WNKY-LD

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WNKY-LD
Channels
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
WNKY
History
FoundedJune 15, 2020
First air date
July 11, 2023;6 months ago (2023-07-11)
Former call signs
W16EI-D (2020–2022)
Former channel number(s)
16 (UHF, 2020–2023 (CP))
  • As a WNKY translator:
  • NBC (primary, 2023)
  • CBS (DT2, 2023)
  • MeTV (DT3, 2023)
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 182667
Class LD
ERP 15 kW
HAAT 192.4 m (631 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 37°2′5.6″N86°10′41″W / 37.034889°N 86.17806°W / 37.034889; -86.17806
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WNKY-LD (channel 35) is a low-power television station in Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States, affiliated with Ion Television. It is owned by Marquee Broadcasting alongside dual NBC/CBS affiliate WNKY (channel 40) and Glasgow-licensed low-power MyNetworkTV affiliate WDNZ-LD (channel 11). The three stations share studios on Chestnut Street in downtown Bowling Green; WNKY-LD also shares tower space with WNKY at its transmitter site located on Pilot Knob near Smiths Grove, Kentucky.

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History

Construction permit

King Forward, Incorporated was granted a construction permit for W16EI-D on June 15, 2020. This was King Forward's second construction permit for a television station in the Bowling Green market after WCZU-LD was successfully built and taken to the air in cooperation with DTV America Corporation in 2014. The initial broadcast plans for the station was to transmit the signal on UHF channel 16 from WCZU's original transmitter site, which is a former AT&T Long Lines microwave relay tower in Edmonson County just northwest of Brownsville on Grassland Road off Kentucky Route 70.

Sale to Marquee Broadcasting

On March 14, 2022, W16EI-D was sold to Marquee Broadcasting, owner of full-power station WNKY, after having purchased W09DM-D (now WNSH-LD) in Nashville, Tennessee, another silent station. [2] In May 2022, the station's call letters changed to the current WNKY-LD.

As a WNKY translator

In early 2023, the station applied for and successfully changed its allocation to UHF channel 35, and to move to the full-power WNKY's transmission facility near Smiths Grove. [3] [4] On July 11, 2023, the station was granted its license [5] and began test broadcasting as a full-time translator of WNKY, simulcasting all three of its subchannels.

As an Ion Television affiliate

In September 2023, the station began airing programming from Ion Television on its primary channel, with the second and third subchannels airing the full schedules of Defy TV and Laff. Ion was the last major programming service that was not available from a local outlet in Bowling Green; the Nashville-based Ion O&O station WNPX-TV (licensed to Franklin, Tennessee) had been the default Ion outlet for the area since that network's 1998 debut as Pax TV. The conversion into an Ion affiliate also marked Defy TV's in-market debut in Bowling Green, and the return of the Laff network to the area as W14DG-D (channel 14, now Telemundo affiliate WBGS-LD channel 34) was briefly affiliated with that network during that station's first incarnation in 2016.

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WNKY-LD [6]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming [7]
35.1 1080i 16:9 ION Ion Television [8]
35.2 480i DEFY Defy TV
35.3LAFF Laff

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References

  1. ↑ "Facility Technical Data for WNKY-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ↑ "WNTU and Bowling Green KY News". Nashville DTV News & More. March 14, 2022. Retrieved March 28, 2022.
  3. ↑ "WNKY-LD Engineering Statement". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved November 5, 2023.
  4. ↑ "WNKY-LD TV Study Results". Federal Communications Commission. Retrieved November 5, 2023.
  5. ↑ "Public Notice". Federal Communications Commission. July 13, 2023. Retrieved November 5, 2023.
  6. ↑ "RabbitEars TV Query for WNKY-LD". rabbitears.info.
  7. ↑ "Bowling Green: WCZU Power Temporarily Lowered" . Retrieved December 2, 2023. Editor's note: Information cited is in the comments section of the page.
  8. ↑ "Find us". Ion Television . Retrieved October 15, 2023. Editor's note: Information retrieved by entering Bowling Green ZIP code 42101.
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