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7 unusual facts about WHIO


Houston, Ohio

The transmitter site of WHIO-FM (formerly WPTW-FM,WCLR and WDPT respectively and licensed to Piqua) is located south of the community on Aiken Road adjacent to State Route 66.

WDPT

WHIO-FM, a radio station (95.7 FM) licensed to Piqua, Ohio, United States, known as WDPT-FM from 2000 to 2006.

WHIO

WHIO-FM, a radio station (95.7 FM) licensed to Pleasant Hill, Ohio, United States

WHIO-TV, a television station (channel 7 analog/41 digital) licensed to Dayton, Ohio, United States

WHIO-FM

From 2000 until 2006, "The Point" aired classic hits from the late 1970s and 1980s and was briefly simulcast on WDTP, 95.3 in Xenia before reverting to the WZLR calls as classic rock-formatted "The Eagle." Before that it was WCLR at first as "Clear 95" airing easy listening music (as did its predecessor WPTW-FM for many years) when the transmitter was moved from its studios to its present location near the rural community of Houston just north of Piqua in 1986.

WHIO-TV

USAF meteorologist Warren Madden was hired from nearby Wright-Patterson Air Force Base; he went to The Weather Channel in December, 1996.

WLMO-LP

The company initially refused to carry the station on its Lima system due to the presence of two other CBS affiliates, WHIO-TV from Dayton and WBNS-TV in Columbus.


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WHIO-TV | WHIO-FM | WHIO (AM) |

Blue Duck

In 2011 the New Zealand Department of Conservation and Genesis Energy started the Whio Forever Project, a five-year management programme for Whio.

Gil Whitney

Gil Whitney was an American television personality in Dayton, Ohio, who worked primarily at WHIO Television and Radio until his death in 1982.


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