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WAZE-TV was a television station in Madisonville, Kentucky, in the United States, serving the Evansville, Indiana DMA from 1983 to 2013. The station was an affiliate of the CW Television Network. It broadcast a digital signal on channel 20 from a transmitter at Hanson, Kentucky; which redirected to former analog channel 19 via PSIP. On March 24, 2011, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) canceled WAZE's license for failure to construct its full-power digital facilities. The station continued to broadcast via low-powered Class A repeater WAZE-LP channel 17 and low-powered translators WJPS-LP channel 4 and WIKY-LP channel 5, all licensed to Evansville, until January 2013, when all three were shut down.〔(Jake's DTV Blog: "WAZE-TV translators shut down", January 3, 2013. )〕 They served as in-town relays of the main signal. WAZE's transmitter was located farther south than the other major Evansville stations because of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations requiring a station's transmitter to be no more than 15 miles from the city of license—in this case, Madisonville, which is 50 miles south of Evansville. As a result, despite its 2.7 million watt ERP, the channel 19 signal provided only a grade B ("rimshot") signal to Evansville itself, and was practically non-viewable north and east of the city. The station relied on cable coverage to reach most of its viewing area. However, many cable carriers in the market (particularly outside the Evansville and Owensboro areas) didn't carry it. ==History== WAZE signed on October 15, 1983 as WLCN, the market's first independent station. It originally ran mostly Christian programming (the call letters presumably stood for "Local Christian Network") along with segments of HSN Spree. After WEVV-TV, which signed on a month later, became a charter Fox affiliate in 1987, WLCN was the only over-the-air source of non-network programming in the Indiana-Kentucky-Ohio tri-state area for 11 years. However, cable systems piped in either WTTV in Indianapolis or KPLR-TV in St. Louis, depending on the location. During the early 1990s, "WAZ TV 52" filmed and broadcast local Evansville, IN high school varsity sports and NCAA games Live and on delay, such as basketball, baseball football, and soccer. Darrin Smith (play-by-play), Doug Emig and Warren Distler were the local sports broadcasters for all games.〔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DggcnEmTSGU〕 Darrin Smith (who was also co-host of Saturday Morning's SportsTalk Live) called over 1000 televised games for WAZ-TV52 and WAZE-TV19 from 1990-2001. Smith was also the 12 year "Voice of the USI Basketball Screaming Eagles" and hosted the Bruce Pearl Show during college basketball season. Smith also did several free lance play-by-play jobs for ESPN, SportsChannel and the IHSAA. Darrin Smith retired from broadcasting in 2001 and returned to his home state of Massachusetts where he began a very successful career in Sales. He currently resides in Newport, Rhode Island with his wife Kim Avallon (also a native of Massachusetts) The original location was in the South Central Communications building. Later, they occupied a facility just down the hill from there in a remodeled nursery/plant store that was later expanded to include a studio. Rob Underwood was one of the longest lasting employees at the station, starting before Connie Keeling and remaining until the end. Mr. Underwood went on to work at WEVV in Evansville, while Connie Keeling went on to work as a broadcast engineer of Instructional Technology Services at the University of Southern Indiana〔Connie Keeling, broadcast engineer of Instructional Technology Services at the University of Southern Indiana〕〔http://www.usi.edu/newsinfo/release/press_detail.asp?num=98〕 South Central Communications, based in Evansville, bought the station in 1997. On November 1 of that year, it became a WB affiliate and changed its calls to WWAZ-TV, activating a series of repeaters to better cover the market. In 1999, it began branding as WAZE-TV, after its Evansville repeater, and changed its call letters to match in 2000. The WWAZ-TV call letters were used by a station in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, which has since changed calls to WIWN. WAZE simulcast KSDK's coverage of the St. Louis Cardinals; this ended after the 2010 season, as Cardinals games not telecast nationally were moved exclusively to Fox Sports Midwest. South Central sold WAZE to Roberts Broadcasting in 2006. Soon after taking control, Roberts disabled the station's old Website at ''wazetv.com''. A new site at ''cwaze.com'' debuted in 2008, but that site was itself closed down in mid-2009. In mid-2007, Roberts moved the station's master control to company flagship WRBU in St. Louis, leaving only a sales staff in Evansville. In January 2009, the Evansville office was closed altogether.〔Newkirk, Jacob; (WAZE's signal, promises are weak ); Evansville Courier & Press; 2009-10-01.〕 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「WAZE-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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