WJPS-LP
| Evansville, Indiana | |
|---|---|
| Channels | Analog: 4 (VHF) |
| Affiliations | Dark |
| Owner |
Roberts Broadcasting (sale to Ion Media Networks pending) (Roberts Broadcasting Company of Evansville, IN, LLC) |
| Founded | July 23, 1985 |
| Last air date | January 3, 2013 |
| Sister station(s) | WIKY-LP, WAZE-LP |
| Former callsigns | W04BV (1985-1994) |
| Former affiliations |
All News Channel (1985-2004) The WB (via WAZE-TV, 2004-2006) The CW (via WAZE-TV/LP, 2006-2013) |
| Transmitter power | 100 w |
WJPS-LP was a low-power analog television station in Evansville, Indiana, broadcasting locally on VHF channel 4. Until 2002, WJPS-LP was an affiliate of the All News Channel, a 24-hour news network. WJPS-LP was a translator of WAZE-LP, extending that station's signal into parts of Evansville that could not receive either the WAZE-LP signal or its now-defunct parent station, Madisonville, Kentucky-based WAZE-TV, prior to the latter's analog shutdown on June 12, 2009. On January 3, 2013, all of WAZE-TV's translators, including WJPS-LP, were shut down, leaving the Evansville area without a CW affiliate.[1]
WJPS-LP broadcast from the same tower as defunct sister-station WIKY-LP.
On December 11, 2013, the United States bankruptcy court gave initial approval for a plan by Roberts' creditors to transfer the WAZE stations (including WJPS-LP), along with WRBU in St. Louis and WZRB in Columbia, South Carolina, to a trust with Ion Media Networks (a creditor in Roberts' chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings) as its beneficiary, with Roberts' attorney subsequently stating that Ion would purchase the stations and return the WAZE stations to the air. Roberts had earlier proposed an alternate plan that would have had only the WAZE stations be transferred to the trust, with WRBU and WZRB instead being sold to Tri-State Christian Television.[2][3]
References
- ↑ Jake's DTV Blog: "WAZE-TV translators shut down", January 3, 2013.
- ↑ Mueller, Angela (December 11, 2013). "Judge approves creditors’ proposal in Roberts Broadcasting bankruptcy". St. Louis Business Journal. Retrieved December 11, 2013.
- ↑ Brown, Lisa (December 11, 2013). "Roberts' TV stations to be sold". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved December 11, 2013.
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