WKEF
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Dayton, Ohio United States |
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| Branding | ABC 22 (general) FOX 45 News on ABC (newscasts) |
| Slogan | It's Where You Live! |
| Channels |
Digital: 18 (UHF) Virtual: 22 (PSIP) |
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| Owner |
Sinclair Broadcast Group (WKEF Licensee L.P.) |
| First air date | September 27, 1964 |
| Call letters' meaning | Kathryn Elizabeth Flynn (see History) |
| Sister station(s) | WRGT-TV |
| Former callsigns | WONE-TV (1964–1965) |
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| Transmitter power | 515 kW |
| Height | 351 m |
| Facility ID | 73155 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°43′28″N 84°15′18″W / 39.72444°N 84.25500°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | ABC 22 |
WKEF, virtual channel 22, is the ABC-affiliated television station for the Miami Valley area of Ohio, which is licensed to Dayton. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 18 from a transmitter off South Gettysburg Avenue, near the New Chicago section of the city. Owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, WKEF operates Fox affiliate WRGT-TV and its MyNetworkTV/This TV second digital subchannel (owned by Cunningham Broadcasting) though a local marketing agreement (LMA). However, Sinclair effectively owns the station due to Cunningham's ownership structure. The two stations share a studio on Corporate Place in Miamisburg.
Channel 22 first signed on in Dayton in October 1953 as WIFE (TV) (the call sign was to be WONE-TV, but was changed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in February 1953). The station was owned by Skyland Broadcasting Corporation, then-owner of WONE (AM) radio. Although the station first carried programming from ABC and DuMont, the networks stopped providing programming and the station went dark around March 20, 1954. In approximately February 1959, the FCC changed the call sign of the still-dark WIFE to the earlier-proposed WONE-TV.
In March 1961, the owners of Skyland Broadcasting Corporation sold the construction permit for dark WONE-TV, as well as on-the-air then-sister stations WONE (AM) and WIFE (FM) (now WTUE), to Brush-Moore Newspapers.
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