WOHZ-CD (channels 6, 19 and 43) is a low-power, Class A television station in Canton, Ohio, United States. Owned by Gray Television, it serves as an ultra high frequency (UHF) translator of Cleveland–licensed Telemundo affiliate WTCL-LD (channel 6), which itself is a repeater for Shaker Heights–licensed CBS affiliate WOIO (channel 19) and Lorain–licensed CW affiliate WUAB (channel 43).[4]
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Founded | October 31, 1989 |
First air date | May 7, 1990[1] (in Mansfield, Ohio; license moved to Canton in 2020) |
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Call sign meaning | Former "Z-50" branding[2] |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 41892 |
Class | CD |
ERP | 15 kW |
HAAT | 252.9 m (830 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 40°53′24″N 81°16′11″W / 40.89000°N 81.26972°W |
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WOHZ-CD's transmitter is located northeast of Canton, while WOIO, WUAB, and WTCL share studios on the ground floor of the Reserve Square building in Downtown Cleveland.
Originally licensed to Mansfield, Ohio, this station took to the air on May 7, 1990, as W50BE.[1][5] An extension of locally owned WVNO-FM and WRGM, W50BE was an independent station boasting a lineup of local newscasts and community programming for the Mansfield/Ashland/Bucyrus region,[1][6] nearly equidistant from both the Cleveland and Columbus markets.[7] 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"[8] on June 1, 1992, simulcasting W50BE's programming.[9]
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.[2] Later upgraded to a Class A station as WOHZ-CA, it also began to offer weather information and an audio simulcast of WVNO-FM[10] from a combined studio facility in Ontario, Ohio.[9] 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–based Gray Television, owner of WOIO and WUAB, for $450,000.[11][12] The sale was completed on December 8, 2020.[13] Upon taking over WOHZ-CD, Gray Television changed the station's city of license to Canton, Ohio, and has since used it as a repeater for WOIO, WUAB, and WTCL, increasing coverage for those stations in the southern part of the Cleveland/NE Ohio TV market.[10]
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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6.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | TLMD | Telemundo (WTCL-LD) |
6.2 | 480i | MeTV | MeTV / MyNetworkTV (WOIO DT2) | |
19.10 | 1080i | WOIOHD | CBS (WOIO) | |
43.10 | 480i | WUAB | The CW (WUAB) |