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| Branding | WBXI-CD Indianapolis |
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| Founded | August 23, 1989 (1989-08-23) |
First air date | 1990 (35 years ago) (1990) |
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Call sign meaning | The Box Indianapolis (former affiliation) |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 70416 |
| Class | CD |
| ERP | 15 kW |
| HAAT | 268.6 m (881 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°53′39.2″N86°12′20.5″W / 39.894222°N 86.205694°W /39.894222; -86.205694 |
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| Website | wbxica |
WBXI-CD (channel 47) is alow-power,Class A television station inIndianapolis, Indiana, United States, broadcasting programming from thedigital multicast networkStart TV.Owned and operated by theCBS News and Stations group, the station maintains an office on North Alabama Street indowntown Indianapolis; its transmitter is located on Walnut Drive on the city's northwest side.[2]
The station first signed on the air in 1990 as W47AZ. Originally serving as an affiliate of the viewer-requestmusic video networkThe Box, the station changed its call letters to WBXI-CA in 2001; that year, the station switched toMTV2 following that network's acquisition byViacom, which acquired WBXI-CA. For a few months in 2004, channel 47 served as arepeater of then-sister station andUPN affiliateWNDY-TV (channel 23, now aMyNetworkTV affiliate); this ended when Viacom's Television Stations Group (nowCBS News and Stations) subsidiary sold WNDY-TV to theLIN TV Corporation, owners of then-CBS (nowCW) affiliateWISH-TV (channel 8), in February 2005.
Unexpectedly, Viacom retained ownership of WBXI-CA, before spinning it off toCBS Corporation in December of that year, following CBS'split from the former company;Viacom retained ownership of theMTV Networks; however, the station maintained its MTV2 affiliation.
In 2007, the station switched to MTV2'sSpanish-language sister networkMTV Tr3s. This would end in 2014 upon the expiration of its last carriage contract, when WBXI would switch to continuous weather information.
On January 1, 2018, WBXI began carrying programming from CBS/Weigel Broadcasting'sDecades, with a local hour of the weather loop remaining weekdays at 7 a.m., which is considered as WBXI's lone "local" program. On September 3, 2018, WBXI-CD launched CBS/Weigel's new networkStart TV, dropping Decades. Decades shifted over to the second subchannel ofWSDI-LD.
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 47.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | StartTV | Start TV |
| 47.2 | 480i | Catchy | Catchy Comedy[4] | |
| 47.3 | Story | Story Television[5] | ||
| 47.4 | Movies! | Movies! | ||
| 47.5 | 720p | TCT | Tri-State Christian Television |
WBXI-CA maintained aconstruction permit to shut down its analog signal andflash cut its digital signal into operation on UHF channel 47 on September 1, 2015.[6] The station turned on its digital signal on August 21, 2015, and ceased operations of its analog signal on September 1, 2015, the mandatory date for Class A stations to cease operations.[7][8]
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