WOIO

WOIO, virtual channel 19 (VHF digital channel 10), is a commercial television station licensed to Shaker Heights, Ohio, serving Greater Cleveland and much of surrounding Northeast Ohio. Owned by Raycom Media as part of a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate WUAB, WOIO broadcasts over two digital subchannels: 19.1 is available in both high definition and standard definition and serves as the Cleveland affiliate for CBS; 19.2 is available exclusively in standard definition, and serves as the Cleveland affiliate for Me-TV. The WOIO studios are located in Downtown Cleveland, while the station transmitter resides in the Cleveland suburb of Parma.

History

Early years

The channel 19 allocation in the Cleveland television market dates back to the 1950s, when a construction permit for a television sister to WHK radio was issued to The Plain Dealer. When WHK was sold to Metropolitan Broadcasting (later Metromedia) in 1958, the television station's construction permit went with the radio station. However, what was to have been WHK-TV never made it to the air. The construction permit was eventually deleted at some point in the mid-1960s, but the allocation remained.