WCBZ-CD,

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22 ( UHF digital channel 18), is a low-powered, Class A Cozi TV- affiliated

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to Columbus, Ohio, United States. The station is owned by the Columbus Broadcasting Corporation.

History

WCBZ-CD was founded as W22AE on April 17, 1989. The station then changed its call letters to WBKA-LP in 1995. In 2004, the station was acquired from low-power broadcaster, Crawford Broadcasting by Metro Video Productions, and was granted Class A status, thus changing its callsign to WBKA-CA. In 2008, the station was acquired by Studio 51 Multimedia Productions, Ltd., and began operating as TV 22 Marion, offering comprehensive coverage of the events in the

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area, as well as other original programming. In August 2009, the WBKA-CA call sign was changed to WMNO-CA (MarioN-Ohio). In 2015, the station was purchased by Positive News Network, Inc. at which point it took on its current network affiliation. In 2017, the call sign changed again to WCBZ-CD (Columbus Broadcasting) to better reflect its new ownership by Columbus Broadcasting Corporation. In Marion, WCBZ-CD had been carried on Time Warner Cable (Now Charter Spectrum) channel 3 (with cable box) or channel 96 (without cable box), but the station was removed from the Marion channel line-up on May 8, 2018.

Digital channels

The station's digital signal is

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Analog-to-digital conversion

WMNO-CD shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 22, on January 7, 2015, and " flash-cut" its digital signal into operation to UHF channel 28, using

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to display WMNO-CD's

as 22 on digital television receivers.

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