![]() WHIO-TV has been a CBS affiliate from the very beginning, and is the only station in Dayton never to have changed its primary affiliation it did air some programming from the long-defunct DuMont Television Network during its first three years on the air. WHIO-TV's licensee, Miami Valley Broadcasting, was originally used as the official name for Cox Media's television arm for decades. ![]() In fact, WHIO-TV is only the second of three television stations built by Cox from the ground up, merely five months after its sister property WSB-TV in Atlanta, where Cox Media Group is headquartered now. The station has been owned by the Cox publishing family and their related companies since its inception Cox also publishes the Dayton Daily News, the first newspaper ever purchased by Cox Enterprises founder James M. It was the first television station in Dayton to begin broadcasting, although WLWD (then channel 5, now WDTN, channel 2) was the first to have its license granted. ![]() WHIO-TV signed on February 23, 1949, on channel 13. It shares facilities with sister properties the Dayton Daily News and Cox's Miami Valley radio stations in the Cox Media Center building on South Main Street near downtown Dayton. WHIO-TV's transmitter is located off Germantown Street in the Highview Hills neighborhood of southwest Dayton. It has been owned by Cox Media Group since its inception, making it one of two stations that have been built and signed on by Cox (alongside company flagship WSB-TV in Atlanta). WHIO-TV (channel 7) is a television station in Dayton, Ohio, United States, affiliated with CBS.
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