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WEWS-TV, virtual channel 5 (UHF digital channel 15), is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The station is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. WEWS-TV maintains studio facilities located on Euclid Avenue (near I-90) in Downtown Cleveland, and its transmitter is located in the Cleveland suburb of Parma. ==History== The station first signed on the air on December 17, 1947, as the first commercially licensed television station in Ohio, and the 16th overall in the United States. The call letters denote the initials of the parent company's founder, Edward Willis Scripps. The station is the oldest in Cleveland to maintain the same channel position (as an analog broadcaster), ownership and call letters since its sign-on. A few weeks before WEWS-TV's sign-on, Scripps launched WEWS-FM (102.1, the frequency is now occupied by WDOK) as an outlet for WEWS-TV personalities to gain on-air experience before the launch of the television station. Channel 5's first broadcast was of a Christmas pageant run by the station's corporate cousin, ''The Cleveland Press''. Its staff included capable producers Jim Breslin and Betty Cope, who would later become president of WVIZ (channel 25). In October 1948, WEWS, still Cleveland's only television station, broadcast the 1948 World Series games played in Cleveland between the Indians and the Boston Braves. The telecasts were fed to stations throughout the Midwest. WEWS aired only one other World Series involving the Indians – in , when the Indians again faced the now-Atlanta Braves – the local broadcast was split with WKYC-TV (channel 3) due to the ABC/NBC shared Baseball Network. WEWS originally operated as a CBS affiliate, with secondary ABC and DuMont affiliations; it lost the CBS affiliation to WJW-TV (channel 8) in 1955 after that station's then-owner, Storer Broadcasting, used its influence with CBS to land the affiliation. The station later lost the DuMont affiliation when that network ceased operations in 1956. WEWS was also an affiliate of the short-lived Paramount Television Network; the station was one of the network's strongest affiliates, airing such Paramount programs as ''Time For Beany'', ''Hollywood Reel'', and ''Frosty Frolics''. WEWS also aired two NBC programs, both of which had been preempted by Westinghouse-owned NBC affiliate KYW-TV (now WKYC): the network's evening newscast ''The Huntley-Brinkley Report'', during the 1959–1960 season; and ''The Tonight Show'', with hosts Jack Paar and later Johnny Carson, from October 1957 to February 1966. In 1970, WEWS-TV became the broadcast rights holder of the Cleveland Cavaliers; this partnership continued until 1973. In 1977, WEWS-TV went before the U.S. Supreme court for recording and broadcasting the entire human cannonball act of Hugo Zacchini. He performed his circus routine at the Geauga County Fair in Burton, Ohio and the station did not compensate him, as was required by Ohio law. In ''Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co.'', the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment did not shield the WEWS from liability from common law copyright claims. 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「WEWS-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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