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WTHR, virtual and VHF digital channel 13, is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The station is owned by the Dispatch Broadcast Group of Columbus, Ohio, and is a sister station to Cozi TV affiliate WALV-CD (channel 46) and Columbus's CBS affiliate WBNS-TV (channel 10). WTHR and WALV share studio facilities located on North Meridian (south of I-65) in downtown Indianapolis; WTHR maintains transmitter facilities located near Ditch Road and West 96th Street in Carmel. On cable, WTHR is available on Comcast Xfinity and Bright House Networks channel 12, and AT&T U-verse channel 13 in standard definition; and in high definition on Bright House Networks digital channel 1012, and Xfinity and AT&T U-verse channel 1013. Under Dispatch's ownership, WTHR has a great deal of autonomy and due to its private ownership, is less beholden to the constraints of public ownership its local competitors are under, along with being the only commercial station in the state not under any large broadcast chain ownership.〔"WTHR Laps Competition; Dispatch station takes checkered flag in sweeps, Broadcasting and Cable, March 14, 2008 http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/news-articles/wthr-laps-competition/84474〕 ==History== The station first signed on the air on October 30, 1957 as WLWI. Founded by the Crosley Broadcasting Corporation, it originally operated as an ABC affiliate,〔http://www.dispatchbroadcast.com/wthr.html〕〔"Crosley WLWI (TV) signed as basic ABC-TV affiliate." ''Broadcasting'', April 1, 1957, pg. 126. ()〕 taking the affiliation from Bloomington-licensed WTTV (channel 4, formerly a CW affiliate, now a CBS affiliate), which had affiliated with the network one year earlier. WLWI was one of four Crosley stations that made up the "WLW Television Network", alongside the company's television and the regional network's flagship WLWT in Cincinnati, WLWC (now WCMH-TV) in Columbus and WLWD (now WDTN) in Dayton, Ohio. Crosley also owned WLW radio in Cincinnati, WLWA (now WXIA-TV) in Atlanta and WOAI-TV in San Antonio. Channel 13 and its sister stations in Ohio shared common programming (such as ''The Ruth Lyons 50-50 Club'', ''The Bob Braun Show'', ''The Paul Dixon Show'', ''Midwestern Hayride'', ''The Phil Donahue Show'', and Cincinnati Reds baseball game telecasts) and similar on-air branding which reflected their connection to each other. Channel 13 called itself "WLW-I" to trade on its association with WLW radio, which can be heard in most of the market under the right conditions during the day. From 1957 to 1962, the station was tied up in one of the most heated licensing disputes in early television history. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) originally awarded the construction permit to build a television station on channel 13 to a group headed by Union Federal Savings and Loan president George Sadlier. However, after an appeal, the FCC reversed its decision and awarded the permit to Crosley. One of the other competitors, Richard Fairbanks, owner of WIBC, then sued to force new license hearings. Fairbanks contended that the FCC had erred in awarding the last VHF channel allocation in Indianapolis to a company based in Cincinnati when there were viable applicants based in Indiana. The suit, however, was filed too late to prevent WLWI from signing on under Crosley ownership. The District of Columbia Court of Appeals overturned the FCC's decision in 1958, but allowed Crosley to continue running the station pending further action by the FCC. In 1961, the FCC awarded Fairbanks the channel 13 license, but Crosley appealed. The following year, Crosley and Fairbanks reached a deal in which Crosley traded WLWA to Fairbanks in return for being allowed to keep WLWI. Amid this instability in ownership, WLWI found the going rather difficult. It was also dogged by a weaker network affiliation; ABC would not be on an equal footing with CBS and NBC in the ratings until the 1970s. WLWI spent most of its first 17 years of operation languishing as a third place also-ran behind NBC affiliate WFBM-TV (channel 6, now ABC affiliate WRTV) and then-CBS affiliate WISH-TV (channel 8, now The CW affiliate). In some cases, it even fell to fourth place in the local ratings behind then-independent station, WTTV (channel 4, now CBS affiliate). 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「WTHR」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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