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Mass Media In Columbus, Ohio
Columbus, Ohio is served by several newspapers, magazines, and television and radio stations. Newspapers and magazines Several weekly and daily newspapers serve Columbus and Central Ohio. The major daily newspaper in Columbus is ''The Columbus Dispatch''; its erstwhile main competitor, ''The Columbus Citizen-Journal'', ceased publication on December 31, 1985. There are also neighborhood/suburb specific papers, such as the Dispatch Printing Company's ''ThisWeek Community News'', which serves 23 suburbs and Columbus, the '' Columbus Messenger'', and the independently owned ''Short North Gazette''. '' The Lantern'' and '' UWeekly'' serve the Ohio State University community. "Alternative" arts/culture/politics-oriented papers include Outlook Media's ''Outlook: Columbus'' (serving the city's LGBT community), and '' aLIVE'' (formerly the independent ''Columbus Alive'' and now owned by the ''Columbus Dispatch''). The newest addition to the Columbus media scene is ''Live Local! Columbus' ...
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Columbus, Ohio
Columbus (, ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities in Ohio, most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 United States census, 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the List of United States cities by population, 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwestern United States, Midwest (after Chicago), and the third-most populous U.S. state capital (after Phoenix, Arizona, and Austin, Texas). Columbus is the county seat of Franklin County, Ohio, Franklin County; it also extends into Delaware County, Ohio, Delaware and Fairfield County, Ohio, Fairfield counties. The Columbus metropolitan area, Ohio, Columbus metropolitan area encompasses ten counties in central Ohio and had a population of 2.14 million in 2020, making it the Ohio statistical areas, largest metropolitan area entirely in Ohio and Metropolitan statistical area, 32nd-largest metro area in the U.S. Columbus originated as several Nat ...
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WSYX
WSYX (channel 6) is a television station in Columbus, Ohio, United States, affiliated with ABC, MyNetworkTV and Fox. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which provides certain services to Roar station WTTE (channel 28, owned by Cunningham Broadcasting) and Chillicothe-licensed CW affiliate WWHO (channel 53, owned by Manhan Media) under separate local marketing agreements (LMAs). However, Sinclair effectively owns WTTE as the majority of Cunningham's stock is owned by the family of deceased group founder Julian Smith. The three stations share studios on Dublin Road in Grandview Heights (with a Columbus mailing address); WSYX's transmitter is located in the Franklinton section of Columbus. History The station began operations on September 29, 1949, as WTVN, Columbus' second television station. At its launch, the station was owned by Picture Waves Inc., a company controlled by Toledo-based attorney and investor Edward Lamb; Lamb also owned WICU-TV in Erie, Penn ...
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WCSN-LD
WCSN-LD (channel 32) is a low-power television station in Columbus, Ohio, United States. The station is owned by Word Broadcasting Network. History WCSN was launched on March 24, 2007, as the Columbus Sports Network (CSN), Central Ohio's first and only continuous all-sports television station, broadcasting events, features, highlights and news on professional, collegiate, scholastic and amateur sports teams in the area. The first-ever telecast on CSN was an Arena Football matchup between the Columbus Destroyers and the Chicago Rush; the Destroyers lost to the Rush, 55–47. While under the ownership of United Media Acquisitions and prior to ceasing local original programming, WCSN was carried on cable television systems in the market; Insight Communications had it on Channels 78 and 524, and WOW! had it on channel 97. This carriage was based on the station's original incarnation as an all-sports station, and included a channel on Time Warner Cable. CSN planned to broadcast app ...
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WBNS-TV
WBNS-TV (channel 10) is a television station in Columbus, Ohio, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside the company's sole radio properties, WBNS (1460 AM) and WBNS-FM (97.1). The stations share studios on Twin Rivers Drive west of Downtown Columbus, where WBNS-TV's transmitter is also located. WBNS-TV also serves as the CBS affiliate of record for the nearby Zanesville, Ohio, market. Before its purchase in August 2019 by Tegna, WBNS-TV was the flagship station of founding owner Dispatch Broadcast Group, whose operations also included WTHR, the NBC affiliate in Indianapolis, and WALV-CD, Indianapolis' MeTV outlet and an alternate NBC affiliate; all of Dispatch's stations are now with Tegna. History Until 1995 WBNS-TV began operations on October 15, 1949. WBNS radio had been a CBS Radio Network affiliate for almost 20 years, so Channel 10 immediately joined the CBS television network. It is currently the ninth longest-tenured CBS affiliate ...
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Ion Television
Ion Television (referred to on-air as simply Ion) is an American broadcast television network and FAST television channel owned by the Scripps Networks subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. The network first began broadcasting on August 31, 1998, as Pax TV, focusing primarily on family-oriented entertainment programming. It rebranded as i: Independent Television (commonly referred to as "i") on July 1, 2005, converting into a general entertainment network featuring recent and older acquired programs. The network adopted its identity as Ion Television on January 29, 2007. For many years, Ion has focused primarily on off-network reruns of existing series, with most of its current schedule devoted to marathon blocks of procedural dramas, along with occasional broadcasts of films (including television films during the Christmas season). In the past, Ion had acquired first-run airings of Canadian series not picked up by other American networks and had also been infamous f ...
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WSFJ-TV
WSFJ-TV (channel 51) is a television station licensed to London, Ohio, United States, broadcasting the Ion Television network to the Columbus area. Owned and operated by the Ion Media subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company, the station maintains studios on North Central Drive in Lewis Center, Ohio. Even though WSFJ-TV is licensed as a full-power station, its broadcasting radius only covers the immediate Columbus area, as it shares spectrum with low-power, Class A Daystar station WCLL-CD, which transmits from a tower on Twin Rivers Drive near downtown Columbus. Therefore, WSFJ-TV relies on cable and satellite carriage to reach the entire market. History WSFJ-TV began operations on March 9, 1980. Originally licensed to Newark, east of Columbus, it was the market's first independent television station, and the first new commercial station in the area since 1949. On paper, Columbus had grown large enough to support an independent station as far back as the late 1960s. H ...
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TBD (TV Network)
Roar (formerly TBD.) is an American digital multicast television network owned by the Sinclair Television Group subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group. From its launch in 2016 the channel focused on millennials with short-form viral video content and reality programming, but eventually shifted towards traditional :30/:60 minute-long sketch comedy and other comedic-focused programming underserved in the digital subchannel space. With the acquisition of repeats of ''Saturday Night Live'' in the fall of 2024, the network rebranded to Roar on April 28, 2025, to complete its transition towards comedic content. Background The development of TBD is traced to a visit by Sinclair Broadcast Group management to the Santa Monica, California, headquarters of the Tennis Channel in January 2016, as it began to close on acquiring the network. While touring Tennis Channel's master control, main control room, company executives spotted a monitor carrying the foreign feed of The QYOU, a Dublin-base ...
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WTTE
WTTE (channel 28) is a television station in Columbus, Ohio, United States, airing programming from Roar. It is owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group—owner of ABC and Fox affiliate WSYX (channel 6)—for the provision of certain services, and is operated from studios on Dublin Road alongside WSYX and CW affiliate WWHO (channel 53). WTTE's transmitter is located in the Franklinton section of Columbus. WTTE was the third station built by Sinclair. It signed on June 1, 1984, as the first mainstream independent station in the Columbus market, joining the Fox network at its launch two years later. After years of false starts, it began airing a local newscast in 1996 produced by WSYX, which was then under separate ownership. When Sinclair was able to acquire WSYX from River City Broadcasting in 1998, it transferred the WTTE license to Glencairn, Ltd.—predecessor to Cunningham—and continued to run i ...
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Tri-State Christian Television
Tri-State Christian Television, Inc., trade name, doing business as TCT Network and TCT Ministries (formerly Total Christian Television), is a religious broadcasting, religious television network in the United States. The network was founded in May 1977 by spouses Garth and Tina Coonce. TCT Network includes traditional televangelism, talk shows, children-oriented programming such as ''TCT Kids'' (used to meet E/I mandates), Southern gospel music, and feature films with Christianity, Christian themes. TCT has an international service, ''TCT World'', which broadcasts in over 170 countries. From the mid-1980s to 2007, TCT was an affiliate of the Trinity Broadcasting Network. The network currently maintains a relationship with the Christian Broadcasting Network, airing that network's flagship program ''The 700 Club'' twice daily as well as CBN's nightly newscast. From 2011 to 2013, TCT operated a Spanish-language sub-channel which was available both online and over the air on TCT s ...
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WGCT-CD
WGCT-CD (channel 39) is a low-power, Class A television station in Columbus, Ohio, United States, affiliated with Tri-State Christian Television (TCT). The station is owned by the Central Ohio Association of Christian Broadcasters, and is relayed on WOCB-CD in Marion, WXCB-CD in Delaware and WQIZ-LD in Ashland. History W08BV era (1983–1998) In 1983, the station's construction permit was assigned by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The station began broadcasting in 1985, under the callsign of W08BV, as the first low-power television station in the Columbus media market. In its first years on the air, it aired syndicated programming, and it also boasted an in-house sports broadcasting unit. Sports coverage on W08BV included football and basketball games involving more than 30 high schools in the area, mainly in Franklin County. It also held a contract to cover Ohio State Buckeyes women's basketball, women's gymnastics, as well as hockey and wrestling. WINJ-LP/WGC ...
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Bounce TV
Bounce TV is an American digital terrestrial television, digital broadcast television network owned by Scripps Networks, a subsidiary of E. W. Scripps Company. It launched on September 26, 2011, and was promoted as "the first 24/7 digital multicast broadcast network created to target African Americans". Bounce features a mix of original and acquired programming geared toward African Americans between 25 and 54 years of age. The network has network affiliate, affiliates with terrestrial television and television station in many media markets through digital subchannel, digital subchannels. It is also available on the digital cable tiers of select cable television, cable providers at the discretion of local affiliates, as well as on Dish Network, DirecTV and Frndly TV. History Founding and launch The founding group and initial ownership team included Martin Luther King III; former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia and ambassador of the United States to the United Nations Andrew Young and ...
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WQMC-LD
This is a list of broadcast television stations that are licensed in the U.S. state of Ohio. Full-power stations * Stations are arranged by media market served and channel position. Defunct full-power stations *Channel 15: WICA-TV/Ashtabula (1953–1956, 1965–1967) *Channel 16: WKTR-TV/Kettering (1967–1970) *Channel 26: WSWO-TV/Springfield (1968–1970, 1972) *Channel 30: WRLO/Portsmouth (1966–1968 or 1969) *Channel 30: WUXA/Portsmouth (1988–1989) *Channel 31: WGSF/Newark (1963–1976) *Channel 42: WPBO/Portsmouth (1973–2017) *Channel 45: WXTV/Youngstown (1960–1962) *Channel 61: WKBF-TV/Cleveland (1968–1975) *Channel 68: WCOM/Mansfield (1988–1989) LPTV stations VC refers to the station's PSIP virtual channel. RF refers to the station's physical RF channel. Translators Cable-only stations * Zanesville CW 13 - The CW - Zanesville {{Ohio * Ohio Television stations A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation ...
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