22 Facts About WUAB

WUAB is a television station licensed to Lorain, Ohio, United States, serving the Cleveland area as an affiliate of The CW.

Station first signed on the air on September 15,1968; WUAB was originally owned by United Artists Broadcasting .

WUAB was the second commercial UHF station in the area; the now-defunct WKBF-TV had beaten it to the air by eight months.

Originally, WUAB's schedule consisted of cartoons, syndicated off-network sitcoms, movies, and religious programs.

On September 7,1970, WUAB opened a new studio facility on Day Drive in Parma.

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WUAB drew a lot of its early programming from its parent company, including pre-1950 Warner Bros.

WUAB therefore acquired the programming rights to most of WKBF's stronger shows.

WUAB remained the Cleveland market's leading independent station into the 1980s.

WOIO and WUAB went head to head to achieve status as the strongest independent in Northeast Ohio, with WCLQ lagging behind; all three gained a competitor when the Winston Broadcasting Network signed on WBNX-TV as Cleveland's fourth independent station on December 1,1985.

WUAB changed its branding to "Hometeam 43" in September 1999, as part of a unified rebranding with WOIO to promote their local news and sports coverage.

On July 14,2006, WUAB began branding as "My 43, WUAB" in station promotions and legal identifications, and introduced a new on-air logo in anticipation of the launch of MyNetworkTV.

On January 29,2019, WUAB dropped MyNetworkTV, with the service moving to sister station WOIO's second digital subchannel, airing late nights on MeTV.

In 2005, WUAB began carrying The Tube Music Network on digital subchannel 43.

In late 2019, WUAB-DT3 was reactivated, briefly airing Bounce TV, and then becoming home to Circle on January 13,2020.

WUAB has been the longtime "free TV" home of the Cleveland Cavaliers, which first aired on the station from October 1980 to April 1988, and again since October 1994.

WUAB previously carried ESPN Plus coverage of Ohio State Buckeyes football and basketball, and in 2010, SEC football and basketball games via ESPN's SEC Network.

In 2018, WUAB carried Cleveland State Vikings men's basketball games.

WUAB began broadcasting in the 720p high definition format after the station switched its affiliation from UPN to MyNetworkTV in September 2006.

The 10 p m newscast airing on WUAB is broadcast in 720p, even though WOIO itself produces its newscasts in the 1080i format commonly used by CBS affiliates.

WUAB shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 43, on June 12,2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate.

WUAB sold its channel spectrum in the FCC reverse auction that ended in March 2017 for spectrum reallocation.

WUAB has been carried on cable channel 20 in London, Ontario since 1976, and is the only Cleveland station carried in London to this day.