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WLFI-TV, virtual channel 18 (VHF digital channel 11), is a CBS affiliated television station located in West Lafayette, Indiana, United States. The station is owned by Media General. WLFI maintains studio facilities located on Yeager Road in West Lafayette, and its transmitter is located on County Road 700 in rural northwestern Clinton County (southwest of Rossville); master control and some internal operations are housed at the studio facilities of sister station WISH-TV on North Meridian Street in northwestern Indianapolis. On cable, WLFI-TV is available on Comcast Xfinity channel 8 and Metronet channel 18 in standard definition and in high definition on Xfinity digital channel 1018 and Metronet channel 818. ==History== The station first signed on the air at 6:00 p.m. on June 15, 1953 as WFAM-TV,〔http://www.wlfi.com/Global/story.asp?S=6512244〕 broadcasting on UHF channel 59. It was founded by original owner Sarkes Tarzian, a radio manufacturer based in Bloomington, which also owned primary NBC/secondary ABC and DuMont affiliate WTTV (now a CBS affiliate) in Indianapolis and ABC affiliate WPTA in Fort Wayne. The station originally operated as a primary CBS and DuMont affiliate. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. WFAM-TV's transmitter had originally broadcast at low power, making it unreceivable in parts of west-central Indiana outside of the immediate Lafayette area. Out of its original 20-person staff, only one person had any experience in television; the rest were radio personalities who pulled double duty under the guidance of O.E. Richardson, owner of radio station WASK (1450 AM). The station relocated its allocation to UHF channel 18 in 1957; the UHF channel 59 allocation would remain dormant until the Federal Communications Commission later reassigned the allotment to Indianapolis (later used by WPDS-TV (now WXIN), which signed on in February 1984). The station changed its call letters to WLFI-TV in 1967. In 1979, the station was purchased by Block Communications. In 2000, LIN TV Corporation acquired WLFI from Block in exchange for a 67% ownership interest in ABC affiliate WAND (now an NBC affiliate) in Decatur, Illinois (LIN TV later sold off its remaining 33% interest in WAND to Block Communications). On March 21, 2014, Media General announced that it would merge with LIN Media in a $1.6 billion deal. The merger was completed on December 19.〔(Media General Completes Merger With LIN Media ), Press Release, Media General, Retrieved 19 December, 2014〕 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「WLFI-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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