Rock Entertainment Sports Network

Rock Entertainment Sports Network

Type	Sports-focused broadcast television network
Country	United States
Availability	Statewide Ohio
TV stations	See § Stations
Headquarters	Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Owner	Gray Media
Launch date	May 7, 1990 (34 years ago) (1990-05-07), with the launch of W50BE (now WOHZ-CD) in Mansfield, Ohio
Official website	RESN website

The Rock Entertainment Sports Network (RESN) is a broadcast television network in Ohio, United States. Based in Cleveland, it is owned by Gray Media and co-managed by Rock Entertainment Group, headed by Dan Gilbert, and its programming consists primarily of local sporting events. RESN operates alongside CBS affiliate WOIO (channel 19), CW affiliate WUAB (channel 43) and Telemundo affiliate WTCL-LD (channel 6). It is broadcast by Canton, Ohio–licensed low-power station WOHZ-CD (channel 22) from a transmitter located northeast of Canton; in Cleveland on a subchannel of WTCL-LD, with transmitter located in Parma; in Akron on W28FG-D, a translator for both WOHZ and WTCL; in Columbus on low-power station WDEM-CD (channel 17); and in Cincinnati as a subchannel of Gray-owned WXIX-TV.

WOHZ-CD, the low-power station Gray purchased to launch RESN, was on the air in 1990 in Mansfield, Ohio, originally on channel 50. Initially offering local community programming and newscasts, this programming largely migrated to co-owned full-power WMFD-TV when that station signed on. By the 2010s, the station aired programming from varied sources, including weather information and audio simulcasts of WVNO-FM. Gray purchased the station in late 2020 and operated it as a relay for the combined multiplex of WOIO and WUAB, then fully relaying WTCL's multiplex. RESN launched on August 23, 2024, with plans to carry Cleveland Charge basketball, Cleveland Monsters hockey, Lake Erie Crushers baseball and St. Edward High School football.