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Full-power digital · channel 8 · LIMA, OH
| Facility ID | 37503 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | GRAY TELEVISION LICENSEE, LLC |
| Community of licence | LIMA, OH
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 40.77544, -84.12061 |
| Effective radiated power | 40 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 426.3 m above average terrain · directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
| Website | http://hometownstations.com/ |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | 12
|
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | yes |
This website serves 4 stations. It is a network or group property, so the settings above reflect the owner's policy across all of them rather than a decision made for WLIO.
Checked 2026-09-11 by fetching robots.txt
and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not
evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| WTLW | 4 | DTV | MARQUEE BROADCASTING OHIO, INC. |
| facility 796213 | 7 | LPD | |
| W09DT-D | 9 | LPD | |
| WOHL-CD | 15 | DCA | GRAY TELEVISION LICENSEE, LLC |
| WTLW-CD | 17 | DCA | AMERICAN CHRISTIAN TELEVISION SERVICES, |
| facility 796211 | 18 | LPD | |
| W21FA-D | 21 | LPD | |
| WOHW-LD | 26 | LPD | AMERICAN CHRISTIAN TELEVISION SERVICES, |
| facility 794023 | 28 | LPD | |
| W30FP-D | 30 | LPD | |
| W35FB-D | 35 | LPD |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/WLIO | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=WLIO | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.