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WANE-TV, virtual channel 15 (UHF digital channel 31), is a CBS-affiliated television station located in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States. The station is owned by Media General. WANE's studios and transmitter are located on West State Boulevard in the Tower Heights section of northwest Fort Wayne. ==History== The station signed on the air on September 26, 1954 as WINT, originally broadcasting its signal from a transmitter in Auburn. It was Fort Wayne's second television station to launch but was technically licensed to, and had studios in, Waterloo. The station's original owner, Tri-State Television (not to be confused with Tri-State Christian Television, owners of WINM channel 12), took advantage of peculiarities in Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules to direct the signal to Fort Wayne. Although the city was big enough to support three full network affiliates, the FCC had originally allocated only a single station, WKJG-TV (now WISE-TV) on UHF channel 33, to the city. This circumstance attracted the attention of Congress and led to changes in how broadcast licenses were assigned. The Indiana Broadcasting Company, owner of WISH-TV in Indianapolis and WANE radio (1450 AM, now WLYV), purchased WINT in 1956. The new owners changed the station's call letters to WANE-TV, reflecting its radio sister, and moved the station's entire operations to Fort Wayne. The analog transmitter remained at its rural Auburn location until 1957. Indiana Broadcasting became known as the Corinthian Broadcasting Company in 1957. Since then, WANE-TV and WISH-TV have become close sister stations and for a time used same news theme as WISH-TV from 1997 until 2012 and currently uses separate graphics packages. The stations share resources, which allows WANE to use WISH-TV's resources for breaking news, live events and sports coverage. The station has always been a CBS affiliate, but also maintained a secondary affiliation with ABC until WPTA (channel 21) signed on in September 1957; during the late-1950s, WANE was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. WANE radio was sold off in 1966. The station produced local programming shows such as "The Ann Colone Show". Corinthian was purchased by Dun & Bradstreet in 1970 who in turn sold the station to the Belo Corporation in 1983. However, WANE left Belo with two stations over the FCC's television station ownership limit at the time, so the company sold the station and WISH to the LIN TV Corporation. In September 1999, WANE-TV acquired the local rights to ''Jeopardy!'' and ''Wheel of Fortune'' from NBC affiliate WKJG-TV, which had run both programs starting in September 1990. After the launch of UPN on January 16, 1995, Fox affiliate WFFT (channel 55) began a secondary affiliation with the fledgling network. The network's programming eventually moved to WANE-TV full-time in 2003 after it launched a new second digital subchannel. WANE-DT2 also featured repeats of newscasts seen on the main channel as well as Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne basketball games. In September 2006, UPN programming was dropped after the network merged with The WB (seen locally on WPTA-operated cable-only outlet "WBFW") to form The CW. On September 15, 2008, WANE announced LIN TV, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks had not been able to reach an agreement to renew carriage of WANE and other LIN-owned stations on the two cable providers due to a dispute over compensation for the stations' carriage. The company reached agreements with all television service providers in the Fort Wayne area, except for TWC and Bright House. The contract with those providers expired on October 2, 2008. At 12:35 a.m. on October 3, the LIN-owned stations were removed from TWC and Bright House systems nationwide. It would not be until October 29 when WANE-TV was restored to Time Warner Cable in Northwest Ohio. However, it did not reappear on Bright House Networks systems in Grant County, Indiana.〔(WISH-TV and WNDY returns (but not WANE) to Bright House ) Marion Chronicle-Tribune〕 On March 21, 2014, Media General announced that it would purchase LIN Media and its stations, including WANE-TV, in a $1.6 billion merger. The merger was completed on December 19.〔(Media General Completes Merger With LIN Media ), Press Release, Media General, Retrieved 19 December 2014〕 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「WANE-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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