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WAOE is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for North-Central Illinois. It is licensed to Peoria and owned by Four Seasons Broadcasting. The station broadcasts a 720p high definition digital signal on UHF channel 39 (or virtual channel 59.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter on Springfield Road (along I-474) in East Peoria, a section of Groveland Township. ==History== The station signed-on September 8, 1995 as a UPN affiliate and aired an analog signal on UHF channel 59. Originally, it was broadcast from studios on Fulton Street in Downtown Peoria. On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN announced the two networks would end broadcasting and merge. The new combined service would be called The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of corporate parents "C"BS (the parent company of UPN) and the "W"arner Bros. unit of Time Warner. On February 22, News Corporation announced it would start up another new network called MyNetworkTV. This new service, which would be a sister network to Fox, would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television. MyNetworkTV was created in order to give UPN and WB stations, not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates, another option besides becoming Independent. It was also created to compete against The CW. It was made public on March 15 that WAOE would become the market's MyNetworkTV outlet. Meanwhile, cable-only WB affiliate "WBPE" (operated by WHOI) became the area's CW station. In order to offer non-cable viewers access to The CW, WHOI added a new second digital subchannel to simulcast the new network. WAOE would officially join MyNetworkTV on September 5 while WHOI-DT2 started offering The CW on September 18, 2006. On December 1, 2008, the station shut down its analog signal on UHF channel 59 and became digital-exclusive. Until the end of 2014, WAOE was operated through a joint sales agreement by Granite Broadcasting (owner of NBC affiliate WEEK-TV). It shared facilities with that station and ABC/CW affiliate WHOI (the latter is operated by WEEK-TV through a separate joint sales and shared services agreement, however). The Springfield Road studios of WEEK-TV and WHOI once handled some internal operations (such as the maintenance of programming logs) of WAOE sister station and fellow MyNetworkTV outlet WBQD-LP (now WQAD-DT3). That station, while technically owned by Four Seasons Broadcasting, was actually controlled through a local marketing agreement with the Quad Cities' ABC affiliate WQAD-TV (owned at the time by Local TV; now owned by Tribune Broadcasting) and maintained the majority of its day-to-day operations in the big three affiliate's studios in Moline. Quincy Newspapers announced on February 11, 2014 that it would acquire WEEK-TV from Granite Broadcasting. Quincy planned on continuing to provide services to WAOE but the JSA with Granite expired at the end of 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「WAOE」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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