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WLKY, virtual channel 32 (UHF digital channel 26), is a CBS-affiliated television station located in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The station is owned by the Hearst Television subsidiary of the Hearst Corporation. WLKY maintains studio facilities located on Mellwood Avenue (near I-71) on Louisville's east side, and its transmitter is located in rural northeastern Floyd County, Indiana (northeast of Floyds Knobs). On cable, WLKY is available on Time Warner Cable channel 5 and in high definition on digital channel 912. ==History== The station first signed on the air on September 16, 1961, originally operating as an ABC affiliate. It originally operated from studio facilities located on Park Drive in Louisville suburb Shively, KY. The ABC affiliation in Louisville was previously shared between NBC affiliate WAVE-TV (channel 3) and then-CBS affiliate WHAS-TV (channel 11). Although Louisville had been large enough since the early 1950s to support three network affiliates, the market had a fairly long wait to gain full-time network service. The Louisville market is a fairly large market geographically, and also includes some rugged terrain. The nearest VHF allocations, channels 7 and 13, had been respectively allocated to Evansville and Bowling Green. These factors caused the first attempt at a full-time ABC affiliate in the area, WKLO-TV, UHF channel 21, to shut down after only six months on the air. With this in mind, prospective owners were skittish about setting up shop on one of the available UHF allocations in the area. But, a growing Louisville market and a stronger ABC-TV, with new programming like American Football League games and more popular prime-time shows (e.g. Desilu's "The Untouchables"), convinced aluminum company mogul Archibald Cochran and others to create WLKY. WLKY was founded by a local group, Kentuckiana Television, who sold the station in 1967 to Sonderling Broadcasting (which would acquire several radio and television stations in mid-sized markets such as WAST (now WNYT) in Albany, New York, until that company merged with Viacom in 1979). The station moved to its current location on Mellwood Avenue in 1968. In 1973, Sonderling sold the station to Combined Communications. Combined eventually merged its television properties with the Gannett Company in 1979. In the spring of 1983, Gannett sold WLKY and WPTA in Fort Wayne, Indiana (the two smallest stations by market size in Gannett's television station portfolio at the time) to Pulitzer Publishing, after it purchased WLVI-TV in Boston (now owned by Sunbeam Television) from Field Communications and WTCN-TV (now KARE) in Minneapolis from Metromedia. This was because the WLVI-TV and WTCN purchases put Gannett with two stations over the Federal Communications Commission's seven-station ownership limit for television stations that was in effect at the time. Pulitzer kept WLKY but sold WPTA to the Granite Broadcasting Corporation in 1989. From 1977 to 1986, WLKY was branded on-air as "32 Alive." At the time it was implemented, Combined Communications used the "Alive" moniker on four of its stations – WLKY, WPTA, KOCO-TV in Oklahoma City and WXIA-TV in Atlanta. WXIA-TV still uses the "Alive" moniker under Gannett ownership, as does WPTA, although that station is no longer owned by Gannett. In September 1990, WLKY swapped network affiliations with WHAS-TV (by then, owned by the Providence Journal Company; it is now owned by Sander Media and operated by Gannett's broadcasting spin-off Tegna Media), with channel 32 taking the CBS affiliation and WHAS becoming the market's ABC affiliate – much to that station's chagrin.〔(Pulitzer Publishing Company's television station in Louisville, WLKY-TV, to join the CBS Television Network as a new affiliate in September ), PR Newswire. August 14, 1990. HighBeam Research, (February 17, 2011).〕 This came after ABC (which placed second in the national ratings at the time) became dissatisfied with the viewership problems at some of its affiliates (while CBS was at a distant third during the midway point of the network's stewardship under president Laurence Tisch), and ABC wanted a stronger affiliate in the market. WLKY had long been one of ABC's weaker affiliates, while WHAS-TV had been the dominant station in Louisville for almost 20 years at the time. By this time, however, cable television had gained significant penetration in the Louisville area. Indeed, to this day, cable and satellite are all but essential for acceptable television in much of the Kentuckiana region. Combined with a low universal cable channel number (channel 5 on both Comcast and Time Warner Cable), WLKY's former weakness of being a UHF station has almost been completely nullified. The switch to CBS provided a major windfall for WLKY that winter, as it became Louisville's home for the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. Owing to the region's status as a college basketball hotbed and local teams such as Kentucky, Louisville and Indiana being longtime fixtures in the tournament, NCAA tournament games on WLKY are consistently among the highest-rated programs in the market during the tournament's run. In 2008, for instance, NCAA games attracted a 21.6 rating and a 36 share, the highest viewership for the tournament broadcasts in the nation.〔(Louisville No. 1 in basketball TV ratings ). The Courier-Journal, 2008-04-06.〕 Pulitzer sold its entire broadcasting division, including WLKY, to what was then Hearst-Argyle Television in 1999. Hearst's aggressive marketing helped make the station a factor in the ratings for the first time in memory, and by the dawn of the new millennium, it was waging a spirited battle with WAVE for the second place slot in the market behind long-dominant WHAS-TV. On July 9, 2012, WLKY's parent company Hearst Television became involved in a carriage dispute with Time Warner Cable after that company's purchase of the market's major cable provider Insight Communications, leading to WLKY's removal from Time Warner Cable and its temporarily replacement by Rochester, New York CBS affiliate WROC-TV (owned by Nexstar Broadcasting Group);〔(Adweek: "Hearst and Time Warner Cable Part Ways Over Retrans", July 10, 2012. )〕〔(Adweek: "Imported Signals in Retrans Fight Raise Regulatory Questions", July 10, 2012. )〕 Time Warner chose to replace the station with WROC-TV as it did not have any rights to carry any other CBS affiliate within the region.〔(Orlando Sentinel: "WESH off Bright House; Pennsylvania station is substitute", July 10, 2012. )〕 The substitution of WROC-TV in place of WLKY lasted until July 19, 2012, when a new carriage agreement was reached between Hearst and Time Warner.〔(Broadcasting & Cable: "Hearst TV, Time Warner Cable End Viewer Blackout", July 19, 2012. )〕 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「WLKY」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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