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WAVE, virtual channel 3 (UHF digital channel 47), is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The station is owned by Raycom Media. WAVE maintains studio facilities located on South Floyd Street in downtown Louisville, and its transmitter in New Albany, Indiana (alongside the digital transmitter of CBS affiliate WLKY). Syndicated programs broadcast by WAVE () include ''Crime Watch Daily'', ''FABLife'' and ''Right This Minute''. On cable, WAVE is available on Time Warner Cable channel 6 and in high definition on digital channel 906. ==History== The station first signed on the air on November 24, 1948, originally broadcasting on VHF channel 5. The station's transmitter originally broadcast at 24,100 watts. WAVE was the first television station to sign on in the state of Kentucky, and the 41st to debut in the United States. It was founded by the Norton family, who had signed on WAVE radio (970 AM, now WGTK) in 1932. The station has been a primary NBC affiliate since its debut, owing to its sister radio station's longtime affiliation with the NBC Red Network; however, it also initially carried secondary affiliations with ABC, CBS and the DuMont Television Network. WAVE-TV lost CBS programming when WHAS-TV (channel 11, now an ABC affiliate) signed on in March 1950; it later lost DuMont when the network folded in August 1956. Channel 3 continued to share ABC programming with WHAS-TV until WLKY (channel 32) signed on as a full-time affiliate in September 1961. It has remained with NBC since then, and as such, WAVE is the only commercial television station in the Louisville market that has never changed its primary network affiliation.〔Kleber, John E. ''Encyclopedia of Louisville''. (University Press of Kentucky). pg.872.〕 On May 7, 1949, WAVE-TV became the first television station in the United States to present a live telecast of the Kentucky Derby. The station shipped a canned newsreel to NBC to broadcast the event nationally. The telecast was the first use of Zoomar lenses in a television sports broadcast. In 1953, WAVE-TV moved to VHF channel 3, due to signal interference issues with fellow NBC affiliate WLWT in Cincinnati. WAVE-TV made history again in 1954 as it became the first station in Louisville to broadcast programming in color; viewers were treated to a vivid image of the new NBC Peacock logo. In 1956, having long since outgrown its original studio facility on East Broadway (which now houses the Louisville offices for Metro United Way), WAVE-TV moved into its current downtown facility at 725 South Floyd Street. Three years later, channel 3 became the first station in the region to transmit live, locally produced programming in color; by 1966, it was the only Kentucky station that processed its own news footage on color film. In 1969, WAVE-TV became the first station in the market to employ a certified television meteorologist and operate its own weather-forecasting system. Over the years, the Nortons acquired three other television stations and two other radio stations, including WFRV-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin (and semi-satellite WJMN-TV in Marquette, Michigan); WMT-AM-FM-TV in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and WFIE-TV in Evansville, Indiana. Eventually, the Norton holdings became known as Orion Broadcasting, which was headquartered in Louisville with WAVE-AM-TV serving as the company's flagship station. The station notably referred to its coverage area as "WAVE Country" until 2000, echoing a popular jingle and image campaign that the station introduced in the early 1970s. In fact, that very jingle served as the image campaign of the Al Ham-composed news music package "Home Country". Orion merged with The Liberty Corporation in 1981. WAVE-TV then became part of Liberty's broadcast arm, Cosmos Broadcasting. WAVE radio was then sold off; the WAVE cluster had been grandfathered when the FCC banned common ownership of radio and television stations in the same market in the 1960s, but lost its grandfathered protection with the Liberty merger. As the radio station promptly changed its call sign to WAVG, Cosmos dropped the "-TV" suffix from the WAVE callsign in 1987. In 1991, the station began transmitting its signal from a new broadcast tower in Oldham County; the transmitter tower (which is 70% taller than most television broadcast towers), which is the tallest structure in the state, cost $5 million to build and helped to improve WAVE's signal coverage. When the Liberty Corporation exited from the insurance industry in 2000, WAVE came directly under the Liberty banner; in August 2005, Liberty announced that it would merg with the Montgomery, Alabama-based Raycom Media; the sale was finalized on January 31, 2006. During the 1990s and 2000s, WAVE carried Southeastern Conference football and basketball through Jefferson-Pilot Sports (later Lincoln Financial Sports) which merged into Raycom Sports in 2007-08, although some football games were aired on WBKI or WFTE (now WMYO). This ended in 2009 when Raycom Sports, coincidentally a subsidiary of WAVE-TV's current owner, lost the rights to ESPN Regional Television at the end of the 2008-09 basketball season. The SEC syndication package by ESPN Plus ended up with WBNA throughout the 2009-2014 existence of the syndicated SEC Network (now SEC TV). In May 2014, WAVE and WHAS-TV were granted exclusive rights〔http://www.wave3.com/story/25571761/wave-3-news-whas-tv-team-up-for-acc-coverage〕 to broadcast football and basketball games of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), which includes the University of Louisville. The contract spans three years allows the two stations to air a minimum of 22 regular season ACC basketball games, all 14 ACC tournament basketball games, and 13 ACC football games each season, as well as six pre-season football programs, an ACC Basketball Tip-Off Show, and three ACC "Kings of the Court" specials. WAVE will also have access to exclusive ACC digital content on WAVE3.com, featuring ACC Football, ACC Basketball, and ACC Olympic Sports content, including highlight packages of every ACC Football and ACC Basketball conference game.〔http://raycomsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ACCNetwork84US.pdf〕 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「WAVE (TV)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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