WDLI-TV (channel 17) is a television station licensed to Canton, Ohio, United States, serving the Cleveland–Akron area as an affiliate of the digital multicast network Bounce TV. It is owned by Inyo Broadcast Holdings alongside Ion Television affiliate WVPX-TV (channel 23).
WDLI-TV and WVPX-TV share offices on Renaissance Parkway in Warrensville Heights; through a channel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using WVPX-TV's spectrum from an antenna at the site of WDLI-TV's former studio on SR 261 in Norton, Ohio.
History
The station first signed on the air in January 1967 as WJAN,[2] an independent station owned by Janson Industries; it offered a typical slate of locally produced and syndicated programming. In its early years, live studio broadcasts were in black-and-white only, as the station could not afford color studio cameras. Feature films and videotaped programming from outside sources were always reproduced on color-capable equipment. However, many of the movies broadcast in the early years were classics from a time when color films were the exception.
Sometime before 1970, the station obtained two IVC color studio cameras, which were replaced in 1971 with state-of-the-art Norelco PC-70s.