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WEHT is the ABC-affiliated television station for the Tri-State area of Southwestern Indiana, Northwestern Kentucky and Southeastern Illinois; it is owned by Nexstar Broadcasting Group under a shared services agreement with CW affiliate WTVW (owned by Mission Broadcasting). Licensed to Evansville, Indiana, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 7 (or virtual channel 25.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter at its studios on Marywood Drive in Henderson, Kentucky. Syndicated programming on WEHT includes ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'', ''The Rachael Ray Show'' and ''Live! with Kelly and Michael'' among others. ==History== The station signed-on September 27, 1953 as the first television station in the Tri-State area. It aired an analog signal on UHF channel 50 and was a primary CBS affiliate with secondary relations with ABC. Although the station was licensed to Evansville, the studios have always been located across the Ohio River in Henderson. WEHT was originally owned by the Malco Theater Corporation of Memphis, Tennessee; minority interest was held by several Henderson businessmen for the first year. It would drop ABC when WTVW launched in August 1956. Cincinnati meatpacker Henry S. Hilberg bought the station from Malco in 1957. The Gilmore Broadcasting Corporation, owned by former Kalamazoo, Michigan mayor and businessman James Gilmore, Jr., bought WEHT and sister station KGUN in Tucson, Arizona from Hilberg in 1964. In September 1966, the station activated its current 988-foot tower. On the same day the new tower came into service, it moved to the stronger channel 25. The move allowed WEHT to boast of reaching an additional 70,000 families in the area, with improved picture quality for its total audience of 250,000 households. In mid-1995, WTVW was sold to Petracom Broadcasting, and as part of the deal, that station announced it was switching its affiliation from ABC to Fox. The result brought about a network scramble in Evansville with WEHT quickly joining ABC and WEVV (the original Fox affiliate) switching to CBS. The final switch for all three stations was made on December 3, 1995 although some programming was swapped between the stations prior to the date of the actual change. WEHT was the last station owned by Gilmore Broadcasting, which has been in the hands of James Gilmore, Jr.'s family since his death in a 2000 auto accident. At its height, Gilmore owned five television stations, nine radio stations and nineteen cable television systems in nine states. Among WEHT's former sisters were WSVA-AM-FM-TV in Harrisonburg, Virginia, KODE-AM-TV in Joplin, Missouri and WREX-TV in Rockford, Illinois. On August 8, 2011, Gilmore announced it would sell WEHT to the Nexstar Broadcasting Group, owner of former ABC affiliate WTVW. As part of the deal, WTVW would be sold to Mission Broadcasting, with WEHT taking over its operations as the senior partner through shared services and joint sales agreements. The Nexstar acquisition of WEHT reunited it with KODE-TV, which is owned by Mission Broadcasting and managed by Nexstar. The transaction, which received Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval on October 12, was completed on December 1, 2011; at that point, the station rebranded from ''"News 25"'' to ''"WEHT Local"''. On April 24, 2013, Communications Corporation of America (owner of WEVV) announced the sale of its entire group to Nexstar. Since there are fewer than eight full-power stations in the Evansville market, Nexstar and its partner company Mission, cannot legally buy WEVV. So WEVV was to be sold to a female-controlled company called Rocky Creek Communications. Nexstar would have operate the station under a shared service agreement, forming a triopoly with sister stations WEHT and WTVW.〔https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101552312&qnum=5040©num=1&exhcnum=1〕 However, on August 4, 2014, Nexstar Broadcasting Group announced that it would instead sell WEVV to Bayou City Broadcasting for $18.6 million.〔(Nexstar Selling WEVV For $18.6 Million ), ''TVNewsCheck'', August 4, 2014.〕 The sale was completed on January 1, 2015.〔(Consummation Notice ), ''CDBS Public Access'', Federal Communications Commission, Retrieved 5 January 2015.〕 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「WEHT」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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