WOIO
 
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Cleveland, Ohio United States |
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| City | Shaker Heights, Ohio |
| Branding | Cleveland 19 (general) Cleveland 19 News (newscasts) MeTV Cleveland (19.2 subchannel) |
| Slogan | Cleveland's News Center; Asking Questions. Getting Answers. (newscasts) |
| Channels |
Digital: 10 (VHF) Virtual: 19 () |
| Translators | 24 (UHF) Shaker Heights |
| Affiliations |
.1: CBS .2: MeTV |
| Owner |
Raycom Media (WOIO License Subsidiary, LLC) |
| First air date | May 19, 1985 |
| Call letters' meaning | OhIO |
| Sister station(s) | WUAB |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 19 (UHF, 1985–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Independent (1985–1986) Fox (1986–1994) |
| Transmitter power | 3.5 kW |
| Height | 304 meters |
| Facility ID | 39746 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°23′15.00″N 81°41′43.00″W / 41.3875000°N 81.6952778°WCoordinates: 41°23′15.00″N 81°41′43.00″W / 41.3875000°N 81.6952778°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | cleveland19 |
WOIO, virtual channel 19 (VHF digital channel 10), is a commercial television station licensed to Shaker Heights, Ohio, serving Greater Cleveland and much of surrounding Northeast Ohio. WOIO is owned by Raycom Media under a duopoly with Lorain-licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate WUAB (channel 43). Raycom maintains WOIO and WUAB's studios on the ground floor of the Reserve Square building in Downtown Cleveland, while the station transmitter resides in the Cleveland suburb of Parma.
The channel 19 allocation in the Cleveland television market dates back to the 1950s, when a construction permit for a television sister to WHK radio was issued to The Plain Dealer. When WHK was sold to Metropolitan Broadcasting (later Metromedia) in 1958, the construction permit for what was to have been WHK-TV was surrendered to the FCC. However, the channel 19 allocation remained.
On May 22, 1968, a new construction permit was issued to Community Telecasters of Cleveland Inc. for a new station with the call letters WCTF-TV. The limited programming available and the rising cost of building WCTF kept delaying plans and the sign on date for the station. In August 1972, an agreement was made to sell the construction permit to Joseph T. Zingale. Zingale backed out of the agreement in February 1974 due to a price dispute. On January 1975, United Artists Broadcasting tried to buy the permit and move WUAB to channel 19, but Zingale filed a protest claiming that Community Telecasters still held the construction permit. In May 1976, The FCC took the WCTF-TV permit away from Community Telecasters during a review board. Zingale then tried to acquire the license for WCTF, but the dispute eventually caused the construction permit to be deleted by the FCC.
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