WIOU

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For the radio station in Kokomo, Indiana, see WIOU (AM).

WIOU was a short-lived American television drama series, which aired on CBS in 1990 and 1991. The show was set in the news department of a fictional television station whose actual callsign was WNDY (interestingly, the station that uses these call letters in real life was once owned by CBS), but which was nicknamed WIOU by its staff because of the station's financial struggles.

The show starred John Shea as news director Hank Zaret. The cast also included Mariette Hartley as executive producer Liz McVay, Harris Yulin and Helen Shaver as news anchors Neal Frazier and Kelby Robinson, Phil Morris as aggressive black reporter Eddie Bock, Dick Van Patten as aging weatherman Floyd Graham, and Wallace Langham as news intern Willis Teitelbaum.

According to television researchers Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, this program received such low ratings that although 18 episodes were actually produced, five were never aired upon the program's cancellation.