WHIO Radio's original studios were on Ludlow Street downtown next door to the old Dayton Daily News offices. The station's studios were there from the 1935 sign on until the WHIO-TV facility on Wilmington Pike was built around 1949. Then, radio moved into the TV building. The radio studios were built to the same specifications as the TV studios, the thought then being that if/when television put radio out of business, the radio studios could easily be converted to television studios. Of course...radio reinvented itself with the invention of the "disc jockey" in the mid-1950's, and began to thrive again and WHIO, though always programmed as an adult radio station, followed the trend toward DJ's spinning music.
It has been publically stated that the point of the merger is to put all of the employees in one building to permit creative collaboration between the three media outlets and to share resources between them.
