WEWS
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Cleveland, Ohio United States |
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| Branding | News 5 Cleveland |
| Slogan |
On Your Side (primary slogan) First in Ohio, First in Cleveland (secondary general) |
| Channels |
Digital: 15 (UHF) Virtual: 5 () |
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| Owner |
E. W. Scripps Company (Scripps Media, Inc.) |
| First air date | December 17, 1947 |
| Call letters' meaning | Edward Willis Scripps (founder of the Cleveland Press) |
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| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 300.7 m |
| Facility ID | 59441 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°22′26″N 81°43′4″W / 41.37389°N 81.71778°WCoordinates: 41°22′26″N 81°43′4″W / 41.37389°N 81.71778°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.newsnet5.com |
WEWS-TV, virtual channel 5 (UHF digital channel 15), is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. Owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, the station maintains studio facilities located on Euclid Avenue (near I-90) in Downtown Cleveland, and its transmitter is located in the Cleveland suburb of Parma.
The station first signed on the air on December 17, 1947, as the first commercially licensed television station in Ohio, and the 16th overall in the United States. The call letters denote the initials of the parent company's founder, Edward Willis Scripps. The station is the oldest in Cleveland to maintain the same channel position (as an analog broadcaster), ownership and call letters since its sign-on. A few weeks before WEWS-TV's sign-on, Scripps launched WEWS-FM 102.1 (the frequency is now occupied by WDOK) as an outlet for WEWS-TV personalities to gain on-air experience before the launch of the television station. Channel 5's first broadcast was of a Christmas pageant run by the station's corporate cousin, The Cleveland Press. Its staff included capable producers Jim Breslin and Betty Cope, who would later become president of WVIZ (channel 25).
In October 1948, WEWS, still Cleveland's only television station, broadcast the 1948 World Series games played in Cleveland between the Indians and the Boston Braves. The telecasts were fed to stations throughout the Midwest. WEWS aired only one other World Series involving the Indians – in 1995, when the Indians again faced the now-Atlanta Braves – the local broadcast was split with WKYC-TV (channel 3) due to the ABC/NBC shared Baseball Network.
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