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Antenna TV on 59.2, Rewind TV on 59.3, Charge! on 59.4 Indianapolis: Indianapolis: 69 23 WDTI: Daystar: Indianapolis: Kokomo: 29 15 WTTK: CBS: High power satellite of WTTV ch. 4 Indianapolis independent on 29.2, Cozi TV on 29.3 Indianapolis: Marion: 23 9 WNDY-TV: MNT: Bounce TV on 23.2, Wishnet NewsNet (simulcast with WISH-TV) on 23.3 ...
The station first signed on the air on July 1, 1954 [4] at 6 p.m. Founded by C. Bruce McConnell—owner of WISH radio (1310 AM, now WTLC)—it was the third television station to sign on in the Indianapolis market, after WFBM-TV (channel 6, now WRTV), which signed on in May 1949 and Bloomington-licensed WTTV (channel 10, now on channel 4), which signed on six months later in November 1949.
Indianapolis, Indiana: WISH-TV 8: 1954–1956 (secondary) The CW Carried NBC programming WTTV declined to carry, with ABC as its primary affiliation. Disaffiliated from NBC as a result of a three-way swap where WTTV affiliated with ABC, CBS affiliate WFBM-TV joined NBC full-time, and WISH-TV switched to CBS. WFBM/WRTV 6: 1956–1979 ABC
The former LIN TV logo. LIN Media was an American holding company founded in 1994 [1] that operated 43 television stations. All except one were affiliates of the six major U.S. television networks. One of the remaining stations was a low-powered weather station in Indiana. LIN Media's chief executive officer was Vincent L. Sadusky.
WIIH-CD (channel 17) is a low-power Class A television station in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, affiliated with the digital multicast network Get.Locally owned by Circle City Broadcasting, it is a sister station to Circle City's duopoly of Indianapolis-licensed CW affiliate WISH-TV (channel 8) and Marion-licensed MyNetworkTV affiliate WNDY-TV (channel 23).
In 1954, the owners of WISH radio also started WISH-TV on channel 8 in Indianapolis. WISH added an FM station in 1961, 105.7 WAIV (now WYXB ). In the 1950s and 1960s, WISH aired a full service , middle of the road (MOR) format of popular adult music, news, and sports, while WAIV played classical music .
It eventually overtook WISH-TV for first in all news timeslots in 2002. The station's ratings lead—which WTHR emphasizes in the slogan it adopted upon taking first place full-time, "Indiana's News Leader"—began to narrow in 2010 as WISH-TV and Fox affiliate WXIN saw viewership gains that year as WTHR's ratings steadily decreased in certain ...
Local TV stations were free to "cherry-pick" which programs they would broadcast. Many of DuMont's "affiliates" carried very little DuMont programming, choosing to air one or two more popular programs (such as Life Is Worth Living , which was aired by 169 stations during the 1953–1954 season) [ 3 ] and/or sports programming on the weekends.