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WBUW (digital channel 32 or "CW 57") is a television station affiliated with The CW. Licensed to Janesville, Wisconsin, the station serves all of Madison, south-central Wisconsin, and portions of Northern Illinois. WBUW is owned by Byrne Acquisition Group, and has offices and studios at 2814 Syene Road on Madison's far south side and transmits a high-definition video signal from a tower located on Madison's southwest side. WBUW's daily schedule consists mainly of network programming from The CW; first-run syndicated fare such as ''The Insider'', ''OK TV'', and ''TMZ''; and reruns of such shows as ''Family Guy'', ''How I Met Your Mother'', and ''The Office''. The station also airs locally-oriented information programming, sporting events, and sponsored content. ==History== The original construction permit for Channel 57 was granted on May 2, 1998 with the call letters WJNW, however, the station did not sign on until July 5, 1999 as WHPN-TV. With a transmitter located approximately ten miles west of Janesville, the station served as the UPN affiliate for both the Madison and Rockford, Illinois TV markets. In 2002, WHPN was purchased by ACME Communications, a station group run by Jamie Kellner, a founder of The WB Television Network and former CEO of that network and TBS. In conjunction with the sale, WHPN changed affiliations to The WB in August 2002 and adopted the WBUW call letters (while Madison's former WB affiliate, WISC-owned cable channel/digital subchannel WB14, took the UPN affiliation and "UPN14" branding). In 2004, WBUW moved its transmitter to its current location in the Greentree neighborhood of Madison's southwest side, sharing space on a new tower with WMTV (Channel 15); this move extend WBUW's coverage throughout south-central Wisconsin. It remained the Rockford affiliate for the WB until the launch of The CW in September 2006, when Rockford's WREX-TV (channel 13) launched a CW subchannel for that market. In March 2006, WBUW was confirmed 〔("Channel 57 Officially Now CW Affiliate" ), from ''Capital Times'', March 10, 2006〕 as Madison's affiliate of The CW Television Network, the result of the WB and UPN networks amalgamating; WBUW was one of eight ACME-owned WB affiliates who joined The CW as a group in September 2006. On December 13, 2011, ACME announced it would sell WBUW to Byrne Acquisition Group, a move that was part of ACME's gradual exit from the TV business. The deal was approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and consummated in February 2012 (one quarter ahead of schedule),〔(Consent to License Assignment (File# BALCDT-20111220AEX) ), posted by FCC 2/10/2012〕 and gave the Byrne Group its second TV property (after low-power station "WHHI-TV" in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina). Since its acquisition by the Byrne Group, on-air changes at WBUW have included a 2012 rebranding (from "Madison's CW" to "CW 57"); a master control upgrade to accommodate local and syndicated programming produced in high-definition; an expansion of locally-focused content (see below); and, in Summer 2015, the addition of two digital subchannels. 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「WBUW」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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