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WABI-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for Central and Eastern Maine licensed to Bangor. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 13 (or virtual channel 5.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter on Peaked Mountain in Dixmont. The station can also be seen on Time Warner Cable channel 6 and in high definition on digital channel 705. DirecTV and Dish Network also carry the station. As of October 12, 2012, Dish also carries WABI-TV in Franklin, Kennebec, Knox, and Oxford counties, in the Portland market, on channel 6265. It is the flagship station of Diversified Communications, which is owned by the Hildreth family of Bangor. Its studios are located on Hildreth Street in West Bangor. Syndicated programming on WABI includes ''How I Met Your Mother'', ''The Big Bang Theory'', ''Glee'', ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show'', and ''The Dr. Oz Show'' among others. ==History== WABI-TV was the first television station in Maine signing-on January 25, 1953 and aired an analog signal on VHF channel 5. It was owned by former Governor Horace Hildreth along with WABI radio (910 AM, now WAEI, and 97.1 FM now WBFB), and managed in its early years by Murray Carpenter. The station was a primary NBC affiliate, but carried secondary affiliations with the other three major networks of the day. (CBS, ABC, and DuMont). It lost CBS to WTWO (channel 2) in 1955; that station had been founded by Carpenter. It lost DuMont soon afterward when that network shut down. After Carpenter sold WTWO to the Rines-Thompson family in 1959, the new owners changed that station's calls to WLBZ-TV and swapped affiliations with WABI-TV, making channel 5 a primary CBS affiliate. The two outlets then began to share ABC programming, which had previously been exclusive to WABI. This ended when WEMT (now WVII-TV) signed-on in 1965 and took the affiliation. During the late-1950s, WABI was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. The radio stations were eventually spun off in 1993 and are currently under the ownership of Blueberry Broadcasting. On July 28, 2006, WABI announced it was creating a new second digital subchannel to become affiliated with The CW which would be the result of The WB and UPN merging. On Time Warner Cable (which was in the process of taking over cable coverage in the Bangor area for bankrupt Adelphia) systems, the subchannel would replace cable-only "WBAN" which was an affiliate of The WB through cable-exclusive WB 100+. This arrangement was part of a three-year deal with WABI which also allowed continued carriage of its primary channel. The CW officially launched on WABI-DT2 at the network's inception on September 18. At one point in time, WABI operated an analog repeater (W61AO channel 61) licensed to Calais with a transmitter in Meddybemps. The transmitter tower was shared with W57AQ channel 57 which repeated WLBZ. Until the mid-1990s, W61AO was used to feed cable systems across the border in the Canadian Maritimes. With the advent of CANCOM, however, WABI's cross-border carriage declined. It is not offered on any systems across the border today including those in St. Stephen, New Brunswick within W61AO's former signal range. Most cable systems in Atlantic Canada now carry WBZ-TV from Boston, Massachusetts for CBS programming. The W61AO license was canceled by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) at WABI's request on November 9, 2009. On June 12, 2009, the station discontinued analog broadcasts on VHF channel 5. At that time, it continued digital broadcasts on its existing pre-transitional digital channel, UHF channel 19.〔http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf〕 On January 4, 2010, the FCC issued a "Report & Order" allowing WABI to move from this allotment to VHF channel 13.〔http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-09-2647A1.pdf〕 The station made this move to be consistent with other full-power stations in the market (which are also on the VHF dial) in order to save on energy costs as well as improve reception of the station. At 2 in the afternoon on December 13, 2010, WABI turned off channel 19 and commenced operations on channel 13.〔http://station.wabi.tv/content/4058/DTV_FAQs/〕〔http://www.wabi.tv/news/16369/wabi-officially-a-vhf-station〕 Currently, WABI generally carries the full slate of CBS programming except for CBS News ''Up to the Minute'' (which is replaced by syndicated reruns). It does not carry all of the network's Southeastern Conference (SEC) college football games on weekends. For several years, the games that were not shown appeared on low-powered Ion affiliate WBGR-LP. WABI preempted CBS games that conflicted with local sports programming and/or its weekend 6 o'clock news and 7 o'clock programming during Nielsen ratings periods. The national games were moved to CW outlet WABI-DT2 effective with the 2009 season. The station often preempted CBS programming to air University of Maine sports. It usually re-scheduled network prime time to air late-night or the next morning. WABI ended its longtime carriage of UMaine sports in 2013 after failing to reach a new contract with Learfield Sports (which handles marketing for UMaine sports broadcasts); it had been the television flagship of the Black Bear Sports Network for the bulk of its history, with the only break coming from 1989 through 1997, when WLBZ-TV held the rights. WABI now airs a package of six high school football games on Friday nights during the season (in addition to its long-standing coverage of the championship games). Black Bear sports telecasts would subsequently move to WVII-TV and WFVX-LD. On July 15, 2014 WABI-TV and WABI-DT2 The CW contract with Dish Network expired and the channels were blacked out early on July 16, 2014 contract talks have broken down and have picked up slowly the issues are related to Designated Market Area (DMA) switching viewers in several counties to another CBS station likely WGME in the Portland area, financial terms, customer service issues WABI has with Dish, and other issues. WABI-TV entered into an additional affiliation agreement with "retro" TV network DECADES in 2015. Sub-channel WABI-DT3 soft-launched on September 24, 2015 at 2:30 PM, a week prior to the announced official launch date, October 1, 2015. The channel experienced some technical difficulties, losing video that night and again the following afternoon. A problem with the station's receiving satellite dish was diagnosed and repaired, and the channel continued to operate over-the-air from that point on. Time Warner Cable carriage is scheduled for October 30, 2015 on channel 1255. Moosehead Enterprises provides the channel to select customers in Greenville, Rockwood, Guilford and Monson, passing the signal through as channel 5.3. Bee Line Cable provides the channel to its subscribers on channel 5-13. There are no other announced prospective cable or satellite service pick-ups at this time. 〔http://www.wabi.tv/decades/〕〔http://wabi.tv/cable-satellite-channel-numbers/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WABI-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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