This is a list of broadcast television stations that are licensed in the U.S. state of
Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
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Full-power stations
VC refers to the station's
PSIP
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virtual channel
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. RF refers to the station's physical RF channel.
Defunct full-power stations
*Channel 15:
WICA-TV
WICA-TV, UHF analog channel 15, was a television station licensed to Ashtabula, Ohio, United States.
Richard D. and David C. Rowley, the founders of WICA AM/FM, started WICA-TV in the 1950s. Hampered by broadcasting on the (then relatively unknow ...
- Ashtabula (8/25/1953 - 6/16/1956 and 12/15/1965 - 12/26/1967)
*Channel 16:
WKTR-TV - Ind. -
Kettering
Kettering is a market and industrial town in North Northamptonshire, England. It is located north of London and north-east of Northampton, west of the River Ise, a tributary of the River Nene. The name means "the place (or territory) of ...
(3/20/1967 - 1970)
*Channel 26:
WSWO-TV
WSWO-TV (channel 26) was a television station in Springfield, Ohio, United States, which operated from 1968 to 1970 and for less than six months in 1972. An independent station for its entire existence, WSWO-TV suffered from financial difficult ...
- Ind. - Springfield (7/14/1968 – 6/19/1970, 6/17/1972 – 12/6/1972)
*Channel 30:
WRLO - Portsmouth (5/14/1966 - 1968 or 1969)
*Channel 30:
WUXA - Ind. - Portsmouth (5/8/1988 - 1989)
*Channel 31:
WGSF - PBS - Newark (3/18/1963 - 6/30/1976)
*Channel 42 (RF channel 43):
WPBO - PBS \ Portsmouth (October 1973 - 10/27/2017)
*Channel 45:
WXTV
WXTV-DT (channel 41) is a television station licensed to Paterson, New Jersey, United States, serving as the Univision outlet for the New York City area. It is one of two flagship stations of the Spanish-language network (the other being WL ...
- Youngstown (11/15/1960 - 2/28/1962)
*Channel 61:
WKBF-TV
WKBF-TV was a television station that broadcast on channel 61 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, from January 1968 to April 1975. Owned and operated by Kaiser Broadcasting as one of an eventual group of six stations, it was the first ultra hig ...
- Ind. - Cleveland (1/19/1968 - 3/21/1975)
*Channel 68:
WCOM - Ind. - Mansfield (1988 - 1989)
LPTV
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stations
Translators
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Cable-only stations
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Zanesville CW 13 -
The CW
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- Zanesville
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Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
Television stations
A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity, such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the ear ...