WLIO

WLIO (channel 8) is a television station in Lima, Ohio, United States, affiliated with NBC and Fox. It is owned by Block Communications alongside WOHL-CD (channel 35), which broadcasts ABC and CBS. The two stations (and two repeaters)—which all operate under the collective banner of "Your Hometown Stations"—share studios on Rice Avenue northwest of downtown; WLIO's transmitter is located on Saint Clair Avenue north of downtown.

WLIO began broadcasting as WLOK-TV on ultra high frequency (UHF) channel 73 in 1953. It was co-owned with WLOK radio. In 1954, the WLOK stations were bought by the WIMA stations, with WLOK radio being shut down; the following year, WLOK-TV became WIMA-TV and moved to channel 35, for which WIMA had previously filed. In 1971, the radio and television stations were split, with channel 35 changing its call sign to WLIO before being sold to Block. The station was Lima's only major network affiliate into the 1990s and its primary source of local news and television advertising. In 2009, Block acquired WOHL and the Fox, ABC, and CBS affiliations in the market; WLIO changed major channel numbers to 8 and began broadcasting NBC and Fox, while WOHL became the ABC and CBS affiliate. The news department produces local newscasts which are aired on all four subchannels.