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WBDT
kW
HAAT330 m (1,083 ft)
Transmitter coordinates39°43′8″N 84°15′21.1″W / 39.71889°N 84.255861°W / 39.71889; -84.255861[2]
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Public license information
Websitewww.wdtn.com/daytons-cw

WBDT (channel 26) is a

channel sharing agreement, WBDT, along with Richmond, Indiana–licensed Ion Television O&O WKOI-TV
(channel 43), share WDTN's digital channel from WDTN's transmitter facility on Frytown Road in southwest Dayton.

WBDT serves as the default CW affiliate for the

West Central Ohio CW
until early 2010.

History

Prior history of channel 26

Main article: WSWO-TV

Channel 26 first appeared in southwest Ohio on July 14, 1968, as

announcer Dave Eaton, who was previously with the former WKTR-TV in Kettering, now PBS member station WPTD [channel 16]), as well as other local shows. The station suddenly went dark on June 19, 1970, after it lost a bid to obtain the ABC affiliation for Dayton to WKEF (channel 22); it soon thereafter filed for bankruptcy
.

WSWO-TV briefly returned to the air on June 17, 1972, under the ownership of Lester W. White, but fell silent again at the beginning of December after White defaulted on a loan. White was additionally discovered to have stolen equipment from multiple television stations, most notably

Zanesville
, and arrested two days before a court ordered the station closed.

Current license

The current incarnation of channel 26 dates from September 7, 1980, when Miami Valley Christian Television (MVCT) returned it to the air as a

westerns, sportsmen/hunting/wildlife shows, and The Lawrence Welk Show
.

When

paid programming
eighteen hours a day, with religious shows the rest of the broadcast day.

In the mid-1990s, Abry Communications (which had purchased WRGT-TV's owner,

Paxson Communications in 1995. Paxson kept a similar lineup for WTJC, airing religious programming in early mornings, infomercials for most of the day and worship music overnight. On January 20, 1998, WTJC's call sign was changed to WDPX (for "Dayton Pax TV"). Accordingly, on August 31 of that year, the station became a charter affiliate of Pax (now Ion Television
).

In June 1999, Paxson sold the station to

Diagnosis Murder
was moved to 1 p.m., while the remainder of Pax's programming was moved to overnights. The station finally dropped the remainder of Pax's programming in September 2004, filling the morning hours previously programmed with the network's programming with off-network sitcoms, talk shows, infomercials, and court shows.

On September 18, 2006, WBDT became the

16:9
format 24 hours a day, broadcasting on digital UHF channel 18.

On June 4, 2010, it was announced that the

Miamisburg, in October and move to WDTN's facility in Moraine. As of January 27, 2013, the former WBDT studio facility is now occupied by Sinclair Broadcast Group's virtual duopoly of ABC affiliate WKEF and Fox affiliate WRGT-TV
(the move made them the last network-affiliated stations in Dayton to have upgraded their local programming, including newscasts, to high definition).

Three months after ACME and LIN TV reached their operations and sales agreements, LIN TV exercised an option to purchase WBDT along with another LIN TV-operated ACME station, fellow CW affiliate

Buckeye Cablevision, who claimed that retransmission fees for WBDT would increase as a result of the sale.[7] The sale of WBDT was consummated on May 20, 2011.[8][9]

On March 4, 2011, LIN TV's contract with Dish Network expired, and all TV stations owned or operated by LIN, including both WBDT and WDTN, were pulled from Dish.[10][11][12][13][14] On March 13, LIN and Dish entered into a retransmission consent agreement, and all affected channels were restored.[15][16][17][18]

On March 21, 2014, Media General announced that it would purchase LIN Media and its stations, including WDTN and the SSA and JSA with WBDT, in a $1.6 billion merger.[19] The FCC approved the merger on December 12, 2014, but a condition of the deal required Media General to end the JSA between WBDT and WDTN due to tighter scrutiny of such deals by the FCC. Media General received a two-year waiver to end the JSA between WDTN and WBDT.[20] The merger was completed on December 19.[21]

A carriage dispute with Dish Network, beginning at 7 p.m. on December 2, 2020, resulted in the removal of WBDT and sister station WDTN from the platform, along with 164 Nexstar stations in 115 markets.[22]

Newscasts

Further information: WDTN § News operation

On September 16, 2002, the nationally syndicated morning show

Orlando
.

On August 18, 2007, WDTN began to produce a nightly half-hour prime time newscast for WBDT known as 2 News at 10 on Dayton's CW. On the 26th day of its broadcast, this show achieved higher ratings than WRGT-TV's nightly prime time news (produced by WKEF) in Dayton's metered market households.

On July 21, 2012, WDTN began broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. The WBDT shows were included in the upgrade.

On January 7, 2013, WBDT began airing a weekday news program from 7 to 9 a.m., called 2 News Today on Dayton's CW. Since the cancellation of The Daily Buzz, the station also simulcasts the 5 to 7 a.m. WDTN edition as well. On September 9, 2013, WBDT expanded the prime time 10 p.m. WDTN-produced newscast to an hour.[23]

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is

multiplexed
:

Subchannels of WBDT[24]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
26.1 1080i
16:9
 WBDT HD Main WBDT programming / The CW
26.2 480i Bounce Bounce TV

Analog-to-digital conversion

WBDT shut down its analog signal, over

UHF channel 26, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 18 to channel 26 for post-transition operations.[25][26]

Initially, WBDT aired a

Justice Network
; WBDT's third subchannel was dropped.

Spectrum reallocation

On April 14, 2017, it was reported that WBDT's over-the-air spectrum had been sold in the FCC's

spectrum reallocation auction, fetching $27.3 million, with the FCC listing the station as set to go off the air. However, Joe Abouzeid, president and general manager of the station, characterized the auction as an "engineering exercise" and stated that the station would not go off the air or move to a new channel.[28]

In spite of the station manager's earlier denial, WBDT began sharing sister station WDTN's digital channel on June 29, 2018.[29][30]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WBDT". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ "Licensing and Management System". enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov. Retrieved November 25, 2022.
  3. ^ "LIN, ACME Share Services in Three Markets", from broadcastingcable.com, June 4, 2010
  4. ^ "LIN and ACME in 3 new SSA Deals", from tvnewscheck.com, June 4, 2010
  5. ^ "LIN Buys Pair of Acme Stations", from broadcastingcable.com, September 2, 2010
  6. ^ LIN Seeks OK for Dayton, Green Bay Duops", from tvnewscheck.com, September 21, 2010
  7. ^ FCC Letter DA-11-648, released April 8, 2011
  8. ^ "LIN TV Corp. Announces First Quarter 2011 Results," press release from LIN Media dated April 27, 2011
  9. ^ CDBS Print
  10. ^ "LIN Media's Current Contract with DISH Network Expires Without New Agreement" (PDF). linmedia.com.
  11. ^ "DISH Network may drop WDTN". Dayton Business Journal. March 1, 2011.
  12. ^ "Channel 2, CW could go dark for Dish subscribers". DaytonDailyNews.com. March 2, 2011.
  13. ^ "WDTN, Dayton's CW go dark for Dish Network subscribers". Dayton Daily News. March 6, 2011.
  14. ^ "NBC, CW remain blocked in dispute, DaytonDailyNews.com/services/archive, March 8, 2011".
  15. ^ "LIN Media Enters Into Retransmission Consent Agreement with DISH Network" (PDF). linmedia.com.
  16. ^ "Dish Network and Lin Media agree, restore channels". Dayton Daily News. March 13, 2011.
  17. ^ "Dish Network, Lin Media reach agreement". Dayton Business Journal. March 14, 2011.
  18. ^ "NBC, CW restored for Dish customers". DaytonDailyNews.com. March 15, 2011.
  19. ^ Reid Blackwell, John (March 21, 2014). "MG will combine with LIN TV chain". Richmond Times-Dispatch. Retrieved March 22, 2014.
  20. ^ FCC Okays Media General/LIN Merger Broadcasting & Cable (December 12, 2014)
  21. ^ Media General Completes Merger With LIN Media Archived December 19, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Press Release, Media General, Retrieved December 19, 2014
  22. ^ Rivera, Josh (December 2, 2020). "Dish Network customers lose Nexstar's local TV stations in 115 markets over failed negotiations". USA Today. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
  23. ^ "TV News Check". TV News Check. February 1, 2024. Retrieved February 1, 2024.
  24. ^ "RabbitEars.Info". www.rabbitears.info. Retrieved February 1, 2024.
  25. ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.
  26. ^ "CBDS Print". fjallfoss.fcc.gov.
  27. ^ Amelia Robinson (September 26, 2011). "New TV network launches today". Dayton Daily News.
  28. ^ Gnau, Tom (April 14, 2017). "2 Dayton-area TV stations sell spectrum to FCC for $47.3 million". Dayton Daily News. Retrieved April 30, 2017.
  29. ^ Filby, Max (June 6, 2018). "TV antenna not working? Local channels start changing frequencies soon". Dayton Daily News. Retrieved June 22, 2018.
  30. ^ "Modification of a Licensed Facility for DTV Application". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. March 23, 2018. Retrieved June 22, 2018.

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