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WHIO-TV, virtual channel 7, is the CBS-affiliated television station licensed in Dayton, Ohio, serving that state's Miami Valley area. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 41 from its transmitter on Germantown Street in western Dayton. The station is owned by Cox Media Group and its studios are co-located with sister properties the ''Dayton Daily News'' and Cox's Miami Valley radio stations in the Cox Media Center building on South Main Street near downtown Dayton. ==Station history== WHIO-TV signed on February 23, 1949, on channel 13. It was the first television station in Dayton to begin broadcasting, although WLWD (channel 2, now WDTN) was the first to have its license granted. The station has been owned by the Cox publishing family and their related companies since its inception; Cox also publishes the ''Dayton Daily News'', the first newspaper ever purchased〔(''Dayton Daily News'' )〕 by Cox Enterprises founder James M. Cox. In fact, WHIO-TV is only the second of three television stations built by Cox from the ground up, merely five months after its sister property WSB-TV in Atlanta, where Cox Media Group is headquartered now. WHIO-TV's licensee, Miami Valley Broadcasting, was originally used as the official name for Cox Media's television arm for decades. WHIO-TV has been a CBS affiliate from the very beginning, and is the only station in Dayton never to have changed its primary affiliation; it did air some programming from the long-defunct DuMont Television Network during its first three years on the air. The station moved to channel 7 in 1952 following the release of the Federal Communications Commission's ''Sixth Report and Order'', which reorganized VHF channel assignments throughout much of Ohio and the Midwest. WHIO-TV also served as the default CBS affiliate for most of the Lima, Ohio DMA. (The station reaches most of the Lima DMA with a Grade B signal). This was especially the case before a low-powered CBS affiliate, WLMO-LP, went on the air in Lima. WHIO-TV also remains on Time Warner's Lima cable systems, along with Columbus CBS affiliate WBNS-TV. On December 15, 2009, Cox Media Group announced that it would move WHIO-TV (as well as Cox Radio stations WHIO, WHIO-FM, WHKO and WZLR) from its home since the 1950s on Wilmington Avenue in Dayton (at the Kettering city line), to the Cox Media Center building (also the current home of the ''Daily News'') on South Main Street in Dayton, by December 2010. WHIO-TV began broadcasting from the new facility at 2:35 a.m. on December 12, 2010. WHIO-TV's newscasts, known as ''NewsCenter 7'' since the mid-1970s, have been in first place in the Nielsen ratings for many years, and that trend continues to this day. WHIO-TV's digital subchannel 7.2 became an affiliate of Me-TV on December 1, 2014.〔 Digital subchannel 7.3 was added as a Laff affiliate on April 15, 2015, the network's launch date.〔 〕〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WHIO-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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