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WHIO-TV began broadcasting from the new facility at 2:35 a.m. on December 12, 2010. [6] WHIO-TV's newscasts, known as NewsCenter 7 since the mid-1970s, have been in first place in the Nielsen ratings for many years, and that trend continues to this day. [7] WHIO-TV's digital subchannel 7.2 became an affiliate of MeTV on December 1, 2014. [8]
Baldridge joined WHIO-TV in 1972 as a general assignment reporter. In 1977 Baldridge began anchoring with Dayton broadcast legend Don Wayne, whom he had grown up watching. He later worked alongside Cheryl McHenry and Letitia Perry. During his years at WHIO Jim Baldridge traveled the world to cover stories important to the Dayton area.
Nielsen Media Research ranked the 11-county Dayton television market #65 in the United States. [1] Among the stations it includes are: 2 WDTN Dayton (); 7 WHIO-TV Dayton (); 16 WPTD Dayton ()
In May 2011, the station changed the name of its weekday 5–7 a.m. newscast from 2 News Sunrise to 2 News Today. [58] On November 14, 2011, the station moved 2 News Today's start time to 4:30 a.m., [59] [60] probably in response to WHIO-TV's similar lengthening of its morning news on August 15.
On January 16, 1995, MVC launched a 30-minute 9 p.m. weeknight news show, MVC First News at 9. This was Dayton's first prime time local television newscast. [5] The program originated from WHIO-TV's news set, used anchors and other on-air staff from WHIO-TV, and included recorded stories and news clips from WHIO-TV.
WHIO (1290 kHz) – branded AM 1290 and News 95.7 WHIO – is a commercial radio station in Dayton, Ohio. It simulcasts a news/talk radio format with sister station WHIO-FM 95.7. They are owned by the Cox Media Group. [3] The studios are at the Cox Media Center on South Main Street (Ohio State Route 48) in Dayton. WHIO is powered at 5,000 watts.
1976 TV Guide ad for Newscenter 7 with Gil Whitney. As a weatherman, Whitney is best remembered for his timely warning on April 3, 1974, of an F5 tornado that went through Xenia, Ohio, during the 1974 Super Outbreak. He specifically identified the Xenia neighborhood of Arrowhead as being directly in the tornado's path; his report proved to be ...
[6] [7] There, he worked with the campus radio station and the black student newspaper, and helped found the campus television station. [7] Perkins comes from a line of family members involved in the radio business, including his father, who had worked at WOL and WOOK, [3] [5] and his uncle, who worked at WFIL as a radio engineer. [3]