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Local 5 WOI-DT,channel 5,is the ABC affiliated television station serving the Des Moines market. WOI and KCWI-TV (a CW affiliate),channel 23,share studios on Westown Parkway in West Des Moines. Local 5 signed on the air on February 21,1950. It was Iowa’s second television station,and the first in Des Moines. Local 5 was originally owned by Iowa State University in Ames,Iowa along with its noncommercial WOI radio stations,making it the first commercial television station in the United States to be owned by a major college. On March 1,1994,WOI-TV was sold. It’s owners at the time,moved WOI-TV’s studios to a temporary location in Des Moines later that year. In 1998 WOI-TV moved to its current studios,on Westown Parkway in West Des Moines,Iowa.