WCBZ-CD,
virtual channel
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22 (
UHF digital channel 18), is a
low-powered,
Class A Cozi TV-
affiliated television station
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licensed
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A license is granted by a party (licensor) to another party (licensee) as an element of an agreeme ...
to
Columbus, Ohio, United States. The station is owned by the Columbus Broadcasting Corporation.
History
WCBZ-CD was founded as W22AE on April 17, 1989. The station then changed its call letters to WBKA-LP in 1995. In 2004, the station was acquired from low-power broadcaster, Crawford Broadcasting by Metro Video Productions, and was granted Class A status, thus changing its callsign to WBKA-CA.
In 2008, the station was acquired by Studio 51 Multimedia Productions, Ltd., and began operating as TV 22 Marion, offering comprehensive coverage of the events in the
Marion County, Ohio
Marion County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 65,359. Its county seat is Marion. The county was created in 1820 and later organized in 1824. It is named for General Francis "The Swam ...
area, as well as other original programming. In August 2009, the WBKA-CA call sign was changed to WMNO-CA (MarioN-Ohio).
In 2015, the station was purchased by Positive News Network, Inc. at which point it took on its current network affiliation.
In 2017, the call sign changed again to WCBZ-CD (Columbus Broadcasting) to better reflect its new ownership by Columbus Broadcasting Corporation.
In Marion, WCBZ-CD had been carried on Time Warner Cable (Now Charter Spectrum) channel 3 (with cable box) or channel 96 (without cable box), but the station was removed from the Marion channel line-up on May 8, 2018.
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is
multiplexed
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:
Analog-to-digital conversion
WMNO-CD shut down its analog signal, over
UHF channel 22, on January 7, 2015, and "
flash-cut" its digital signal into operation to UHF channel 28, using
PSIP
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to display WMNO-CD's
virtual channel
In most telecommunications organizations, a virtual channel is a method of remapping the ''program number'' as used in H.222 Program Association Tables and Program Mapping Tables to a channel number that can be entered via digits on a receiver's ...
as 22 on digital television receivers.
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Marion, Ohio
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