| ATSC 3.0 station | |
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| City | Chillicothe, Ohio |
| Channels | |
| Branding | The CW Columbus |
| Programming | |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | Manhan Media, Inc. |
| Operator | Sinclair Broadcast Group via LMA) |
| WSYX, WTTE, Bally Sports Ohio, Bally Sports Great Lakes | |
| History | |
| Founded | October 29, 1984 |
First air date | August 31, 1987 |
Former call signs | WWAT (1987–1994) |
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| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 21158 |
| ERP | 885 kW |
| HAAT | 286 m (938 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°56′14″N 83°1′16″W / 39.93722°N 83.02111°W |
| Links | |
Public license information | |
| Website | cwcolumbus |
WWHO (channel 53) is a television station licensed to Chillicothe, Ohio, United States, serving the Columbus area as an affiliate of The CW. It is owned by Manhan Media, Inc., which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of ABC/MyNetworkTV/Fox affiliate WSYX (channel 6), for the provision of certain services.[2][3] Sinclair also operates TBD station WTTE (channel 28) under a separate LMA with Cunningham Broadcasting; however, Sinclair effectively owns WTTE as the majority of Cunningham's stock is owned by the family of deceased group founder Julian Smith. The three stations share studios on Dublin Road in Grandview Heights (with a Columbus mailing address); WWHO's transmitter is located in the Franklinton section of Columbus.
WWHO also served briefly as the default CW affiliate (on cable) for the Zanesville media market from March 2008 through early July 2008, after WHIZ-TV discontinued WBZV, its cable-only CW Plus affiliate. The CW Plus has since been reinstated to the Zanesville cable line-up via a Spectrum-provided cable-only CW Plus feed branded as "Zanesville CW 13" in the market, which has no connections to WHIZ-TV. WWHO served as the de facto over-the-air WB affiliate for the Dayton, Ohio, media market until 1999, when WBDT (then a primary Pax affiliate) joined The WB; which relegated Pax to a secondary affiliation. WWHO also provided UPN service to much of the Dayton market over the air until 2006, when The CW was launched.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WWHO". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ Feran, Tim (February 18, 2012). "Owner of WSYX will manage local CW affiliate". The Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
- ^ "Major Broadcasters Launch NEXTGEN TV on Four Local Television Stations in Columbus, Ohio".