| WUAB | |
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| Lorain-Cleveland, Ohio | |
| Branding | My43 WUAB |
| Slogan | Cleveland's Go-To Place for Everything |
| Channels | Analog: 43 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | MyNetworkTV |
| Owner | Raycom Media, Inc. (WOIO License Subsidiary, LLC) |
| First air date | September 15, 1968 |
| Call letters’ meaning | United Artists Broadcasting (founding owner) |
| Sister station(s) | WOIO |
| Former affiliations | independent (1968-1995) UPN (1995-2006) The WB (secondary, 1995-1997) |
| Transmitter Power | 4680 kW (analog) 200 kW (digital) |
| Height | 337 m (both) |
| Facility ID | 8532 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | |
| Website | www.my43.net |
WUAB, identified on-air as "My43 WUAB", is the MyNetworkTV affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio. Lorain is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on Lake Erie, at the mouth Cleveland is a City in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state A brand is a collection of Images and ideas representing an economic producer more specifically it refers to the descriptive verbal attributes and concrete symbols such as a A slogan is a memorable Motto or Phrase used in a Political, commercial, Religious and other context as a repetitive expression of In Broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies (or equivalently Wavelengths assigned by a government for the operation of a particular Television Analog (or analogue) television encodes Television picture and sound information and transmits it as an Analog signal: one in which the Digital Terrestrial Television ( DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and MyNetworkTV (unofficially abbreviated MyNet or MNT) is a Television network in the United States, owned by the Fox Broadcasting Company Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over Property, which may be an object, land/real estate, Intellectual property Raycom Media is a Broadcasting company based in Montgomery Alabama. Events 668 - Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse Italy. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In Broadcasting and Radio communications a call sign (also known as a callsign or call letters, or abbreviated as a call, or otherwise This article is about the film studio Previously it was affiliated with a cinema chain bearing its name now owned by Regal Entertainment Group. In Broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels (or "sibling stations" in gender-neutral form are radio and/or Television stations United Paramount Network ( UPN) was a Television network that broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States and that was in production for over eleven In radio Telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power (ERP is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency (RF The watt (symbol W) is the SI derived unit of power, equal to one Joule of energy per Second. Height above average terrain ( HAAT) (or less popularly EHAAT, Effective Height Above Average Terrain is used extensively in FM Radio and The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International The facility ID number or FIN is a unique positive integer assigned by the United States Federal Communications Commission to each domestic and international A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages MyNetworkTV (unofficially abbreviated MyNet or MNT) is a Television network in the United States, owned by the Fox Broadcasting Company Cleveland is a City in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Cuyahoga County, the most populous county in the state The station is licensed to the suburb of Lorain, and it shares a studio in downtown Cleveland with sister station WOIO, Cleveland's CBS affiliate. Lorain is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on Lake Erie, at the mouth CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. Its transmitter is located in Parma, Ohio. Parma is a City in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States and the largest Suburb of Cleveland. The station also serves as the default MNTV affiliate for Erie, Pennsylvania; and is available on most cable systems in northwest Pennsylvania.
Prior to 1995, WUAB was one of the leading independent stations in the country. Independent station is a term for a broadcast radio or Television station which is more independent in some way compared to other "dependent" It was Cleveland's UPN affiliate from 1995 to 2006. United Paramount Network ( UPN) was a Television network that broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States and that was in production for over eleven
The station, along with WOIO, is currently owned by Raycom Media and are the largest stations in that group. Raycom Media is a Broadcasting company based in Montgomery Alabama. WOIO now manages WUAB's news division producing a 10 p. m. newscast under the banner "19 Action News at 10".
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History
WUAB had the humblest of beginnings. United Artists Broadcasting (owned by the studio with the same name, then a Transamerica property) was its original owner, bringing the station to life on September 15, 1968. This article is about the film studio Previously it was affiliated with a cinema chain bearing its name now owned by Regal Entertainment Group. This article is about the film studio Previously it was affiliated with a cinema chain bearing its name now owned by Regal Entertainment Group. Events 668 - Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse Italy. Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. It was the second commercial UHF station in the area; WKBF-TV had beaten it to the air by eight months. This article is about the former television station in Cleveland Ohio Its main studio was in a combination bowling area kiddie's room and a trailer in a shopping center in Parma, with sales offices in downtown Cleveland. WUAB quickly overcame a shaky start to become one of the country's top independent stations. The station's talents, such as Linn Sheldon, had been polished TV personalities with experience on Cleveland's network affiliates.
Originally, WUAB's slogan was Channel 43 plays favorites. Most of these favorites were cartoons, syndicated off-network sitcoms, movies (dubbed "United Artists' Star Movies"), and religious shows. WUAB broadcast these shows out of a new facility on Day Drive in suburban Parma, which opened on September 7, 1970. Parma is a City in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States and the largest Suburb of Cleveland.
Both WUAB and WKBF struggled to be profitable, despite the deep pockets of both stations' owners (WKBF was owned by Kaiser Broadcasting). Kaiser Broadcasting was the name of an entity that owned and operated Broadcast television stations in the United States from 1958 to 1977 Both signed on everyday at around 10 a. m. and went off the air by 1 a. m.
By September 2, 1974, WUAB had clearly established itself at the leading independent in Cleveland. Kaiser opted to shut down WKBF and purchase a percentage of WUAB on March 28, 1975, but United Artists kept majority control. WUAB therefore acquired the programming rights to most of WKBF's stronger shows. WUAB now signed on at 6 a. m. and signed off very late at night.
On September 6, 1977, Field Communications bought the rest of Kaiser's share in its television outlets. Field Communications was a division of Field Enterprises, which owned the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Daily News WUAB and KBSC in Los Angeles were not included in the sale. KBSC-LP Channel 49 is a low-power Television station in Brookings Oregon, broadcasting locally on UHF channel 49 and Charter Cable channel Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West KBSC was sold to National Subscription TV while WUAB was sold (by both United Artists/Transamerica and Kaiser) to the Gaylord Broadcasting Company on September 6, 1977. Gaylord Entertainment Company ( operates a number of Hotel, Resort, and media companies that was built by Edward Gaylord. Under Gaylord, WUAB continued as a broadcasting powerhouse, and cemented its status as one of the leading independent stations in the country.
The station pulled off a major coup on September 2, 1980 by winning the broadcast rights to the Cleveland Indians of baseball's American League. The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the American League ( AL) is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in The station also became broadcast home of the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers. The Cleveland Cavaliers (also known as the Cavs) are a professional Basketball team based in Cleveland Ohio. During this time, it appeared on several cable systems in Ohio, as well as West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Western Ontario. West Virginia ( is a state in the Appalachian Upland South, and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, bordered by The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ( often colloquially referred to as PA (its abbreviation by natives and Northeasterners is a state located in the Northeastern The Commonwealth of Kentucky ( is a state located in the East Central United States of America. Southwestern Ontario is a region of the Canadian province of Ontario, centred on the city of London. The station disappeared from most cable systems outside Cleveland in the 1990s, but is still available in Columbus, Erie and Youngstown on cable. Youngstown is a city in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Mahoning County.
In more recent times, the station was seen on cable as far south as New Castle, Pennsylvania (which is part of the Pittsburgh television market despite being considerably closer to Youngstown), and was the only such station from Cleveland in the city. New Castle is a city in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, 50 miles (80 km northwest of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and 18 miles (30 km east This was the case until early 2008 when Comcast, which had acquired the handful of former Adelphia cable systems in the Pittsburgh market (including New Castle) to go along with its already-dominating presence in the area, removed it from their channel lineup after the station's local contract with Comcast expired. Comcast Corporation ( is the largest Cable television company the second largest Internet service provider and (according to the company the fourth largest telephone Adelphia Communications Corporation, named after the Greek word "brothers" was the fifth largest cable company in the United States before filing for Bankruptcy The station's former spot on Comcast channel 7 has yet to be replaced, though it is likely to be filled with either WYFX, WBCB, or MY-YTV (all from Youngstown), since none of them are currently on the channel lineups in the city. WYFX-LP is the FOX affiliate in Youngstown, Ohio. It broadcasts on channel 62 as a low-power station
WUAB remained the leading independent into the 1980s. Channel 61 returned to the air as WCLQ on March 17, 1981, but made no headway against WUAB, and eventually became home-shopping station WQHS-TV. This page is about the existing television station in Cleveland Ohio. On May 19, 1985, WOIO signed on with an entertainment format as well. Both WOIO and WUAB went head to head, with WBNX-TV joining the competition on December 1, 1985. WBNX-TV is the CW television affiliate serving the Cleveland Ohio Television market broadcasting on channel 55 (analog and channel 30 (digital WUAB turned down an affiliation with Fox on October 9, 1986--one of the few long-established major-market independents to do so. WOIO snapped it up, and soon overtook WUAB in the ratings.
WUAB debuted the "10 O'Clock News" on January 4, 1988. Events 46 BC - Titus Labienus defeats Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina. Year 1988 ( MCMLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar) It was the second attempt at a primetime newscast in Cleveland. The original news team consisted of anchors Romona Robinson and Bob Hetherington, Frank Carivello, and Gib Shanley. Gib Shanley ( August 6, 1931 - April 6, 2008) was an Emmy Award -winning sports anchor/reporter for ABC-TV affiliate
On September 4, 1989, Gaylord sold WUAB to Cannell Broadcasting, headed by actor/director Stephen J. Cannell. Stephen Joseph Cannell, (born February 5, 1941; ˈkænəl rhymes with "channel" is an American Television producer, Writer Though the station performed adequately in the ratings under Cannell ownership, the company was unable to restore the station to its former glory. On September 5, 1994, Malrite Communications, owner of WOIO, signed a local marketing agreement with Cannell, and as a result, WOIO and WUAB became sister stations. In US and Canadian Broadcasting, a local marketing agreement (or local management agreement, or LMA) is an Agreement WUAB was still technically owned by Cannell, but the station was now managed in tandem with WOIO. Both stations moved to a location at downtown Cleveland's Reserve Square. Downtown Cleveland is the Central business district of the City of Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. Reserve Square is a two-building Skyscraper complex in downtown Cleveland, Ohio.
WOIO became the market's CBS station after an affiliation swap with the area's longtime CBS affiliate, WJW, On September 5, 1994, and moved most of its sitcoms and syndicated cartoons to WUAB. Fox Kids went to WBNX. Fox Kids (officially Fox Family Worldwide Inc and prior to that Fox Children's Productions and Fox Kids Worldwide was the FOX network's children's programming division On February 6, 1995, WUAB began producing two daily newscasts to be aired on WOIO in addition to their own 10 p. m. newscast under the moniker "Cleveland Television News". Although WOIO was the senior partner in the LMA, it had no news department before becoming a CBS station. Unfortunately for both stations, WJW moved its late newscast to 10 pm, and made Cleveland Television News look amateurish by comparison.
WUAB ended its long run as an independent on January 14, 1995, when it became the market's affiliate for both the UPN and WB networks, with UPN as the primary affiliation. United Paramount Network ( UPN) was a Television network that broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States and that was in production for over eleven At the time, Cleveland was one of the largest markets not to have separate WB and UPN affiliates. The dual-affiliation did not cause channel 43 any problems at first, as both networks only programmed for a few nights of the week. Current owner Raycom purchased Malrite in 1996.
On September 1, 1997, WUAB became solely affiliated with UPN, and The WB signed an affiliation with WBNX.
When the Federal Communications Commission began allowing television duopolies on September 4, 2000, Raycom purchased WUAB outright.
WUAB dropped children's programming (beyond the FCC-required 3 hours of E/I-compliant programming) to carry more infomercials on September 22, 2003. e/i was the second magazine founded published and edited by electronic music journalist Darren Bergstein following the 1980s to 1990's run of i/e magazine As September 4, 2006, WUAB offers advertisers more infomercials time slots than any other Cleveland area broadcaster; an average of 90 half hour infomercials per week. Infomercials (or informercials are Television commercials that run for one minute or for as long as a typical Television program This fills a large part of WUAB's weekend dayparts and overnight schedules. [1]
WUAB ranked #24 in overall ratings among all the UPN affiliates during the November 2005 ratings sweep period. Source: TV Week. [2]
Coverage in Canada
The station is readily available over-the-air to Kingsville, Leamington, and Pelee Island in southern Essex County, Ontario, and was once listed in the TV Guides for those communities (and Windsor, Ontario; though the station's signal wasn't strong enough to reach Windsor and Detroit. The Town of Kingsville is located in Essex County in southwestern Ontario, Canada and is Canada's Southernmost town Leamington is a municipality in Essex County, Ontario and has a population of 28833 Pelee Island, Ontario, Canada, is an Island in the western half of Lake Erie. Essex County is a County and Census division located in Southwestern Ontario and covers an area at the southernmost tip of Canada TV Guide is the name of a North American weekly magazine about television programming Windsor is the southernmost city in Canada and lies at the western end of the heavily populated Quebec City-Windsor Corridor. Unlike WKYC-TV, WEWS-TV, and WJW, it was not one of the stations from Cleveland carried on local cable in those three locations. WKYC-TV, channel 3 is an NBC -affiliated television station located in Cleveland Ohio, owned by the Gannett Company. WEWS-TV, channel 5 is a television station in Cleveland Ohio.
WUAB has been on cable channel 20 in London, Ontario since 1976. London is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada along the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor with a metropolitan area population of 457720 the city proper It is the only Cleveland station carried in London today.
Cleveland Cavaliers
WUAB has been the longtime "free TV" home of the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Cleveland Cavaliers (also known as the Cavs) are a professional Basketball team based in Cleveland Ohio. which aired from October 1973 to April 1987, and since October of 1994.
Under a new deal with FSN Ohio, Channel 43 will simulcast 5 Cavaliers regular season games, as well as select playoff games per year with FSN, which is the Cavs' main TV partner. The Fox Sports Regional Networks, or simply Fox Sports Net (FSN are a collection of cable TV Regional sports networks owned and operated by News
Thanks in large part to LeBron James, Cavaliers games have been big ratings grabbers for the station over the past few years. LeBron Raymone James (born December 30 1984 in Akron Ohio) is an American professional Basketball player who plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers of
My Network TV
In a major announcement, CBS Corporation and Time Warner announced on January 24, 2006, that they will close their respective UPN and WB networks and jointly launch the CW Network on September 19, 2006. Shortly after the announcement of the CW Network, News Corporation announced that it would launch My Network TV for stations left out of the merger. News Corporation (often abbreviated to News Corp) (,,) is one of the world's largest media conglomerate companies by Market capitalisation MyNetworkTV (unofficially abbreviated MyNet or MNT) is a Television network in the United States, owned by the Fox Broadcasting Company
On March 7, 2006, 6 days after competitor WBNX gained the CW affiliation, WUAB was announced as an affiliate of My Network TV, along with two other Raycom Media-owned stations. Events 161 - Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. WBNX-TV is the CW television affiliate serving the Cleveland Ohio Television market broadcasting on channel 55 (analog and channel 30 (digital [3]
On July 14, 2006, WUAB began showing off its new logo "My 43" on air, as well as identifying as "My 43, WUAB" in its promos and legal ID. The station also temporarily shut down their webpage in anticipation of the launch of My Network TV.
Occasionally as time now permits, WUAB may now carry CBS network programs should they be preempted by WOIO in the event of a special, a breaking news story or any other emergency.
My43 also broadcasts "19 Action News at 10 HD", which is produced by sister station WOIO. The news on My43 also began broadcasting in high definition on October 21, 2007. WUAB began broadcasting in the 720p format after their switch from UPN to My Network TV in September 2006. 720p is the shorthand name for a category of HDTV video modes United Paramount Network ( UPN) was a Television network that broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States and that was in production for over eleven MyNetworkTV (unofficially abbreviated MyNet or MNT) is a Television network in the United States, owned by the Fox Broadcasting Company The newscast on WUAB is also 720p, even though the news on WOIO is 1080i. 720p is the shorthand name for a category of HDTV video modes
The Tube Music Network
Up until October 1, 2007, The Tube Music Network was carried on DT-43. Events 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The Tube Music Network was a Music video network carried on free-to-air Satellite television, select digital television subchannels and Digital cable 2. On that same day, the network ceased operations. Currently, DT-43. 2 displays the following message.
| “ | Due to circumstances beyond our control, The Tube Music Network will no longer be available. Please do not call either your cable provider or WUAB as the decision to cease operations was solely that of The Tube Network. For more information go to www.thetubetv.com. WUAB DT43. 2 Lorain Cleveland. | ” |
The fate of DT-43. 2 is currently unknown.
Past Names
- Channel 43 1968-1999
- Hometeam 43 1999-2002
- 43 The Block 2002-2005
- WUAB UPN 43 2005-2006
- My43 WUAB 2006-Present
External links
- my43.net
- promo from 1986
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WUAB
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WUAB-TV
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