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WBND-LD, virtual channel 57 (UHF digital channel 34), is a low-powered ABC-affiliated television station located in South Bend, Indiana, United States. The station is owned by Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasting, and is a sister station to CW affiliate WCWW-LD (channel 25) and MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYS-LD (channel 69). All three share studios located near the Indiana Toll Road on Generations Drive in the northeast side of South Bend; WBND's transmitter is located just off the St. Joseph Valley Parkway in the southern portion of South Bend. The station can also be seen in standard definition on Comcast Xfinity channel 7 and AT&T U-verse channel 57, and in high definition on Comcast Xfinity digital channel 187 and AT&T U-verse channel 1057. ==History== The station signed on the air on October 15, 1990, as W58BT, originally broadcasting on UHF channel 58.〔http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=71431&Callsign=WBND-LP〕 However, from the beginning, it branded itself under the fictional call letters "WBND," relegating mentions of its legal callsign to station identifications. The station served as the market's original Fox affiliate. Before 1990, Michiana cable companies piped in WFLD in Chicago on the Indiana side, or WXMI in Grand Rapids and/or WKBD-TV in Detroit on the Michigan side. For all intents and purposes, it was Michiana's first general-entertainment independent station. Fox did not air a full week's worth of programming until 1993; until then, for all intents and purposes most Fox stations were programmed as independents. The only full-power non-network station in the area then as now was WHME-TV (channel 46), the flagship of the locally based Lester Sumrall Evangelistic Association, which has always augmented its mostly religious schedule with some cartoons and classic television shows, along with local high school sports. Fox won the rights to NFL football games starting with the 1994 season, and wanted to move its South Bend affiliation to a full-power station instead of low-powered channel 58. The network signed an affiliation agreement with Quincy Newspapers to have longtime ABC station WSJV (channel 28) join Fox on April 21, 1995.〔 〕 ABC approached WNDU-TV (channel 16) and WSBT-TV (channel 22), but both had firm affiliation deals with NBC and CBS, respectively. The only other viable choice was WHME, but LeSEA never even considered putting the station up for sale or taking a network affiliation. With just weeks to go before WSJV was due to join Fox, it appeared that ABC would be left without an affiliate in Michiana. Facing the prospect of piping in WLS-TV in Chicago and WOTV in Battle Creek, Michigan for cable viewers, ABC agreed more or less by default to sign an affiliation deal with W58BT. This was the second 11th-hour affiliation deal Weigel had reached as a result of the massive network switches of 1994-95; sister station WDJT-TV in Milwaukee (by coincidence, also on Channel 58) had become a CBS affiliate under similar circumstances in 1994. W58BT joined ABC on October 18, 1995, the date that WSJV became Michiana's new Fox affiliate. Weigel would have preferred to make the switch in December, when it planned to bring a new transmitter online that would have increased channel 58's footprint to a 40-mile radius of South Bend. However, ABC officials insisted that the swap be made on the day WSJV joined Fox. Due in part to the rush to get ready for the switch, the station's 2,000-watt transmitter suffered a partial failure on the morning of October 18, rendering it almost unviewable. The transmitter was fixed within a few days. By the end of that year, the station changed its call letters to WBND-LP. During the late 1990s, the station became a secondary affiliate of the United Paramount Network (UPN), airing its programming outside of primetime hours. The station relocated to UHF channel 57 in 2002, after WSJV received approval from the Federal Communications Commission to use channel 58 for its digital signal. In 2003, the station gave up the secondary UPN affiliation to a digital subchannel of WSBT-TV, known as "UPN Michiana", which programmed the network in regular primetime hours (now branded as "SBT2"). In early August 2008, Weigel Broadcasting agreed to sell all three of its South Bend stations, including WBND, to Schurz Communications, longtime owner of WSBT-TV, for undisclosed terms.〔(WSBT Purchases Three Low-Power Stations ), ''Broadcasting & Cable'', August 4, 2008.〕 If this sale had been approved by the Federal Communications Commission, WBND's operations would have been moved into WSBT's new facility in Mishawaka (which opened in November 2008) and it may have resulted in the WDJT-produced newscast on channel 57 being replaced by simulcasts of WSBT-TV's newscasts. However, in the absence of action by the FCC, the deal was called off in August 2009. From June to July 2011, the station's website was redirected to WBND's Facebook account as Weigel's web staff undertook a major rebuilding of both WDJT and WBND's websites (WDJT's original site remained operational, while WBND's was taken down completely). During this time, the station unusually reported current weather conditions using map imagery uploaded through its on-staff meteorologists via their Twitter accounts to the TwitPic service and the station's Facebook photos section. The station debuted its new website by the start of August 2011. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 WBND-LP. During the late 1990s, the station became a secondary affiliate of the United Paramount Network (UPN), airing its programming outside of primetime hours. The station relocated to UHF channel 57 in 2002, after WSJV received approval from the Federal Communications Commission to use channel 58 for its digital signal. In 2003, the station gave up the secondary UPN affiliation to a digital subchannel of WSBT-TV, known as "UPN Michiana", which programmed the network in regular primetime hours (now branded as "SBT2").In early August 2008, Weigel Broadcasting agreed to sell all three of its South Bend stations, including WBND, to Schurz Communications, longtime owner of WSBT-TV, for undisclosed terms.(WSBT Purchases Three Low-Power Stations ), ''Broadcasting & Cable'', August 4, 2008. If this sale had been approved by the Federal Communications Commission, WBND's operations would have been moved into WSBT's new facility in Mishawaka (which opened in November 2008) and it may have resulted in the WDJT-produced newscast on channel 57 being replaced by simulcasts of WSBT-TV's newscasts. However, in the absence of action by the FCC, the deal was called off in August 2009.From June to July 2011, the station's website was redirected to WBND's Facebook account as Weigel's web staff undertook a major rebuilding of both WDJT and WBND's websites (WDJT's original site remained operational, while WBND's was taken down completely). During this time, the station unusually reported current weather conditions using map imagery uploaded through its on-staff meteorologists via their Twitter accounts to the TwitPic service and the station's Facebook photos section. The station debuted its new website by the start of August 2011.">ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■WBND-LP. During the late 1990s, the station became a secondary affiliate of the United Paramount Network (UPN), airing its programming outside of primetime hours. The station relocated to UHF channel 57 in 2002, after WSJV received approval from the Federal Communications Commission to use channel 58 for its digital signal. In 2003, the station gave up the secondary UPN affiliation to a digital subchannel of WSBT-TV, known as "UPN Michiana", which programmed the network in regular primetime hours (now branded as "SBT2").In early August 2008, Weigel Broadcasting agreed to sell all three of its South Bend stations, including WBND, to Schurz Communications, longtime owner of WSBT-TV, for undisclosed terms.(WSBT Purchases Three Low-Power Stations ), ''Broadcasting & Cable'', August 4, 2008. If this sale had been approved by the Federal Communications Commission, WBND's operations would have been moved into WSBT's new facility in Mishawaka (which opened in November 2008) and it may have resulted in the WDJT-produced newscast on channel 57 being replaced by simulcasts of WSBT-TV's newscasts. However, in the absence of action by the FCC, the deal was called off in August 2009.From June to July 2011, the station's website was redirected to WBND's Facebook account as Weigel's web staff undertook a major rebuilding of both WDJT and WBND's websites (WDJT's original site remained operational, while WBND's was taken down completely). During this time, the station unusually reported current weather conditions using map imagery uploaded through its on-staff meteorologists via their Twitter accounts to the TwitPic service and the station's Facebook photos section. The station debuted its new website by the start of August 2011.">ウィキペディアで「WBND-LD, virtual channel 57 (UHF digital channel 34), is a low-powered ABC-affiliated television station located in South Bend, Indiana, United States. The station is owned by Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasting, and is a sister station to CW affiliate WCWW-LD (channel 25) and MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYS-LD (channel 69). All three share studios located near the Indiana Toll Road on Generations Drive in the northeast side of South Bend; WBND's transmitter is located just off the St. Joseph Valley Parkway in the southern portion of South Bend.The station can also be seen in standard definition on Comcast Xfinity channel 7 and AT&T U-verse channel 57, and in high definition on Comcast Xfinity digital channel 187 and AT&T U-verse channel 1057. ==History==The station signed on the air on October 15, 1990, as W58BT, originally broadcasting on UHF channel 58.http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=71431&Callsign=WBND-LP However, from the beginning, it branded itself under the fictional call letters "WBND," relegating mentions of its legal callsign to station identifications. The station served as the market's original Fox affiliate. Before 1990, Michiana cable companies piped in WFLD in Chicago on the Indiana side, or WXMI in Grand Rapids and/or WKBD-TV in Detroit on the Michigan side. For all intents and purposes, it was Michiana's first general-entertainment independent station. Fox did not air a full week's worth of programming until 1993; until then, for all intents and purposes most Fox stations were programmed as independents. The only full-power non-network station in the area then as now was WHME-TV (channel 46), the flagship of the locally based Lester Sumrall Evangelistic Association, which has always augmented its mostly religious schedule with some cartoons and classic television shows, along with local high school sports.Fox won the rights to NFL football games starting with the 1994 season, and wanted to move its South Bend affiliation to a full-power station instead of low-powered channel 58. The network signed an affiliation agreement with Quincy Newspapers to have longtime ABC station WSJV (channel 28) join Fox on April 21, 1995. ABC approached WNDU-TV (channel 16) and WSBT-TV (channel 22), but both had firm affiliation deals with NBC and CBS, respectively. The only other viable choice was WHME, but LeSEA never even considered putting the station up for sale or taking a network affiliation. With just weeks to go before WSJV was due to join Fox, it appeared that ABC would be left without an affiliate in Michiana. Facing the prospect of piping in WLS-TV in Chicago and WOTV in Battle Creek, Michigan for cable viewers, ABC agreed more or less by default to sign an affiliation deal with W58BT. This was the second 11th-hour affiliation deal Weigel had reached as a result of the massive network switches of 1994-95; sister station WDJT-TV in Milwaukee (by coincidence, also on Channel 58) had become a CBS affiliate under similar circumstances in 1994.W58BT joined ABC on October 18, 1995, the date that WSJV became Michiana's new Fox affiliate. Weigel would have preferred to make the switch in December, when it planned to bring a new transmitter online that would have increased channel 58's footprint to a 40-mile radius of South Bend. However, ABC officials insisted that the swap be made on the day WSJV joined Fox. Due in part to the rush to get ready for the switch, the station's 2,000-watt transmitter suffered a partial failure on the morning of October 18, rendering it almost unviewable. The transmitter was fixed within a few days.By the end of that year, the station changed its call letters to WBND-LP. During the late 1990s, the station became a secondary affiliate of the United Paramount Network (UPN), airing its programming outside of primetime hours. The station relocated to UHF channel 57 in 2002, after WSJV received approval from the Federal Communications Commission to use channel 58 for its digital signal. In 2003, the station gave up the secondary UPN affiliation to a digital subchannel of WSBT-TV, known as "UPN Michiana", which programmed the network in regular primetime hours (now branded as "SBT2").In early August 2008, Weigel Broadcasting agreed to sell all three of its South Bend stations, including WBND, to Schurz Communications, longtime owner of WSBT-TV, for undisclosed terms.(WSBT Purchases Three Low-Power Stations ), ''Broadcasting & Cable'', August 4, 2008. If this sale had been approved by the Federal Communications Commission, WBND's operations would have been moved into WSBT's new facility in Mishawaka (which opened in November 2008) and it may have resulted in the WDJT-produced newscast on channel 57 being replaced by simulcasts of WSBT-TV's newscasts. However, in the absence of action by the FCC, the deal was called off in August 2009.From June to July 2011, the station's website was redirected to WBND's Facebook account as Weigel's web staff undertook a major rebuilding of both WDJT and WBND's websites (WDJT's original site remained operational, while WBND's was taken down completely). During this time, the station unusually reported current weather conditions using map imagery uploaded through its on-staff meteorologists via their Twitter accounts to the TwitPic service and the station's Facebook photos section. The station debuted its new website by the start of August 2011.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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