WHIO-TV
 
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Dayton, Ohio United States |
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| Branding | Channel 7 (general) News Center 7 (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Coverage You Can Count On |
| Channels |
Digital: 41 (UHF) Virtual: 7 (PSIP) |
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Cox Media Group (Miami Valley Broadcasting Corporation) |
| First air date | February 23, 1949 |
| Call letters' meaning | W OHIO |
| Sister station(s) | WHIO (AM), WHIO-FM, WHKO FM, WZLR FM |
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| Transmitter power | 1000 kW (digital) |
| Height | 290 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 41458 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°44′2″N 84°14′53″W / 39.73389°N 84.24806°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | WHIO-TV |
WHIO-TV, virtual channel 7, is the CBS-affiliated television station licensed in 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 on South Main Street near downtown Dayton.
WHIO-TV signed on February 23, 1949, on channel 13. 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.
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. 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 property WSB-TV in Atlanta, where Cox Media Group is headquartered now. WHIO-TV's licensee, Miami Valley Broadcasting, was originally used as the official name for Cox Media's television arm for decades.
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.
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