WBXI-CA

WBXI-CA, UHF analog channel 47, is a television station located in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation. WBXI-CA maintains transmitter facilities located atop the Chase Tower (near Monument Circle) in downtown Indianapolis.

History

The station first signed on the air in 1990 as W47AZ. Originally serving as an affiliate of the viewer-request music video network The Box, the station changed its call letters to WBXI-CA in 2001; that year, the station switched to MTV2 following that network's acquisition by Viacom, which acquired WBXI-CA. For a few months in 2004, channel 47 served as a repeater of then-sister station and UPN affiliate WNDY-TV (channel 23, now a MyNetworkTV affiliate); this ended when Viacom's Paramount Stations Group subsidiary sold WNDY-TV to the LIN TV Corporation, owners of CBS affiliate WISH-TV (channel 8), in February 2005.

Viacom retained ownership of WBXI-CA, before spinning it off to CBS Corporation in December of that year, following CBS's split from the former company; Viacom retained ownership of the MTV Networks, however the station maintained its MTV2 affiliation. In 2007, the station switched to MTV2's Spanish language sister network MTV Tres.

Channel 47 is no longer airing Tr3s, instead it is showing localized weather info.

Digital television

Analog-to-digital conversion

WBXI-CA maintains a construction permit to shut down its analog signal and flash cut its digital signal into operation on UHF channel 47 on September 1, 2015.^[1]

References

External links

• Query the FCC's TV station database for WBXI