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WCWF, virtual channel 14 (UHF digital channel 21), is a CW-affiliated television station located in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States that is licensed to Suring. The station is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, as part of a duopoly with Fox affiliate WLUK-TV (channel 11). The two stations share studios located on Lombardi Avenue (U.S. 41) in Green Bay, WCWF's transmitter is located in Glenmore. ==History== The station launched on February 22, 1984 as religious independent station WSCO-TV, under the ownership of Northeastern Wisconsin Christian Television Incorporated. The station's former analog transmitter was located outside of the unincorporated Oconto County community of Krakow, four miles north of Pulaski on WIS 32. Financial problems would force the station off the air by 1987; VCY America would purchase the station's license that year〔(Public Notice Comment on File# BALCT-19861114KF ) from the fcc.gov website〕 and return it to the air by 1993 as a sister station to Milwaukee's WVCY-TV with religious and home shopping programming. On April 30, 1997, Paxson Communications purchased the station〔("M&I takes the cash to Amoco stations" ), "Everybody's Business" column from ''The Business Journal of Milwaukee'', 5/30/1997〕 and converted it to a paid programming format under Paxson's inTV service. In August 1998, WSCO became a charter owned-and-operated station of Pax TV under the new call sign WPXG (for "Paxson Green Bay"). On June 2, 1999, Paxon sold WPXG to ACME Communications;〔http://www.secinfo.com/dR7Km.61vn.8.htm〕 the station immediately became a primary WB affiliate and changed its call sign to WIWB, originally branded as "WB 14" and later "Wisconsin's WB". Before it joined the network, WB programming in Northeastern Wisconsin was previously seen either through cable providers that carried WGN and/or Milwaukee's WVTV or during off hours on UPN affiliate WACY-TV (channel 32; Kids' WB programming aired as part of WACY's children's lineup). WIWB also continued to air Pax programming in the mornings, overnights and weekends for a few years after ACME's purchase was finalized; it would drop that network by 2004, at which time the station's programming lineup adopted a more general entertainment format that was heavily reliant on sitcom reruns and court shows, in addition to WB programming. Pax TV's successor, Ion Television would not return to the market over-the-air until November 2015, when WBAY-TV launched it on their DT3 subchannel. On January 24, 2006, the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner and CBS Corporation announced that the two companies would shut down The WB and UPN and combine the networks' respective programming to create a new "fifth" network called The CW.〔('Gilmore Girls' meet 'Smackdown'; CW Network to combine WB, UPN in CBS-Warner venture beginning in September ), CNNMoney.com, January 24, 2006.〕〔(UPN and WB to Combine, Forming New TV Network ), ''The New York Times'', January 24, 2006.〕 On March 9, 2006, ACME Communications announced that WIWB would become Green Bay's CW affiliate.〔(Source: 3/9/2006 press release by ACME Communications posted on NASDAQ GlobeNewsWire )〕 The station officially joined the network upon its September 18, 2006 launch. Prior to that date, it temporarily carried not only WB programs, but also shows from UPN after its Green Bay affiliate WACY-TV dropped UPN before that network's closure to join MyNetworkTV. On June 4, 2010, LIN TV Corporation, owner of Green Bay's Fox affiliate WLUK-TV, as part of an agreement with ACME Communications in three markets where both companies owned stations, announced that it would begin to operate WIWB through separate shared services and joint sales agreements; WLUK would provide WIWB with technical, engineering, promotional, administrative and other operational support services, as well as joint advertising sales for the two stations. As part of its agreements with ACME, LIN TV had the option to purchase WIWB, an option it exercised in September 2010, purchasing not only WIWB but another CW station in a similar arrangement, Dayton, Ohio's WBDT. LIN TV included in its license transfer request to the Federal Communications Commission a "failing station waiver," an indication that the station was in an economically non-viable position and that FCC should relax ownership limits that apply to the Green Bay market so that Channel 14 could stay on the air; that limit (found in CFR§73.3555(b)(2) of the FCC's rules) permits ownership duopolies in markets with at least eight full-power stations, whereas Green Bay has only seven (Journal Communications would also seek a waiver in its 2012 purchase of WACY-TV, which has been operated through Journal-owned WGBA-TV since 1994).〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.foxcitiestv.com/node/1904 )〕 In April 2011, the FCC approved the ownership transfer of WCWF from ACME to LIN TV, also applying the requested failing station waiver.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0408/DA-11-646A1.pdf )〕 Additionally, the FCC denied a petition from Time Warner Cable, the dominant cable provider in Northeast Wisconsin; the FCC dismissed as speculative TWC's claims that that higher retransmission fees for WCWF, when paired with those for WLUK, would result from LIN TV's purchase of the station, and that LIN's collective retransmission plans for both stations did not violate FCC rules. The sale of WCWF to LIN was consummated on May 20, 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101428773&formid=905&fac_num=73042 )〕 Almost immediately after taking control of WIWB, LIN TV would make changes at the station, starting with relocating its operations from the Parkview Plaza strip mall in suburban Ashwaubenon to WLUK's studios on Lombardi Avenue. During August and September 2010, the station would undergo changes in both on-air branding (from "Wisconsin's CW" to "CW14") and call sign (from WIWB to WCWF). Also in the fall of 2010, WCWF would upgrade syndicated programming to high-definition (which already occurs on WLUK), while both WCWF and WLUK would begin hourly cross-promotions of each other's programming.〔("WIWB changing call letters, adding syndicated HD programming" ), from foxcitiestv.com, 9/21/2010〕 In mid-November 2010, WCWF's website was switched from being managed by ACME's webhost, Desert Bloom Productions, to LIN Media Interactive (LIN Media's branding for EndPlay, formerly Fox Interactive Media). On March 21, 2014, LIN Media entered into an agreement to merge with Media General in a $1.6 billion deal. Because Media General already owns ABC affiliate WBAY-TV (which was acquired in 2013 as part of Media General's merger with Young Broadcasting), the companies were required to sell either WLUK or WBAY to another station owner in order to comply with FCC ownership rules as well as planned changes to those rules regarding same-market television stations which would prohibit sharing agreements.〔(TV Station Mega Merger: Media General, LIN Set $1.6 Billion Deal ) from ''Variety'' (March 21, 2014)〕〔(Media General acquiring LIN Media for $1.6 billion ), ''Los Angeles Times'', March 21, 2014.〕〔(Media Gen/LIN To Sell/Swap In Five Markets ), ''TVNewsCheck'', March 21, 2014.〕 On August 20, 2014, Media General announced that it would keep WBAY and sell WLUK and WCWF, along with WJAR/Providence and WTGS/Savannah, to Sinclair Broadcast Group in exchange for Sinclair stations in Tampa Bay (WTTA) and Colorado Springs (KXRM-TV and KXTU-LD). As part of its acquisition, Sinclair announced it would seek a continuation of the FCC rules waiver allowing the joint ownership of WCWF and WLUK.〔(Source: Press release from Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (8/20/2014) )〕 The sale was completed on December 19.〔(Sinclair Broadcast Group Closes on Certain Station Acquisitions and Divestitures with Media General ), Press Release, Sinclair Broadcast Group, Retrieved 19 December, 2014〕 On October 31, 2015, WCWF formally launched a digital subchannel affiliated with Comet, a science fiction-themed network jointly owned by Sinclair and MGM Television;〔("CW 14.2 New Sci-Fi, Fantasty Channel 'Comet,'" ) from CW14Online.com, 10/15/2015〕 it is the first subchannel offered by Sinclair on either WCWF or WLUK, and is expected to also feature programming from Sinclair's sports service, American Sports Network. 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「WCWF」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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