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WFIE is the NBC-afifliated television station for the Tri-State area of Southwestern Indiana, Northwestern Kentucky and Southeastern Illinois that's licensed to Evansville, Indiana. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 46 (mapping to virtual channel 14 via PSIP) from a transmitter in the Wolf Hills section of Henderson, Kentucky. Owned by Raycom Media, the station has studios on Mount Auburn Road in Evansville. Syndicated programming on WFIE includes: ''Jeopardy!'', ''Wheel of Fortune'', and ''America Now''. ==History== WFIE was granted a construction permit on June 10, 1953, and began broadcasting on November 15, 1953 on analog UHF channel 62. The station, Indiana's sixth, was originally co-owned by Jesse, Isadore, and Oscar Fine. WFIE was the first station to be based in ''Evansville'', while WEHT's studios, then as now, were located across the Ohio River in Henderson, Kentucky, though it is licensed to Evansville. WFIE was originally a primary NBC outlet with secondary ABC (shared with WEHT) and DuMont affiliations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=The Boneyard )〕 Both of those networks were dropped in August 1956 with the launch of WTVW (which took ABC) and the shutdown of DuMont. This left WFIE as a full-time NBC affiliate. It is the only station in the market to have never changed its primary affiliation; as such, WFIE, along with WISE-TV (which signed on six days after WFIE) in Fort Wayne, are the longest-tenured NBC affiliates in the state of Indiana. Also in 1956, WFIE became the area's first station to telecast color programming (by virtue of its NBC affiliation). The Fine family sold the station to the George Norton family of Louisville, Kentucky (owners of fellow NBC affiliate WAVE-TV) in 1956. The Nortons' broadcasting holdings would eventually become known as Orion Broadcasting. With FCC approval, it moved to channel 14 in August 1961. It was the first station in Evansville to telecast live and local color programs beginning on March 10, 1966. In October 1981, Orion merged with Cosmos Broadcasting Corporation, a subsidiary of insurance and broadcasting conglomerate Liberty Corporation. WFIE became the first television station in the market to broadcast in stereo in September 1985. Liberty bowed out of the insurance business in 2000 bringing WFIE directly under the company banner. In May 2002, the station began broadcasting digitally on channel 46. On February 1, 2006, the Liberty Corporation merged with Raycom Media. In November 2006, WFIE added The Tube (a 24-hour music video channel similar to the early years of MTV) on digital channel 14.3 in accordance with many Raycom Media stations. In Summer 2007, The Tube shut down from the lack of advertiser support and this station ceased programming on 14.3 for the time. WFIE, along with many Raycom Media stations, added This TV to 14.3 on February 4, 2009. On November 1, 2013, This TV ceased programming on 14.3 after Tribune Broadcasting bought out Weigel Broadcasting's Ownership of the network. WFIE, along with some other stations, added Movies! to 14.3 on November 1, 2013. When WTSN-CD Discontinued the Me-TV affiliation on October 23, 2014 with Heroes and Icons from 20.2 replacing the 20.1 subchannel. WFIE replaced its Movies! affiliation on 14.3 that same day with Me-TV, to have it kept in the area. On October 28, 2014 at 12:00 PM, 14Xtra was replaced with the Me-TV affiliation from the 14.3 subchannel. At that same time Me-TV from 14.3 was replaced with a free-to-air movies network called Grit, meaning that there will be no more weather channels that are on broadcast TV in the area. Secondary Affiliations on 14.2 are College Basketball on early Saturday afternoons from the ACC Network (which is owned by Raycom Media) for its airings at that time, which was the same since the change. 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「WFIE」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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