WMFD-TV
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Mansfield, Ohio United States |
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| Branding | WMFD Television (general) WMFD NewsWatch HD (newscasts) |
| Slogan |
Serving All Of North Central Ohio (primary slogan) Your Local News Source (secondary general) |
| Channels |
Digital: 12 (VHF) Virtual: 68 () |
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| Owner | Mid-State Television, Inc. |
| First air date | January 10, 1986 |
| Call letters' meaning | MansFielD |
| Sister station(s) | WOHZ-CD, WVNO-FM, WRGM, W257CV |
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| Former affiliations | Dark (1989–1992) |
| Transmitter power | 4.8 kW |
| Height | 161 m |
| Facility ID | 41893 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°45′39″N 82°37′0″W / 40.76083°N 82.61667°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.wmfd.com |
WMFD-TV, virtual channel 68 (VHF digital channel 12), is an independent television station located in Mansfield, Ohio, United States. The station is owned by Mid-State Television, Inc. (headed by Gunther Meisse), which also owns WOHZ-CD (channel 41) and radio stations WVNO-FM (106.1) and ESPN Radio affiliate WRGM (1440 AM and 97.3 FM). WMFD maintains studio and transmitter facilities located on Park Avenue West in Ontario. The station is available in both high definition and standard definition on The digital cable systems in North-Central Ohio area and throughout the Cleveland market on DirecTV and Dish Network.
The station first signed on the air on January 10, 1986 as WCEO-TV, originally broadcasting on UHF channel 68. It changed its call letters to WCOM on July 24, 1987. The station attempted to enter the Columbus market by construction with a tall transmitter tower (the tallest ever erected in Ohio) south of Mansfield in Butler, but it never achieved cable carriage in the market and shut down in 1989.
Channel 68 returned to the air under the current WMFD-TV call letters on June 1, 1992; this time, targeting viewers in north-central Ohio (the WMFD call letters were previously used on what is now WECT-TV in Wilmington, North Carolina from that station's sign-on in 1954 until 1958).
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