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WBNS-TV, channel 10, is a television station in Columbus, Ohio, USA. The station is an affiliate of the CBS Television Network and is owned by the Dispatch Broadcast Group along with WBNS radio (1460 AM and 97.1 FM). WBNS-TV's studios, offices and transmitter are co-located west of Downtown Columbus, near the confluence of the Olentangy and Scioto rivers.. WBNS-TV currently broadcasts in stereo and uses its SAP channel for a variety of purposes, including simulcasts of its radio sister and simulcasts of NOAA weather radio. The Dispatch Broadcast Group broadcasting operations also include WTHR, the NBC affiliate in Indianapolis, Indiana. ==History== WBNS-TV began operations on October 5, 1949. WBNS radio had been a CBS Radio Network affiliate for almost 20 years, so channel 10 immediately joined the CBS television network. It is currently the ninth longest-tenured CBS affiliate. Channel 10 has used the on-air branding of ''10TV'' since 1977. It is also one of only a few stations in the country to have had the same owner, call letters and primary network affiliation throughout its history, as well as the only major station in the city still owned by Ohio interests. The WBNS stations maintained common ownership with ''The Columbus Dispatch'', the city's lone remaining daily newspaper, until 2015 under a exemption of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s cross-ownership rules. The FCC has largely prohibited common ownership of co-located print and broadcast media since the middle-1970s. The Wolfe family, who purchased the ''Dispatch'' in 1905, sold the newspaper and related assets to New Media Investment Group in June 2015. WBNS-TV was known for its locally produced shows ''Flippo the Clown'', ''Luci's Toyshop'', ''Franz the Toymaker'', and programs hosted by popular Columbus Zoo and Aquarium personality Jack Hanna (''Hanna's Ark''). The station also featured "Fritz the Nite Owl," who hosted midnight movies during the 1970s and Sunday state government talk called ''Capital Square'' in the 1990s. In 1980, David Sams, a young producer who would later move on to help launch the national version of ''The Oprah Winfrey Show'', ''Wheel of Fortune'', and ''Jeopardy!'', created the very first tabloid TV magazine show, ''Front Page Saturday Night'', while at WBNS. Throughout much of the 1990s and early years of the millennium WBNS-TV was home to the ''10TV Kids News Network'' (KNN); a local show, "Produced by kids, for kids." The half-hour show aired Saturday mornings. Several KNN kids have gone on to pursue careers in television news or public relations in central Ohio. In 1995, WBNS-TV replaced Cleveland's WJW-TV as the default affiliate in the Mansfield area (part of the Cleveland-Akron DMA) after WJW became a Fox broadcast outlet. The new Cleveland CBS affiliate, WOIO, unlike WBNS-TV, did not reach Mansfield with a Grade B signal. WBNS also replaced Toledo CBS affiliate WTOL on cable television in the Lima DMA. The first live high-definition broadcast on the station's digital signal, WBNS-DT, took place in September 1998 in which the broadcast was a football game between Ohio State and West Virginia, making the station a pioneer in American digital television. The station claims this to have been the first locally produced HD broadcast in the US; however, as several other stations throughout the country also lay claim to this distinction, the veracity cannot be verified. The station has strong ties to the athletic department of Ohio State University. For many years, it has produced the coaches shows for both the football and men's basketball teams, along with other shows about Ohio State athletics. Additionally, its radio sister has been the flagship station of Ohio State football and basketball for decades. Prior to the launch of the Big Ten Network in September 2007, the station aired Ohio State games offered by ESPN Plus in both sports, including prime-time pre-emptions of CBS network programming for games. Because of the Big Ten Network's exclusive contracts to cover live Ohio State sports, WBNS now only carries selected CBS Big Ten basketball broadcasts on weekends and latter portions of the conference tourney, although the programming outside of live sports remains produced by WBNS-TV. It has been the market's home of the syndicated runs of ''Wheel of Fortune'' since 1983 and ''Jeopardy!'' since 1984, one of the few stations to carry the entire run of both series. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WBNS-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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