WOTH-CD, virtual and

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channel 20, was a low-powered, Class A

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, United States. Owned by Elliott B. Block's Block Broadcasting, it was a

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WBQC-LD WBQC-LD (channel 25), branded on-air as WKRP Channel 25, is a low-power television station in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It is owned by Gray Television alongside Fox affiliate WXIX-TV (channel 19). WBQC-LD is affiliated with several digi ...

(channel 25). WOTH's transmitter was located along Symmes Street, just south of East McMillan Street in Cincinnati (shared with ABC affiliate

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, channel 9).

History

WOTH was previously branded as "The Other Channel." It began on June 7, 1994 as W35BA, channel 35, broadcasting programming from

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that had previously aired on WBQC. It soon moved to channel 39, becoming W39CG. In 2001, the station became WOTH-LP and moved to channel 38. WOTH adopted a simplified version of WBQC's old "25 TV" logo. In the

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(FCC)'s

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, WOTH-CD sold its spectrum for $13,266,948; at the time, the station indicated that it would enter into a post-auction channel sharing agreement. On-screen messages later announced that WOTH would go off the air permanently on January 23, 2018.

Shutdown

WOTH went off the air permanently on January 23, 2018, at 5:03 p.m. The station posted a photo on

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depicting its transmitter being turned off. According to WOTH's Facebook page, WOTH would move some, but not all, of its subchannels to its sister station

(branded as WKRP-TV). Subchannels already moved at the time WOTH was shut down were HSN and

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. Elliot Block, the station owner, stated that within two weeks of WOTH's closing,

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and

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would also be moved to WBQC-LD. The station's license was cancelled by the FCC on February 19, 2018.

Digital television

The station's digital signal was

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on Channel 20.

Programming

WBQC aired network programming except for four hours per week of locally produced programs: * ''Heart of Compassion'' * ''Inform Cincinnati''

References

External links

* – former WOTH-LP website {{Other Ohio Stations OTH-CD Television channels and stations established in 1988 Television channels and stations disestablished in 2018 1988 establishments in Ohio 2018 disestablishments in Ohio Defunct television stations in the United States Low-power television stations in the United States OTH-CD