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WHIO-TV
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Dayton, Ohio
Branding	WHIO-TV Channel 7 (general) NewsCenter 7 (newscasts)
Slogan	Coverage You Can Count On
Channels	Digital: 41 (UHF)
Affiliations	CBS (Secondary to 1952) 7 Weather Now (DT2)
Owner	Cox Enterprises, Inc. (Miami Valley Broadcasting Corporation)
First air date	February 23, 1949
Call letters' meaning	OHIO
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 13 (1949-1952) 7 (1952-2009)
Former affiliations	Secondary: DuMont (1949-1952)
Transmitter power	1000 kW (digital)
Height	290 m (digital)
Facility ID	41458
Transmitter coordinates	39°44′2″N 84°14′53″W / 39.73389°N 84.24806°W / 39.73389; -84.24806
Website	www.whiotv.com

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WHIO-TV is a television station in Dayton, Ohio. It broadcasts on channel 7 (digital 41) and is an affiliate of CBS. In 2009, WHIO-TV ranked as the #1 CBS affiliate in the United States.^[1] and in May 2009 The Nielsen Company named WHIO-TV’s News Center 7 as the number one rated newscast in the country.

[edit] Station history[]

WHIO was started on channel 13 on February 23, 1949 and moved to channel 7 in 1952. It is Dayton's first television station to start broadcasting, although WDTN was first to have its license granted. WHIO is the only station in Dayton to never change its affiliation. WHIO has been owned by Cox Enterprises since its inception; Cox also publishes the Dayton Daily News, the first newspaper ever purchased^{[citation needed]} by Cox Enterprises founder James M. Cox. WHIO's transmitter is located on Germantown Street in western Dayton. WHIO began broadcasting all their newscasts in a 16:9 widescreen format on April 1, 2007, becoming the first Ohio station outside of Cleveland at the time to switch to the new format. Its news department NewsCenter 7 has been in first place in the Nielsen Ratings for many years and that trend continues to this day.^{[citation needed]} The news team is led by Cheryl McHenry, James Brown & Letitia Perry in the evening and Natasha Williams & John Paul in the morning.

WHIO also has 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 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 they will move WHIO-TV and the radio stations (WHIO,WHKO,WZLR) to the Cox Media Center building (also the current home of the Daily News) in Dayton, Ohio by end of 2010. The Wilmington Avenue Building in Kettering, Ohio has been home to WHIO-TV since the 1950s. The goal is not just achieving operating efficiencies, but, investing in the local Cox media operations, according to Alex Taylor, Cox Media Group Vice President.

[edit] Digital television[]

[2][3]The Cox Enterprises broadcasting tower located outside the news station in Kettering, Ohio.The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Digital channels

Channel	Programming
7.1	main WHIO-TV programming / CBS HD
7.2	7 Weather Now

[edit] Post-DTV transition[]

After the analog television shutdown scheduled for June 12, 2009 ^[2], WHIO-TV remained on its current digital channel 41 and stopped transmitting on channel 7 ^[3] using PSIP to display WHIO-TV's virtual channel as 7.

[edit] News/Station presentation[]

[edit] Newscast titles[]

Total News (late 60s-1976)
NewsCenter 7 (1976–present)

[edit] Station slogans[]

The Leader (1976–1990)
The Miami Valley News Leader (1990–1993)
The Miami Valley's 24-Hour News Source (1990–1993; secondary slogan)
Coverage You Can Count On (1993–present)
Live. Local. Latebreaking. (1995–present; used alongside "Coverage You Can Count On")

[4] This film, television or video-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it with reliably sourced additions.===[edit] Logo=== The logo for the station is their version of the "Circle 7" logo—an orange 7 against a blue background, encompassed by a thin orange circle, and juxtaposed by "WHIO-TV" written in blue on a white background, underlined in red. Both the logo and the slogan ("Coverage you can count on") identify WHIO-TV as the sister station of other Cox stations; particularly WSB-TV in Atlanta, which has a similar logo and identical slogan. Its sister station in Seattle, KIRO-TV, also has a similar logo, but a different version of the "Circle 7".

Until early 2007, the "7" in the logo was "broken" -- it had a diagonal line running where the two lines in the "7" meet. This logo has been used by WHIO-TV since the early-1970s at the latest. In early 2007, at the latest, the logo underwent a slight revision, removing this "break" from the "7". The anchor desk, however, still shows the "7" in the logo to be "broken".

[edit] Weather[]

[edit] Storm Center 7[]

WHIO's team of meteorologists currently by the name of the Storm Center 7 weather team is led by Chief Meteorologist Jamie Simpson and also features Meteorologists Rich Wirdzek and Erica Collura. WHIO bills their radar as 'New Live Doppler 7' powered by Baron Services.

WHIO did not switch to professional meteorologists until 1993 with the hiring of Heidi Sonen. WHIO then dropped the Accu-Weather service and hired other meteorologists to fill out the staff including former Weather Channel meteorologist Fred Barnhill. Air Force meteorologist Warren Madden was hired from the nearby Wright Patterson Air Force Base and he later went to The Weather Channel in December 1996.

After Sonen's retirement in 1997, the station hired more Penn State meteorology graduates for the role of Chief Meteorologist including Brian Orzel and Jamie Simpson.

In December 2004 they introduced StormCenter 7, which is a weather center that doubles as a set created by FX Group where weather reports can be done.

[edit] New Live Doppler 7[]

[5][6]NewsCenter 7 open.On June 29, 2007, WHIO debuted their new doppler weather radar, billed as New Live Doppler 7. The radar is available anytime on the stations website.

[edit] 7 Weather Now[]

On December 15, 2006, WHIO-TV launched 7 Weather Now, programmed 24 hours a day and frequently updated forecasts. Live coverage of developing severe weather can be found on 7 Weather Now, as well as the latest watches and warnings. Weekday mornings from 7am to 8am, a third hour of News Center 7 Daybreak airs exclusively on the channel. 7 Weather Now can be found on digital channel 7.2, channel 23 on Time Warner cable, and on the digitial tier at channel 372. A live stream of 7 Weather Now can be accessed on the WHIO-TV website at http://www.whiotv.com.

[edit] Widescreen news[]

WHIO began broadcast of all their newscasts in a 16:9 widescreen standard definition format on April 1, 2007. As of June 2010, it remains the only station in the Dayton market which broadcasts its newscasts in widescreen even though the production is not in full high definition. However, it will upgrade to full high-definition newscasts when it relocates to the Cox Media Center in late 2010 or early 2011. All of WHIO's cameras, graphics and equipment are being replaced when they move to the new location that will enable them to be completely in High Definition.

[edit] News Staff[]

[7][8]The News Center 7 News set in Kettering, OhioNEWSCENTER 7 ANCHORS:

Cheryl McHenry (1981–present) Weekdays @ 5pm, 5:30pm & 6pm
James Brown (2002–present) Weeknights @ 5pm, 5:30pm, 6 & 11pm
Letitia Perry (2001–present) Weeknights @ 11pm
Natasha Williams (1993–present) Weekday Mornings
John Paul (2008–present) Weekday Mornings & Noon
Brittny McGraw (2008–present) Weekends at 6pm & 11pm
Gabrielle Enright (1997–present) Saturday Mornings and Weekends Noon

NEWSCENTER 7 REPORTERS:

Steve Baker (1980–present)
Kate Bartley (2010–present)
Mark Bruce (2008–present)
Kathryn Burcham (2007–present)
Mike Campbell (1986–present)
Jill Del Greco (2006–present)
Caryn Golden (1997–present)
Becky Grimes (1978–present)
Jim Otte (1988–present)

STORMCENTER 7 TEAM:

Chief Meteorologist Jamie Simpson (1999–present)Weeknights @ 5pm, 5:30pm, 6 & 11pm
Meteorologist Rich Wirdzek (2006–present) Weekday Mornings and Noon
Meteorologist Erica Collura (2010-present) Weekends
Weather Specialist Traci Hale-Brown (2004–2006, 2009–Present) fill-in

7 SPORTS ANCHORS:

Sports Director - Mike Hartsock (1979–present)
Don Brown (part-time)

ENTERTAINMENT REPORTER:

Bryan Erdy (2008–present)

Notable WHIO Alumni[]

Kimberly Thomson, Meteorologist, 2007-2010
Danielle Elias, Reporter 2007-10 now at WBNS-TV 10TV , CBS -Columbus, Ohio
Dave Harmon, meteorologist
Randy McIlwain, education reporter, 1994-97(Now at KXAS-TV 5, an NBC affiliate in the Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX. area)
Jim Baldridge lead anchor 1972-2009, retired
Lyle Stieg (sports)
Patt Garwood, weather reporter 1980s, former wife of Sports Director Mike Hartsock
Cathy Stelzer
Anton Day
Margaret Brosko (2005-2008)
Phil Donahue
Gil Whitney, reporter, anchor and weather specialist (died in 1982)
Don Wayne, long time 6, 7 and 11pm lead news anchor (retired in 1988, died in 1997)
Tom Hamlin, sports director in 1960s, retired
Ted Ryan (weather specialist, staff announcer) (1954–1992)
Donna Jordan (1995–2006)
Rebecca Combs (2000–2005), anchor/reporter
Andrew Douglas (now at WMC-TV in Memphis, TN)
Mike Dunston, reporter, (now anchor at WOFL-TV in Orlando, FL)
Jim Blue (now news director and anchor at WFFT-TV in Fort Wayne, IN)
Cathy Ballou (weather specialist 1986-1995, Now working for Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne, IN)
Deborah Countiss (retired from WSYX in Columbus)
Trevor Pettiford
Shawn Ley (now at WKRC-TV in Cincinnati, OH)
Heidi Sonen, Chief Meteorologist 1993-1997,
Ed Krahling, long time anchor, (retired in 1993, died in 1998)
Ken Jefferson, anchor (1977–2002)
Mick Hubert, sports director (1979–1989) (The Voice of the Florida Gators)
Dr. Sherry Stanley-Wheaton, health reporter
Joe Parise, weekend weather specialist
Paul Herdtner, anchor/reporter
Bruce Asbury, Lead Weather Specialist 1982-89
Tracie Savage, anchor/reporter 1986-91
Rick Smith, staff announcer and host of "Summer Nights" and "WHIO Reports"(died in 2006)
Sallie Taylor, anchor/reporter (1988–2007), now full-time mother
Linda Robertson, anchor/health reporter now @ University of Dayton
Sher Patrick, anchor/reporter (now Marketing Manager at Community Blood Center in the Dayton area)
Dave Freeman, Chief Meteorologist (now at KSNW in Wichita, KS)
Guil Herrick, Sports reporter/anchor (1994–2001) now a teacher in Dayton
Paul Moses, anchor/reporter
Myriam Wright, anchor/reporter
Sam Yates, anchor/reporter-retired from news, now head of Yates and Associates in Jensen Beach Florida.
Vanessa Tyler, anchor/reporter, now @ WPIX-TV, New York City
Joe Rockhold "Uncle Orrie", 1950s/60s children's show host and staff announcer,retired in 1969 (died in 1981)
Ken Hardin "Ferdy Fussbudget" 1950s/60s children's show co-host and sidekick of Uncle Orrie. (died in 1991.)
Steve Prinzivalli, meteorologist (2003-2005) (now a meteorogolist for Weatherbug.com)
Jack Jacobson "Nosey The Clown" 1950s early sidekick of Uncle Orrie and "Ignatz Hammerschlob" later as "Dr. Scar" and as general manager at KGUN in Tucson and author of book "The Sky Blazers",retired (died on March 23, 2008)
Dave Eaton "Charlie Goodtime" 1970s children's show host
Dick Bieser, manager of community relations and on air personality, retired in 1993.
Scott Dean, Former Meteorologist on Daybreak Edition and Noon Newscenter (2000-2006) (now at WTVD in Raleigh, NC)
Chris Ingalls, reporter (now at KING in Seattle)
Guy Fogle, sports (formerly of WDTN and WKEF also, now retired from news, and teaching at Carlisle High School in Carlisle,OH)
Warren Madden, meteorologist (1993–1996), now at The Weather Channel
Paul Miller, reporter/anchor (1975–1979), later NBC Correspondent, now retired.
Bob Shreve, overnight host of "Night People Theater", a Friday night/Saturday morning movie program...similar to his Saturday night program in Cincinnati (died in 1990.)
Denny Cheatham, Videographer/one-man band (1963–2009), retired
Sylvia Newsome, anchor
Brian Orzel, chief meteorologist (January 1998-December 2002)
Jeff Porter, Meteorologist, Daybreak Edition(2005-September 4, 2009)
Maury Williams, anchor/reporter (1987–1992), now at Luxottica Retail, EyeMed Vision Care
Tom Andrews, anchor in the 1960s, went on to become Dayton City Commissioner, then worked in communications for Reagan and Bush 1 administrations.
Steve Summmers, reporter/anchor (2006-2007)

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