WEWS - Channel 5
60th Anniversary

WEWS Channel 5 60th anniversary cake

WEWS, Channel 5, was the first licensed television station in the state of Ohio. They launched 60 years ago on December 17, 1947. Since then they have maintained the same channel position, ownership and call letters - the only Cleveland station to do that.

WEWS was also first in other ways.

• They were the first in Ohio to Broadcast live from a helicopter
• They were the first in Cleveland to broadcast a major league baseball game the Cleveland Indians in 1948.
• WEWS was the first station to offer a full college credit course taught over the air.
• They were the first in Ohio to broadcast a live, remote news report via "Action Cam."
• They were the first TV station in Cleveland to launch a website, newsnet5.com, in 1998.
• WEWS was the first station to televise a live cooking show.
• WEWS was the first station to receive the distinguished George Foster Peabody Award for public service.
• WEWS was the home to Dorothy Fuldheim, the country's first female news commentator

Here are some photos of current and past WEWS employees from the WEWS 60th Anniversary Luncheon held December 17, 2007.

Congratulations Channel 5!

WEWS Anchors Danita Harris and Ted Henry reading congratulatory proclamations from Governor Strickland, Mayor Jackson, Cuyahoga County Commissioners and Congresswoman Tubbs Jones

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WEWS Anchors Danita Harris and Ted Henry reading more proclamations

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Weatherman Mark Johnson carried the cake during the singing of Happy Birthday

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TV Legends Fred Griffith and Miss Barbara

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Cameraman Bill Ringen with anchor Leon Bibb

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Linda and Bob Short

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Pat Ferlin

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Bill Smoochie Gordon telling a story from the old days

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Don Unger, Jim Lentz, Lee and Mary Bailey

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Ed and Delores Miller

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Peter Noll and Mark Johnson

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TV Pioneer Paige Palmer with Audrey one of her models from the Paige Palmer Show who came in from California for the celebration

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Ruth Sindelar with Dr. Buttons, the sock puppet her late husband Ernie Sindelar used on air.

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Former WEWS director Don Mertens, Fred Griffith, Lee Jordan, Alicia Booth and Jason Nicholas

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Gary Stark showing Five, of course

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Leon Bibb interviewing Paige Palmer

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Jean Rosner, Linda Muglick, Alan and Bobbi Bush and Ruth Sindelar

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Telling stories about the old days

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TV legend Miss Barbara Plummer greets
fellow legend Paige Palmer

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Fred Griffith shares a story

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Old WEWS camera

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Ted Henry and Fred Griffith

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TV legends Bill Gordon and Paige Palmer

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Miss Barbara and Mark Johnson

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Anchors Ted Henry and Danita Harris MC'ed the event

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Painting of TV Pioneer and Legend Dorothy Fuldheim

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WEWS Channel 5 60'th Anniversary Banner

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Congratulations TV 5!

Be sure to read (and see photos of) profiles of the following Channel 5 Personalities

Paige Palmer

Miss Barbara Plummer

Liz Richards

Jenny Crimm

Gib Shanley

Fred Griffith

Jan Jones

Don Webster

See more WEWS History at the Channel 5 website