WBSF
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| WBSF | |
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| Bay City/Saginaw/Flint, Michigan | |
| Branding | CW46 Mid Michigan |
| Channels | Analog: 46 (UHF) Digital: WEYI-DT 25.2 |
| Affiliations | The CW |
| Owner | Barrington Broadcasting Company, LLC (Barrington Bay City License, LLC) |
| First air date | September 15, 2006 |
| Call letters’ meaning | Bay City Saginaw Flint |
| Sister station(s) | WEYI-TV |
| Transmitter Power | 1600 kW |
| Height | 306.2 m |
| Facility ID | 82627 |
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| Website | www.cw46online.com |
- For the former Home Shopping Network affiliate in Melbourne, Florida, see WOTF-TV.
WBSF, channel 46 is the CW affiliate for the Flint-Saginaw-Bay City, Michigan television market. Formerly affiliated with The WB, it is operated in conjunction with the NBC affiliate for the region, WEYI-TV, which carries WBSF on its digital signal, channel 25.2.
On cable, WBSF is available on channel 15 on Comcast in Flint. On Charter's Tri-Cities systems, it is seen on channel 17 in Saginaw, channels 10 and 26 in Bay City, channel 26 only in Midland and channel 15 in Mount Pleasant.
WBSF signed on its analog transmitter on September 13, 2006. However, WBSF has been seen on cable since 2004, and on WEYI's digital signal since that was activated. The station was also the Detroit Pistons' Mid-Michigan home from the station's inception until 2006; then-fellow WB affiliate WMYD (channel 20) in Detroit, along with WDIV-TV (channel 4), Detroit's NBC affiliate, became the flagship Pistons stations during the fall of 2004. (Until WBSF was formed, Mid-Michigan viewers watched Pistons games through another Detroit station, WKBD.)
Prior to WBSF's opening in 2004, WB programming was seen on WEYI in the early-2000s, mainly in the overnight periods. Before WEYI's involvement began, mid-Michigan had no WB service, other than from Chicago's WGN-TV, when they had WB programming nationwide, prior to 1999.
Like WMYD, WBSF was the last television station in its market to air cartoons on weekday afternoons. Since December 30, 2005, Kids' WB has been shown only on Saturday mornings, replaced by the Daytime WB block.
With the merger of The WB and UPN to become The CW, WBSF became the Flint-Saginaw-Bay City-Midland CW affiliate in the fall of 2006. Because of this, a chance existed that WKBD (which, along with WBKP, are the only other analog over-the-air CW affiliates in Michigan) would be dropped from the market's cable systems, as both WBSF and WKBD would be CW affiliates (however, in the case of Midland, two CBS affiliates do coexist on the same cable system); this occurred on Charter's Tri-Cities systems, which replaced WKBD with WNEM-TV's MyNetworkTV subchannel, which became the new home of Pistons basketball that year.
As a result of the network change, WBSF rebranded from "Mid Michigan's WB" to "CW46 Mid Michigan." However, its call letters were not changed, as the "B" in the call letters also stands for Bay City, the station's city of license. ("S" and "F" stand for Saginaw and Flint, respectively.)
Currently, WBSF is the Mid-Michigan over-the-air home of the Detroit Red Wings.
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[edit] Newscast
WBSF once aired a daily 7 o'clock newscast, titled The 7 O'Clock News on CW46, which was produced by WEYI. It was canceled in April 2008.
[edit] Digital television
Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997 [1], the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. Instead, on or before February 17, 2009, which is the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, WBSF will be required to turn off its analog signal and turn on its digital signal (called a "flash-cut").
For this reason, WBSF uses WEYI's digital signal for its digital broadcasts.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- WBSF website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WBSF
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WBSF-TV
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