WLIO is the NBC

NBC

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-affiliated television station

Television station

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 for Northwest

Northwest Ohio

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 Ohio

Ohio

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 licensed to Lima

Lima, Ohio

Lima is a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Ohio, United States. The municipality is located in northwestern Ohio along Interstate 75 approximately north of Dayton and south-southwest of Toledo....

. It broadcasts a high definition

High-definition television

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 digital signal on VHF channel 8 from a transmitter at its studios on Rice Avenue in the city. The station can also be seen on Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...

 channel 5 and in high definition on digital channel 1005. Owned by Block Communications

Block Communications

Block Communications is a privately held holding company of various assets, mainly in the print and broadcast media, based in Toledo, Ohio. The company was founded in 1900 in New York City when Paul Block, a German immigrant who came to the United States fifteen years prior, formed an ad...

, the station operates Class A

Class A television service

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 ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 affiliate WOHL-CD (owned by West Central Ohio Broadcasting, Inc.) through a shared services

Shared services

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 agreement (SSA) and the two share studios. Syndicated

Television syndication

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 programming on this station includes Jeopardy!

Jeopardy!

Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not be shown on camera easily, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories...

, Wheel of Fortune

Wheel of Fortune (U.S. game show)

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, Entertainment Tonight

Entertainment Tonight

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, and Inside Edition

Inside Edition

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among others.

Digital programming

The station operates the area's primary Fox and secondary MyNetworkTV

MyNetworkTV

MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...

 affiliate on a second

WLIO-DT2

WLIO-DT2 is the primary Fox and secondary MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for Northwest Ohio. It is a second digital subchannel of NBC affiliate WLIO owned by Block Communications. Over-the-air, the station broadcasts a standard definition digital signal on VHF channel 8.2 from a...

 digital subchannel

Digital subchannel

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. This can also be seen on Time Warner

Time Warner

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 Cable channel 9 and in high definition on digital channel 1009. Syndicated programming on this station includes Friends

Friends

Friends is an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. The series revolves around a group of friends in Manhattan. The series was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television...

, George Lopez

George Lopez (TV series)

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, Family Guy

Family Guy

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, and Scrubs

Scrubs (TV series)

Scrubs is an American medical comedy-drama television series created in 2001 by Bill Lawrence and produced by ABC Studios. The show follows the lives of several employees of the fictional Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital. It features fast-paced screenplay, slapstick, and surreal vignettes...

along with others. Monday through Friday, MyNetworkTV can be seen from 11 at night until 1 the next morning.

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8.1	720p 720p 720p is the shorthand name for 1280x720, a category of High-definition television video modes having a resolution of 1080 or 720p and a progressive scan...	16:9 16:9 16:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ...	Main WLIO programming / NBC
8.2			WLIO-DT2 "Fox Lima" & "My TV Lima"

History

The station signed-on April 18, 1953 with the calls WLOK-TV. It aired an analog signal on UHF channel 73. The station was owned by Pixley Incorporated

Corporation

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 along with WBLY-AM 1240 (now WIMA-AM

WIMA (AM)

WIMA "The Talk Station" is a commercial AM broadcasting station operating at 1150 kHz in Lima, Ohio owned and operated by Clear Channel Communications which also operates FM sister stations WIMT, WLWD, WZRX-FM and WMLX from its studio and office location on West Market Street. Its transmitter...

 1150). WLOK-TV carried programming from all four networks of the Golden Age

Golden Age of Television

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 of television (NBC, CBS

CBS

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, ABC, and DuMont

DuMont Television Network

The DuMont Television Network, also known as the DuMont Network, DuMont, Du Mont, or Dumont was one of the world's pioneer commercial television networks, rivalling NBC for the distinction of being first overall. It began operation in the United States in 1946. It was owned by DuMont...

). It would eventually loose secondary affiliations with DuMont in 1956, CBS in 1972, and ABC in 1982. On December 8, 1954, WLOK-TV was sold to the Northwestern Ohio Broadcasting Corporation. On April 24, 1955, its call letters

Call sign

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 were changed to WIMA-TV and changed analog frequencies to UHF channel 35.

Channels 70 through 83 have since been reserved for uses other than television broadcasting. On September 1, 1971, the station changed calls again to WLIO-TV after WIMA-AM was sold to the Lima Broadcasting Corporation. On February 1, 1972, WLIO was purchased by the Toledo Blade

The Blade (newspaper)

The Blade is a daily newspaper in Toledo, Ohio, first published on December 19, 1835.- Overview :David Ross Locke gained national fame for the paper during the Civil War era by writing under the pen name Petroleum V. Nasby. Writing under the pen name, Locke wrote satires ranging on topics from...

newspaper and Midwestern Broadcasting of Toledo

Toledo, Ohio

Toledo is the fourth most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Lucas County. Toledo is in northwest Ohio, on the western end of Lake Erie, and borders the State of Michigan...

. In October 1982, Blade Communications (now Block Communications) bought out Midwestern Broadcasting and became sole owner of the station. Its digital signal on VHF channel 8 signed-on November 18, 2002.

From late-1998 until September 18, 2006, WLIO operated cable-only WB affiliate "WBOH" in partnership with WB 100+

The WB 100+ Station Group

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. Specifically, this station performed sales and promotional duties for the cable-exclusive affiliate. UPN

UPN

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 was seen in Lima on low-powered WLQP-LP

WLQP-LP

WLQP-LP is the ABC-affiliated television station for Northwestern Ohio that is licensed to Lima. It broadcasts a low-powered analog signal on UHF channel 25 from a transmitter on Rice Avenue in the city. WLQP can also be seen on Time Warner channel 12...

. After The WB and UPN merged in September 2006 to create The CW, "WBOH" became part of the new network as part of The CW Plus

The CW Plus

The CW Plus is a group of primarily digital sub-channels, analog, and non-broadcast cable television outlets for the CW Television Network, for markets below the top 99 television media markets in the United States....

. WLIO launched a new second digital subchannel

Digital subchannel

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 in order to offer non-cable subscribers access to the new network. Meanwhile, then-Fox affiliate WOHL added the other new network (MyNetworkTV) in a secondary nature. That station aired programming from the network Monday through Saturday nights from 11 until 1 the next the morning. Eventually, Saturday shows were dropped.

On September 17, 2008, WLIO dropped The CW from its second digital subchannel after the network reverted to a cable-exclusive status in Lima. The cable channel slot was eventually taken over by WBDT

WBDT

WBDT is the CW-affiliated television station for Ohio's Miami Valley. Licensed to Springfield, the station broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 26 from a transmitter in the Frytown section of Dayton. The station can also be seen on Time Warner Cable channel 13 and in high...

 from Dayton

Dayton, Ohio

Dayton is the 6th largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Montgomery County, the fifth most populous county in the state. The population was 141,527 at the 2010 census. The Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area had a population of 841,502 in the 2010 census...

 as the network's de-facto affiliate. As a result, WLIO-DT2 became a primary Fox and secondary MyNetworkTV affiliate essentially becoming a second outlet in Lima for the two networks. This resulted in a dispute between WLIO and WOHL. However, the former's second subchannel served as WOHL's digital signal because it did not receive a companion channel for digital transmission due to its Class A status.

On November 29, 2008, it was announced Metro Video Productions

Metro Video Productions

Metro Video Productions is a video production company in Lima, Ohio. Established in 1993 by Greg Phipps, Metro broke into the television market with its acquisition of low-power television stations WOHL-CA and WLQP-LP in Lima, Ohio...

 would sell its stations (WLQP, WLMO

WLMO-LP

WLMO-LP is the CBS-afifliated television station for Northwestern Ohio that is licensed to Lima. It broadcasts a low-powered analog signal on UHF channel 38 from a transmitter on Rice Avenue in the city. The station can also be seen on Time Warner channel 11...

, and WOHL) to West Central Ohio Broadcasting. One of that company's heads, Allan J. Block, is the chairman of Block Communications (owner of WLIO). While Block assumed control of those station's operations after the sale's completion on February 5, 2009, it was initially stated the company would not close the WLQP/WLMO/WOHL facilities on South Central Avenue and consolidate them with WLIO. It has since been stated some consolidation would take place with the stations moving to WLIO's studios on Rice Avenue. WLIO became digital-exclusive on June 12, 2009 after shutting down its analog signal on UHF channel 35.

On September 28, 2009, WLQP terminated its analog operations and ABC programming was shifted to WOHL. Primary Fox and secondary MyNetworkTV programming seen on that station continued to be aired on WLIO-DT2 and cable. Previously, WLIO-DT used Program and System Information Protocol

Program and System Information Protocol

The Program and System Information Protocol is the protocol used in the ATSC digital television system for carrying metadata about each channel in the broadcast MPEG transport stream of a TV station and for publishing information about television programs so that viewers can select what to watch...

 (PSIP) to display its virtual channel

Virtual channel

In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....

 as 35. However, when WOHL moved to digital channel 35 in late-2009, the virtual channel assignment was displaced since that station opted to use the same channel number as its actual frequency. As a result, Lima is one of the few markets where two of the largest stations are currently using not only the same virtual channel numbers as their actual RF channels, but also virtual channel numbers different from their former analog channel number assignments.

News operation

Adrian Cronauer

Adrian Cronauer

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 was a staff announcer and personality at WIMA from 1965 until 1967. Before coming to Lima, his tour of duty in Vietnam

Vietnam

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 and being a disk jockey on an armed forces radio station in Saigon later served as the inspiration for the 1987 Touchstone Pictures

Touchstone Pictures

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-released film Good Morning Vietnam in which Cronauer was portrayed by Robin Williams

Robin Williams

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. Unlike most NBC affiliates in the Eastern Time Zone

Eastern Time Zone

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, WLIO does not air a full two-hour weekday morning show and/or newscast weeknights at 5:30.

The one hour morning broadcast at 6 is simulcasted on WOHL. Weeknights at 5 and 10, WLIO produces two thirty minute newscasts for its Fox/MyNetworkTV second

WLIO-DT2

WLIO-DT2 is the primary Fox and secondary MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for Northwest Ohio. It is a second digital subchannel of NBC affiliate WLIO owned by Block Communications. Over-the-air, the station broadcasts a standard definition digital signal on VHF channel 8.2 from a...

 digital subchannel. WOHL-CD and its CBS second digital subchannel simulcast WLIO's news weeknights at 6 and 11. Weekend evening broadcasts seen at 6 and 11 on this station are not simulcasted on the other services.

Station slogans

• "WLIO, The Place to Be!" (1990-1991, localized version of NBC ad campaign)
• "Your West Central Ohio News Leader" (2002-2004)
• "Your West Central Ohio Leader" (2004-2009)
• "Your Hometown Lima Stations" (2009-present)

News team

Anchors

• Jessica Dill - weekday mornings; also producer
• Jeff Fitzgerald - weeknights at 6 p.m.; and senior reporter
• Holly Geaman - weekdays at noon; also producer
• Stuart Hall - weeknights at 5 and 10 p.m. (on WLIO-DT2)
• Amyre Makupson - weeknights at 5, 6 and 11 p.m.; also 6 and 11 p.m. producer
• Zac Pitts - weekday mornings; also reporter
• Marissa Sherer - weekend evenings; also 6 and 11 p.m. producer and reporter

Weather team

• Kyle Adams - chief meteorologist (Certified Broadcast Meteorologist) ; weeknights 5, 6, 10 (on WLIO-DT2) and 11 p.m.
• Laura Betker - weather anchor; weekday mornings and noon, also reporter
• Adam Klotz - weather specialist; weekend evenings, also news reporter

Sports team

• Andy Young - sports director; weeknights at 6, 10, and 11 p.m.
• Csaba Sukosd - sports anchor; weekend evenings, also sports reporter
• James Rider - sports reporter and videographer

Reporters

• Tricia Bell - weekday reporter
• Todd Cummins - multimedia journalist
• Demi Heiks - multimedia journalist
• Tom Nartker - videographer
• Sam Shriver - multimedia journalist

Videoographers

• Joe Miles - videographer
• Phil Thomas - chief videographer

Contributing Specialists

• Jeff Rex - opinion
• Brent Stocksdale - opinion
• David Adams - movie critic

Former on-air staff

Jim Baldridge (lead anchor, WHIO TV, Dayton 1972-2009, retired)

• Jeff Booth (now chief meteorologist at WKEF in Dayton)
• Mike Carpenter (Childen Services in Lima)
• Paula Caruso (now evening anchor at WMBF in Myrtle Beach)
• Ashley Ceasarano- (was working in law office in Louisville, considerting return to law school)
• Stephanie Davis (now marketing and public relations director at University of Northwest Ohio)
• Mindy Drayer - (weekend mornings "NBC 4 Today",Columbus)
• Joe Downs (now sports director at KPLC in Lake Charles, Louisiana)
• George Dunster (now adjunct professor at Wright State, and Encore Dinner Theater)
• Beth Galvin
• Billi Hazle
• Guil Herick (now working as a math teacher in Dayton, Ohio)
• Leslie King (now marketing professor at Ohio State University, Lima Branch)
• Jeff Johnson (now sports anchor/reporter in Flint, Michigan)
• Terry Kelly
• Vince Koza (now with Maverick Radio in Lima, host of Sportstalk with Koza, play-by-play announcer and sales)
• Darren Maier (now chief meteorologist at WEAU in Eau Claire, Wisconsin)
• Pat McSweeney (WLIO-TV 35 Lima, Ohio. Reporter/Anchor, 1983 - 1984- Now hangin in Jacksonville, FL)
• Dancie Moore (now with the Council on Aging in Lima)
• Laurie Omness (now assignment desk editor at WCMH in Columbus)
• Stephanie Parkinson (now a web producer/reporter in Lansing, Michigan)
• Josh Poland (now weekend weather anchor/reporter at WBNS in Columbus)
• Mindy Pauris (last know in heading to Columbus)
• Tino Ramos (reporter at WBNS in Columbus)
• Jen Sommers
• Maria Tocco (now working as Media rep in Chicago)
• April Wenck
• Colleen Wells - (weekend mornings; also weeknight reporter- WTOL-TV, Toledo)
• Justine Winerman ( did sports in Madison WI after leaving Lima, last known to be heading back to law school)

External links

• WLIO "NBC Lima"