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11 Facts About WHIO-TV

1.

WHIO-TV is a television station in Dayton, Ohio, United States, affiliated with CBS.

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2.

WHIO-TV's transmitter is located off Germantown Street in the Highview Hills neighborhood of southwest Dayton.

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3.

WHIO-TV is only the second of three television stations built by Cox from the ground up, merely five months after its sister property WSB-TV in Atlanta, where Cox Media Group is headquartered now.

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4.

WHIO-TV has been a CBS affiliate from the very beginning, and is the only station in Dayton never to have changed its primary affiliation; it did air some programming from the long-defunct DuMont Television Network during its first three years on the air.

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WHIO-TV served as the default CBS affiliate for most of the Lima, Ohio DMA.

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6.

WHIO-TV remains on Spectrum's Lima cable systems, along with Columbus CBS affiliate WBNS-TV.

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WHIO-TV's newscasts, known as NewsCenter 7 since the mid-1970s, have been in first place in the Nielsen ratings for many years, and that trend continues to this day.

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8.

Outside of the CBS network schedule, syndicated programming on WHIO-TV includes Live with Kelly and Ryan, Dr Phil, Wheel of Fortune, and Entertainment Tonight.

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9.

WHIO-TV currently calls its team of meteorologists the "Storm Center 7 weather team".

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10.

WHIO-TV did not use its own professional meteorologists until 1993, with the hiring of Penn State meteorology graduate Heidi Sonen.

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11.

Local commercials on WHIO-TV continue to be stretched from their original 4:3 standard definition to widescreen dimensions.

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