This is a list of broadcast television stations that are licensed in the U.S. state of
Ohio
Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the ...
.
Full-power stations
* Stations are arranged by
media market
A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area (DMA), television market area, or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same (or similar) television station, television and radio broadcasting, ra ...
served and channel position.
Defunct full-power stations
*Channel 15:
WICA-TV
WICA-TV (channel 15) was a television station in Ashtabula, Ohio, United States.
Richard D. and David C. Rowley, the founders of WICA AM/ -FM, started WICA-TV in the 1950s. Hampered by broadcasting on the (then relatively unknown) UHF dial, and ...
/Ashtabula (1953–1956, 1965–1967)
*Channel 16:
WKTR-TV/Kettering (1967–1970)
*Channel 26:
WSWO-TV
WSWO-TV (channel 26) was a television station in Springfield, Ohio, United States, which operated from 1968 to 1970 and for less than six months in 1972. An independent station for its entire existence, WSWO-TV suffered from financial difficulti ...
/Springfield (1968–1970, 1972)
*Channel 30:
WRLO/Portsmouth (1966–1968 or 1969)
*Channel 30:
WUXA/Portsmouth (1988–1989)
*Channel 31:
WGSF/Newark (1963–1976)
*Channel 42:
WPBO/Portsmouth (1973–2017)
*Channel 45:
WXTV
WXTV-DT (channel 41) is a television station licensed to Paterson, New Jersey, United States, serving as the Univision outlet for the New York City area. It is one of two flagship stations of the Spanish-language network (the other being WLT ...
/Youngstown (1960–1962)
*Channel 61:
WKBF-TV
WKBF-TV (channel 61) was a television station in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, which broadcast from January 1968 to April 1975. Owned by Kaiser Broadcasting as one of an eventual group of six stations, it was the first ultra high frequency ( ...
/Cleveland (1968–1975)
*Channel 68:
WCOM/Mansfield (1988–1989)
LPTV
Low-power broadcasting is broadcasting by a broadcast station at a low transmitter power output to a smaller service area than "full power" stations within the same region. It is often distinguished from "micropower broadcasting" (more commonl ...
stations
VC refers to the station's
PSIP
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virtual channel
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. RF refers to the station's physical RF channel.
Translators
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Cable-only stations
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Zanesville CW 13 -
The CW
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- Zanesville
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Ohio
Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the ...
Television stations
A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's s ...