Information about Whio Tv

WHIO-TV
Dayton / Springfield, Ohio
Branding	WHIO-TV Channel 7 NewsCenter7
Slogan	Coverage You Can Count On
Channels	Analog: 7 (VHF) Digital: 41 (UHF)
Affiliations	CBS, The AccuWeather Channel on DT2
Owner	Cox Broadcasting (Miami Valley Broadcasting Corp.)
Founded	July 11, 1949
Call letters meaning	OHIO
Former channel number(s)	13 (1949-1952)
Former affiliations	DuMont (1949-1952)
Website	http://www.whiotv.com

WHIO-TV is a television station in Dayton, Ohio. It broadcasts on channel 7, and is an affiliate of CBS.

Station history

WHIO was started on channel 13 on July 11, 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. WHIO's transmitter is located on Germantown Street in western Dayton. WHIO now broadcasts all their newscasts in HD, becoming the first Ohio station outside of Cleveland to switch to the new format. Its news department NewsCenter 7 has been in first place in the Nielsen Ratings for many years. The newsteam is lead by Jim Baldridge, Cheryl McHenry, & Letitia Perry in the evening and Natasha Williams & James Brown in the morning.

WHIO airs top rated syndicated programming such as Live with Regis & Kelly, Dr. Phil, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Entertainment Tonight, and Wheel of Fortune. Jeopardy! airs on WDTN.

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".

Storm Center 7 and Live Doppler 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 Jeff Porter, Rich Wirdzek and Kimberly Thomson who joined WHIO-TV in July 2007. WHIO bills their radar as New Live Doppler 7 powered by Baron Services.

WHIO was one of the first television stations in the United States to have its own doppler radar. During the 1974 tornado in Xenia, Ohio, Gil Whitney, legendary weather caster who died in 1982 (and even had a summertime variety show that ran several years), was the first to alert the public. Using the radar, Whitney spotted a "hook echo", indicating a tornado. Although there were thirty-four fatalities on that fateful day, without Whitney's warning there likely could have been hundreds more.

Although WHIO has always been a ratings leader and was well regarded in weather after Whitney's tenure, the station 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. WHIO tracks severe weather 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. If a Tornado Warning is issued for any of the seventeen counties in the WHIO-TV coverage area, which includes Western Ohio and extreme Eastern Indiana, The Emergency Alert System will break into the broadcast during a show, or local news with a red bar scrolling bulletin on the top of the screen while the severe weather information is relayed from NOAA Weather Radio.

New Live Doppler 7

On June 29, 2007, WHIO debuted their new doppler radar, billed as New Live Doppler 7, powered by Baron Services out of Huntsville, Alabama. WHIO's sister stations WSB-TV in Atlanta along with WFTV in Orlando have already rolled out this new system which consists of some of the most advanced weather equipment in the world including VIPIR HD, FasTrac HD, and StormWarn HD.

This brand new state of the art system will enable WHIO to have full high definition weather graphics and 3-D radar images. WHIO plans on adding additional software including ESP Storm Vision, powered by Weather Central Systems, within the next few weeks. [1] A detailed article about "New Live Doppler 7" is available on WHIO-TV.com. [2] The radar is available on the website [3]

7 Weather Now

On December 15, 2006, WHIO-TV launched 7 Weather Now and is part of The AccuWeather Channel. It provides weather updates from Storm Center 7 and a news crawl. The service has a similar setup as NBC Weather Plus that NBC affiliate WDTN does not have at this time. The station airs on digital subchannel 7.2 and on Time Warner Digital Cable channel 708.

Widescreen news

WHIO began broadcast of all their newscasts in a widescreen format on April 1, 2007.

News Staff

NEWSCENTER 7 Anchors And Reporters:

• Steve Baker
• Jim Baldridge
• James Brown
• Mike Campbell
• Anton Day
• Danielle Elias
• Jill Del Greco
• Gabrielle Enright
• Caryn Golden
• Becky Grimes
• Brittny McGraw
• Cheryl McHenry
• Jim Otte
• Letitia Perry
• Cathy Stelzer
• Meredith Taylor
• Natasha Williams

StormCenter 7 Team:

• Chief Meteorologist Jamie Simpson
• Meteorologist Jeff Porter
• Meteorologist Rich Wirdzek
• Meteorologist Kimberly Thomson

Sports Anchors:

• Sports Director - Mike Hartsock
• Margaret Brosko
• Don Brown

Washington Bureau Reporters:

• Alison Burns
• Carol Han
• Megan Hughes
• Scott MacFarlane

Notable WHIO Alumni

• Gil Whitney,staff annoucer and weather specialist (died in 1982)
• Don Wayne, long time 6 and 11pm lead news anchor (retired in 1988, died in 1997)
• Harry Butler,staff announcer,retired
• Tom Hamlin, sports director in 1960s, retired
• Ted Ryan (weather specialist, staff announcer) (1954-1992) (retired in 1992, filled-in part time till 2001, currently hosts the Children's Miracle Network Telethon)
• Donna Jordan (1995-2006) (lead anchor until 2006), now retired
• 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 lead anchor at WNWO in Toledo, OH)
• Cathy Ballou (weather specialist 1986-1995, went to the Food Network, has since retired)
• Deborah Countiss (retired from WSYX in Columbus)
• Reg Chapman (now at WNBC-TV in New York, NY)
• Trevor Pettiford (now at WVTM-TV in Birmingham, AL)
• Shawn Ley (now at WKRC-TV in Cincinnati, OH)
• Ed Krahling, long time anchor, (retired in 1993, died in 1998)
• Ken Jefferson, anchor (1977-2002) (now at WWSB-TV in Sarasota, FL)
• 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 (now weekday morning anchor at WDAF-TV, Fox-owned station in Kansas City)
• Bruce Asbury, Lead Weather Specialist 1982-89 (fired for cocaine use following arrest)
• 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)
• Linda Robertson, anchor/health reporter now @ University of Dayton
• Sher Patrick, anchor/reporter
• Dave Freeman, Chief Meteorologist (now at KSN in Wichita, KS)
• Guil Herrick, Sports reporter/anchor
• Paul Moses, anchor/reporter
• Myriam Wright, anchor/reporter
• Chad Duff, 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 (now at WIVT in Binghamton, NY)
• Jack Jacobson "Nosey The Clown" 1950s early sidekick of Uncle Orrie, retired
• 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 (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)
• Steve Summers(fired from the station for using profanity on a "hot mic" on the station's HD channel)
• Warren Madden, meteorologist (1992-1996), now at The Weather Channel
• Paul Miller, reporter/anchor (1975-1979), later NBC Correspondent, now retired.

See also

• Miami Valley Channel (former cable channel from WHIO-TV)

External links

• WHIO Website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WHIO

•  • [ e] Broadcast television in the Dayton market  (Nielsen DMA #62)
WDTN 2 (NBC) - WHIO 7 (CBS) (Accuweather on DT2) - WPTO 14 (PBS) - WPTD 16 (PBS) - WKEF 22 (ABC) - WBDT 26 (The CW) - WRCX-LP 40 (Ind.) - WKOI 43 (TBN) - WRGT 45 (Fox) (MNTV on DT2) - WWRD-LP 55 (HSN) - W66AQ 66 (MNTV)
Defunct cable television channels
Miami Valley Channel / UPN 17 (UPN/i)
See also: Broadcast television in the , , , , and markets

•  • [ e] CBS Network Affiliates in the state of Ohio
WHIO 7 () - WBNS 10 () - WTOL 11 () - WKRC 12 () - WOIO 19 () - WKBN 27 () - WLMO-LP 38 ()
See also: , , , , , and stations in Ohio

•  • [ e] Cox Enterprises, Inc.
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