WBNX-TV (channel 55) is an
independent
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television station
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licensed to
Akron, Ohio
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, United States, serving the
Cleveland
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area. The station is owned by the Winston Broadcasting Network subsidiary of locally based
Ernest Angley Ministries, operating as a for-profit arm of the company.
WBNX-TV's studios are located on State Road in suburban
Cuyahoga Falls
Cuyahoga Falls ( or ) is a city in Summit County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 51,114. The second-largest city in Summit County, it is located directly north of Akron and is a suburb of the Akron metropol ...
, in a building which also houses Winston Broadcasting's television production facilities. The station's transmitter is located in
Parma, Ohio
Parma is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, located on the southern edge of Cleveland.
As of the 2020 census, its population was 81,146. Parma is the seventh largest city in the state of Ohio, the largest suburb in the state, and ...
.
WBNX is one of a few for-profit U.S. television stations owned by a religious institution (most U.S. TV stations owned by religious institutions are affiliated with
non-profit
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religious broadcasting
Religious broadcasting, sometimes referred to as faith-based broadcasts, is the dissemination of television and/or radio content that intentionally has religious ideas, religious experience, or religious practice as its core focus. In some coun ...
networks).
History
Early days
left, 200px, Original logo for WBNX used from 1985 to 1996
WBNX-TV first signed on the air on December 1, 1985, as a
secular
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for-profit
independent station
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. The WBNX call letters were previously used by a radio station in
New York City
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on 1380
AM (now
WKDM
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) until 1984. Before WBNX signed on, its owner Ernest Angley purchased fellow televangelist
Rex Humbard
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Life and career
Humbard was born on ...
's television production facilities in Cuyahoga Falls to start the new station, and later purchased Humbard's
Cathedral of Tomorrow
The Cathedral of Tomorrow was a Pentecostal church located in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
History
The building was built in 1958 by Rex Humbard. The Cathedral, a round building with the sanctuary in the middle and classrooms and offices around the edge ...
complex (the current Grace Cathedral). The unfinished concrete tower which still stands behind Grace Cathedral was originally intended to hold the transmission tower of WCOT, for which Humbard had previously held a construction permit on the channel 55 frequency (the station never made it to air, and its authorization was deleted by the
Federal Communications Commission
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(FCC) in 1976). The concrete tower was never purchased or used by WBNX, but is owned by Krieger Communications and used for cellular phone transmissions.
The station, then branded as "WBNX TV55", carried a general entertainment format with classic
dramas
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,
westerns
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, low-budget
films
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, syndicated
game show
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s, and a twice daily airing of station owner Angley's religious
talk
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Communication
* Communication, the encoding and decoding of exchanged messages between people
* Conversation, interactive communication between two or more people
* Lecture, an oral presentation intended to inform or instruct
...
/
variety show
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''The 90 and 9 Club''.
During this time, WBNX aimed its programming at family audiences (with the slogan "We are family and we show it!") and imposed censoring standards that were similar to that used by
The Family Channel,
Nick at Nite
Nick at Nite (stylized as nick@nite) is an American nighttime basic cable television channel that broadcasts over the channel space of Nickelodeon. It typically broadcasts Mondays to Thursday nights from 9 p.m. - 6:30 a.m. Eastern Time Zone, ET/Pac ...
and other kids and teens' oriented cable channels. In November 1986 when cross-town WCLQ 61 was sold to the
Home Shopping Network
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, WBNX picked up the
cartoons
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and classic sitcoms previously on WCLQ. By 1988, WBNX gradually began running
infomercial
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s much of the broadcast day. By 1990, WBNX was running paid programming half the broadcast day, low budget syndicated programming about 1/4 of the day and religious shows a few hours a day.
WBNX's original transmitter was located on Snowville Road in
Brecksville, Ohio
Brecksville is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, and a suburb in the Greater Cleveland area. The city's population was 13,635 at the United States 2020 Census.
History
Brecksville was founded in 1811, four years after several me ...
, which was originally used by
WKYC-TV
WKYC (channel 3) is a television station in Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Tegna Inc. Its studios are located on Tom Beres Way (a section of Lakeside Avenue in Downtown Cleveland named after the stati ...
(channel 3) in its earlier days. The old technology for the transmitter forced WBNX to broadcast its audio feed in monaural rather than in
stereo
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. In 2000, WBNX built a new transmitter and tower in Parma, becoming the tallest television broadcast tower in the Cleveland market.
Fox Kids
WBNX moved to become a major player in Cleveland television in September 1994, when it overhauled its programming lineup to include a mix of classic sitcoms, movies and cartoons as well as a couple hours of religious shows each day; infomercials were also relegated to overnight time slots at that time. WBNX also acquired a few syndicated programs that got displaced from
WJW (channel 8) and
WOIO
WOIO (channel 19) is a television station licensed to Shaker Heights, Ohio, United States, serving the Cleveland area as an affiliate of CBS. It is owned by Gray Television alongside low-power Telemundo affiliate WTCL-LD (channel 6) and Lorai ...
(channel 19) through an affiliation shakeup spurred by an agreement between then-
Fox
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network parent
News Corporation
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and
New World Communications
New World Pictures (also known as New World Entertainment and New World Communications Group, Inc.) was an American independent production, distribution, and (in its final years as an autonomous entity) multimedia company. It was founded in 197 ...
, in which the market's Fox affiliation shifted over to WJW (which had been affiliated with CBS for nearly 40 years) and the CBS affiliation went to WOIO (which had been a Fox charter affiliate since the network launched in October 1986).
When WJW and WOIO swapped networks on September 3, 1994, WBNX acquired the local rights to the
Fox Kids
Fox Kids (originally known as Fox Children's Network and later as the Fox Kids Network; stylized as FOX KIDS) was an American children's block programming, programming block and branding for a slate of international children's television channel ...
programming block.
Like other New World stations affected by the affiliation agreement, WJW decided to not air the Fox Kids block upon joining Fox, choosing instead to air newscasts and syndicated programs weekdays, and infomercials and local
real estate
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programs on weekends. WBNX also inherited the northeast Ohio iteration of the Fox Kids Club from WOIO; under channel 55's stewardship, WBNX's Fox Kids Club grew into the largest Fox Kids Club.
At that same time, WJW reached a news share arrangement with WBNX that allowed the latter to air tape-delayed rebroadcasts of WJW's 10:00 p.m. newscast each night at 11:00 p.m.; WBNX continued to air these rebroadcasts until September 1996. The station also expanded its distribution, increasing its carriage on local cable providers throughout northeast Ohio (including within the adjacent
Youngstown
Youngstown is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the largest city and county seat of Mahoning County. At the 2020 census, Youngstown had a city population of 60,068. It is a principal city of the Youngstown–Warren metropolitan area, which ...
market). Channel 55's programming lineup during this period included more contemporary children's programs, sitcoms, drama series and movies; in addition, WBNX's content standards adapted to contractually airing syndicated programs containing profanity, sexual content and violence as is (with the only editing being that made by distributors to fit designated running times and to censor content not compliant with FCC decency standards). These changes would boost the station, with WBNX eventually surpassing WUAB in the ratings.
WB affiliation
200px, logo used from 1997 to 2003 during the station's WB affiliation
On September 1, 1997, WBNX-TV took over as the Cleveland-area affiliate of
The WB Television Network
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, assuming the rights from
WUAB-TV
WUAB (channel 43) is a television station licensed to Lorain, Ohio, United States, serving the Cleveland area as an affiliate of The CW. It is owned by Gray Television alongside low-power Telemundo affiliate WTCL-LD (channel 6) and Shaker Hei ...
(channel 43). The station, accordingly, changed its branding to "WB 55". The WB affiliation also resulted in WBNX adding the
Kids' WB
Kids' WB (stylized as Kids' WB!) was an American children's programming service and brand of The WB that aired on the network from September 9, 1995, to September 16, 2006. The block moved to The CW (a result of the merger of Time Warner's The WB ...
lineup, so with having both Fox Kids and Kids' WB, channel 55 promoted themselves at that time as being "Cleveland's Kids Superstation".
After becoming a WB affiliate, WBNX-TV continued to grow and eventually took the overall ratings lead above WUAB by 2004; WBNX consistently ranked in the top 11 of all WB affiliates in the country and was the #1 WB affiliate in overall ratings among the 19 largest television markets during the November 2005 sweeps ratings period. In 1998, WBNX approached Cleveland late night icon ''The Ghoul'' (portrayed by
Ron Sweed
Ronald D. Sweed (January 23, 1949 – April 1, 2019) was an American entertainer and author, known for his late-night television horror host character "The Ghoul".
Early life and career
Sweed was born on January 23, 1949, in Euclid, Ohio. His mo ...
) to host the station's Friday night (later on Sunday nights, towards the end of the program's run) movie, until WBNX discontinued its relationship with Sweed in 2004. In January 2005, the station changed its on-air branding to "WBNX-TV, Cleveland's WB," de-emphasizing the station's Channel 55 allocation.
CW affiliation
![WBNX CW TV](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/WBNX_CW_TV.PNG)
On January 24, 2006, UPN parent company
CBS Corporation
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and WB network parent
Time Warner
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It was originally established in 1972 by ...
announced that they would dissolve the two networks to create
The CW Television Network
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, a joint venture between the two media companies that initially featured programs from its two predecessor networks as well as original first-run series developed for The CW. Nearly one month after the CW launch announcement, on February 22, 2006, News Corporation announced the launch of
MyNetworkTV
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, a network operated by
Fox Television Stations
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and its syndication division
Twentieth Television
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that was created to primarily serve as a network programming option (in lieu of converting to a general entertainment independent format) for UPN and WB stations that were left out of The CW's affiliation deals. Following the announcement, both WBNX and WUAB were in the running to become Cleveland's affiliate of the new network.
On March 1, in a joint announcement by CBS Corporation and the Winston Broadcasting Network, WBNX was confirmed as The CW's Cleveland affiliate. Since the network chose its charter stations based on which of them among The WB and UPN's respective affiliate bodies was the highest-rated in each market, WBNX was chosen to join The CW over WUAB as it had been the higher-rated of the two stations at the time of the agreement's signing. Six days later on March 7, as part of an affiliation agreement that included two other Raycom-owned stations, WUAB was confirmed to be the Cleveland market's MyNetworkTV affiliate. WBNX remained a WB affiliate until the network ceased operations on September 17, 2006; when the station affiliated with The CW upon that network's debut on September 18, WBNX began branding as "WBNX, The CW," and adopted a new
wordmark
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logo consisting solely of the WBNX-TV call letter and the CW network logo design.
On April 30, 2007, WBNX began broadcasting CW network programming in
high definition and 5.1 stereo
surround sound
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.
Return to independence
On July 11, 2018,
Raycom Media
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and CBS Corporation announced that it signed a long-term deal in which WUAB would become the CW affiliate in Cleveland, with WBNX 55.1 becoming independent, effective July 16. The last CW network program to air on WBNX was ''
Chicken Soup for the Soul
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's Hidden Heroes'' (part of the network's ''
One Magnificent Morning
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'' block) at 10:30 a.m.
ET on July 14. WBNX formally became an independent station on July 16, with CW network programming, consisting of one hour daytime and two hours nightly and Saturday mornings, being replaced with syndicated programs already on channel 55's schedule. WBNX continues its affiliation with
Movies!
Movies! (also known as simply M!) is an American free-to-air television network, owned by Popcorn Entertainment, LLC, a joint venture between Weigel Broadcasting and the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of Fox Corporation. The network's prog ...
and
Heroes & Icons
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on its third and fourth subchannels.
Subchannel history
WBNX-DT2
![ThisTV WBNX-TV Akron-Cleveland](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/ThisTV_WBNX-TV_Akron-Cleveland.png)
On October 11, 2010, WBNX's second
digital subchannel
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debuted as an independent station (branded as The Happy Channel) airing
religious
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/family-oriented programming, such as Ernest Angley Ministries-produced programs such as ''The 90 & 9 Club'', ''The Ernest Angley Hour'' and the
gospel music
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series ''Sing, Sing, Sing, Come on Let's Sing'', along with other select family programs. On January 1, 2022, channel 55.2 switched to the classic game show network
Buzzr
Buzzr is an American digital terrestrial television, digital broadcast television network owned by Fremantle North America, a unit of the Fremantle (company), Fremantle subsidiary of RTL Group. The network serves as an outlet for the extensive li ...
(though a small amount of religious programing remains on the schedule, preempting a few game shows).
WBNX-DT3
On March 20, 2012, WBNX activated a new subchannel, which six days later became the new Cleveland affiliate of
This TV
This TV (also known as This TV Network and alternately stylized as thisTV) is an American free-to-air television network owned by Allen Media
Broadcast Networks, LLC, part of the Allen Media Group division of Entertainment Studios. Originally fo ...
, which had previously been carried on WUAB until that station's affiliation contract with the network expired. On March 23, 2015, WBNX replaced This TV with the
Movies!
Movies! (also known as simply M!) is an American free-to-air television network, owned by Popcorn Entertainment, LLC, a joint venture between Weigel Broadcasting and the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of Fox Corporation. The network's prog ...
network.
WBNX-DT4
In November 2015, it was announced that WBNX would become an affiliate of the
Heroes & Icons
Heroes & Icons (H&I) is an American Digital terrestrial television, digital broadcast television network owned by Weigel Broadcasting. Usually carried on the digital subchannels of its affiliated television station in most markets, the network ai ...
network. The network is carried on 55.4, which was activated on December 30, 2015.
WBNX-DT5 & DT6
In November 2018, it was announced that WBNX would become an affiliate for both
Start TV
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and
Decades
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Usage
Any period of ten years is a "decade". For example, the statement that "du ...
on 55.5 and 55.6, respectively. Both channels were launched on December 1, 2018. On November 1, 2022, Decades moved over to
WOCV-CD
WOCV-CD (channel 35) is a low-powered, Class A television station in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, airing programming from the digital multicast network Decades. The station is owned and operated by Weigel Broadcasting, and its transmitter i ...
35.1, which was purchased by
Weigel Broadcasting
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back in June. With no replacement network lined up, 55.6 was deactivated.
Programming
Syndicated programs broadcast by WBNX include ''
The Neighborhood'', ''
Rachael Ray
Rachael Domenica Ray (born August 25, 1968) is an American cook, television personality, businesswoman, and author. She hosts the syndicated daily talk and lifestyle program ''Rachael Ray'', and the Food Network series '' 30 Minute Meals''. ...
'', ''
Divorce Court
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'', ''
Family Feud
''Family Feud'' is an American television game show created by Mark Goodson. It features two families who compete to name the most popular answers to survey questions in order to win cash and prizes.
The show has had three separate runs, the ...
'', ''
The Jennifer Hudson Show
''The Jennifer Hudson Show'' is an American syndicated daytime talk show. Hosted by singer and actress Jennifer Hudson, the series premiered on September 12, 2022.
Production
In November 2021, ''Deadline'' reported that Warner Bros. Televisio ...
'', ''
9-1-1
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'', ''
Seal Team'', ''
The King of Queens
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'', ''
Young Sheldon
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'', ''
You Bet Your Life
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'', ''
The Goldbergs'', and ''
Last Man Standing''.
Notable alumni
*
Ernest Angley
Ernest Winston Angley (August 9, 1921 – May 7, 2021) was an American Christian evangelist, author, and television station owner who was based in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio from the 1950s until his death in 2021.
Ernest Angley was a native of Moores ...
*
Ron Sweed
Ronald D. Sweed (January 23, 1949 – April 1, 2019) was an American entertainer and author, known for his late-night television horror host character "The Ghoul".
Early life and career
Sweed was born on January 23, 1949, in Euclid, Ohio. His mo ...
(The Ghoul)
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is
multiplexed
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:
Analog-to-digital conversion
WBNX-TV shut down its analog signal, over
UHF
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channel 55, 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. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 30.
Through the use of
PSIP
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, digital television receivers display the station's
virtual channel
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as its former UHF analog channel 55, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.
References
External links
*
Cleveland.ThisTV.com- Official This TV Cleveland website
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Television channels and stations established in 1985
1985 establishments in Ohio
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Independent television stations in the United States
Buzzr affiliates
Movies! affiliates
Heroes & Icons affiliates
Start TV affiliates