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| City | Cleveland, Ohio |
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| Branding | News 5[1] |
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| History | |
| Founded | July 18, 1946[2][3] |
First air date | December 17, 1947 |
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Call sign meaning | Edward Willis Scripps (founder of the Cleveland Press and the E. W. Scripps Company) |
| Technical information[4] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 59441 |
| ERP | 1,000 kW |
| HAAT | 300.7 m (986.5 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°22′26″N 81°43′3″W / 41.37389°N 81.71750°W |
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Public license information | |
| Website | www |
WEWS-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, affiliated with ABC. It has been owned by the E. W. Scripps Company since its inception in 1946, making it one of three stations that have been built and signed on by Scripps (alongside company flagship WCPO-TV in Cincinnati and WMC-TV in Memphis, the latter of which was sold in 1993). WEWS-TV's studios are located on Euclid Avenue (near I-90) in Downtown Cleveland, and its transmitter is located in suburban Parma.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
reiwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ FCC History Cards for WEWS-TV. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ "CP's granted for three new commercial video stations" (PDF). Broadcasting - Telecasting. July 22, 1946. p. 88. Retrieved May 6, 2019.
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WEWS-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
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