113-503: WJW may refer to: WJW (TV) , a television station (channel 8) licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, United States, which has carried the WJW callsign since 1998; and carried the WJW-TV callsign from 1956 to 1977 and 1985 to 1998 WKNR , a radio station (850 AM) licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, United States, which carried the WJW callsign from 1928 to 1985 WQAL ,
226-458: A franglais interpretation of "The Beautiful City". On July 29, 1797, Jefferson County was organized by a proclamation of Governor Arthur St. Clair , and Steubenville was selected as the county seat. It was platted in the same year by Bezaliel Wells and James Ross , the city's co-founders. Wells, a government surveyor born in Baltimore , received about 1,000 acres (4 km ) of land west of
339-619: A steel welder . Live entertainment and a German-style Advent Market featuring local artisans and craftsmen, as well as hot food and drink vendors, runs each weekend through the month of December in Fort Steuben Park to coincide with the Nutcracker Village event. The popularity of the Nutcracker Village since its inception has inspired other nutcracker-themed ventures in the City of Steubenville, including Drosselmeyer's Nutcracker Shoppe,
452-616: A 20% equity interest in the group, New World signed a long-term affiliation agreement with Fox to switch 13 television stations that it owned or was acquiring from one of the three major broadcast networks (CBS, ABC and NBC) to Fox once their existing affiliation contracts expired. The deal was motivated by the National Football League (NFL)'s awarding of the rights to the National Football Conference (NFC) television package to Fox on December 18, 1993, in which
565-640: A Christmas-themed festival, the Steubenville Nutcracker Village and Advent Market. The event is centered around a large collection life-size nutcracker sculptures spread throughout Fort Steuben Park in downtown Steubenville. The Nutcracker Village is free and open to the public 24 hours a day and generally runs from the Tuesday before Thanksgiving to Epiphany Sunday in early January. The event began in 2015 with 37 locally produced, hand-painted nutcrackers. They are made of fiberglass and foam at
678-612: A March 2022 guide from the Climate Receiver Places Project at the PLACE initiative, Steubenville is a climate resilient geography based on its relatively low climate change risk exposure. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Steubenville has a humid continental climate , abbreviated "Dfa" on climate maps. The city's population peaked in 1940 at 37,651. After large declines for many decades,
791-481: A family was $ 36,597. Males had a median income of $ 36,416 versus $ 21,819 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 17,830. About 15.3% of families and 20.4% of the population were below the poverty line , including 29.2% of those under the age of 18 and 11.0% of those aged 65 and older. Like most cities of comparable age and size, Steubenville has well-established Catholic , Eastern Orthodox , Protestant and, until 2013, Jewish communities. Steubenville
904-517: A few months). Goddard said that the incentive for joining WJW-TV was the fact that CBS carried Cleveland Browns games through its contract with the National Football League (the rights to which were ironically lost to WKYC in 1970 upon the team's move to the AFC). Goddard later became the team's statistician , a position he held until 2011. Goddard—who was honored for his 50 years of broadcasting in
1017-603: A functional, though dormant state since the transition; Tribune Broadcasting donated the transmitter to the National Association of Broadcasters , which it used to conduct a six-month test of the "Futurecast" ATSC 3.0 standard advanced by LG Electronics and GatesAir beginning in May 2015, as WI9X3Y. The transmitter remained active for the duration of the 2016 World Series (which the Indians played in), broadcasting in 4K UHD to
1130-405: A generalized branding to promote the station's non-news programming, in particular, those offered through its new Fox affiliation (thereby, becoming one of the first New World outlets to fully include network references in its branding). This accompanied a change in format for harder-edged news; viewers did not respond positively to either the format changes, or the constant branding reinforcement (to
1243-528: A generation of fans who could recite catch phrases such as "Turn Blue", "Stay Sick", "Camera Four" and "Ova Dey." Before Ghoulardi, Anderson had a weekday morning program on channel 8 starting in 1961 called Ernie's Place with sidekick Tim Conway (then credited as "Tom Conway"), that included live skits reminiscent of Bob and Ray . When Anderson left for lucrative voice-over work in Hollywood in September 1966,
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#17330922581131356-473: A local Cleveland Browns focused pre-game show in the program's network-recommended time slot during football season, deferring Fox NFL Kickoff to the station's second digital subchannel. Like most of its sister stations, channel 8 preempted portions of the CBS schedule, usually the late morning daytime shows. In the 1990s, WJW-TV and its fellow New World stations prepared to launch their own morning newscasts, and as
1469-419: A local business. Design and production takes about 40 hours each. In the second year, there were a total of 75 nutcrackers; by 2023, there were 209 around town. Each of the nutcrackers, which range in height from 5 to 9 feet (1.5 to 2.7 m) tall is unique, and the designs include fictional characters from books, movies, comic strips, and songs, holiday characters like Mrs. Claus , and professions, such as
1582-514: A long-term deal with ABC that would keep WEWS as its Cleveland outlet; this deal also resulted in sister stations WMAR-TV in Baltimore , KNXV-TV in Phoenix , and WFTS-TV in Tampa all switching their affiliations to that network. CBS would reach an agreement with Malrite Communications to move its programming to Fox charter affiliate WOIO (channel 19). WJW switched to Fox on September 3, 1994, becoming
1695-583: A principal city of the Weirton–Steubenville metropolitan area , which had a 2020 population of 116,903 residents. Steubenville's nickname is the "City of Murals", after its more than 25 downtown murals. The campus of Franciscan University of Steubenville is in the city. Historically, it was known as the birthplace and home town of Edwin Stanton , Secretary of War during the American Civil War . It
1808-519: A radio station (104.1 FM) licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, United States, which carried the WJW-FM callsign from 1948 to 1965 Washington Jewish Week , a weekly newspaper headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, United States Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title WJW . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
1921-454: A result, channel 8 began to preempt CBS This Morning as well. The station also gained notoriety in September 1993 by being one of the few CBS affiliates that chose to air the Late Show with David Letterman on a half-hour tape delay , in favor of airing Murphy Brown reruns immediately following its 11 p.m. newscast. Despite the preemptions, CBS was generally satisfied with WJW, which
2034-630: A result, the city's police force became the second city in the United States to sign a consent decree with the federal government due to an excessive number of civil rights lawsuits. The decree was signed on September 4, 1997, under the "pattern or practice" provision. Under this agreement, the city agreed to improve the training of its police officers, implement new guidelines and procedures, establish an internal affairs unit, and establish an "early warning system". Based on reformed use of force policies and improved police training requirements implemented by
2147-623: A secondary provider of ABC programs, sharing that affiliation with WEWS. WXEL also carried a number of CBS programs that WEWS declined to air. Some of the daytime shows originated at Cinécraft Productions on Franklin Boulevard in Ohio City . WXEL also carried an affiliation with the short-lived Paramount Television Network , and in fact was one of that network's strongest affiliates. The station aired such Paramount Network programs as Hollywood Wrestling , Bandstand Revue , and Time for Beany . During
2260-616: A series of street festivals called First Fridays on Fourth to build community and generate interest and economic activity downtown. More recently there have been several new businesses opened Downtown on 4th Street, including Drosselmeyer’s Nutcracker Shoppe, Leonardo’s Coffeehouse and the Steubenville Popcorn Co. The new Findlay Connector has been built in western Pennsylvania as a toll-access highway between Pittsburgh International Airport at Interstate 376 and U.S. Route 22 in northwestern Washington County . Travel time between
2373-410: A suburban Cleveland motel. Shortly after the callsign change to WJKW, the station hired former WKYC-TV and NBC Radio news anchor Virgil Dominic as its news and public affairs director (a position which he held until 1983 when he became the general manager for WJKW/WJW until his retirement in 1995), and also began to pump considerable money into its news operation. The name of the newscasts even underwent
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#17330922581132486-491: A transition as well, going from City Camera News to Newscenter 8 around the summer of 1977. Within a year, channel 8 had overtaken longtime leader WEWS as the highest-rated news station in Cleveland – a lead it kept for almost 20 years. Tim Taylor joined WJW-TV as consumer reporter in the summer of 1977, having been hired away from WEWS, where he held a similar role. The following year, Taylor became Judd Hambrick 's partner on
2599-611: A tribute to the Ohio Valley Steelworkers . The life-size figure carries a long-handled dipping ladle and is wearing the hooded fire-proof suit worn in the steel mills. The statue was located at the junction of Hwy 22 (University Blvd) and Hwy 7 (Dean Martin Blvd). In the fall of 2014, the statue was moved to its new home, displayed on South Fourth Street at the site of the Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County. There
2712-438: A two-man news anchor team, Joel Daly and Doug Adair , in the studio together. The station retitled its evening newscasts as City Camera News , in a format which had reporters equipped with Polaroid cameras to photograph news events, so that pictures could be quickly broadcast when they returned to the studio. Station programming also featured Adventure Road , hosted by Jim Doney, which presented filmed travelogues narrated by
2825-641: A weekday variety program called Soup's On where he started his pie-in-the-face routines. In 1961 , WJW-TV became the broadcast rights holder of the Cleveland Indians (now the Cleveland Guardians ). Channel 8's partnership with the team continued through 1979 , when the Indians moved to then-independent station WUAB (channel 43). WJW also carried Indians games that were part of the CBS , and later, Fox network packages of Major League Baseball games. One of
2938-491: A year-round Christmas shop in downtown Steubenville, and Wooden Hearts Follies , a locally-written and performed musical centered around characters from the event. The Nutcracker Village attracted over 40,000 visitors in 2017 and is credited with bringing new life to Steubenville's downtown area. Between 1887 and 1913, a team known as the Steubenville Stubs sparsely played minor league baseball at various times in
3051-542: Is a television station in Cleveland, Ohio , United States, affiliated with the Fox network. Owned by Nexstar Media Group , WJW maintains studios on Dick Goddard Way (named for the station's late longtime weatherman—previously known as South Marginal Road) just northeast of downtown Cleveland near the shore of Lake Erie , and its transmitter is located in the Cleveland suburb of Parma, Ohio . The television station first signed on
3164-453: Is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, Ohio , United States. Located along the Ohio River 33 miles (53 km) west of Pittsburgh , it had a population of 18,161 at the 2020 census . The city's name is derived from Fort Steuben , a 1786 fort that sat within the city's current limits and was named for Prussian military officer Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben . It is
3277-639: Is a statue downtown commemorating Edwin Stanton , President Abraham Lincoln 's secretary of war . Stanton was born and raised in Steubenville. Actor, singer and comedian Dean Martin was born and raised in Steubenville, and the town features an annual Dean Martin Festival and a Dean Martin Room at the Jefferson County Historical Museum and Library. Steubenville has two public lending libraries,
3390-533: Is home to the Franciscan University of Steubenville , a private university affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church founded in 1946. Eastern Gateway Community College was a public community college located in the city from 1968 to 2024. On July 24, 2012, after being threatened with a lawsuit from the atheist Freedom from Religion Foundation , the Steubenville city council decided to remove
3503-530: Is known as the city where legendary entertainer Dean Martin of the Rat Pack was born and raised. It has recently attracted attention for the Steubenville Nutcracker Village, an annual Christmastime event. In 1786–87, soldiers of the First American Regiment under Major Jean François Hamtramck built Fort Steuben to protect the government surveyors mapping the land west of the Ohio River , and named
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3616-476: Is land and 0.08 square miles (0.21 km ) is water. The city lies along the Ohio River , with the city spreading west from the floodplains to the hills that surround the city. It lies within the ecoregion of the Western Allegheny Plateau . The climate in this area is characterized by hot summers and relatively cold winters and evenly distributed precipitation throughout the year. As detailed in
3729-484: Is served by the Indian Creek Local School District . Several private schools are located in Steubenville. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Steubenville operates Bishop John King Mussio Central Elementary School, Bishop John King Mussio Central Junior High School and Steubenville Catholic Central High School . Steubenville shares a media market with nearby Wheeling, West Virginia . The city is home to
3842-610: Is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Steubenville . Holy Name Church was selected as the diocesan cathedral in 1944 when the southeastern part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus was made into the Diocese of Steubenville. Recent financial difficulties resulted in a proposal to re-merge the diocese with the Columbus diocese, but the proposal proved very contentious and has been tabled for further study. Steubenville and
3955-513: The Carnegie Library of Steubenville and Schiappa Branch Library . Steubenville's nickname is the "City of Murals", because there are more than 25 downtown murals. There are numerous murals, markers and a walking tour in Steubenville, many paying homage to Dean Martin. There is also a mural Washington Street dedicated to two Tuskegee Airmen who were brothers, John Ellis Edwards and Jerome Edwards. In 2015, two local businessmen started
4068-575: The Ohio State League , Interstate League , Ohio–Pennsylvania League and Pennsylvania–Ohio–Maryland League . The Steubenville Stampede was a member of the Continental Indoor Football League from 2006 to 2007. Steubenville is the birthplace of Ohio Valley-style pizza , a distinctive style of pizza that features cold toppings on a baked crust. The City of Steubenville is part of the 6th congressional district of Ohio and
4181-416: The " Newscenter 8 " branding and the "24-Hour News Source" concept, and adopted a hard-hitting format that saw the implementation of the phrase "ei 8 ht is News" as the title of its newscasts (the "ei 8 ht" logo was itself based on a logo used by WJW from 1966 to 1977 that was first used to herald the station's switch to color broadcasts). Consequently, the station used "Fox is ei 8 ht" as
4294-437: The "24-Hour News Source" concept that was originally developed the year prior by rival WEWS, positioning itself as "Cleveland's Own 24 Hour Newsroom". At that time, the station began producing news updates of 30 seconds in length during local commercial break inserts within syndicated and CBS network programs at or near the top of each hour in time periods when the station was not carrying regularly scheduled, long-form newscasts or
4407-501: The AFC (WDAF-TV, located in the home market of the AFC's Kansas City Chiefs , was the only other New World station in a non-NFC market that switched to Fox). Channel 8 first broadcast Browns games in 1956, when CBS (which WJW-TV was affiliated with then), gained the TV broadcast rights to the pre-merger NFL; all Browns games would air exclusively on channel 8 until 1969. Since 1970 (with the completion of
4520-610: The AFL/NFL merger, and the Browns' subsequent move to the newly formed AFC, and with exception of the team's three-year operational hiatus that began in 1996 ), channel 8 has carried at least two Browns games per year, usually consisting of interconference games in which the team plays host to an NFC team at Cleveland Browns Stadium ; in addition, with the institution of the league's "cross-flex" broadcast rules in 2014, any games that are arbitrarily moved from WOIO will be shown on WJW if Fox acquires
4633-556: The AM station until late 1976, when the group sold the radio station to Lake Erie Broadcasting. The AM station's new owners were allowed to keep the WJW call letters, forcing channel 8 to change theirs, per a since-repealed FCC rule that prohibited radio and television stations in the same city, but with different owners from sharing the same base call letters. As a result, channel 8 changed its callsign to WJKW-TV on February 3, 1977. (The added "K" did not stand for anything.) On September 16, 1985,
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4746-452: The Cleveland area using the ATSC 3.0 standard with Dolby AC-4 Audio (though the audio standard has not been completely finalized yet, with AC-4 and competitor MPEG-H as the remaining options for audio). This station also broadcasts brief, intermittent ATSC 1.0-compatible signals during parts of the day for reception comparisons under the callsign of WI9XJY. Steubenville Steubenville
4859-526: The Cleveland market, with the renaming of the stretch of South Marginal Road that runs in front of the WJW studios as "Dick Goddard Way" in May 2011—remained with WJW until his retirement on November 22, 2016. Goddard died on August 4, 2020, at the age of 89. Daly and Adair reigned as Cleveland's top news team until June 1967, when Daly was hired away by ABC-owned WBKB (now WLS-TV ) in Chicago. Adair remained at channel 8 through July 1970, when he joined WKYC, which
4972-534: The Department also stated that excessive force was levied against individuals who witnessed incidents of police misconduct, and against those who were known critics of the city and its police force. Those individuals were also falsely detained if the city and the police agreed that they were "likely to complain of abuse". It further stated that the officers involved falsified reports and tampered with official police recorders so that "misconduct would not be recorded". As
5085-833: The DuMont network shut down operations in 1955. It took Cleveland under eight years for each station at the time to gain exclusive full-time network affiliations of their own. Storer changed channel 8's call letters to WJW-TV on April 15, 1956, to complement WJW radio (AM 850, now WKNR , and FM 104.1, now WQAL ), respectively. All three stations later moved to the former Esquire Theater building at 1630 Euclid Avenue , near Playhouse Square. On November 16, 1963, approximately 30 WJW radio and television personalities went on strike , forcing both stations to use supervisory and production personnel in those roles, many from parent company Storer Broadcasting stations in Atlanta and Miami. The main bargaining point
5198-606: The Friday night movie slot was succeeded by The Hoolihan and Big Chuck Show —cohosted by Bob "Hoolihan" Wells , who did the station weather forecasts as "Hoolihan the Weatherman"; and Charles "Big Chuck" Schodowski , a station engineer who had risen to director and had appeared in some of Ghoulardi's skits. After Bob Wells departed channel 8 in September 1979, his position was filled by local jeweler and little person "Lil' John" Rinaldi, who had also previously performed in skits on
5311-526: The Jefferson County Court of Common Pleas ruled that the city ordinance of supporting the speed camera program was illegal and unconstitutional. The city refused to remove the cameras, however, because it stated it was "bound by contract to continue the services" of Traffipax, Inc., the US subsidiary of ROBOT Visual Systems, a German corporation. Despite attempts to remove the cameras, the city continued to defy
5424-611: The New World stations led the network to change its carriage policies to allow Fox stations uninterested in carrying the block the right of first refusal to transfer the local rights to another station, restructuring Fox Kids as a network-syndicated program package; by 2001, affiliates were no longer required to run the Fox Kids lineup even if Fox had not secured a substitute carrier). WBNX-TV (now an independent station) carried Fox Kids – along with its successor blocks FoxBox and 4Kids TV – from
5537-732: The Northwest Territory, Fort Steuben housed 150 men of the 1st American Regiment. The non-profit organization that worked to rebuild the fort also developed the surrounding block into Fort Steuben Park that includes the Veterans Memorial Fountain and the Berkman Amphitheater. The Fort Steuben Visitors center is home to the Museum Shop and the Steubenville Convention & Visitors Bureau and is an official site on
5650-711: The Ohio River Scenic Byway. Adjacent to the fort is the First Federal Land Office with its original logs from 1801. After the Ohio country was surveyed, it could be sold or given away as land grants; the settlers brought their deeds to be registered at the Land Office to David Hoge, the Registrar of Lands and Titles for the Northwest Territory. "Ohio Valley Steelworker" Statue was created by artist Dimitri Akis as
5763-544: The Ohio River; Ross, a lawyer from Pittsburgh , owned the land north of Wells. On March 1, 1803, Ohio was admitted to the Union as the 17th state. During the first half of the nineteenth century, Steubenville was primarily a port town, and the rest of the county was small villages and farms. Steubenville received a city charter in 1851. In 1856, Frazier, Kilgore and Company erected a rolling mill (the forerunner of steel mills) and
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#17330922581135876-600: The Pittsburgh International Airport and the city of Steubenville is now approximately 25 minutes. Steubenville is located near two large shale formations: the Marcellus and Utica formations. Fort Steuben , located downtown on South Third Street, is a reconstructed 18th century fort on its original location overlooking the Ohio River. Built in 1787 to protect the government surveyors of the Seven Ranges of
5989-434: The September 1994 switch until Fox ceased supplying children's programming within the network's schedule on December 28, 2008. On September 13, 2014, WJW began carrying Xploration Station , a live-action educational program block distributed by Steve Rotfeld Productions that is syndicated primarily to Fox stations, on Saturday mornings through an agreement involving Tribune's Fox-affiliated stations. In its early years,
6102-552: The Steubenville Coal and Mining Company sank a coal shaft. The city was a stop along the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad , which connected Pittsburgh to Chicago and St. Louis . The Steubenville Female Seminary , also known as Beatty's Seminary for Young Ladies or Steubenville Seminary, was an early private educational institution for women founded by Presbyterian minister Charles Clinton Beatty in 1829. It
6215-523: The United States. As of the census of 2010, there were 18,659 people, 7,548 households, and 4,220 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,768.6 inhabitants per square mile (682.9/km ). There were 8,857 housing units at an average density of 839.5 per square mile (324.1/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 79.0% White , 15.9% African American , 0.2% Native American , 0.8% Asian , 0.6% from other races , and 3.5% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.4% of
6328-416: The United States. During its early years of operation, channel 8 broadcast a popular and unique 11 p.m. newscast, The Sohio Reporter , featuring a Western Reserve University speech professor named Warren Guthrie who delivered the entire newscast from memory, speaking directly into the camera long before the days of the teleprompter . In September 1963, WJW-TV was one of the first stations to employ
6441-500: The air on December 19, 1949, as WXEL, originally broadcasting on VHF channel 9. It was founded by the Empire Coil Company, a wartime manufacturer of radio coils and transformers. The station was the third to sign on in Cleveland behind WNBK (then-channel 4, now WKYC channel 3), and WEWS-TV (channel 5), all of which signed on in a 13-month timeframe. In its early years, WXEL was a primary DuMont affiliate, and later became
6554-471: The city and its police department, the consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice ended on March 4, 2005. These reforms and improvements were reviewed by the city council in 2020, and the city manager outlined use of force policies, data, and training that showed continuing improvements. The speed camera program began in 2005 and earned the city $ 600,000 in revenues, as nearly 7,000 tickets (at $ 85 each) were issued during that time period. In March 2006,
6667-402: The city was forced to refund thousands of tickets totaling $ 258,000. Stern also gathered enough signatures from the residents of the city to put forth a referendum that posed the question of whether the city's ordinance authorizing the speed camera program should continue. On November 8, 2006, city residents voted to end the city's speed camera program with a 76.2 percent majority. Steubenville
6780-428: The city. The population density was 1,842.2 inhabitants per square mile (711.3/km ). There were 9,449 housing units at an average density of 915.4 per square mile (353.4/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 79.55% White , 17.25% African American , 0.22% Native American , 0.73% Asian , 0.01% Pacific Islander , 0.53% from other races , and 1.70% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.97% of
6893-479: The communities that surround it, especially Weirton, West Virginia , have experienced sluggish economies since the steel industry waned during the 1980s. Corporations such as Weirton Steel have had to reduce their workforce in order to become more efficient and competitive against other steel producers and lower steel prices worldwide. Starting in 2014, the Harmonium Project and numerous others partners began
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#17330922581137006-440: The conference's broadcast television rights moved to the network effective with the 1994 NFL season , ending a 38-year relationship with CBS . At the time the agreement was signed, the affiliation contract of WJW-TV was set to expire on or shortly after September 1, 1994, giving CBS only five months to land another Cleveland affiliate. The agreement with New World concerned CBS executives, as New World planned to switch several of
7119-652: The deal between Fox and New World which was located in a market served by an NFL franchise that is not a member of the National Football Conference (NFC); the Cleveland Browns —whose games had occasionally aired on the station dating back to its tenure with CBS—are part of the American Football Conference (AFC), which at the time of the switch, had most of their over-the-air game telecasts carried on WKYC-TV by way of NBC's broadcast rights to
7232-461: The deal would create a duopoly with WJW, and lead to the return of CW network programming on September 1, 2025. The Dr. Oz Show (hosted by Cleveland native Dr. Mehmet Oz ) had been on a local hiatus as of December 1, 2021, due to equal-time rules related to Oz's 2022 campaign for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania as WJW's fringe signal is able to be accessed in parts of northwestern Pennsylvania;
7345-581: The estimated population of the American Community Survey was 18,578, but the actual count in the 2010 census was 18,659, an increase of 81. Steubenville is a principal city of the Weirton–Steubenville metropolitan area and is part of the larger Pittsburgh–New Castle–Weirton combined statistical area . From 1980 to 2000, census figures show that the Weirton–Steubenville metro population decreased faster than that of any other urban area in
7458-441: The film and television production company folded WJW and its six sister stations—fellow CBS affiliates WTVT, WAGA-TV in Atlanta , WJBK-TV in Detroit and WITI-TV in Milwaukee , NBC affiliate KNSD in San Diego and independent station WSBK-TV in Boston —into a new broadcasting subsidiary, New World Communications . On May 23, 1994, as part of an overall deal in which network parent News Corporation also purchased
7571-407: The filmmakers. Dick Goddard came to channel 8 as its chief weatherman in 1966, following a prior five-year tenure at WKYC-TV (Goddard went along with nearly all of Westinghouse's former Cleveland staffers following a reversal of a 1956 station swap with NBC that saw Westinghouse Broadcasting reacquire WRCV-TV in Philadelphia and move the KYW-TV calls there, but returned to Cleveland after only
7684-406: The first New World station to switch to the network under the agreement. WOIO concurrently switched to CBS. On July 17, 1996, News Corporation announced that it would acquire New World in an all-stock transaction worth $ 2.48 billion, bringing its ten Fox affiliates under network ownership. Under Fox ownership, WJW added stronger first-run syndicated shows as well as stronger off-network sitcoms to
7797-415: The fort in honor of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben . When the surveyors completed their task a few years later, the fort was abandoned. In the meantime, settlers had built homes around the fort; they named their settlement Steubenville. The name Steubenville was derived from Fort Steuben to honor Baron von Steuben (the fort was named for the Baron). The town was sometimes referred to as La Belle City,
7910-450: The half-hourly updates it aired during CBS This Morning . After WJW became a Fox affiliate on September 3, 1994, the station underwent a major shift in its programming philosophy that more heavily emphasized its local news programming. The station initially expanded its news production to over 40 hours a week, and through the years continued expanding, eventually reaching 65 1 ⁄ 2 hours per week by 2015. In October 1995, WJW retired
8023-418: The image of Franciscan University from its town logo rather than pay for a lawsuit. The city later proposed a logo that included a chapel and cross. Public schools in Steubenville are operated by the Steubenville City School District . There are a total of five schools in the district: Wells Academy, West Pugliese, Garfield, Harding Middle, and Steubenville High School . A portion of far western Steubenville
8136-452: The judge's order and reinstated an identical ordinance to continue issuing citations. Councilman at Large Michael Hernon cast the sole dissenting vote against reinstating the traffic cameras. In mid-2006, an attorney filed a class-action lawsuit against the city of Steubenville for illegally collecting fines and generating unnecessary revenue from motorists. He won the case in December 2007 and
8249-584: The late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network . Following the 1952 release of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s Sixth Report and Order , a realignment of VHF channels in the Midwest forced WXEL to move to channel 8 on December 10, 1953. Its former channel 9 allocation was moved to Steubenville and given to a new station, WSTV-TV (now WTOV );
8362-421: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=WJW&oldid=501488139 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Broadcast call sign disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages WJW (TV) WJW (channel 8)
8475-495: The more traditional WKYC-TV. Even Fox 8 in the Morning lost its top spot to WKYC's morning newscast for about two months. As a result of the overall decline, WJW replaced longtime 6 and 10 p.m. lead anchors Wilma Smith and Tim Taylor, with Bill Martin and Stacey Bell at 10 p.m., hoping the two would attract a younger audience to the program. The change paid off for channel 8, and today its newscasts frequently rank number-one in
8588-417: The most memorable programs produced by WJW-TV was the Friday late night horror movie hosted by " Ghoulardi ", a character created by Ernie Anderson . Wearing a bad fright wig and phony beard and a pair of sunglasses with only one lens, he interacted with the movies and created an ongoing patter and rehearsed skits during the movie breaks. The program began on January 11, 1963, as Shock Theater and created
8701-457: The national broadcasts aired on WKYC, WEWS and WOIO. This was especially true since WEWS' long-running local show The Morning Exchange was moved to 9 a.m. around the time of the Fox/CBS switch. With the exception of a brief period from late 1994 through late 1995 when it was titled Good Day Cleveland , Fox 8 News in the Morning has constantly been Cleveland's top rated morning newscast since
8814-485: The network's prime time lineup for the final twelve years that Fox carried programming aimed at that demographic. The only notable program preemption outside of the network's children's blocks has been that of the secondary Sunday morning NFL pre-game show Fox NFL Kickoff , of which WJW has declined carriage on the station's main channel since the program moved to Fox from Fox Sports 1 in September 2015 ; WJW instead airs
8927-407: The network's stronger-performing affiliates in other markets to Fox, a move that often forced CBS to affiliate with either a former Fox affiliate or a lower-profile independent station. To prevent such a situation from happening in Cleveland, CBS approached Scripps-Howard Broadcasting in an attempt to sign its WEWS as the network's new Cleveland affiliate. On June 16, however, Scripps-Howard signed
9040-498: The point that a story in the Cleveland Plain Dealer began with the lede "WJW Channel 8's constant repetition of its ubiquitous 'EI8HT Is News' slogan has some viewers squawking that Eight Is Enough, Already" ). They instead turned to the more traditional WEWS; WKYC was likewise busy trying to find an audience after years of being used as NBC's ' farm ' station. The " ei 8 ht is News " branding ended upon Fox's purchase of
9153-473: The population decline stabilized some, with the 2010 and 2020 censuses showing the smallest declines in any decade since the peak. This trend is reflected in the US Census Bureau's estimate of the 2020 population from its American Community Survey of 17,882 being lower than the actual count in the 2020 census of 18,161, an increase compared to the estimate of 279. This is similar to the situation in 2010 when
9266-442: The population. There were 7,548 households, of which 25.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 34.8% were married couples living together, 16.2% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.8% had a male householder with no wife present, and 44.1% were non-families. 37.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size
9379-409: The population. There were 8,342 households, out of which 23.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.2% were married couples living together, 14.9% had a female householder, and 41.5% were non-families. 36.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 18.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.19 and the average family size
9492-533: The process. Following the collapse of the Sinclair merger, Tribune Media agreed to be acquired by Nexstar Media Group on December 3, 2018, for $ 6.4 billion in cash and debt. The sale was approved by the FCC on September 16, 2019, and completed three days later; Fox declined to reacquire WJW after the sale closed. On October 28, 2024, Nexstar announced plans to acquire Akron -licensed WBNX-TV (channel 55). Upon approval,
9605-424: The programming mix. It was the only fully network owned-and-operated station among the "Big Four" network outlets in the Cleveland area, and was the only Fox-owned station to carry a historic 1920s three-letter call sign . It remains the only Fox television affiliate to utilize a three-letter call sign. On December 22, 2007, Fox sold WJW-TV and seven other owned-and-operated stations to Local TV for $ 1.1 billion;
9718-441: The ratings. The station's signal is multiplexed : WJW shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 8, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 31 to VHF channel 8. The former temporary channel 31 transmitter has remained in
9831-477: The regional telecasting rights. Channel 8 was also the home station for the NBA 's Cleveland Cavaliers from 1976 to 1980 ; it also aired Cavaliers games aired via CBS' NBA broadcast contract from 1973 to 1990. In addition, the station has aired Cleveland Guardians (known as the Indians until 2022) games via CBS' MLB coverage from 1990 to 1993 , and since 1996 , through Fox's broadcast rights , notably including
9944-513: The sale was finalized on July 14, 2008. On July 1, 2013, the Tribune Company acquired the Local TV stations for $ 2.75 billion; the sale was completed on December 27. Sinclair Broadcast Group announced that it would acquire Tribune Media on May 8, 2017, for $ 3.9 billion, plus the assumption of $ 2.7 billion in debt held by Tribune. In order to meet regulatory compliance for the merger, WJW
10057-486: The show ended its 13-season run on January 14, 2022, with its spin-off The Good Dish (featuring Oz's daughter Daphne ) taking over the 11 a.m. timeslot three days later. Since it joined the network in September 1994, channel 8 has only aired Fox's prime time , late night, news and sports programming, with the only content it has aired involving Fox's children's programming having been of fall preview specials and network promotions for those blocks that aired within
10170-420: The show. The program was renamed The Big Chuck and Lil' John Show , and it continued airing on Friday nights before moving to Saturday nights in the early 1990s. The show ended its run on June 16, 2007, as Chuck Schodowski retired after a 47-year career at channel 8. At the time of its conclusion, The Big Chuck and Lil' John Show was the last remaining locally produced television show in the Cleveland market that
10283-714: The station lagged behind its competitors in producing local programming, perhaps because its studio was located at the transmitter in Parma, while the other stations had studios downtown. A young Alan Freed , previously at WAKR radio in Akron, worked for WXEL starting in 1949. Freed hosted an afternoon movie and performed live commercials for several years before he became the self-titled father of " rock and roll " while as an evening host on WJW radio, before moving on to radio jobs in New York City . Soupy Sales , then known as Soupy Hines, had
10396-410: The station moved to its present studios at 5800 South Marginal Road, which were built with a more modern approach than Storer's usual exterior studio design; the building features a number of columns framed by windows in the front, though the large front was not of the usual Georgian or Colonial mansion-esque design common with WJW's sister stations. While WJW-FM was sold in the late 1960s, Storer kept
10509-412: The station reacquired the WJW-TV callsign (eventually shortened to simply WJW), as WJW (AM) had changed its callsign following the radio station's own transfer of ownership to Booth American Broadcasting (the aforementioned call letter rule was still in effect then). After Storer Broadcasting was bought out by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts in 1985, the station underwent a series of ownership changes. KKR sold
10622-486: The station's 6 and 11 p.m. weeknight newscasts. For much of Taylor's 27-year run as an anchor at WJW (the second longest in Cleveland television history, behind Ted Henry , who worked at WEWS for 37 years from 1972 to 2009), he served alongside several female anchors (including Tana Carli, Denise D'Ascenzo , Robin Swoboda , Denise Dufala and Wilma Smith). Taylor retired from broadcasting on December 23, 2005, after which he
10735-399: The station, after which it was replaced by " Fox 8 News ", which remains in use to this day as the station's news branding. One triumph for WJW was its weekday morning newscast, as, without a national morning news program supplied by Fox, WJW could produce an all-local, 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 -hour-long program to fill part of the time period. Many Cleveland viewers preferred the local show over
10848-541: The stations to Gillett Communications in 1987; shortly thereafter, SCI Television was spun off from Gillett to take over the stations after Gillett's bankruptcy. On February 17, 1993, one day after SCI purchased WTVT in Tampa from Gillett Holdings in a separate agreement for $ 163 million, New World Pictures purchased a 51% ownership stake in SCI Television from Gillett for $ 100 million and $ 63 million in newly issued debt;
10961-553: The switch took place only two weeks before WSTV-TV went on the air. In 1954, Empire Coil sold two of its television interests—WXEL and KPTV in Portland, Oregon , the United States' first UHF station—to Storer Broadcasting . George B. Storer, the company's founder and president, was a member of the board of directors of CBS , and used his influence to take the CBS television affiliation from WEWS on March 1, 1955. WEWS became an exclusive ABC affiliate (and remains so to this day), while
11074-460: The team's appearance in the 2016 World Series . WJW presently broadcasts 68 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours each weekday, five hours on Saturdays and 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours on Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the largest local newscast output among any station in the state of Ohio, and one of the highest weekly newscast totals of any television station in
11187-408: The time of its debut. Another advantage of the affiliation switch was the shift of the late newscast from 11 p.m. to 10 p.m., which also resulted in the program's expansion into a one-hour-long broadcast; with conversion of the news department launched six years earlier by WUAB to serve as a joint operation with newly minted CBS outlet WOIO and the balancing act of managing both stations, along with
11300-401: The unproven lead-in of WUAB's new UPN and WB network programming, WJW quickly overtook WUAB's longer-established prime time newscast at 10 p.m. without much issue. In news programming, the station retook the top position from WEWS in 2001. By mid-2002, all of WJW's newscasts placed first. This continued until January 2004, when viewers began turning away from WJW's hard-hitting style to
11413-440: Was 2.22 and the average family size was 2.91. The median age in the city was 38.8 years. 20.3% of residents were under the age of 18; 16.1% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 20.3% were from 25 to 44; 25.9% were from 45 to 64; and 17.5% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 46.1% male and 53.9% female. As of the census of 2000, there were 19,015 people, 8,342 households, and 4,880 families residing in
11526-418: Was 2.86. In the city, the population was spread out, with 21.2% under the age of 18, 8.1% from 18 to 24, 24.3% from 25 to 44, 24.2% from 45 to 64, and 22.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 43 years. For every 100 females, there were 85.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 80.8 males. The median income for a household in the city was $ 26,516, and the median income for
11639-431: Was Storer's attempt to institute a new, drastically reduced fee schedule for performers. On November 20, WJW-TV broadcast a taped panel segment that offered the striking performers the opportunity to state their case, since management had presented its side two nights earlier. After nearly reaching agreement on November 23 before talks collapsed, the two sides finally came to an agreement on November 27. On November 2, 1975,
11752-542: Was changed to Jefferson Technical College. In 1995, it became a community college and was renamed Jefferson Community College. In 2009, the college expanded its service district by three Ohio counties, and was renamed again: Eastern Gateway Community College . The city gained international attention in late 2012 from the events surrounding the Steubenville High School rape case , which occurred in August 2012. The case
11865-671: Was closed in 1898 and the buildings were eventually razed for part of what is now Ohio State Route 7 . In 1946, the College of Steubenville was founded by the Franciscan Friars of the Third Order Regular . In 1980, its name was changed to University of Steubenville, and finally in 1985 to Franciscan University of Steubenville . In 1966, the Jefferson County Technical Institute was founded. In 1977, its name
11978-559: Was first covered by The New York Times that December, followed by the computer hacker group Anonymous later that month, and the subsequent coverage of the trials in late 2013. The case was significant in the extensive use of social media as evidence and in opening a national discussion on the concept of rape culture . According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 10.63 square miles (27.53 km ), of which 10.55 square miles (27.32 km )
12091-515: Was one of the network's strongest affiliates. As with most of its sister stations under its former New World ownership (with the subverted exception of St. Louis sister station KTVI), WJW has always declined carriage of Fox's children's programming; it opted not to run the Fox Kids weekday and Saturday blocks when it affiliated with the network, airing children's programs acquired via syndication on Saturday mornings instead (the preemptions of Fox Kids by
12204-424: Was primarily entertainment; that is, not news or informational (Big Chuck and Lil' John made a comeback of sorts when they began hosting a new half-hour, weekly program featuring their classic skits that WJW premiered on September 10, 2011). WJW-TV has long history of broadcasting Cleveland sports teams, whether it is produced in-house or broadcast through CBS or Fox. Channel 8 was one of two stations involved in
12317-439: Was replaced by fellow longtime Cleveland TV newsman Lou Maglio; one month prior, Taylor and Goddard were reunited with Swoboda and former sports anchor Casey Coleman in a special segment during Fox 8 News in the Morning . The foursome has been quoted as one of "Cleveland's most successful news teams" during the 1980s, and helped lead Newscenter 8 to number one in the Cleveland market during that decade. In 1991, WJW implemented
12430-436: Was represented by Bill Johnson until January 2024. The 6th district is the longest US House district in Ohio and runs along the southeast state borders of Ohio. In 1997, the U.S. Department of Justice alleged that the city and police force had subjected numerous individuals to "excessive force, false arrests, charges, and reports" and had engaged in practices regarding "improper stops, searches, and seizures". The report from
12543-444: Was subsequently identified as one of 23 stations that would be divested with Fox Television Stations agreeing to repurchase the station as part of a $ 910-million deal with Sinclair. Both transactions were nullified on August 9, 2018, following Tribune's move to terminate their merger with Sinclair and lead FCC commissioner Ajit Pai 's public rejection of the deal, with Tribune filing a breach of contract lawsuit against Sinclair in
12656-506: Was then owned by NBC. Later in 1964, WJW-TV was the first full CBS affiliate in Ohio, and the first Cleveland TV station, to start local color broadcasts. Following Daly's departure, Martin Ross became Adair's on-air news partner for the next three years, then teamed with Murray Stewart when Adair left. The duo worked together until Ross's death from cancer in April 1973. Jeff Maynor had filled in when Ross
12769-409: Was undergoing treatment, and continued in that role for the next four months until Jim Hale teamed with Stewart beginning on September 11, 1973. Just over a year later, Stewart asked to be taken off the broadcast, citing health problems, and was later reassigned to the noon news, with Maynor taking his place on the nightly broadcast. Stewart committed suicide on August 3, 1976, overdosing on Nembutal in
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