PHOTOS: WHIO, Dayton’s first television station, marks 70-years

PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
PHOTOS: WHIO-TV, Dayton’s first station, marks 70-years
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James M. Cox, Jr. (right), president of the Miami Valley Broadcasting Co. and Leonard Reinsch, general manager of Cox radio and television stations, photographed in 1949 as they started the first television station in Dayton, WHIO-TV. DAYTON DAILY NEWS