WESO-TV

WESO-TV, virtual channel 17 (UHF digital channel 13), is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to, United States. Owned by, it is a sister station to Fox/Telemundo affiliate WESO-LD (channel 11) and MyNetworkTV/CW+ affiliate WOOH-LD (channel 16). The three stations share studios on Forest Avenue in Zanesville and transmitter facilities on Baughman Road west of downtown.

There are no separate websites for the three stations, instead they are integrated with that of their shared Southeastern Ohio NOW news operation, however WOOH-LD's CW+ subchannel has it's own website as part of yourcwtv.com

Moving from Montana
Founded on April 25, 2000 in as Fox affiliate KMMF, the station was owned by Equity Broadcasting. The station's signal was repeated in Kalispell on KMMF-LP channel 34. KMMF added MyNetworkTV as a secondary affiliation in September 2006. KMMF was fed from Equity's hub in by March 2008. Technical issues dramatically increased in number after this was implemented.

At auction on April 16, 2009, PMCM TV of bought Equity's Fox Montana station system. In 2011, PMCM TV resold KMMF to Southeast MediaCorp, KMMF then dropped it's Fox and MyNetworkTV affiliations in favor of This TV. Southeast MediaCorp proposed to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that KMMF be re-licensed to in the  market. It would remain on channel 17 and continue to broadcast at 500 kW of power. However, the FCC denied the application, ruling that Pleasant Grove was "not a community", citing its unincorporated status and letters of support from local organizations in Pleasant Grove that had "Zanesville" as their addresses.

After exhausting most of their funds in pursuit of the reallocation, Southeast MediaCorp sold KMMF to. In a revised application before the FCC, SagamoreHill proposed a different city of license, Zanesville itself. This time, the FCC approved the application.

Becoming a CBS affiliate
While KMMF was being moved from to, SagamoreHill had managed to sign an affiliation agreement with  in which the  under-construction station would become CBS' Zanesville affiliate. KMMF changed it's callsign to WESO-TV and signed-on in Zanesville on May 16, 2013 at 11:57 p.m., with CBS welcoming the station on-air the following day on the CBS Morning News, CBS Evening News and the Late Show with David Letterman. It cost $10 million to move WESO-TV to Ohio and build it's new transmission facility on Baughman Road in Zanesville.

News operation
WESO-TV broadcasts 17 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with three hours on weekdays and one hour on Saturdays and Sundays), which are produced in-house at the station's Forest Avenue studios. The news department shared by WESO-TV, WESO-LD and WOOH-LD shares content with the -owned Zanesville Times Recorder newspaper. For international news, Southeastern Ohio NOW subscribes to the following wire services:, , , , , and.