In 1965, Metromedia sold the station to Mid-America Media, owners of WIRL radio (1290 AM) who, on September 12 of that year, changed the call sign to WIRL-TV. In 1963, WTVH was bumped down to UHF channel 19 so that a third commercial VHF station could sign-on in the Quad Cities using that channel (the new station, WQAD-TV, is also an ABC affiliate). The Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation, later known as Metromedia, purchased the station in 1959. WTVH dropped the -TV suffix in its callsign on August 3, 1955. WTVH lost DuMont when the network ceased operations in 1955, and lost CBS when WMBD-TV (channel 31) began broadcasting. Originally broadcasting an analog signal on VHF channel 8, it was a primary CBS affiliate but also carried shows from ABC and DuMont. Its first studios were on Main Street in Peoria. Hilltop Broadcasting, which co-owned the Peoria Journal Star bought the station in 1954. The station was founded by Hugh Norman and Edward Schoede. WHOI was Peoria's second television station, signing-on as WTVH-TV on October 20, 1953. WHOI-DT2's only logo as an affiliate of The CW Plus, used from 2006 to 2016. This logo was also used from 2004 to 2009, but featured the blue ABC logo before the network introduced a new logo in 2007. History WHOI's last logo as an ABC affiliate, used from 2009 to 2016. WHOI was the ABC affiliate for the market until 2016. Owned and operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group, the station maintains a transmitter on Springfield Road (along I-474) in East Peoria, a section of Groveland Township, Tazewell County. WHOI (channel 19) is a television station in Peoria, Illinois, United States, broadcasting the digital multicast network TBD.

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