13 Facts About WBNX

WBNX-TV is an independent television station licensed to Akron, Ohio, United States, serving the Cleveland area.

WBNX is one of a few for-profit U S television stations owned by a religious institution .

The WBNX call letters were previously used by a radio station in New York City on 1380 AM until 1984.

The concrete tower was never purchased or used by WBNX, but is owned by Krieger Communications and used for cellular phone transmissions.

In November 1986 when cross-town WCLQ 61 was sold to the Home Shopping Network, WBNX picked up the cartoons and classic sitcoms previously on WCLQ.

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In 2000, WBNX built a new transmitter and tower in Parma, becoming the tallest television broadcast tower in the Cleveland market.

WBNX moved to become a major player in Cleveland television in September 1994, when it overhauled its programming lineup to include a mix of classic sitcoms, movies and cartoons as well as a couple hours of religious shows each day; infomercials were relegated to overnight time slots at that time.

WBNX acquired a few syndicated programs that got displaced from WJW and WOIO through an affiliation shakeup spurred by an agreement between then-Fox network parent News Corporation and New World Communications, in which the market's Fox affiliation shifted over to WJW and the CBS affiliation went to WOIO .

WBNX inherited the northeast Ohio iteration of the Fox Kids Club from WOIO; under channel 55's stewardship, WBNX's Fox Kids Club grew into the largest Fox Kids Club.

The WB affiliation resulted in WBNX adding the Kids' WB lineup, so with having both Fox Kids and Kids' WB, channel 55 promoted themselves at that time as being "Cleveland's Kids Superstation".

In 1998, WBNX approached Cleveland late night icon The Ghoul to host the station's Friday night movie, until WBNX discontinued its relationship with Sweed in 2004.

Since the network chose its charter stations based on which of them among The WB and UPN's respective affiliate bodies was the highest-rated in each market, WBNX was chosen to join The CW over WUAB as it had been the higher-rated of the two stations at the time of the agreement's signing.

In November 2018, it was announced that WBNX would become an affiliate for both Start TV and Decades on 55.