Ohio News Network to cease operations Aug. 31

Statewide cable news channel ONN will sign off forever at the end of August, bringing an end to a 15-year run. ONN — Ohio News Network — is shutting down because “the cable news consumer has many different methods of gathering news and information compared to when ONN was launched in 1997,” said Tom Griesdorn, president and general manager of ONN and of WBNS-TV (Channel 10), in a message to employees. Griesdorn said that he and other executives “did not come to this decision lightly. We have been exploring options for many, many months, but finally came to the conclusion that there is no viable business model moving forward.”