channel 19/43), which serves equally a repeater for WOIO and WUAB to cover the southern part of the market.

The stations share studios on the ground floor of the Reserve Square edifice in Downtown Cleveland; WOIO and WUAB too share transmitter facilities in the West Creek Reservation in Parma, Ohio.

History [edit]

Early history of UHF channel 19 in Cleveland [edit]

The UHF aqueduct xix allocation in the Cleveland television market dates dorsum to the 1950s, when The Evidently Dealer was granted a construction permit to build and license to operate a new tv station on UHF channel nineteen for a television sis to local radio station WHK (1420 AM) was issued to. When WHK was sold to Metropolitan Broadcasting (afterward Metromedia) in 1958, the structure permit for what was to have been WHK-Tv set was surrendered to the FCC. However, the channel 19 allocation remained.

On May 22, 1968, a new structure let was issued to Community Telecasters of Cleveland Inc. for a new station with the telephone call letters WCTF-Tv. The limited programming available and the rising toll of building WCTF kept delaying plans and the sign on date for the station. In August 1972, an understanding was made to sell the structure permit to Joseph T. Zingale. Zingale backed out of the understanding in February 1974 due to a price dispute. In January 1975, United Artists Dissemination tried to buy the permit and move WUAB to channel 19, but Zingale filed a protestation challenge that Community Telecasters still held the construction allow. In May 1976, the FCC took the WCTF-TV permit away from Community Telecasters during a review board. Zingale then tried to learn the license for WCTF, but the dispute eventually caused the construction permit to exist deleted past the FCC.^{[one] [ii]}

As an contained station [edit]

The history of WOIO traces to 2 groups that competed for blessing by the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) for a structure permit to build and license to operate a new television station on UHF channel 19. Cleveland Goggle box Corp. (a group led by Aben Due east. Johnson Jr. and Clifford Beresh, who respectively served equally president and majority stockholder, and sales manager at WXON [now WMYD-TV] in Detroit) filed the initial application on November 18, 1977.^[3] Later, in 1978, Diamond Dissemination Inc. (a group led by Hubert B. Payne, a former local sales director at NBC owned-and-operated station WKYC-TV (channel 3, at present an NBC chapter) who was the first African-American local sales director at a local network affiliate, and William Derrick), and Metroplex Communications (owned by Robert Weiss and Norman Wein) filed competing applications. In early 1980, Cleveland-based Malrite Broadcasting Co. (endemic past media executive Milton Maltz, and which owned local radio stations WHK and WMMS (100.7 FM) equally well as Cincinnati'southward WXIX-TV) approached the Payne group about an offer in which Malrite would own not-controlling, non-voting preferred stock (with the voting interest being divided between the principals of the allow), under an FCC waiver for broadcasters that provider substantial financing for a minority-controlled station; Malrite'south principal shareholders would also supply 1-3rd of the capital letter disinterestedness in the station.^[4] The FCC awarded the permit and license for channel 19 to the Malrite/Diamond/Metroplex grouping (doing business equally Aqueduct 19 Inc.) in 1983.

WOIO'south original logo used from 1985 until 1995. A Fox logo - placed to the left of the regular logo - was added from 1986 to 1994 (when it was a Fox affiliate), and the CBS "Middle" was added during its early days as a CBS affiliate (1994-1995).

WOIO – its phone call letters continuing for the station'due south home state of Ohio – showtime signed on for the air on May 19, 1985. (Prior to that time, the WOIO call letters were assigned to a radio station on 1060 AM [now WILB] in County.)^{[5] [half-dozen]} Originally operating every bit an independent station, the station maintained a programming lineup typical of an independent, consisting of off-network sitcoms, classic movies, off-network drama series and religious programs. The station identified as "WOIO nineteen" (oft referred to as simply "nineteen" in station promotions), with the "xix" spelled out visually and rendered in script font. (The station revised its moniker to "Fox 19" by 1988, as that network began requiring affiliates to include the Fox name in their local branding.)

WOIO was the third independent station to operate in the Cleveland marketplace. Its main competitors were WUAB (channel 43, at present a CW affiliate), which signed on the air on September 15, 1968, and WCLQ (channel 61, now Univision owned-and-operated station WQHS-DT), which signed on March 3, 1981; WOIO gained a 4th competitor when WBNX-TV (channel 55) signed on the air on December 1, 1985. That fall, WOIO began carrying animated series and cartoon showcases on Monday through Saturday mornings and on weekday late afternoons. By the end of 1985, channel xix had surpassed WCLQ every bit the market'south second highest-rated independent station, falling behind WUAB.

In early 1986, Malrite Communications Group purchased the 51% controlling stock interest in WOIO from the principals of Diamond Dissemination and Metroplex Communications for $1.2 million. Malrite also retained buying of WHK and WMMS under an exception to FCC rules prohibiting common buying of goggle box and radio stations under the agency'south "one-to-a-market rule," which allowed such combinations that involved a UHF station.^[7]

Fox affiliation [edit]

WOIO became a charter affiliate of the Play a joke on when the fledgling network inaugurated programming on October nine, 1986; WUAB—despite its condition as ane of the strongest independent stations in the country—turned down an offer to get an affiliate because its condition as a regional superstation made information technology unattractive for and so-owner Gaylord Broadcasting to sign with the network, as most of the markets located within WUAB'south cable television footprint had plenty commercial stations for Flim-flam to maintain a local affiliate. Though it was technically a network chapter, Channel 19 continued to be programmed equally a de facto independent station. Even afterward the network'south programming expanded with the launch of a iii-60 minutes Sunday dark lineup in April 1987, Trick offered prime time programs exclusively on weekends until September 1989, when it began a five-year expansion towards a nightly prime time schedule (Fox would non air prime time programs on all 7 nights of the week until January 1993). WOIO continued to air a movie at 8:00 p.1000. on nights when network programs did not air.

Soon after, it became the over-the-air flagship of the Cleveland Cavaliers—a relationship that continued for half dozen years—and also carried Cleveland Browns preseason games (along with other team-produced programming, notably the weekly show Browns Insider), Cleveland Strength MISL indoor soccer and Cleveland State Vikings college basketball game. Information technology too appeared on cable providers in the Youngstown market, which did not take a Fox affiliate of its own until WYFX-LP signed on in 1998; WOIO continues to be carried on cable in that market to this day.

CBS amalgamation [edit]

On May 23, 1994, Play tricks network parent News Corporation and New World Communications signed a long-term affiliation agreement in which thirteen television stations affiliated with either CBS, ABC or NBC (five that New Globe had already owned, and eight that the company was in the process of acquiring through separate deals with Neat American Communications and Argyle Television receiver Holdings) would switch to Play tricks. WJW-Boob tube (aqueduct 8) – which had served every bit Cleveland'south CBS chapter since March 1955 – was among the New World stations slated to join Fox as role of the group amalgamation deal once private contracts with each of the stations' existing affiliated networks expired. Play a joke on wanted to upgrade affiliates in certain markets in response to its acquisition of the National Football Briefing's broadcast television rights, which had been carried by CBS for the previous 38 years, starting with the 1994 NFL season.^{[8] [9] [10] [eleven]}

1999-2001 logo used during the period WOIO and WUAB jointly used the "Home Squad" branding.

With WJW's CBS network contract set to expire on or shortly later September one, 1994, the Fox-New World deal gave CBS merely a five-month window to observe a replacement for WJW-TV as its Cleveland chapter (by comparison, depending on the station, the amalgamation contracts of other New Globe stations named to join Fox did not expire until between December 1994 and September 1996, depending on the term of their agreements with CBS, NBC or ABC). The understanding with New Earth concerned CBS executives, as New World planned to switch several stronger-performing CBS affiliates in other markets to Play tricks, which would force the network to sign with either a former Fox affiliate or a lower-contour independent station, equally many of the Big Three stations and—with the exception of those in Dallas–Fort Worth and Phoenix—some college-rated independents it approached rejected offers to join CBS due to its faltering ratings and the older-skewing programming slate it had at the time. To forestall such a situation from happening in Cleveland, CBS approached Scripps-Howard Dissemination to lure ABC affiliate WEWS (channel 5) to switch to the network. The threat of Scripps-Howard moving WEWS (along with Detroit sis station WXYZ-TV, which it as well courted to replace swain approachable CBS chapter WJBK-Goggle box) to CBS prompted them to sign a ten-yr agreement with ABC on June 16, 1994, in which the grouping renewed its amalgamation contracts with WEWS and WXYZ and agreed to switch three other stations to the network.^{[12] [xiii] [14] [xv]}

In June 1994, Malrite had entered into a local marketing agreement with then-WUAB owner Cannell Communications, under which WUAB assumed responsibility for providing production, advertising and promotional services and master control operations for channel 19. Both stations moved to facilities located at the first floor of the Reserve Foursquare apartment/hotel complex on East 12th Street in downtown Cleveland. The area currently occupied by the WOIO/WUAB newsroom and the soundstage housing the stations' news fix was once occupied by a movie theater for the Reserve Square Apartments, which began operation when the facility opened as the Park Centre Apartments in 1973 and was closed in 1978 after the Park Theater's buying sold the leased space; the former theater was gutted and renovated in grooming for WOIO/WUAB's relocation into Reserve Foursquare and the expansion of WUAB's news department to include newscasts for WOIO.^[16]

On July 8, CBS reached an understanding with Malrite Communications to move its programming to WOIO, originally slated to take effect August 29. The fact that the LMA with WUAB resulted in WOIO being tied to the only Cleveland station not affiliated with any of the "Big Three" networks that had a functioning news department played a factor in CBS'south decision to sign an affiliation agreement with the soon-to-be-former Fox affiliate.^[17] WOIO became the Cleveland market'south CBS affiliate on September 3, 1994; WJW-TV concurrently switched to Fox, catastrophe its affiliation with CBS after xl years and becoming the kickoff New Globe station to switch to Play tricks under the group's agreement with that network.^[xv] Equally a consequence of the affiliation swap, Channel 19 moved most of its recent off-network and first-run syndicated sitcoms and syndicated animated series to WUAB, which also assumed the local over-the-air boob tube rights to the Cavaliers as WOIO'south switch to CBS (which maintains a network-dominated programme schedule) left aqueduct nineteen without plenty room on its schedule to proceed airing the NBA team'due south game broadcasts. The Fox Kids block moved instead to contained station WBNX-TV (channel 55) as WJW, like almost of the New World stations affected past the Play tricks affiliation understanding, declined carriage of the block to focus on its news-intensive program schedule; WBNX also picked upwardly the local rights to some of the older sitcoms and then in WOIO'due south inventory that WUAB lacked room for on its schedule. The showtime CBS plan to air on WOIO was Marsupilami at eight:00 a.chiliad. Eastern Fourth dimension on September 3, 1994.^{[ citation needed ]}

WOIO primary logo every bit "Cleveland'southward CBS 19", used from 2002 to Baronial 24, 2015. A modified bluish and xanthous version was then used from 2015 to 2019

On April 6, 1998, Raycom Media announced that information technology would acquire Malrite Communications for an undisclosed price; the LMA with WUAB was included in the deal. The sale was finalized six months after on September 17.^{[xviii] [19]} In September 1999, WOIO and WUAB underwent a unified rebranding, adopting the respective brands "Hometeam nineteen" and "Hometeam 43".^[20] The rebranding was intended to signify an emphasis on local news and sports coverage placed by both stations every bit well as play on the fact that at the time they carried all three of Cleveland'south major professional sports teams—Indians and Cavaliers games were carried on WUAB, with Browns games airing on WOIO past way of CBS' NFL rights (aqueduct 19 has held the office as the Browns' unofficial 'home station' since their reactivation in 1999). On March 2, 2000, six months afterwards the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) relaxed its local ownership rules to allow mutual ownership of two commercially licensed goggle box stations in the same media marketplace, Raycom exercised an pick to learn the station outright from Cannell Communications; the auction was finalized two months afterwards on May ten.

In January 2001, Raycom hired controversial station manager Pecker Applegate as WOIO and WUAB's full general managing director; afterwards in February 2002, WOIO and WUAB ditched the uniform "Hometeam" branding, with the onetime replacing it in favor of identifying equally "Cleveland's CBS 19" for full general promotional purposes and newscasts seen on both stations existence reformatted every bit nineteen Action News.^[21] On August 24, 2015, every bit function of a universal rebranding of WOIO and WUAB, channel 19 inverse its branding to the compatible "Cleveland 19". (Concurrently, WUAB similarly rebranded as "CLE 43," with "C-L-East" spelled out audibly.)^{[22] [23]}

Sale to Gray Television [edit]

On June 25, 2018, Atlanta-based Greyness Television announced it had reached an agreement with Raycom to merge their respective broadcasting assets (consisting of Raycom's 63 existing owned-and/or-operated television stations, and Grayness's 93 television stations) under Gray's corporate umbrella, in a cash-and-stock merger transaction valued at $3.6 billion.^{[24] [25] [26] [27] [28]} The sale was approved on December 20,^[29] and was completed on January 2, 2019.^[30] Upon completion of the bargain (and non counting WWSB in Sarasota, Florida being part of the Tampa Bay market), WOIO/WUAB became Gray's largest television set stations by market size (equally it was for Raycom), a title formerly held past the company's Knoxville, Tennessee duopoly of fellow CBS affiliate WVLT-TV and CW affiliate WBXX-TV every bit well as having a new sister station in the nearby Toledo market, ABC affiliate WTVG (while separating it from fellow CBS affiliate WTOL, which for regulatory purposes was sold to WKYC parent Tegna Inc.). Upon completion of Gray's acquisition of Meredith Corporation's dissemination properties on December 1, 2021, WOIO/WUAB became Greyness'southward third largest, behind WGCL-Idiot box/WPCH-Idiot box in Atlanta and KTVK/KPHO-Television receiver in Phoenix. On September 22, 2021, WOIO announced the launch of a new sister station, WTCL, aqueduct 6.ane, which will serve as Cleveland's new Telemundo station for the region'due south growing Hispanic audience. The station began its Telemundo affiliation on December 22, 2021.^[31]

Programming [edit]

WOIO currently carries the entire CBS network programming lineup. Syndicated programs broadcast on WOIO as of September 2020^[update] include Jeopardy! and Bicycle of Fortune.^[32]

Sports programming [edit]

Cleveland Browns [edit]

WOIO and the Cleveland Browns entered into a television partnership in April 2005—in effect, resuming an agreement that concluded with the original team's 1995 relocation to Baltimore. Replacing erstwhile longtime television receiver partner WKYC-Tv, WOIO caused the rights to air all preseason games besides every bit a preseason draft show, exclusive preparation camp reports and a Monday dark coaches' evidence.

On July eighteen, 2006, the Browns announced that the team was ending its partnership with WOIO,^[33] the result of a controversy over the station's coverage of the drowning of squad owner Randy Lerner's half-dozen-year-old niece. On its newscasts, WOIO aired a nine-one-1 recording of Nancy Fisher, Lerner's sister, calling for assistance. Although WOIO was within its legal bounds to air the tape and it was public record under Ohio'south laws regarding 911 phone call audio, the Browns thought that it was an unnecessary invasion of the family'south privacy.^[34] WOIO subsequently filed a lawsuit against the Browns on July 26, 2006, alleging breach of contract and seeking to retain the broadcast rights to Browns games as the agreement had one year left to run.^[33] The Browns' contract with WOIO concluded on Baronial 1, 2006; two days later.^[35]

However, WOIO—through CBS' AFC contract—has and continues to air the majority of the Browns regular season games.

News operation [edit]

WOIO presently broadcasts 42 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 7½ hours each weekday, two hours on Saturdays and 2½ hours on Sundays). Information technology as well produces an additional 14½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week for WUAB (with 2½ hours each weekday and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). Combined beyond both stations, WOIO produces a total of 56½ hours of newscasts each week.

News department history [edit]

Early years [edit]

WOIO originally had no intention to beginning a news department; however, CBS informed WOIO that information technology "preferred" that the station air newscasts. With just months before WJW was due to switch to Play a trick on, there was little fourth dimension to form a total-calibration news partition from scratch. Instead, WOIO had LMA partner WUAB (which had been producing a 10:00 p.m. newscast since January 1988) produce its newscasts. WOIO began airing newsbriefs during CBS This Forenoon with Julie Hanahan, WOIO's first news employee, and Betty Haliburton. Early additions to the news staff were Emmett Miller, Denise Dufala (quondam longtime anchor at WJW); weeknight meteorologist Dave Sweeney; weeknight sports ballast Jeff Phelps; weekend co-anchors Gretchen Carlson and Dave Barker; weekend sports anchor Ronnie Duncan; and weekend meteorologist Julie Hanahan (former meteorologist at WJW).

WOIO started airing newscasts at six:00, 6:30, and 11:00 p.m. on Feb 5, 1995. The at present-shared news operation of WOIO and WUAB became collectively known as Cleveland Television News; both stations used like graphics from Television by Design and Jerome Gilmer's Prime number News music parcel (with unlike signatures, WOIO's cuts having originated at sister station WXIX two years prior), but anchored from split sets (WOIO was situated within the newsroom, while WUAB used a smaller set located elsewhere in the building). Romona Robinson and Jack Marschall remained equally anchors for WUAB, maintaining their long history of ratings success at 10:00 p.m.; nonetheless, WUAB's ratings success with its prime fourth dimension newscast did not yet interpret to WOIO's newly created 6:00 and xi:00 p.m. newscasts. One of the offset large stories aired on WOIO featured the "glasses cam", which Dave Barker used to show how he could only walk into a school without beingness stopped. In 1996, WOIO and WUAB dropped the Cleveland Television News moniker; WOIO began identifying as CBS 19 and titled its newscasts CBS 19 News. WJW had been one of the strongest CBS affiliates in the country, and WOIO hoped that viewers would associate the network with a high-quality local newscast. Emmett Miller left and Gretchen Carlson joined Denise Dufala, creating a 2-woman anchor team for its weeknight newscasts. This had rarely been tried in other markets around the nation and had never been tried in Cleveland at the fourth dimension. It failed to catch on, and Carlson left WOIO, finding success later at the Trick News Channel. Later that twelvemonth, WOIO added a weekday forenoon newscast at half-dozen:00 a.m. and pre-empted most of the first hr of CBS This Morn with local news; the station also added a apex newscast around the same time. Withal, WOIO failed to win viewers.

Likewise in 1997, WOIO tried to operate its news studio at street level then pedestrians could see the newscasts being taped (similar to what CHUM Limited tried out with its "NewNet" stations in the Canadian province of Ontario). The street-level studio concept did not concluding long in Cleveland, but today this concept is existence used by Skillful Morning America and Today, too as several television stations in larger markets.

After Carlson's departure, Kevin Cokely joined Denise Dufala at the anchor desk for the 6:00 and 11:00 p.yard. newscasts. This lasted until 1999, when Jack Marschall was brought in to replace Cokely, while withal continuing to anchor the x:00 p.yard. news on WUAB with Cynthia Tinsley. Several months later on in February 2000, WOIO's newscasts were rebranded as Hometeam 19 News and introduced a new look that coincided with Raycom'south takeover of WOIO and WUAB. After WUAB lost the broadcast rights to the Cleveland Indians in 2001, the Hometeam branding was dropped and WOIO's newscasts were simply known every bit 19 News. Because of the continued depression ratings, Bill Applegate was brought in equally full general manager, who would brand sweeping changes at WOIO and WUAB over the side by side several months.^[21]

19 Action News [edit]

WOIO's 19 Activeness News logo, used from 2002 to Baronial 24, 2015; the version shown above was used from 2014 to 2015.

In May 2002, WOIO and WUAB'south newscasts were uniformly re-branded as nineteen Action News. A popular printing format was put into place, using Shelly Palmer'southward Palmer News Package, a theme based on the musical signature used and adapted past fellow CBS station WBBM-Television in Chicago (a station that Applegate managed in the 1980s; incidentally enough, WBBM never used that specific theme). The pacing, the look, the style and the language of each newscast took on a dramatically dissimilar look and feel. Shortly after, the newscasts on both WOIO and WUAB would officially be retitled to 19 Activeness News. Ratings improved almost immediately, especially at xi:00 p.g., where that newscast became the only belatedly news programme to proceeds viewers four years in a row, equally WKYC, WEWS and WJW's belatedly newscasts either remained flat or lost viewers.^[5] The station added an hour-long newscast at 5:00 p.m. in 2002, joining WEWS and WJW's late afternoon newscasts for a three-mode competition for 2d identify in the time slot at the fourth dimension (as WKYC's airing of Dr. Phil (which premiered in 2002) at v:00 p.m. had long been in first identify until recently). In June 2004, WOIO debuted Cleveland's showtime 4:00 p.g. newscast. Information technology premiered in last place, but began to grow steadily and eventually fought for second place with WJW'south Guess Judy (which that station bumped in favor of its own four:00 p.m. newscast in July 2013), but however trailed WEWS' The Oprah Winfrey Prove at that hour (Winfrey'due south programme concluded in 2011).

WOIO'due south 11:00 p.m. newscast mounted a serious challenge to WKYC that began in 2004 and had success in marginally overtaking WKYC once in 2008. In recent years the 11:00 p.m. news race in the Cleveland area has been highly competitive, with WOIO taking role in this spirited competition; often, no more ane ratings share point separates starting time identify from third place among the three newscasts which air in that time slot (to the bespeak where all three stations accept claimed victory in different demographics at various points within the past year^{[ when? ]}).^[21] However, WOIO's newscasts frequently stop at a afar third or in fourth place in most other dayparts (though it has won the noon time slot in recent^{[ when? ]} ratings periods due to the lead in of The Cost Is Right hosted by Cleveland native Drew Carey).^{[v] [36]}

The theme music used for the newscasts commencement in 2005 was from "The CBS Enforcer Music Collection", a bundle by Gari Music created for the CBS owned-and-operated station grouping which besides has its roots with WBBM-TV's signature tune, based on an old folk song, "I Love Chicago, Chicago My Home".

Tabloid fashion [edit]

Subsequently 2002 when the xix Action News branding was implemented, WOIO developed a reputation in the Cleveland marketplace for having a "tabloid" news format, viewed at times every bit going to extremes in gild to comprehend news and generate publicity.^{[21] [37] [38]} Examples include:

• In early 2004, Spencer Tunick, a photographer known for taking pictures of large groups of naked people, came to Cleveland. Then-WOIO anchor Sharon Reed (regarded past many viewers as very attractive) was asked by news director Steve Doerr to participate in the project for a first-hand account of the feel. The thought for the story was the brainchild of general manager Neb Applegate. Several other media outlets participated in the same way, including The Plain Dealer and Cleveland Magazine. The market place's other news stations also covered the upshot. WOIO shot video of "News Babe" Reed getting up in the morning, going to the consequence, getting undressed and finally nude shots of her from behind. The story called "Body of Fine art" aired in the November sweeps catamenia later on being promoted heavily with promos that contained a "viewer discretion advisory". WOIO insisted that the story was supposed to brand viewers question whether Tunick's body of piece of work is fine art or "something else". On the night the story aired, WOIO received its highest ratings ever. The story also gave Reed and WOIO national attention equally she was invited to defend the slice on Flim-flam News and on the Late Bear witness with David Letterman.^[39]
• In May 2005, WOIO fabricated somewhat of a controversial movement by hiring ballast-reporter Catherine Bosley, who had merely recently resigned from her previous job at WKBN-Goggle box in Youngstown, Ohio, after making national news by nude pictures of her from a wet T-shirt contest she had participated in while on holiday in Central West leaking online. This had been preceded by an interview done in February 2005 with Sharon Reed recalling the incident. The rent had been derided by some as the station merely bringing Bosley in to cash in on the notoriety from her nude pictures, a claim denied by station management.^[40]
• In the winter of 2012, the "circus like temper" and explicit testimony at the Cuyahoga County corruption trial inspired the staff of the station to recreate give-and-take-for-discussion testimony using puppets. This was due to the fact that as a federal instance, cameras were non allowed in the courtroom. The utilise of puppets on the nightly newscasts chop-chop gained national attention.^{[38] [41] [42]}
• On December thirty, 2013, at the press conference with Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and CEO Joe Imprint discussing the firing of head coach Rob Chudzinski after only one season, WOIO news reporter Dan DeRoos had read aloud several posts from Browns fans on the station'due south Facebook page questioning Browns management on the firing. DeRoos then asked the question (quoting from 1 of the posts), "How practise you convince Browns fans that the 3 Stooges aren't running this organisation?" This acquired an audible murmur in the interview room, and was highlighted in national stories about the firing.^{[43] [44]}

High definition [edit]

WOIO began to broadcast its newscasts in high definition on October 21, 2007, with the station's 6:30 p.1000. newscast, making the Cleveland marketplace the first in the nation to have all of its Big Four affiliates broadcasting news in the format. The ten:00 p.m. newscast on WUAB as well broadcasts in Hard disk, though in 720p (originally due to MyNetworkTV'south default resolution, and remaining as such subsequently WUAB moved to a channel share of WOIO's bandwidth), while Action News programs on WOIO air in CBS' 1080i format.

Cleveland 19 News [edit]

Although elements of the tabloid-mode news format remained, in 2012, WOIO began shifting towards a more traditional newscast format. Under vice president-general manager Dominic Mancuso and news director Fred D'Ambrosi (who was hired past the station in March 2015), the station decided to completely overhaul the tone of its newscasts.

On August 19, 2015, WOIO appear that it would rebrand its newscasts equally Cleveland 19 News. In describing the change to a more than conventional format for its newscasts, Mancuso cited that while the Action News format was "attention-getting" albeit "more near the brand and the presentation," the change toward a traditional news format would place more of an emphasis "about the stories, with less of the hyperbole," although it would retain an accent on investigative journalism that was expanded upon by the news department during the Activity News era. The rebranding and format change officially debuted on August 24, 2015, kickoff with WOIO's noon newscast; the station also implemented a standardized graphics package for the Raycom stations that originated on Wilmington sister station WECT in December 2014, and adopted "This is the Place" by Stephen Arnold Music as the theme for its newscasts.^{[22] [45]}

nineteen News [edit]

logo under the "nineteen News" branding

On April 8, 2019, WOIO rebranded itself as "CBS nineteen" and its newscasts as "xix News", with the slogan of "First. Off-white. Everywhere."; a nod to its Activeness News-era slogan of "Honest. Fair. Everywhere."

In September 2019, WOIO added a daily half-hour talk show hosted past former Cleveland Browns Pro Bowl kick returner Josh Cribbs and his wife Maria titled Cribbs in the CLE.

On September fourteen, 2020, WOIO debuted a new weekday 3 p.m. newscast, making information technology the first station in Cleveland to air news in that time slot.

Notable personalities [edit]

• Harry Boomer – senior reporter
• Josh Cribbs – host of Cribbs in the CLE/football game analyst

Notable alumni [edit]

• Gretchen Carlson^[46] (now with A&E Networks)
• Carl Monday (now with WJW)
• Jeff Phelps^[47] (now with Bally Sports Ohio and WKRK-FM)
• Romona Robinson (retired)
• Chris Van Vliet^[48] (formerly with All Aristocracy Wrestling)

Technical information [edit]

Subchannels [edit]

The station'southward digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel	Video	Attribute	Short name	Programming[49]
nineteen.1	1080i	16:9	WOIO-DT	Chief WOIO programming / CBS
19.2	480i		MeTV	MeTV / MyNetworkTV
19.3			DABL	Dabl
19.four			Rewind	Rewind Tv

On August 1, 2011, WOIO became the Cleveland chapter of the classic Tv network MeTV, which is carried on digital subchannel 19.2; that subchannel had previously operated equally "Weather condition At present", consisting of a 24-hour loop of weather forecasts and local radar. 19.2 is also carried on some northeast Ohio cable providers.

On January 29, 2019, WOIO-DT2 quietly began to deport MyNetworkTV during late night hours, without public notice (WUAB had carried the network from its 2006 launch until that day).^[50]

In December 2019, 19.3 was activated with a "coming soon" slide with no information about what would air on the subchannel. Later a couple of months passed, Dabl – a Paramount Global–owned lifestyle network featuring cooking and home décor oriented shows – would eventually debut on February 24, 2020.^[51]

In May 2021, 19.4 was activated, airing Shop LC programming. On September 1, 2021, 19.iv switched to Rewind TV.

19.2 occasionally airs CBS network programs whenever nineteen.1 is unable to in the event of extended breaking news or severe weather coverage, special programming, or other scheduling conflicts.

Analog-to-digital conversion [edit]

WOIO shut downwardly its analog point, over UHF channel xix, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-ability tv stations in the United states transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts nether federal mandate. The station'southward digital signal connected to broadcasts on its pre-transition VHF channel 10.^[52] Through the utilize of PSIP, digital tv receivers display the station's virtual channel equally its former UHF analog channel 19.

WOIO operates a digital make full-in translator station in Akron on UHF channel 24,^[53] which began operating on August 12, 2011. The translator serves the southward-central portion of the Cleveland market where viewers lost WOIO'south bespeak afterwards the June 2009 digital transition. Cleveland's west side suburbs still cannot receive this channel reliably to this day.

The aqueduct 10 digital signal causes co-aqueduct interference with CTV 2 owned-and-operated station CFPL-DT (channel 10) in London, Ontario during temperature inversion and tropo skip events. On October 22, 2009, WOIO boosted its effective radiated power to 9.five kW.

Coverage in Canada [edit]

The station is available over-the-air in Kingsville, Leamington and Pelee Island in southern Essex County, Ontario and was one time listed in the Tv Guide edition for those communities (and Windsor, Ontario until 2000 though the station's bespeak was not stiff enough to achieve Windsor and Detroit). Unlike WKYC, WEWS and WJW, it was not 1 of the Cleveland stations carried on local cable providers in those three locations. WOIO is available on cablevision in St. Thomas and was briefly available on the digital tier in London in early 2005.

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