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WLFI-TV
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
WLFI-TV
West Lafayette
,
Indiana
United States
Branding
WLFI 18
(general)
News 18
(newscasts)
Slogan
News From Where You Live
Channels
Digital
: 11 (
VHF
)
Virtual
: 18 (
PSIP
)
Subchannels
18.1
CBS
18.2
GetTV
18.3
Ion Television
Affiliations
CBS
(Secondary through 1956)
Owner
Media General
(sale to
Heartland Media
pending)
(Primeland Television, LLC)
First air date
June 15, 1953
; 63 years ago
Call letters' meaning
W
est
L
a
F
ayette,
I
ndiana
Former callsigns
WFAM-TV (1953–1967)
Former channel number(s)
Analog:
59 (
UHF
, 1953–1957)
18 (UHF, 1957–2009)
Former affiliations
Secondary:
DuMont
(1953–1956)
Transmitter power
30
kW
Height
214 m
Facility ID
73204
Transmitter coordinates
40°23′20″N
86°36′46″W
Licensing authority
FCC
Public license information:
Profile
CDBS
Website
wlfi
.com
WLFI-TV
,
virtual channel
18 (
VHF
digital
channel 11), is a
CBS
affiliated
television station
located in
West Lafayette
,
Indiana
,
United States
. The station is owned by
Media General
. WLFI maintains studio facilities located on Yeager Road in
West Lafayette
, and its transmitter is located on County Road 700 in rural northwestern
Clinton County
(southwest of
Rossville
);
master control
and some internal operations are housed at the studio facilities of
sister station
WISH-TV
on North
Meridian Street
in northwestern
Indianapolis
. On
cable
, WLFI-TV is available on
Comcast Xfinity
channel 8 and Metronet channel 18 in
standard definition
and in
high definition
on Xfinity
digital
channel 1018 and Metronet channel 818.
History
The station first signed on the air at 6:00 p.m. on June 15, 1953 as
WFAM-TV
,
[1]
broadcasting on
UHF
channel 59. It was founded by original owner
Sarkes Tarzian
, a radio manufacturer based in
Bloomington
, which also owned primary
NBC
/secondary
ABC
and
DuMont
affiliate
WTTV
(now a
CBS
affiliate) in
Indianapolis
and ABC affiliate
WPTA
in
Fort Wayne
. The station originally operated as a primary
CBS
and
DuMont
affiliate. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the
NTA Film Network
.
[2]
WFAM-TV's transmitter had originally broadcast at low power, making it unreceivable in parts of west-central Indiana outside of the immediate Lafayette area. Out of its original 20-person staff, only one person had any experience in television; the rest were radio personalities who pulled double duty under the guidance of O.E. Richardson, owner of radio station
WASK
(1450 AM).
WLFI-TV logo used from 2000 to 2012.
The station relocated its allocation to UHF channel 18 in 1957; the UHF channel 59 allocation would remain dormant until the
Federal Communications Commission
later reassigned the allotment to
Indianapolis
(later used by WPDS-TV (now
WXIN
), which signed on in February 1984). The station changed its call letters to
WLFI-TV
in 1967. In 1979, the station was purchased by
Block Communications
. In 2000,
LIN TV Corporation
acquired WLFI from Block in exchange for a 67% ownership interest in
ABC
affiliate
WAND
(now an
NBC
affiliate) in
Decatur, Illinois
(LIN TV later sold off its remaining 33% interest in WAND to Block Communications).
On March 21, 2014,
Media General
announced that it would merge with LIN Media in a .6 billion deal.
[3]
[4]
The merger was completed on December 19.
[5]
Nexstar Broadcasting Group
announced on January 27, 2016 that it would merge with Media General in a .6 billion acquisition;
[6]
it then announced on June 13, 2016 that it would sell WLFI-TV and four other stations to Heartland Media, through its USA Television MidAmerica Holdings
joint venture
with MSouth Equity Partners, for 5 million, to comply with
Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) ownership caps following the merger.
[7]
Digital television
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Channel
Video
Aspect
PSIP Short Name
Programming
[8]
18.1
1080i
16:9
WLFI-HD
Main WLFI-TV programming / CBS
18.2
480i
GetTV
GetTV
18.3
ION
Ion Television
WLFI formerly carried
TheCoolTV
on digital subchannel 18.2 from 2011 to 2013, when LIN Media terminated its affiliation agreement with the
music video
network.
[9]
The live feed of "Storm Team 18 Live Doppler Radar" moved from digital subchannel 18.3 to 18.2 in the fall of 2013.
Sony Pictures Television
’s
GetTV
network, which features classic movies, replaced the weather radar channel on WFLI-DT2 in early 2015. In Fall 2015, WFLI-DT3 was launched to serve as an
ION Television
affiliate.
Analog-to-digital conversion
WLFI-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 18, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States
transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts
under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 11,
[10]
using
PSIP
to display the station's
virtual channel
as its former UHF analog channel 18.
Programming
WLFI-TV clears the entire CBS network schedule; however, it airs the
CBS Dream Team
lineup in two blocks – with the first two hours airing on Saturday mornings (leading into the
Saturday edition
of
CBS This Morning
, which itself airs two hours later than most CBS stations that carry the broadcast) and the final hour airing on Sunday mornings. The station also pre-empts the Saturday edition of the
CBS Evening News
in favor of running an hour-long 6:00 p.m. newscast.
Syndicated
programs broadcast by WLFI-TV include
Dr. Phil
,
The Dr. Oz Show
,
Jeopardy!
,
Wheel of Fortune
and
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
.
News operation
WLFI-TV presently broadcasts 22½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with four hours on weekdays, 1½ hours on Saturdays and one hour on Sundays); unlike most CBS affiliates in the
Eastern Time Zone
, the station's early evening newscast at 5:00 p.m. runs only for a half-hour, with the station opting to run syndicated programs during the 5:30 p.m. half-hour.
Even after Lafayette area residents became able to receive stations out of Indianapolis via cable television beginning in the 1970s, the station's newscasts have performed well in the
ratings
; its success was largely attributed to the longevity of most of its news staff, some of whom had been at the station for over 20 years, including former anchors Jeff Smith and Chris Morisse, sports anchor Larry Clisby and meteorologist Steve Scherer
[1]
.
In September 2012, WLFI became the third television station in
Central Indiana
to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in
high definition
; as part of the upgrade, the station unveiled a new graphics package (a modified version of the package used by CBS
owned-and-operated station
WBBM-TV
in
Chicago
from when it upgraded its newscasts to high definition in 2008 until 2010) and a new set for its newscasts.
Notable former on-air staff
Jane King
(now New York correspondent for
CNN
)
[11]
References
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http://www.wlfi.com/Global/story.asp?S=6512244
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^
"Require Prime Evening Time for NTA Films"
,
Boxoffice
: 13, November 10, 1956
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^
"Media General to buy WISH-TV parent in deal worth .6B"
.
Indianapolis Business Journal
.
Associated Press
. March 21, 2014
. Retrieved
March 22,
2014
.
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^
Sruthi Ramakrishnan (21 March 2014).
"Media General to buy LIN Media for .6 billion"
. Reuters
. Retrieved
21 March
2014
.
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^
Media General Completes Merger With LIN Media
, Press Release,
Media General
, Retrieved 19 December 2014
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^
Lafayette, Jon (January 27, 2016).
"Nexstar Agrees to Buy Media General for .6B"
.
Broadcasting & Cable
. Retrieved
June 13,
2016
.
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^
"Prather Buys 5 TVs From Nexstar-Media Gen."
.
TVNewsCheck
. June 13, 2016
. Retrieved
June 13,
2016
.
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RabbitEars TV Query for WLFI
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http://m.thecooltv.com/stations.php?id=31
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^
"DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds"
(PDF)
. Retrieved
2012-03-24
.
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^
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