WOHZ-CD (channels 19 and 43) is a low-power,

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, United States. Owned by

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, it serves as an

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(UHF)

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of Gray's two full-power stations in the

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market:

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), a

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–licensed

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affiliate, and

WUAB 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 broadcasting#Television, low-power Telemundo affiliate WT ...

(channel 43), a Lorain–licensed CW affiliate, both of which broadcast over the same spectrum via a channel sharing agreement. WOHZ-CD's transmitter is located northeast of Canton, while WOIO and WUAB share studios on the ground floor of the

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building in

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History

Originally

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, this station took to the air on May 7, 1990, as W50BE. An extension of locally owned

WVNO-FM WVNO-FM (106.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting an adult contemporary format. Licensed to Mansfield, Ohio, United States, the station serves the Mid-Ohio area. The station is currently owned by Johnny Appleseed Broadcasting Company and fea ...

and

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, W50BE was an

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boasting a lineup of local newscasts and community programming for the Mansfield/ Ashland/ Bucyrus region, nearly equidistant from both the Cleveland and Columbus markets. After W50BE owner Mid-State Television, Inc., headed by Robert Meisse, acquired the license to WCOM-TV, that station was relaunched as

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"TV68/50" on June 1, 1992, simulcasting W50BE's programming. By the beginning of 1996, W50BE changed call signs to WOHZ-LP and was relaunched as "Z-50", offering additional local programming as a WMFD-TV extension alongside

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fare. Later upgraded to a Class A station as WOHZ-CA, it also began to offer weather information and an audio simulcast of WVNO-FM from a combined studio facility in

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. The station was licensed for digital operation on February 26, 2015, assuming the call sign WOHZ-CD. On October 8, 2020, Mid-State Television sold WOHZ-CD to

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–based

, owner of

and

, for $450,000. The sale was completed on December 8, 2020. Upon taking over WOHZ-CD, Gray Television changed the station's city of license to

, and began using it as a repeater for WOIO and WUAB, increasing coverage for the two stations in the southern part of the Cleveland/Northeast Ohio TV market.

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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References

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History

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