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WIIH-CD

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Get affiliate in Indianapolis

WIIH-CD
Channels
Programming
Affiliations17.1:Get
Ownership
Owner
WISH-TV,WNDY-TV
History
First air date
January 29, 1988 (37 years ago) (1988-01-29)
Former call signs
  • W11BV (1988–1995)
  • WIIH-LP (1995–2002)
  • WIIH-CA (2002–2009)
  • WIIH-LD (2009–2011)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 11 (VHF, 1988–2002), 17 (UHF, 2002–2011)
  • Independent (1988–2003)
  • Univision (2003–2008)
  • Weather forecast service (2009–2011)
  • CBS via WISH-TV (secondary 1988–2003 and 2009–2011, primary 2011–2014)
Call sign meaning
Visual disambiguation of former W11BV translator calls with look-alike characters, "H" from WISH-TV calls
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID167765
ClassCD
ERP0.3kW
HAAT143.2 m (470 ft)
Transmitter coordinates39°53′25″N86°12′20″W / 39.89028°N 86.20556°W /39.89028; -86.20556
Translator(s)WISH-TV 8.2 Indianapolis
Links
Public license information

WIIH-CD (channel 17) is alow-powerClass A television station inIndianapolis, Indiana, United States, affiliated with thedigital multicast networkGet. Locally owned by Circle City Broadcasting, it is asister station to Circle City'sduopoly of Indianapolis-licensedCW affiliateWISH-TV (channel 8) andMarion-licensedMyNetworkTV affiliateWNDY-TV (channel 23). The three stations share studios on NorthMeridian Street (at the north end of the Television Row section) on the near north side of Indianapolis; WIIH-CD's transmitter is located on Walnut Drive in the Augusta section of the city's northwest side (nearMeridian Hills).

Even though WIIH-CD broadcasts a digital signal of its own, itsbroadcast radius is limited to the immediate Indianapolis area. It is thereforesimulcast on WISH-TV's seconddigital subchannel (8.2) in order to reach the entiremarket.

History

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Early history

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The station first signed on the air on January 29, 1988, as W11BV, broadcasting on VHF channel 11. Its original owner, White River Corporation, sold the station to Indiana Broadcasting Corporation, the subsidiary of LIN Broadcasting Corporation (predecessor toLIN Media) that held the license for WISH-TV, on December 21, 1992.[2] The station changed its call letters to WIIH-LP in 1995. In 2002, WIIH moved its allocation to UHF channel 17 and received approval from theFederal Communications Commission (FCC) to reclassify its license to Class A status, modifying its calls to WIIH-CA in the process. In 2003, the station became the market'sUnivision affiliate, branding as "Univision Indiana". Soon afterward, WISH-TV began producing a nightlySpanish-language newscast for WIIH-CA (titledWIIH Noticias), which was cancelled in 2008. On May 18, 2007, LIN TV announced that it was exploring strategic alternatives that could result in the sale of the company.[3]

On September 15, 2008, LIN andTime Warner Cable entered into an impasse during negotiations for newretransmission consent deals for some of the group's television stations.Bright House Networks, a major cable provider for Indianapolis, negotiates carriage contracts through Time Warner Cable. LIN TV requested compensation for carriage in a manner similar to cable networks, as other broadcast station owners began to seek compensation from pay television providers for their programming. The agreement with Bright House expired on October 2.[4] By 12:35 a.m. on October 3, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks substituted WIIH, WISH and WNDY as well as LIN's other television stations around the country with other cable channels in markets where the group owns or manages stations and both providers maintain systems. Locally, WISH and WNDY were restored 23 days later on October 26 after LIN reached a groupwide carriage agreement with TWC/Bright House; however, WIIH-CA was excluded from the deal. By 2008, Indianapolis had grown to become the 57th largest media market based on the local Hispanic population in the United States.[5]

On January 1, 2009, the station dropped Univision programming after LIN failed to renew its contract with the network (which expired the day before on December 31, 2008), and adopted a weather-focused programming format, branded as "LWS: Local Weather Station". As a result, two other pay television providers in the Indianapolis market,Comcast andAT&T U-verse secured carriage agreements with Univision to receive its programming from the network's national feed; however, Bright House decided not to pursue a contract with the network at that time.[5] Univision would return to the Indianapolis market whenWHMB-TV affiliated with the network in August 2024.

As a WISH-TV translator

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On January 29, 2010, LIN TV filed an application to the FCC to operate a fill-intranslator station for WISH-TV using WIIH-LD's UHF channel 17 signal,[6] to serve areas of Indianapolis that experienced problems receiving the WISH-TV signal after the transition. The Commission granted aconstruction permit to build transmitter facilities for this purpose on June 16, 2010.[7] The transmitter was relocated to the tower site used by WISH-TV on 7619 Walnut Drive (though the City of Indianapolis lists the address as 2500 Westlane Road[8]) in northwestern Indianapolis, and was installed on the tower at 144 metres (472 ft) above average terrain.

The FCC cancelled WIIH-CA's analog license on January 13, 2011, when WIIH-LD was converted into a fill-in translator of WISH-TV[9] (LWS programming remained on digital subchannel 8.2 on WISH-TV and was moved to that same mapped subchannel on both WIIH-CD with the translator conversion). In September 2011, LIN Media filed an application to the FCC to upgrade the WIIH-LD license to Class A status. After the move was approved by the FCC, WIIH's call letters were modified to WIIH-CD.

On March 21, 2014,Media General announced that it would merge with LIN Media in a $1.6 billion deal.[10] The merger was completed on December 19.[11]

Analog-to-digital conversion

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WIIH-CA shut down its analog signal on September 9, 2009, andflash cut its digital signal into operation on VHF channel 8 (the former analog and current virtual channel allocation of WISH-TV, which it vacated upon the June 12digital television transition).

References

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  1. ^"Facility Technical Data for WIIH-CD".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^"Application Search Details".CDBS Public Access.Federal Communications Commission. RetrievedDecember 24, 2014.
  3. ^"LIN TV Corp. Exploring Strategic Alternatives". Archived fromthe original on March 2, 2009.
  4. ^"Bright House Networks is working hard to get WISH-TV, WNDY, WIIH, LWS, and, WANE-TV back in our channel lineup". Archived fromthe original on October 8, 2008.
  5. ^ab"Many in metro area losing TV in Spanish: Decision to drop Univision leaves growing population of Hispanics with few options". Archived fromthe original on February 1, 2009.
  6. ^"Application View ... Redirecting".
  7. ^"Archived copy"(PDF). Archived fromthe original(PDF) on May 18, 2015. RetrievedAugust 5, 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. ^"IMAGIS database inquiry".indygov.org.
  9. ^"Federal Communications Division".licensing.fcc.gov. January 13, 2011. RetrievedJanuary 28, 2024.
  10. ^"Media General to buy WISH-TV parent in deal worth $1.6B".Indianapolis Business Journal.Associated Press. March 21, 2014. RetrievedMarch 22, 2014.
  11. ^"Nexstar Media Group, Inc".Nexstar Media Group, Inc. RetrievedJanuary 28, 2024.

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