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The Ohio State Sports Network from Learfield is an American radio network consisting of 62 radio stations which carry coverage of Ohio State Buckeyes football and men's basketball. Co-owned WBNS (1460 AM) and WBNS-FM (97.1 FM), both licensed to Columbus, Ohio, serve as the network's 2 flagship stations.
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Until 1995
WBNS-TV began operations on October 15, 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 10TVsince 1977. It is also one of only a few stations in the country to have had the same call letters and primary network affiliation throughout its history. The WBNS call letters stand for "Wolfe Bank Newspaper and Sh...
Since 1995
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 LimaDMA. The first live high-definition broadcast on the station's digital signal took place in September 1998 in which the broadcast was a football game be...
Sports programming
WBNS-TV has strong ties to the athletic department of the 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 ti...
News operation
WBNS presently broadcasts 37 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with six hours each weekday, three hours on Saturdays and four hours on Sundays). WBNS-TV was the first television station in the Columbus market to debut a news helicopter, "10TV SkyCam" (now "Chopper 10") in 1979, satellite news truck "10TV Skybeam" in 1986 and launch the Ohio News Network in 1997, which shared studio and office space with WBNS until ONN ended on August 31, 2012. Appropriately for a station with roo...
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed: WBNS-TV broadcasts in Dolby 5.1 and uses its SAP channel for varying purposes, including simulcasts of its radio sister and simulcasts of NOAA weather radio, along with Descriptive Video Service (DVS) and Spanish-language NFL coverage from CBS. On June 12, 2009, WBNS-TV launched Doppler 10 Now, a weather subchannel, carried on channel 10.2, based on the Local AccuWeather platform. On May 28, 2013, WBNS-TV announced that the 10.2 subchannel would be...
Analog-to-digital conversion
WBNS-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 10, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 21, using virtual channel10.
As of September 15, 2012, the high-definition feed for WBNS-TV was dropped from Dish Networkdue to a contractual dispute between the two sides. On September 6, 2017, WBNS and Indianapolis sister station WTHR, in both SD and HD formats, were pulled from their respective local AT&T U-verse and DirecTVchannel lineups in a dispute over retransmission l...
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Ohio State Football on the Radio. You can listen to live Ohio State Buckeyes games online or on the radio dial. With 68 stations in the network, the Ohio State Sports Network represents one of the biggest and most-listened to college sports network in the Midwest (and the nation).
Jan 27, 2021 · Currently, Fox Sports Ohio and SportsTime Ohio are only available through a participating pay-TV service, a list that over the past year has lost Dish, Sling, YouTube TV, FuboTV and Hulu + Live...
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