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WHAS-TV, virtual and VHF channel 11, is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The station is owned by Sander Media, LLC; Tegna, Inc. operates WHAS-TV under a shared services agreement. WHAS-TV maintains studio facilities located on West Chestnut Street in Downtown Louisville, and its transmitter is located in rural northeastern Floyd County, Indiana (northeast of Floyds Knobs). On cable, WHAS-TV is available on Time Warner Cable channel 4 and in high definition on digital channel 908. ==History== The station first signed on the air on March 27, 1950. Originally broadcasting on VHF channel 9; it was the second television station to sign on in the Louisville market and the state of Kentucky (after NBC affiliate WAVE-TV, which signed on in November 1948).〔("WHAS-TV bows; second Louisville outlet." ) ''Broadcasting - Telecasting''. March 27, 1950, pg. 68.〕 WHAS-TV was founded by the Bingham family, publishers of morning newspaper ''The Courier-Journal'', afternoon newspaper ''The Louisville Times'' and operator of WHAS (840 AM), Louisville's oldest radio station. It operated from brand-new studios in the Courier-Journal/Times Building at 6th & Broadway, in downtown Louisville-even though WHAS-TV's construction permit (1946) was issued before WAVE-TV's (1947), the Bingham family waited until the new TV facility was finished to begin telecasting, 16 months after WAVE, who adapted an existing building at Preston and Broadway. The station originally operated as a primary CBS affiliate, owing to its sister radio station's longtime affiliation with the CBS Radio Network, with a secondary affiliation with ABC. It moved to VHF channel 11 on February 7, 1953, one of several channel shifts resulting from the Federal Communications Commission's 1952 ''Sixth Report and Order''. Under the same decree, WAVE-TV relocated from channel 5 to channel 3.〔("TV coverage; RTMA predicts expansion." ) ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', May 19, 1952, pg. 78.〕〔("TV applications." ) ''Broadcasting - Telecasting''. June 9, 1952, pg. 73.〕 Following the move to channel 11, the station became to first to increase its effective radiated power to 316,000 watts, the maximum allowed for a high-band VHF station, resulting in a greatly increased signal coverage area.〔("Details are presented on new WHAS-TV output." ) ''Broadcasting - Telecasting''. February 16, 1953, pg. 64.〕〔("High-power pioneer finds signal greatly improved." ) ''Broadcasting - Telecasting''. April 20, 1953, pg. 62.〕〔(WHAS-TV advertisement. ) ''Broadcasting - Telecasting''. April 27, 1953, pg. 2.〕 When the FCC gradually enforced print-broadcast cross-ownership restrictions in the early 1970s, the Commission granted the Binghams a grandfathered crossownership waiver to retain their Louisville holdings. Barry Bingham, Sr., patriarch of the family media empire, handed over control to his son Barry, Jr. upon his retirement from active involvement in 1971. But following nearly fifteen years of family infighting, the senior Bingham decided to break up the family's media holdings in early 1986.〔("Family Affair." ) ''Broadcasting''. January 13, 1986, pg. 223.〕 The decision resulted in the sales of WHAS radio (and its sister FM station, WAMZ) to Clear Channel Communications;〔("Changing Hands." ) ''Broadcasting''. June 16, 1986, pg. 63. (sale of radio stations)〕 the ''Courier-Journal'' and the ''Times'' to the Gannett Company; and WHAS-TV to the Providence Journal Company.〔("Changing Hands." ) ''Broadcasting''. June 9, 1986, pg. 132. (sale of WHAS-TV)〕 The Journal Company merged with the Belo Corporation in 1997. WHAS-TV lost ABC programming when WLKY (channel 32) signed on September 16, 1961, with channel 11 becoming an exclusive CBS affiliate. Nearly three decades later in September 1990, channel 11 ended its long relationship with CBS and rejoined ABC, this time as an exclusive affiliate of the network.〔("In brief." ) ''Broadcasting''. June 4, 1990, pg. 96〕 At the time of the switch, ABC was the most-watched network in the country, with CBS placing at a distant third during the midway-point of president Laurence Tisch's helming of the network. WLKY, which became the market's CBS affiliate,〔("CBS working to keep affiliate line-up in place." ) ''Broadcasting''. August 20, 1990, pg. 50.〕 has since made strong strides in the market as cable penetration allowed WLKY's traditional disadvantage of being on the UHF band to fade, and other factors allowed the station to strengthen its news operation and adequately compete with WHAS-TV's newscasts. Channel 11 has seen some struggles over the years during television seasons when ABC suffers from a weaker-rated schedule, while WLKY's ties to CBS have boosted that station through most of the 2000s. With ABC's current schedule, both stations usually exchange the top rankings in the Louisville market's news ratings. On June 13, 2013, Belo announced that it would be acquired by the Gannett Company. Due to Gannett's ownership of ''The Courier-Journal'', the company chose to spin off WHAS-TV to Sander Media, LLC (a media company operated by former Belo executive Jack Sander), with Gannett operating the station through a shared services agreement. The sale was completed on December 23.〔(Gannett Completes Its Acquisition of Belo ), TVNewsCheck, Retrieved 23 December 2013〕 The SSA marked a re-entry into Louisville television for Gannett, which owned WLKY from 1979 (after Combined Communications merged with Gannett) until it sold the station to Pulitzer, Inc. in 1983. On June 29, 2015, Gannett split into two publicly traded companies. The print interests retained the Gannett name, while the broadcasting and digital media interests became Tegna, Inc. Shortly afterward, Sander Media filed with the FCC to transfer WHAS-TV's license to Tegna.〔(【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=101680837&formid=315&fac_num=32327 )〕 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「WHAS-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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