WOIO's 11:00 p.m. newscast mounted a serious challenge to WKYC that began in 2004 and had success in marginally overtaking WKYC once in 2008. In describing the change to a more conventional format for its newscasts, Mancuso cited that while the Action News format was "attention-getting" albeit "more about the brand and the presentation," the change toward a traditional news format would place more of an emphasis "about the stories, with less of the hyperbole," although it would retain an emphasis on investigative journalism that was expanded upon by the news department during the Action News era. 1994–1996 United States broadcast TV realignment, Repercussions of the 1994–1996 United States broadcast TV realignment, transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts, the original team's 1995 relocation to Baltimore, "Channel 19 Is Having Problems Getting on Air", "FOX WILL SIGN UP 12 NEW STATIONS; TAKES 8 FROM CBS", "Fox Gains 12 Stations in New World Deal", "The 1994-1996 Network Television Affiliation Mess", "CBS, NBC Battle for AFC Rights // Fox Steals NFC Package", "ABC pre-empts CBS in Cleveland, Detroit", "HeldenFiles: Twenty years ago, local TV changed", "Channel 19 dropping Action News format, taking its news operation in a new direction", "Another change at WOIO Channel 19: New colors", "GRAY AND RAYCOM TO COMBINE IN A $3.6 BILLION TRANSACTION", "Gray Acquiring Raycom For $3.65B, Forming No.
One of the first big stories aired on WOIO featured the "glasses cam", which Dave Barker used to show how he could just walk into a school without being stopped.
[12][13][14][15], In June 1994, Malrite had entered into a local marketing agreement with then-WUAB owner Cannell Communications, under which WUAB assumed responsibility for providing production, advertising and promotional services and master control operations for channel 19.
The Lakewood school district is leading the charge, and challenging what has been taught to students for generations. Lake breeze storms pop up later this afternoon. Romona Robinson and Jack Marschall remained as anchors for WUAB, maintaining their long history of ratings success at 10:00 p.m.; however, WUAB's ratings success with its prime time newscast did not yet translate to WOIO's newly created 11:00 p.m. newscast. Today's sunny day makes way for a cool night. The theme music used for the newscasts beginning in 2005 was from "The CBS Enforcer Music Collection", a package by Gari Music created for the CBS owned-and-operated station group which also has its roots with WBBM-TV's signature tune, based on an old folk song, "I Love Chicago, Chicago My Home". WOIO, virtual channel 19 (VHF digital channel 10), is a CBS-affiliated television station serving Cleveland, Ohio, United States that is licensed to Shaker Heights.
On its newscasts, WOIO aired a 9-1-1 recording of Nancy Fisher, Lerner's sister, calling for assistance. A Gray Media Group, Inc. Station - © 2002-2020 Gray Television, Inc. Today: Mainly sunny with highs in the low 80s. On October 22, 2009, WOIO boosted its effective radiated power to 9.5 kW.