WHIZ-TV
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Zanesville, Ohio United States |
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| Branding | WHIZ-TV (general) WHIZ-TV News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Our Focus is on You! |
| Channels |
Digital: 40 (UHF) Virtual: 18 (PSIP) |
| Affiliations | NBC (Secondary through 1966) |
| 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 |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
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 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).
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.
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