19 Facts About WOIO

WOIO is a television station licensed to Shaker Heights, Ohio, United States, serving the Cleveland area as an affiliate of CBS.

WOIO was the third independent station to operate in the Cleveland market.

That fall, WOIO began carrying animated series and cartoon showcases on Monday through Saturday mornings and on weekday late afternoons.

WOIO became a charter affiliate of Fox when the fledgling network inaugurated programming on October 9,1986.

The fact that the LMA with WUAB resulted in WOIO being tied to the only Cleveland station not affiliated with any of the "Big Three" networks that had a functioning news department played a factor in CBS's decision to sign an affiliation agreement with the soon-to-be-former Fox affiliate.

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WOIO became the Cleveland market's CBS affiliate on September 3,1994; WJW-TV concurrently switched to Fox, ending its affiliation with CBS after 40 years and becoming the first New World station to switch to Fox under the group's agreement with that network.

On September 22,2021, WOIO announced the launch of a new sister station, WTCL, channel 6.

WOIO subsequently filed a lawsuit against the Browns on July 26,2006, alleging breach of contract and seeking to retain the broadcast rights to Browns games as the agreement had one year left to run.

WOIO originally had no intention to start a news department; however, CBS informed WOIO that it "preferred" that the station air newscasts.

WOIO began airing newsbriefs during CBS This Morning with Julie Hanahan, WOIO's first news employee, and Betty Haliburton.

One of the first big stories aired on WOIO featured the "glasses cam", which Dave Barker used to show how he could just walk into a school without being stopped.

WJW had been one of the strongest CBS affiliates in the country, and WOIO hoped that viewers would associate the network with a high-quality local newscast.

Also in 1997, WOIO tried to operate its news studio at street level so pedestrians could see the newscasts being taped .

Several months later in February 2000, WOIO's newscasts were rebranded as Hometeam 19 News and introduced a new look that coincided with Raycom's takeover of WOIO and WUAB.

In September 2019, WOIO added a daily half-hour talk show hosted by former Cleveland Browns Pro Bowl kick returner Josh Cribbs and his wife Maria titled Cribbs in the CLE.

On September 14,2020, WOIO debuted a new weekday 3 p m newscast, making it the first station in Cleveland to air news in that time slot.

WOIO has operated a digital fill-in translator in Akron on UHF channel 18 since August 12,2011, serving the south-central portion of the Cleveland–Akron–Canton market.

WOIO discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 19, on June 12,2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.

WOIO is available on cable in St Thomas and was briefly available on the digital tier in London in early 2005.