WOHZ-CD (channels 19 and 43) is a
low-power,
Class A television station in
Canton, Ohio, United States. Owned by
Gray Television
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, it serves as an
ultra high frequency
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(UHF)
translator of Gray's two full-power stations in the
Cleveland
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market:
WOIO (channel 19), a
Shaker Heights–licensed
CBS affiliate, and
WUAB (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
Reserve Square building in
Downtown Cleveland.
History
Originally
licensed to
Mansfield, Ohio, this station took to the air on May 7, 1990, as W50BE.
An extension of locally owned
WVNO-FM and
WRGM, W50BE was an
independent station
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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
WMFD-TV "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
America One 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
Ontario, Ohio. 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
Atlanta
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–based
Gray Television
Gray Television, Inc. is an American publicly traded television broadcasting company based in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1946 by James Harrison Gray as Gray Communications Systems, the company owns or operates 180 stations across the United St ...
, owner of
WOIO and
WUAB, 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
Canton, Ohio, 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
multiplexed:
See also
*
Tallest structures in the United States, relating to the old WCOM tower.
References
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Television channels and stations established in 1990
Low-power television stations in the United States
CBS network affiliates
The CW affiliates
OHZ-CD
1990 establishments in Ohio
Canton, Ohio
Gray Television