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WMSN-TV is the Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Madison, Wisconsin and serving Madison and Southern Wisconsin's Eastern Ridges and Lowlands. The station broadcasts a high definition signal on UHF channel 49 (or virtual channel 47.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in Madison's Middleton Junction section. Owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, WMSN's main studios are located on Big Sky Drive on Madison's west side. ==History== WMSN-TV commenced broadcasting on June 8, 1986, airing on analog UHF channel 47. It was the first new commercial station to launch in the Madison market since WISC-TV signed on thirty years earlier. One of WMSN's earlier programs was ''Big Sky Theater'', a Saturday night presentation of classic movies (mostly westerns) from the drive-in era. (The program's name was an acknowledgement to the Big Sky Drive-In Theater, which was located near the present day WMSN studios). After a few months as an Independent, the station joined Fox as a charter affiliate on October 9, 1986. Since 1994, as a result of the Fox network's NFC football package, WMSN has been Madison's primary home for the Green Bay Packers; these broadcasts are routinely the highest-rated programs in the market during football season. After completing its November 2010 switch in physical digital channels (see below), WMSN added The Country Network (later known as ZUUS Country) on its third digital subchannel (47.3), joining TheCoolTV, which was added to subchannel 47.2 in September 2010. WMSN and other Sinclair stations dropped TheCoolTV in August 2012 at the expiration of their carriage agreement; it resulted in subchannel 47.2 remaining silent until July 2014, when the classic movie network GetTV was added, a part of the network's channel lease agreement with Sinclair; Sinclair-owned sci-fi network Comet replaced GetTV on October 31, 2015. Subchannel 47.2 also carries live sports events produced by Sinclair's American Sports Network due to compulsory Fox Sports commitments on 47.1. WMSN has been a Fox affiliate since the network's 1986 launch; the station's relationship with Fox will continue through at least 2017, the result of Fox's affiliation agreement with WMSN and Sinclair's 18 other Fox stations, a deal reached on May 15, 2012.〔(Sinclair Reups With Fox, Gets WUTB Option ), ''TVNewsCheck'', May 15, 2012.〕 S 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「WMSN-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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