WBXI-CD (channel 47) is a
low-powered,
Class A television station in
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, broadcasting programming from the digital multicast network
Start TV.
Owned and operated by the
CBS News and Stations
CBS News and Stations (formerly CBS Television Stations) is a division of the CBS Entertainment Group unit of Paramount Global that owns and operates a group of American television stations. , Paramount owns 28 stations, broken down as follows: ...
group, the station has a transmitter at the tower farm on the northwest side of Indianapolis.
History
The station first signed on the air in 1990 as W47AZ. Originally serving as an affiliate of the viewer-request
music video network
The Box, the station changed its call letters to WBXI-CA in 2001; that year, the station switched to
MTV2
MTV2 (formerly M2) is an American pay television Cable television, channel owned by the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global.
The channel launched initially as an all-music video service, once the original MTV had started to sh ...
following that network's acquisition by
Viacom, which acquired WBXI-CA. For a few months in 2004, channel 47 served as a
repeater of then-sister station and
UPN affiliate
WNDY-TV (channel 23, now a
MyNetworkTV affiliate); this ended when Viacom's Television Stations Group (now
CBS Television Stations) subsidiary sold WNDY-TV to the
LIN TV Corporation, owners of then-
CBS (now
CW) affiliate
WISH-TV (channel 8), in February 2005.
Unexpectedly, Viacom retained ownership of WBXI-CA, before spinning it off to
CBS Corporation in December of that year, following CBS'
split from the former company;
Viacom retained ownership of the
MTV Networks; however, the station maintained its MTV2 affiliation.
In 2007, the station switched to MTV2's
Spanish-language
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sister network
MTV 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's
Decades, with a local hour of the weather loop remaining weekdays at 7:00 a.m. On September 3, 2018, WBXI-CD launched CBS/Weigel's new network
Start TV, dropping Decades. Decades shifted over to
WSDI-LD
WSDI-LD, virtual and UHF digital channel 32, is a low-powered Novelisima- affiliated television station licensed to Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The station is owned by HC2 Holdings.
History
The station's construction permit was i ...
2. The station transitioned to
ViacomCBS ownership in December 2019.
Technical information
Analog-to-digital conversion
WBXI-CA maintained a
construction permit
Planning permission or developmental approval refers to the approval needed for construction or expansion (including significant renovation), and sometimes for demolition, in some jurisdictions. It is usually given in the form of a building perm ...
to shut down its analog signal and
flash cut its digital signal into operation on UHF channel 47 on September 1, 2015. 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 Low Powered Stations to cease operations.
References
External links
Mass media in Indianapolis
CBS News and Stations
BXI-CD
Television channels and stations established in 1989
1989 establishments in Indiana
Start TV affiliates
Low-power television stations in the United States
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