WPBI-LD

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WPBI-LD
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Channels
Branding
  • News:Star City News
  • LD1: Fox 16 Lafayette
  • LD2: NBC 16 Lafayette
  • LD3: ABC 35 Lafayette
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
  • Coastal Television Broadcasting Company LLC
  • (CTI License LLC)
WPBY-LD
History
FoundedFebruary 22, 2011;13 years ago (2011-02-22)
First air date
October 25, 2016(7 years ago) (2016-10-25)
Former call signs
W16DB-D (2011–2016)
Former channel number(s)
Digital: 16 (UHF, 2016–2019)
Call sign meaning
 Purdue Boilermakers, Indiana
Technical information [1]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 194193
ERP 15 kW
HAAT 54.4 m (178 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 40°24′8.13″N86°50′59.03″W / 40.4022583°N 86.8497306°W / 40.4022583; -86.8497306
Links
Public license information
LMS
Website StarCityTV.com

WPBI-LD (channel 16) is a low-power television station in Lafayette, Indiana, United States, affiliated with Fox and NBC. It is owned by Coastal Television Broadcasting Company LLC alongside ABC affiliate WPBY-LD (channel 35). Both stations share studios on South 18th Street in Lafayette, [2] while WPBI-LD's transmitter is located on McCarty Lane on the city's east side; the signal is oriented to the northwest. [3]

Contents

History

The station's construction permit was issued by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on February 22, 2011, under the call sign of W16DB-D. The station's call sign was changed back and forth between WPBH-LD and WPBI-LD in August and October 2016 until October 18, 2016, when WPBI was settled upon. [4] WPBI-LD started airing on October 25, 2016. The station signed on from the start as the Lafayette area's Fox affiliate, with NBC being launched on the second subchannel. [5] Prior to the launch of WPBI-LD its owner, Lafayette TV LLC purchased four Lafayette market radio stations from Artistic Media Partners Inc. [6]

WPBI-LD's two subchannels are the first Fox and NBC affiliates ever based in the Lafayette market; before the station signed on, Indianapolis television stations WXIN and WTHR served as the default Fox and NBC affiliates for Lafayette via cable and satellite. Cable television providers Comcast Xfinity and Metronet began carrying WPBI in November 2016. [7] Despite discontinuing carriage of Indianapolis-based Fox and NBC affiliates, satellite television provider DirecTV has said it plans to carry WPBI-LD and WPBI-LD2 but has not announced its timetable for doing so. [8]

From 1953 until WPBI's 2016 launch, WLFI-TV had been the only "Big Three" (ABC, CBS and NBC—or, including Fox, "big four") network television broadcaster in the Lafayette market.

Sale to Coastal Television

In July 2021, Waypoint announced that it would sell nine of its television stations, including WPBY-LD and WPBI-LD, to Cumming, Georgia–based Coastal Television for $36.9 million. The sale was completed on January 4, 2022. [9]

Programming

Sports programming

WPBI-LD carries select Purdue Boilermakers football games via Fox College Football , and since 2023 via Big Ten Saturday Night on NBC. Some non-conference Purdue games may also air on ABC.

WPBI-LD has blacked out live broadcasts of the Indianapolis 500 to continue to enforce analog-era restrictions when Indianapolis stations served Lafayette to encourage attendance; the race otherwise airs on tape delay with the Indianapolis affiliate (from 2016, over its second NBC channel with WTHR; and from 2025, on its Fox channel with WXIN).

News operation

After beginning local weather coverage on January 1, 2017, [7] WPBI aired its inaugural Star City News broadcast on May 29, 2017. [10] WPBI presently broadcasts 7½ hours of local newscasts each week, all on weekdays. The newscasts air at 6:00 and 11:00 p.m. on NBC 16 and at 10:00 p.m. on Fox 16. [11] [12] The 6 p.m. newscast is exclusive to WPBI-LD2, while the 11 p.m. newscast also simulcasts on WPBY-LD. [10] [13]

Chris Morisse Vizza, a 10-year veteran of WLFI-TV, is WPBI's first news director. Sarah Blakely is the station's inaugural news anchor, broadcasting from a Media Gateway-owned studio in Little Rock, Arkansas, airing segments from Lafayette-based Vizza. [14] [15] Blakely also anchors similar newscasts on sister station KJNB-LD in Jonesboro, Arkansas. [16]

Radio tie-ins of the newscasts are planned for WSHY, WBPE, WYCM, and WAZY-FM. [17]

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WPBI-LD [4]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
16.1 720p 16:9 WPBI Fox
16.2 1080i WPBI-2 NBC
16.3 720pWPBI-3 ABC (WPBY-LD)
  Simulcast of subchannels of another station

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References

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