WBSF

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WBSF
Bay City/Saginaw/ Flint, Michigan

City of license	Bay City
Branding	CW 46 Mid-Michigan NBC 25 (on DT2)
Slogan	TV To Talk About
Channels	Digital: 46 (UHF)
Subchannels	46.1 The CW 46.2 NBC
Affiliations	The CW
Owner	Cunningham Broadcasting (operated through LMA by Sinclair Broadcast Group) (Flint (WBSF-TV) Licensee, Inc.)
First air date	2004
Call letters' meaning	Bay City/Saginaw/ Flint
Sister station(s)	WEYI-TV, WSMH, WWMT, WLUC-TV, WPBN-TV / WTOM-TV, WGTU / WGTQ
Former channel number(s)	46 (UHF analog, 2006-2009)
Former affiliations	The WB (2004-2006)
Transmitter power	70 kW
Height	306 m
Facility ID	82627
Transmitter coordinates	43°28′26.8″N 83°50′44.9″W / 43.474111°N 83.845806°W / 43.474111; -83.845806

WBSF (branded CW 46) is the CW-affiliated television station for the Flint/Tri-Cities market that is licensed to Bay City. Owned by Cunningham Broadcasting, it is operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group, making this station a sister station to NBC affiliate WEYI-TV (owned by Howard Stirk Holdings) and Fox affiliate WSMH. The two stations (WEYI & WBSF) share studios on West Willard Road in Vienna Township along the Genesee and Saginaw County line.

It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 46 from a transmitter located on Becker Road in Robin Glen-Indiantown, in Buena Vista Township, east of Saginaw. The station can also be seen on WEYI's second digital subchannel (virtual channel 25.2) from its Vienna Township transmitter. Syndicated programming on WBSF includes: Maury, Family Guy, How I Met Your Mother, The Steve Wilkos Show, Frasier, and My Name Is Earl.

Digital television

Because it was granted an original construction permit after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) finalized the digital television allotment plan on April 21, 1997,^[1] WBSF did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. Instead, after the DTV transition on June 12, 2009, it was required to turn off its analog signal and turn on its digital signal (an action called a "flash-cut").^[2]

Channel	Video	Aspect	Programming
46.1	720p	16:9	Main WBSF programming / The CW
46.2	720p	16:9	Simulcast of WEYI-TV

History

In 2004, Barrington Broadcasting launched WB affiliate WBSF which was offered exclusively on cable. The station was the Detroit Pistons' Mid-Michigan home from its inception until 2006. After that, fellow WB affiliate WMYD and NBC affiliate WDIV-TV in Detroit became the flagship stations. Until WBSF was formed, Mid-Michigan viewers watched Pistons games through another Detroit station, UPN affiliate 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 America on cable when this aired WB programming nationwide until 1999. Like WMYD, WBSF was the last television station in its market to air cartoons on weekday afternoons. Since December 30, 2005 what was then Kids' WB has been shown only on Saturday mornings replaced by the Daytime WB block on weekdays.

At some point in 2006, it was added to WEYI's new second digital subchannel. With the merger of The WB and UPN to become The CW, WBSF became the area's network affiliate in the fall of 2006. Because of this, a chance existed that WKBD (which along with WBKP are the only other over-the-air CW affiliates in Michigan) would be dropped from this 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 MyNetworkTV affiliatwe WNEM-DT2 that became the new home of Pistons basketball that year. As a result of the network change, WBSF rebranded from "Mid-Michigan's WB" to "CW 46 Mid-Michigan". However, its call letters were not changed as the "B" in the calls also stands for Bay City which is the station's city of license. "S" and "F" stand for Saginaw and Flint, respectively. WBSF signed-on its analog channel on September 13, 2006 although it continues to be seen on WEYI-DT2. As such, it is the only full-power television station to be built and signed-on by Barrington Broadcasting although Barrington acquired its construction permit from ACME Communications before construction began.

On February 28, 2013, Barrington announced that it would sell its entire group, including WBSF and WEYI, to Sinclair Broadcast Group. However, due to FCC duopoly regulations, since Sinclair already owns Fox affiliate WSMH, Sinclair will transfer the license assets of WBSF to Cunningham Broadcasting and of WEYI to Howard Stirk Holdings (owned by conservative talk show host Armstrong Williams). WSMH will take over the operations of both WBSF and WEYI through local marketing agreements when the deal is completed.^[3] The sale was completed on November 25.^[4]

WBSF has served as an alternate NBC affiliate. The station aired a WWE Saturday Night Main Event on tape delay in 2005 due to WEYI's Pistons coverage. In 2006, the channel aired an episode of Friday Night Lights (also on tape delay) due to WEYI's broadcast of the second Michigan gubernatorial debate. The station may air any preempted NBC program should the preemption occur on WEYI for a local special, breaking news story, or any other emergency.

WBSF once aired a weeknight newscast known as The 7 O'Clock News on CW 46 which was produced by WEYI. This production was canceled in April 2008.

References

↑ FCC re-alocation plan
↑ FCC.gov - Appendix B: All Full Power Television Stations by DMA, Indicating Those Terminating Analog Service on or before February 17, 2009
↑ Malone, Michael (February 28, 2013). "Sinclair's Chesapeake TV Acquires Barrington Stations". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
↑ http://www.sbgi.net/site_mgr/temp/Barrington%20Closes.pdf

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v t e Broadcast television in the Mid-Michigan region, including Flint, Saginaw, Bay City and Midland

Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television

Local stations	WNEM 5 (.1 CBS, .2 MNTV) W09CK 9 (Ind) WJRT 12 (.1 ABC, .2 LW, .3 WxN) W24DL-D 24 (.1 3ABN) WEYI 25 (.1 NBC, .2 CW, .3 Bounce TV) WHNE-LD 26 (.1/.5 Retro TV, .2 Jewelry TV, .3 A1, .4 Tuff TV) WBSF 46 (.1 CW, .2 NBC) WAQP 49 (.1 TCT, .2 TCT HD, .3 TCT Family, .4 La Fuente) WSMH 66 (.1 Fox, .3 ZUUS)

Public television	WCMU 14 (.1 PBS (HD), .2 PBS (SD), .3 Create) WDCQ 19 (.1 PBS, .2 MHz WV, .3 Create, .4 Kids) WCMZ 28 (.1 PBS (HD), .2 PBS (SD), .3 Create)

Cable channels	Fox Sports Detroit MGTV Comcast Television

Defunct stations	WTAC 16 (ABC / DuMont) WXON-LP 54 (Ind)

Michigan Broadcast television areas by city Alpena Detroit Duluth, MN Flint-Saginaw-Bay City Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo Green Bay, WI Lansing/Jackson Marquette Northern Michigan South Bend, IN Toledo, OH

v t e CW Network Affiliates in the state of Michigan

WWMT-DT 2.2 (Kalamazoo) WBKP 5/WBUP-DT 10.2 (Calumet/Marquette) "WBAE" 21 (Alpena) "WBVC" 61 (Traverse City) WBSF 46 (Saginaw / Bay City) WKBD 50 (Detroit) WLAJ-DT 51.2 (Lansing)

See also ABC CBS CW Fox ION MyNetworkTV NBC PBS Other stations in Michigan

v t e Sinclair Broadcast Group

ABC network affiliates	KATU KDNL KHQA KOMO KTVO KVII / KVIH WCHS WEAR WGTU / WGTQ¹ WHOI WHAM² WICD WICS WKEF WLOS WPDE WSYX WTVC WXLV

CBS network affiliates	KBAK KBOI KDBC KEPR KEYE KFDM KGAN KGBT KHQA KIMA KLEW KMEG³ KRCG KTVL KTVO KUTV KVAL / KCBY / KPIC WGME WHP WKRC WPEC WRGB WTVH⁴ WWMT

The CW network affiliates	KEPR KFDM KFRE KIMA KMTR / KTCW / KMCB⁵ KMYS² KOCB KTVL KVII / KVIH KVCW KXTU KXVO⁶ KYUU WBUI⁷ WBSF¹ WCWN WHAM² WHOI WKRC WLFL WLYH⁸ WNAB⁹ WNUV¹ WSTQ WTTO / WDBB WTVX WUCW WVTV WWHO¹⁰ WWMB¹¹ WWMT

Fox network affiliates	KABB KBFX KBSI KBTV² KDSM KFOX KFXA¹² KMPH KOKH KPTH KPTM KRXI KSAS KXRM WACH WBFF WDKY WFXL WLUC WMSN WPFO¹³ WPGH WRGT¹ WRLH WRSP / WCCU⁷ WSMH WSYT¹⁴ WTAT¹ WTTE¹ WUHF WUTV WVAH¹ WYZZ^{1, 15} WZTV

MyNetworkTV affiliates	KAME² KDBC KMTW¹⁶ KMYU KUTV KVMY WABM WCGV WDKA¹⁷ WFGX WMMP WMYA¹ WMYV WNYO WNYS¹⁴ WPMY WRDC WRGT¹ WRLH WSTR² WSYX WTCN WTTA WTVZ WUTB² WUXP

NBC network affiliates	KMTR / KMCB / KTCW⁵ KRNV / KENV¹⁸ WEYI¹¹ WJAC WLUC WNWO WOAI WPBN / WTOM WPMI² WSTM WTOV WTWC

Other affiliates	Independent station WJTC² This TV affiliates KMYU WFGX Univision KUNP^MFX KUNS^MFX KUNW-CD / KVVK / KORX Azteca América WWHB

Radio Stations	KOMO-AM KOMO-FM¹⁹ KPLZ-FM KVI

Wrestling promotion	Ring of Honor

¹Nominally owned by Cunningham Broadcasting and operated by Sinclair under an LMA. However, trusts belonging to members of SBGI's founding Smith family control almost all of Cunningham's stock. ²Owned by Deerfield Media and operated by Sinclair under an LMA. ³Owned by Waitt Broadcasting and operated by Sinclair. ⁴Owned by Granite Broadcasting and operated by Sinclair. ⁵Owned by Roberts Media and operated by Sinclair. ⁶Owned by Mitts Telecasting and operated by Sinclair. ⁷Owned by GOCOM Media and operated by Sinclair. ⁸Operated by Sinclair, owned by Nexstar. ⁹Owned by Tennessee Broadcasting and operated by Sinclair by an outsourcing agreement. ¹⁰Owned by Manhan Media and operated by Sinclair. ¹¹Owned by Howard Stirk Holdings and operated by Sinclair under an LMA. ¹²Owned by Second Generation Ltd. and operated by Sinclair. ¹³Owned by Corporate Media Consultants Group (itself 49% owned by Max Media) and operated by Sinclair. Sale to Cunningham Broadcasting, pending FCC approval. ¹⁴Owned by Bristlecone Broadcasting, Sinclair operates WSYT through transitional agreement. WNYS is owned by RKM Media, LLC, its LMA assignment will be transfered to Bristlecone. ¹⁵Operated by Nexstar under an LMA. ¹⁶Owned by Mercury Broadcasting Company and operated by Sinclair. ¹⁷Owned by WDKA Acquisition Corporation and operated by Sinclair. ¹⁸Owned by Intermountain West Communications Company and operated by Sinclair. Sale to Cunningham Broadcasting, pending FCC approval. ¹⁹Owned by South Sound Broadcasting, Sinclair programs this station, as a simulcast of KOMO (AM).

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