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WEWS-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, affiliated with ABC.It has been owned by the E. W. Scripps Company since its inception in 1946, making it one of three stations that have been built and signed on by Scripps (alongside company flagship WCPO-TV in Cincinnati and WMC-TV in Memphis, the latter of which was sold in 1993).
Area served City of license VC RF Callsign Translating Network Notes Cleveland: Eastlake: 25 34 W34FP-D: WVIZ: PBS: Ohio Channel on 25.2, World on 25.3, Create on 25.4, PBS Kids on 25.5, CSCN on 25.9 (Audio Only)
The Morning Exchange (referred to as MX in shorthand) is an American morning television program that aired on WEWS-TV (channel 5) in Cleveland, Ohio from 1972 to 1999.. A highly rated and influential program, it was commonplace that on a typical day in the 1970s, over two-thirds of all television sets in the Cleveland market were tuned to The Morning Exchange.
WJW (channel 8) is a television station in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, WJW maintains studios on Dick Goddard Way (named for the station's late longtime weatherman—previously known as South Marginal Road) just northeast of downtown Cleveland near the shore of Lake Erie, and its transmitter is located in the Cleveland suburb of ...
Ronald A. Penfound was a radio announcer and local television personality in the Cleveland, Ohio, market, specifically on WEWS-TV channel 5 where from 1955 to 1971 he hosted an afternoon program for children. As host, he was known as Captain Penny and was attired in railroad engineer clothing.
Cleveland was the first city in the U.S. to have all commercial television newscasts produced in high-definition; WJW was the first station to do in December 2004, [5] followed by WKYC on May 22, 2006, [6] WEWS on January 7, 2007, [7] and WOIO on October 20, 2007.
Rob Powers (born 1965) is an American television news anchor and journalist based at WEWS-TV 5, the Scripps -owned ABC affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio . Powers was named co-anchor of WEWS's evening newscasts in August 2016. Prior to joining WEWS, Powers was a sportscaster for several major-market television stations, including ABC flagship WABC-TV .
The earliest known use of the Eyewitness News name in American television was on April 6, 1959, when KYW-TV (now WKYC-TV) – at the time, based in Cleveland and owned by Westinghouse Broadcasting – launched the nation's first 90-minute local newscast (under the title Eyewitness), which was combined with the then 15-minute national newscast. [1]