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| Owner | Mid-State Television, Inc. |
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| History | |
First air date | January 10, 1986 (39 years ago) (1986-01-10) |
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Call sign meaning | Mansfield |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 41893 |
| ERP | 14kW |
| HAAT | 180 m (591 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°45′50″N82°37′4″W / 40.76389°N 82.61778°W /40.76389; -82.61778 |
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| Website | www |
WMFD-TV (channel 68) is anindependent television station inMansfield, Ohio, United States. It is owned by Mid-State Television, Inc., along with sister radio stationsWVNO-FM (106.1) andWRGM (1440 AM/106.7 FM). The stations share studios on Park Avenue West inOntario, Ohio (with a Mansfieldmailing address), where WMFD-TV's transmitter is also located.
WMFD-TV is available ondigital cable systems in the north central Ohio area and seen in theClevelandmarket viaSpectrum cable,DirecTV andDish Network.
The station first signed on the air on January 10, 1986, as WCEO-TV, originally broadcasting on UHF channel 68.[2] It changed its call letters to WCOM on July 24, 1987. The station attempted to enter theColumbus market by construction with atall transmitter tower (the tallest ever erected in Ohio) south of Mansfield inButler, but it never achieved cable carriage in the market and shut down in 1989.
Channel 68 returned to the air under the current WMFD-TV call letters on June 1, 1992; this time, targeting viewers in north-central Ohio (the WMFD-TV callsign was previously used on what is nowWECT inWilmington, North Carolina, from that station's sign-on in 1954 until 1958).
As the only full-power television station specifically serving the Mid-Ohio region, WMFD concentrates on local programming such asBon Appetit: The Dining Show andFocus on North Central Ohio.
The station produces local newscasts, branded asNewsWatch, which air Monday through Friday. WMFD also airs Mid-Ohio area high school football and basketball games.
Outside of local programs, the station fills out the remainder of its schedule withsyndicated programming andinfomercials.
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 68.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | WMFD-DT | Main WMFD-TV programming |
| 68.2 | 480i | 24-Hour Weather |
WMFD-TV signed on its digital signal onVHF channel 12 in 1998, claiming to be the first independent station in the United States to begin digital television broadcasts. The station shut down its analog signal, overUHF channel 68, on June 16, 2008.[3] The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition VHF channel 12.[4]