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WHOI is the ABC-affiliated television station for North-Central Illinois that is licensed to Peoria. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 19 from a transmitter on North Stewart Street in Creve Coeur, a village of Groveland Township. Owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, WHOI is operated through joint sales and shared services agreements by Quincy Newspapers (owner of NBC affiliate WEEK-TV). The two outlets share studios together on Springfield Road, along I-474, in East Peoria. Although it is sister to Fox affiliate WYZZ-TV (owned by Sinclair's partner company, Cunningham Broadcasting), that outlet is operated separately by the Nexstar Broadcasting Group at the facility of CBS outlet WMBD-TV. ==History== WHOI was Peoria's second television station, signing-on as WTVH on October 20, 1953. The station was founded by Hugh Norman and Edward Schoede. Hilltop Broadcasting, which co-owned the ''Peoria Journal Star'' bought the station in 1954. Its first studios were on Main Street in Peoria. Originally broadcasting an analog signal on VHF channel 8,〔http://dumonthistory.tv/a10.html〕 it was a primary CBS affiliate but also carried shows from ABC and DuMont. WTVH lost DuMont when the network ceased operations in 1955, and lost CBS when WMBD-TV began broadcasting. The Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation, later known as Metromedia, purchased the station in 1959. In 1963, WTVH was bumped down to UHF channel 19 so that a third commercial VHF station could sign-on in the Quad Cities using that channel (the new station, WQAD-TV, is also an ABC affiliate). In 1965, Metromedia sold the station to Mid-America Media, owners of WIRL radio (1290 AM) who, on September 12 of that year, changed the call sign to WIRL-TV. It became WRAU-TV in 1971 and adopted its present calls of WHOI in 1985. The WTVH call sign was picked up by a station in Syracuse, New York in 1976. In 1987, WHOI came under the ownership of Adams Communications following a merger with its previous owner, Forward Communications. The station was sold to Brissette Broadcasting in 1991, then to Benedek Broadcasting in 1996. When Benedek merged with Gray Television in 2002 following a Chapter 11 bankruptcy, WHOI was spun-off to Chelsey Broadcasting. In April 2004, WHOI and KHQA-TV in the Hannibal, Missouri/Quincy, Illinois media market became two of the founding stations of Barrington Broadcasting. Starting in 1998, WHOI began to run a cable-only WB affiliate. Known by the fictional call sign "WBPE", it was on channel 4 on most cable systems in the area. On September 18, 2006, when The WB and UPN merged to create The CW, "WBPE" became part of The CW Plus which is a similar operation to The WB 100+. WHOI added a new second digital subchannel to simulcast this programming to offer non-cable subscribers access to The CW. The channel then began to use WHOI-DT2 as its official calls.〔http://www.hoinews.com/news/content.aspx?id=14614〕 On March 2, 2009, it was made public that rival WEEK-TV would take over the operations of WHOI through joint sales and shared services agreements. It resulted in this station closing its longtime studios near its transmitter in Creve Coeur and moving into WEEK-TV's East Peoria facility. Sixteen employees were transferred to WEEK-TV but as many as thirty were laid-off immediately.〔 This left the five full-power commercial stations in the market operated by two entities. The WHOI and CW subchannel websites were immediately changed to redirects to WEEK-TV's web address. As part of the agreement, Granite-owned CBS affiliate WTVH merged its operations with Barrington's NBC affiliate WSTM-TV and low-powered CW affiliate WSTQ-LP in a similar arrangement on the same day.〔http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/03/the_staff_of_wtvh_laid.html〕 On June 12, WHOI remained on channel 19 when the analog to digital conversion was completed 〔http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf〕 with the "WHOI" calls being transferred from the now-defunct analog channel 19 to the new digital channel 19 and the "WHOI-DT" call sign from the pre-transition digital channel 40 being permanently discontinued. However, the PSIP identifier still identifies the station's main channel on 19.1 as "WHOI-DT". On February 28, 2013, Barrington Broadcasting announced the sale of its entire group, including WHOI, to the Sinclair Broadcast Group. Sinclair already owned the license of WYZZ which was sold to Cunningham Broadcasting to satisfy Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations on duopoly ownership. The sale was completed on November 25.〔http://www.sbgi.net/site_mgr/temp/Barrington%20Closes.pdf〕 On February 11, 2014, it was announced that Quincy-based Quincy Newspapers would acquire WEEK-TV from Granite Broadcasting. Originally, Quincy intended to continue providing services to WHOI but Sinclair gave notice that the JSA/SSA between WHOI and WEEK-TV (which was originally set to expire in March 2017) will be terminated within nine months of Quincy closing on its purchase of WEEK-TV. The Quincy/Granite sale was completed on November 2, 2015.〔(Quincy Newspapers Inc. acquires four TV stations ) ''Quincy Herald-Whig'', Retrieved 2 November, 2015〕 Until the end of 2014 through a separate joint sales agreement (JSA), WEEK-TV also controlled the market's MyNetworkTV outlet WAOE. That station, owned by Four Seasons Broadcasting, was based out of the Springfield Road studios during that operational arrangement. For a while, the facility also hosted some internal operations (such as the maintenance of programming logs) of another Four Seasons-owned MyNetworkTV outlet, WBQD-LP (now WQAD-DT3). That station was actually controlled through a local marketing agreement with WQAD-TV in the Quad Cities (owned at the time by Local TV; now owned by Tribune Broadcasting) and maintained the majority of its day-to-day operations in the big three affiliate's studios in Moline. 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「WHOI is the ABC-affiliated television station for North-Central Illinois that is licensed to Peoria. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 19 from a transmitter on North Stewart Street in Creve Coeur, a village of Groveland Township. Owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, WHOI is operated through joint sales and shared services agreements by Quincy Newspapers (owner of NBC affiliate WEEK-TV).The two outlets share studios together on Springfield Road, along I-474, in East Peoria. Although it is sister to Fox affiliate WYZZ-TV (owned by Sinclair's partner company, Cunningham Broadcasting), that outlet is operated separately by the Nexstar Broadcasting Group at the facility of CBS outlet WMBD-TV.==History==WHOI was Peoria's second television station, signing-on as WTVH on October 20, 1953. The station was founded by Hugh Norman and Edward Schoede. Hilltop Broadcasting, which co-owned the ''Peoria Journal Star'' bought the station in 1954. Its first studios were on Main Street in Peoria. Originally broadcasting an analog signal on VHF channel 8,http://dumonthistory.tv/a10.html it was a primary CBS affiliate but also carried shows from ABC and DuMont. WTVH lost DuMont when the network ceased operations in 1955, and lost CBS when WMBD-TV began broadcasting.The Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation, later known as Metromedia, purchased the station in 1959. In 1963, WTVH was bumped down to UHF channel 19 so that a third commercial VHF station could sign-on in the Quad Cities using that channel (the new station, WQAD-TV, is also an ABC affiliate). In 1965, Metromedia sold the station to Mid-America Media, owners of WIRL radio (1290 AM) who, on September 12 of that year, changed the call sign to WIRL-TV. It became WRAU-TV in 1971 and adopted its present calls of WHOI in 1985. The WTVH call sign was picked up by a station in Syracuse, New York in 1976.In 1987, WHOI came under the ownership of Adams Communications following a merger with its previous owner, Forward Communications. The station was sold to Brissette Broadcasting in 1991, then to Benedek Broadcasting in 1996. When Benedek merged with Gray Television in 2002 following a Chapter 11 bankruptcy, WHOI was spun-off to Chelsey Broadcasting. In April 2004, WHOI and KHQA-TV in the Hannibal, Missouri/Quincy, Illinois media market became two of the founding stations of Barrington Broadcasting.Starting in 1998, WHOI began to run a cable-only WB affiliate. Known by the fictional call sign "WBPE", it was on channel 4 on most cable systems in the area. On September 18, 2006, when The WB and UPN merged to create The CW, "WBPE" became part of The CW Plus which is a similar operation to The WB 100+. WHOI added a new second digital subchannel to simulcast this programming to offer non-cable subscribers access to The CW. The channel then began to use WHOI-DT2 as its official calls.http://www.hoinews.com/news/content.aspx?id=14614On March 2, 2009, it was made public that rival WEEK-TV would take over the operations of WHOI through joint sales and shared services agreements. It resulted in this station closing its longtime studios near its transmitter in Creve Coeur and moving into WEEK-TV's East Peoria facility. Sixteen employees were transferred to WEEK-TV but as many as thirty were laid-off immediately.This left the five full-power commercial stations in the market operated by two entities. The WHOI and CW subchannel websites were immediately changed to redirects to WEEK-TV's web address. As part of the agreement, Granite-owned CBS affiliate WTVH merged its operations with Barrington's NBC affiliate WSTM-TV and low-powered CW affiliate WSTQ-LP in a similar arrangement on the same day.http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/03/the_staff_of_wtvh_laid.htmlOn June 12, WHOI remained on channel 19 when the analog to digital conversion was completed http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf with the "WHOI" calls being transferred from the now-defunct analog channel 19 to the new digital channel 19 and the "WHOI-DT" call sign from the pre-transition digital channel 40 being permanently discontinued. However, the PSIP identifier still identifies the station's main channel on 19.1 as "WHOI-DT".On February 28, 2013, Barrington Broadcasting announced the sale of its entire group, including WHOI, to the Sinclair Broadcast Group. Sinclair already owned the license of WYZZ which was sold to Cunningham Broadcasting to satisfy Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations on duopoly ownership. The sale was completed on November 25.http://www.sbgi.net/site_mgr/temp/Barrington%20Closes.pdf On February 11, 2014, it was announced that Quincy-based Quincy Newspapers would acquire WEEK-TV from Granite Broadcasting. Originally, Quincy intended to continue providing services to WHOI but Sinclair gave notice that the JSA/SSA between WHOI and WEEK-TV (which was originally set to expire in March 2017) will be terminated within nine months of Quincy closing on its purchase of WEEK-TV. The Quincy/Granite sale was completed on November 2, 2015.(Quincy Newspapers Inc. acquires four TV stations ) ''Quincy Herald-Whig'', Retrieved 2 November, 2015Until the end of 2014 through a separate joint sales agreement (JSA), WEEK-TV also controlled the market's MyNetworkTV outlet WAOE. That station, owned by Four Seasons Broadcasting, was based out of the Springfield Road studios during that operational arrangement. For a while, the facility also hosted some internal operations (such as the maintenance of programming logs) of another Four Seasons-owned MyNetworkTV outlet, WBQD-LP (now WQAD-DT3). That station was actually controlled through a local marketing agreement with WQAD-TV in the Quad Cities (owned at the time by Local TV; now owned by Tribune Broadcasting) and maintained the majority of its day-to-day operations in the big three affiliate's studios in Moline.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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