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=== TV === The Cleveland-area [[television market]] is served by 11 full power stations, including [[WKYC]] ([[NBC]]), [[WEWS-TV]] ([[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]), [[WJW (TV)|WJW]] ([[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]), [[WDLI-TV]] ([[Bounce TV|Bounce]]), [[WOIO]] ([[CBS]]), [[WVPX-TV]] ([[Ion Television|Ion]]), [[WVIZ]] ([[PBS]]), [[WUAB]] ([[The CW|CW]]/[[Rock Entertainment Sports Network|RESN]]), [[WRLM (TV)|WRLM]] ([[Tri-State Christian Television|TCT]]), [[WBNX-TV]] (independent), and [[WQHS-DT]] ([[Univision]]). {{As of|2021|post=,}} the market, which includes the [[Akron]] and [[Canton, Ohio|Canton]] areas, was the 19th-largest in the country, as measured by [[Nielsen Media Research]].<ref>{{cite report |author1=Out of Home Advertising Association of America |author1-link=Out of Home Advertising Association of America |title=2021 Neilsen DMA Ratings |url=https://oaaa.org/Portals/0/Public%20PDFs/OAAA%202021%20NIELSEN%20DMA%20Rankings%20Report.pdf |website=OAAA |publisher=Out-of-Home Advertising Association of America |access-date=May 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023142631/https://oaaa.org/Portals/0/Public%20PDFs/OAAA%202021%20NIELSEN%20DMA%20Rankings%20Report.pdf |archive-date=October 23, 2022 |page=1 |date=2021 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''[[The Mike Douglas Show]]'', a nationally [[Broadcast syndication|syndicated]] daytime talk show, began in Cleveland in 1961 on KYW-TV (now WKYC),<ref>{{cite news |last=Weiner |first=Tim |title=Mike Douglas, TV Host and Pop Singer, Dies at 81 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/12/arts/television/12douglas.html |date=August 12, 2006 |access-date=August 8, 2023 }}</ref> while ''[[The Morning Exchange]]'' on WEWS-TV served as the model for ''[[Good Morning America]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last=Livingston |first=Tommy |title=Fred Griffith, former host of The Morning Exchange, dies at 90 |publisher=WEWS-TV |url=https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/cleveland-metro/fred-griffith-former-host-of-the-morning-exchange-dies-at-90 |date=July 19, 2019 |access-date=August 8, 2023 }}</ref> [[Tim Conway]] and [[Ernie Anderson]] first established themselves in Cleveland while working together at KYW-TV and later WJW-TV (now WJW). Anderson both created and performed as the immensely popular Cleveland horror host [[Ghoulardi]] on WJW-TV's ''Shock Theater'', and was later succeeded by the long-running [[Late night television|late night]] duo [[Big Chuck and Lil' John]].{{sfn|Feran|Heldenfels|1997|pp=135β136}} Another Anderson protΓ©gΓ© β [[Ron Sweed]] β would become a popular Cleveland late night movie host in his own right as "The Ghoul".<ref>{{cite news |last=DeNatale |first=Dave "Dino" |title=Legendary Cleveland television personality Ron 'The Ghoul' Sweed passes away |publisher=WKYC |url=https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/legendary-cleveland-television-personality-ron-the-ghoul-sweed-passes-away/95-11d2ab9d-6553-4772-a44c-40ca1ddbcfb0 |date=April 2, 2019 |access-date=August 1, 2022 }}</ref>
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