|
WBNA, virtual channel 21 (VHF digital channel 8), is an affiliate of the Ion Television network, located in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The station is owned by local (Pentecostal) megachurch Evangel World Prayer Center. WBNA maintains offices located on Fern Valley Road (just north of State Route 1747) in Okolona, and its transmitter located off Oakcrest Drive in Shepherdsville (as such, WBNA – along with CW affiliate WBKI-TV (channel 34) – are the only full-power television stations in the Louisville market whose transmitter facilities are not based at the Kentuckiana tower farm in Floyds Knobs, Indiana). Syndicated programs broadcast on WBNA include ''Tyler Perry's House of Payne'', ''Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns'', ''Supreme Justice with Judge Karen Mills'' and ''The Beverly Hillbillies''. On cable, WBNA is available on Time Warner Cable and Comcast channel 21, and in high definition on Time Warner Cable digital channel 916. ==History== WBNA-TV's sign-on marked the first signal on analog Channel 21 in Louisville since the demise of WKLO-TV (ABC-DuMont) in July, 1953. The station first signed on the air on April 2, 1986, as the second full-power independent station in the Louisville market. WBNA originally offered mostly local and national religious programming. When WDRB (channel 41) joined Fox eleven months later in May 1987, WBNA became the only independent in Louisville until WFTE (channel 58, now WMYO) signed on in March 1994. It gradually mixed in some secular programs as well, mostly consisting of older movies. The station became a charter affiliate of The WB when the network launched on January 11, 1995. However, Evangel felt chagrin at The WB's decision to pick up several programs that it believed offended the sensibilities of channel 21's mostly fundamentalist and Pentecostal viewership, such as nighttime soap ''Savannah'', supernatural dramas ''Charmed'' and ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' and sitcom ''Unhappily Ever After''. WBNA opted to pre-empt these programs and fill these timeslots with syndicated or religious programming. The WB soon regretted aligning with a conservative religious station, and began making plans to move its programming elsewhere. In 1998, Campbellsville-based WGRB (channel 34, now WBKI), which had been serving as the WB affiliate for the southern portion of the Louisville market for just over a year, became the market's primary WB affiliate. At the same time, it announced plans to build a new transmitter tower (which was activated in 2000) that would not only improve its coverage within Louisville itself and some adjacent areas, but give it at least grade B signal coverage in most of Kentucky. WBNA then became a charter affiliate of the new family-oriented network Pax TV--later i and now Ion--in September 1998, shortly after the network launched. WBNA is one of the few stations that carries programming from Ion Television as an affiliate of the network, instead of being an owned-and-operated station. It is the largest Ion Television station by market size that is not owned by network parent Ion Media Networks. In addition, the station is licensed to Louisville proper rather than an outer-ring suburb, as is the usual case with Ion stations. Due to Evangel's commitment to the network, WBNA is free to carry additional networks on its digital signal's bandwidth (as described below) rather than being beholden to carrying all of the five networks (Ion, Qubo, Ion Life, infomercial service Ion Shop, QVC and the Home Shopping Network) that are carried on Ion-owned stations. WBNA does not carry the full Ion schedule, and has not cleared additional broadcast hours that have been added by the network since 2008 (the network currently airs general entertainment programming daily from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. in the Eastern Time Zone; however, religious and secular programs pre-empt much of the network's daytime schedule on WBNA). For instance, the early afternoon schedule includes a repeat of NBC affiliate WAVE-TV (channel 3)'s 11:00 a.m. newscast at 1:00 p.m., and syndicated programs distributed by Debmar-Mercury, including ''Supreme Justice with Judge Karen Mills'', ''Tyler Perry's House of Payne'' and ''Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns'', in timeslots normally slotted for general entertainment programs carried by Ion. During the early evening hours, the station also airs a rebroadcast of Lexington NBC affiliate WLEX-TV's 6:00 p.m. newscast and other local programs (also in lieu of Ion's entertainment programming in the 7:00 p.m. hour). The station also splits the network's Qubo block (which counts towards FCC E/I requirements) over two days; one half-hour of the block airs on Friday mornings in its recommended timeslot, while two additional 90-minute blocks air respectively on Saturday mornings and afternoons on a tape delay. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WBNA」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|