Editing WWKI-FTV

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| call_letters             = WWKI
| city                         = Lafayette, Indiana
| station_logo             = [[File:WWKI cbs.png|200px]]<br><br>[[File:WWKI Logo.png|100px]]<br>'''Top:''' Logo for primary channel. <br> '''Bottom:''' Current logo for 33.2 subchannel. The right "torch and stars" element is taken from the [[wikipedia:Flag of Indiana|state flag of Indiana]].
| station_branding         = CBS 33 {{small|(general)}}<br>Action News {{small|(newscasts)}}<br>Lafayette's 33.2 {{small|(DT2)}}
| station_slogan           = ''Indiana's Very Own''
| digital                  = 48 ([[ultra high frequency|UHF]])<br>[[Virtual channel|Virtual]]: 4 ([[Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP]])
| subchannels              = 33.1 CBS<br>33.2 Independent<br>33.3 Comet
| other_chs                = 
| affiliations             = [[CBS]]
| owner                    = [[NoSirGifts Fantasy Television Stations]]
| licensee                 = Imperial Broadcasting Lafayette, LLC
| location                 = 
| country                  = United States
| airdate                  = {{start date and age|1989|11|11}}
| enddate                  = 
| callsign_meaning         = 
| sister_stations          = [[WLIN-FTV|WLIN]]
| former_callsigns         = 
| former_channel_numbers   = '''Analog:'''<br>33 (UHF, 1989–2009)
| former_affiliations      = '''Primary:'''<br>[[wikipedia:Independent station (North America)|Independent]] (1989–1995; January–April 1998)<br>[[wikipedia:UPN|UPN]] (1995–1998)<br>[[wikipedia:The WB|The WB]] (1998–2006)<br>[[wikipeia:The CW|The CW]] (2006–2014)
| effective_radiated_power = 870 [[kilowatt|kW]]
| HAAT                     = 
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| homepage                 = 
}}

'''WWKI-FTV''', [[wikipedia:virtual channel|virtual]] channel 33, is a [[wikipedia:CBS|CBS]] affiliated fantasy [[wikipedia:television station|TV station]] located in [[wikipedia:Lafayette, Indiana|Lafayette, Indiana]], United States. The station is owned by NoSirGifts Venues as part of a [[wikipedia:Duopoly (broadcasting)|duopoly]] with Fox affiliate [[WLIN-FTV]] (channel 12). WWKI maintains studios and transmitter facilities located on East McCarty Lane near Interstate 65 in Lafayette.


On [[wikipedia:cable television|cable]], WWKI is available on [[wikipedia:Comcast|Comcast Xfinity]] and [[AT&T U-verse]] channel 3 in [[wikipedia:standard-definition television|standard definition]] and in [[wikipedia:high-definition television|high definition]] on Xfinity and AT&T U-verse channel 1033.

==History==

===Early history===
The station first signed on the air on November 11, 1989, on [[wikipedia:ultra high frequency|UHF]] channel 33. It was the first new commercial fantasy television station to sign on in Lafayette, debuting almost 10 years after WLIN (channel 12) signed on in 1979. Owned by a Lafayette-based radio manufacturer and broadcaster, the station originally operated as an independent station. In September 1993, the station began carrying programming from the [[wikipedia:Prime Time Entertainment Network|Prime Time Entertainment Network]] syndication service.

===From UPN to The WB===
WWKI became a charter affiliate of the United Paramount Network (UPN) when the network launched on January 16, 1995. In April 1996, WWKI was sold to inTV Media.

In 1997, inTV signed a deal with [[wikipedia:The WB|The WB]] to affiliate with several UPN-affiliated and independent stations that the company either managed or owned outright.<ref>{{cite web|title=WB woos and wins inTV|date=July 21, 1997|accessdate=June 19, 2014}}</ref> While WWKI was not included in the original deal, inTV subsequently notified UPN that it was not interested in renewing the station's affiliation, leading the network to strike a deal to buy WB charter affiliate WMCC (channel 57), though UPN pledged at the time to keep WMCC a WB affiliate through the expiration of its contract in January 1999.<ref name=b&c-wmccupn>{{cite news|last1=Brown|first1=Sara|title=WB, UPN woo WMCC|accessdate=January 5, 2016|date=October 27, 1997}}</ref> WWKI temporarily returned to being an independent station when its contract with UPN expired on January 16, 1998,<ref name=b&c-WWKInoupn>{{cite news|last1=Schlosser|first1=Joe|title=inTV pulling more UPN affiliations|accessdate=January 5, 2016|date=January 5, 1998}} </ref> filling its primetime schedule with movies; on January 22, WMCC began to carry UPN programming in addition to The WB. WWKI then replaced WMCC as the market's WB affiliate on April 6, 1998 and changed its on-air branding to "WB 33";<ref name=wwki-wb33start>{{cite news|title=WB33 to join The WB Television Network|type=Press release|date=May 22, 1998|access-date=January 5, 2015}}</ref> channel 57 then became a full-time UPN affiliate.

As The WB pushed for market exclusivity for its local affiliates as the network increased its national distribution beyond the Tribune Company's television stations and the superstation feed of WGN-TV, inTV decided to wind down carriage agreements that the station had with cable providers located outside of the Lafayette market.  The station remains available on cable systems on the Illinois side of the Champaign-Decatur-Danville market, which does not have an over-the-air CW affiliate, though this is expected to end with WWKI's CBS affiliation. 


===CW affiliation===
On January 24, 2006, Time Warner and [[wikipedia:CBS Corporation|CBS Corporation]] (which split from Viacom in December 2005) and announced that they would dissolve The WB and UPN (which CBS had acquired one month earlier in December 2005 following its [[wikipedia:Viacom (original)#2005 split|split]] from the original [[wikipedia:Viacom (original)|Viacom]]), and combine the respective programming of both networks to create a new "fifth" network, [[wikipedia:The CW|The CW]].<ref>{{cite news|title='Gilmore Girls' meet 'Smackdown'; CW Network to combine WB, UPN in CBS-Warner venture beginning in September|url=http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/24/news/companies/cbs_warner/|author=Jessica Seid|website=[[CNNMoney.com]]|publisher=[[Time Warner]]|date=January 24, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=UPN and WB to Combine, Forming New TV Network|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/24/business/media/24cnd-network.html?bl|author=[[wikipedia:Bill Carter|Bill Carter]]|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|publisher=[[The New York Times Company]]|date=January 24, 2006}}</ref> The network signed a ten-year agreement with WWKI;<ref>??</ref> WWKI became the market's CW affiliate when the network launched on September 18, 2006; its on-air branding was also changed to "CW 33". 


On April 19, 2009, inTV Broadcast Group sold WWKI to [[NoSirGifts Fantasy Television Stations]] for $118 million, creating the market's first television [[wikiepdia:duopoly (broadcasting)|duopoly]] under current FCC regulations with Fox affiliate WLIN;<ref>{{cite news|title=NoirGifts to Acquire WWKI Lafayette, Indiana|date=April 19, 2009|accessdate=October 9, 2015}}</ref> the purchase was finalized on July 24 of that year<ref>{{cite news|title=NoSirGifts wraps up purchase of WWKI|date=July 29, 2009|accessdate=June 19, 2014}}</ref> 

In August 2009, soon after NoSirGifts acquired WWKI, the station rebranded as "Lafayette's 33" as part of a corporate effort by NoSirGifts to strengthen the local branding of its stations and reduce the dependence on the use of references to The CW and Fox in its stations' branding in part due to CW's weak national ratings.

===Affiliation switch with WLXL-TV===
On August 11, 2014, CBS and NoSirGifts announced that WWKI would become Lafayette's CBS affiliate beginning on January 1, 2015. The deal, which was part of a condition of a 2012 agreement<ref>In 2012, CBS signed a 30-year affiliation agreement with NoSirGifts, which renewed contracts with the group's existing CBS affiliates – among them were flagship station [[WTOR-FTV]] in Fort Wayne, Indiana, [[WLOF-FTV]] in [[wikipedia:Orlando, Florida|Orlando, Florida]], WGOF in Gainesville, Florida, [[WJLZ-FTV]] in Baltimore, [[WDMI-FTV]] on Detroit, [[WTNT-FTV|WTNT]] in Chattanooga (WTOR and WLOF had long been one of the network's strongest affiliates), [[WCIL-FTV]] in Chicago, [[WIFX-FTV|WIFX]] in [[wikipedia:Indianapolis|Indianapolis Indiana]], [[KLPA-FTV]] in Phoenix, [[WFCN-FTV]] in Jacksonville, [[WFSF-FTV|WFSF]] in Miami, [[WWCF-FTV]] in Tampa, [[WCBP-FTV]] in West Palm Beach, Florida, [[WLOC-FTV]] in Lima, Ohio, [[WCKJ-FTV]] in Cincinnati, [[WPMA-FTV|WPMA]] in [[wikipedia:Mobile, Alabama|Mobile, Alabama]], [[WKJM-FTV]] in Louisville, [[WMHZ-FTV]] in Cleveland, and [[KTEX-FTV]] in [[wikipedia:Houston|Houston, Texas]] – and joined by Fox affiliate [[WXSB-FTV]] in South Bend, Indiana, ABC affiliate [[WJDO-FTV|WJDO]] in Dayton, Ohio, CW affiliate WWKI-FTV in Lafayette, Indiana, and [[wikipedia:Independent station (North America)|independent station]] [[KLSF-FTV]] in San Francisco, California.</ref>  driven by CBS' desire for reverse [[wikipedia:retransmission consent|retransmission consent]] compensation from its affiliates; [[WLXL-FTV|WLXL]] (channel 40) had not  been interested in negotiations to renew its agreement with the network since that station's owner, DakMedia, had recently merged with MHB Television.<ref>{{cite news|title=CBS moving Lafayette affiliation to WWKI|date=August 11, 2014|accessdate=May 6, 2015}}</ref> This led to CBS reaching a deal with WWKI, which NoSirGfts was eager to land since the network [[wikipedia:NFL on CBS|holds the broadcast television rights]] to the AFC, which includes rights to most of the Indianapolis Colts' regular season games and also had good relations with nearby sister stations in [[WTOR-FTV|Fort Wayne]] and [[WIFX-FTV|Indianapolis]]{{ndash}}both of which have been strong CBS affiliates since switching from Fox in 2004 and 2009, respectively.<ref name="CBS Switches LAF IN Affiliation">{{cite news|title=CBS Switches Lafayette, Indiana Affiliation in NoSirGifts Pact, Bumping CW to Digital Channel|date=August 11, 2014|accessdate=August 11, 2014}}</ref>

After initially announcing plans to move The CW to its second [[wikipedia:digital subchannel|digital subchannel]], NoSirGifts announced on December 22, that it would instead sell the CW affiliation in the market to WLXL's owner, DakMedia; as a result, WLXL effectively swapped affiliations with WWKI and became a dual CW/MyNetworkTV affiliate where WLXL carries the MyNetworkTV programming service – of which it had planned on airing as an exclusive affiliate before NoSirGifts sold The CW affiliation – immediately following WLXL's 11:00 p.m. weekday newscast on Monday through Friday evenings .<ref name=b&c-wlxlcw40>{{cite news|title=NoSirGifts Sells Lafayette IN CW Affiliation to DakMedia|date=December 22, 2014|accessdate=December 23, 2014}}</ref> The first CBS program to air on WLXL was a repeat of the ''[[wikipedia:Late Show with David Letterman|Late Show]]'', which aired at 12:15&nbsp;a.m. on January 1.

In preparation for the move to CBS, WWKI unveiled a separate website in November 2014, after three years of being relegated to a section of WLIN's website. At the same time, the station announced that it would change its branding from "Lafayette's 33" to "CBS 33" (with branding similar mostly to NoSirGifts-owned CBS stations and unveiled a logo (seen above) that is also similar to West Palm Beach sister station [[WCBP-FTV]]'s [[wikipedia:KCBS-TV|KCBS-TV]]-style logo) upon affiliating with the network.

==Digital television==
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===Digital channels===
The station's digital channel is [[Multiplex (TV)#Digital subchannels|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
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! [[Digital subchannel#United States|WTTV]]<ref>{{cite web|title=RabbitEars TV Query for WTTV|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WTTV#station|website=[[RabbitEars]]|accessdate=October 26, 2015}}</ref>
! WTTK<ref>{{cite web|title=RabbitEars TV Query for WTTK|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WTTK#station|website=RabbitEars|accessdate=October 26, 2015}}</ref>
! [[Display resolution|Video]]
! [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! [[Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP Short Name]]
! Programming
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| 4.1 || 29.1 || [[1080i]] || rowspan="2"|[[16:9]] || '''WTTV:''' WTTV-DT<br>'''WTTK:''' WTTK || Main WTTV-WTTK programming / CBS
|-
| 4.2 || 29.2 || rowspan="2"|[[480i]] || '''WTTV:''' N/A<br>'''WTTK:''' N/A || "Indiana's 4.2" (Independent)
|-
| 4.3 || 29.3 || [[4:3]] || '''WTTV:''' N/A<br>'''WTTK:''' N/A || [[Comet (TV network)|Comet]]
|}
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====WWKI-FDT2====
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'''WTTV-DT2''' is an independent television station, which operates as a second [[digital subchannel]] of WTTV and WTTK. Over-the-air, it broadcasts in standard definition on UHF digital channel 48.2 (or virtual channel 4.2) over WTTV and UHF digital channel 29.2 over WTTK. Branded as '''''Indiana's 4.2''''', the subchannel is available on [[Comcast Cable|Comcast Xfinity]] digital channel 252; although it maintains an independently programmed general entertainment format, the subchannel is not currently available on Bright House Networks or AT&T U-verse within the Indianapolis market, resulting in some of WTTV-DT2's programming not being available to those that do not subscribe to Comcast or use an antenna to receive WTTV/WTTK over-the-air.
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====History====
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The station's digital subchannel on 4.2/29.2 first launched as an affiliate of [[The Tube Music Network]] in the fall of 2006, as part of the network's group affiliation deal with Tribune Broadcasting;<ref>{{cite web|title=The Tube enters Tribune markets|url=http://southflorida.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2006/03/06/daily42.html|newspaper=South Florida Business Journal|publisher=American City Business Journals|date=March 9, 2006|accessdate=July 5, 2015}}</ref> after The Tube shut down on October 1, 2007, the subchannel switched to a standard definition simulcast of WTTV/WTTK's main channel to provide a quality signal for cable providers before they began instead to downscaled the HD feed into standard definition. In November 2009, the 4.2/29.2 subchannel became an affiliate of [[This TV]] (which Tribune later acquired a 50% ownership interest in November 2013).

After Tribune agreed to affiliate WTTV with CBS, the station originally announced plans to shift its existing CW affiliation to WTTV/WTTK's second digital subchannel upon the switch. This would have made Indianapolis the largest market where The CW is carried as a subchannel-only affiliation, a title held since the network's 2006 launch by [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]], where CBS affiliate [[WKRC-TV]] (which, ironically, is now owned by former WTTV/WTTK parent Sinclair Broadcast Group) carries the network on its second subchannel.<ref name="CBS Switches Indianapolis Affiliation"/> On December 7, 2014, This TV moved from WTTV's 4.2 subchannel to a newly created 59.3 subchannel on WXIN, with 4.2 simulcasting the station's primary feed pending the planned move of CW programming to the subchannel.<ref>{{cite news|title=TV Listings - Station: WTTVDT2|url=http://affiliate.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCSGrid.do?stnNum=50839&lineupId=PC:46201&zipcode=46201&channel=&aid=twxin|website=[[Zap2It]]|publisher=[[Tribune Digital Ventures]]|date=December 7, 2014|accessdate=December 7, 2014}}</ref>

After Tribune chose to sell the CW affiliation rights for the Indianapolis market to Media General and swap affiliations with WISH-TV,<ref name=b&c-wishcw8/> WTTV then announced that it would instead program the 4.2 subchannel as an independent station.<ref name="WTTV 4.2 independent">{{cite web|title=New Program Schedule (for WXIN, WTTV, and WTTV 4.2)|url=https://tribwttv.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/new-program-schedule.xlsx|publisher=Tribune Broadcasting|date=November 2014}}</ref> This saved Tribune the burden of acquiring prime cable carriage for the subchannel, losing any available viewership for The CW's programming, or having to enter into carriage negotiations with [[AT&T U-verse]], [[Dish Network]] and [[DirecTV]] to add the subchannel in the first place, as digital subchannels are traditionally not carried on IPTV or satellite providers unless affiliated with a major broadcast network. As a result, to fulfill programming contracts, most of WTTV's existing syndicated programming inventory (including [[talk show]]s, drama series and sitcoms) that could no longer air on the station's main schedule due to the heavy schedule of network programming it committed to air via its new CBS affiliation, programming that was considered "downmarket", and its new slate of local news programming was moved to digital channel 4.2/29.2 when the subchannel was converted into a general entertainment format on January 1, 2015, along with other syndicated shows not carried by WTTV prior to the switch. The "Indiana's 4" branding and logo used by WTTV as a CW affiliate from 2008 to 2014 was also adopted for use by the subchannel.
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===Analog-to-digital conversion===
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WTTV and WTTK shut down their respective analog signals, over VHF channel 4 and [[Ultra high frequency|UHF]] channel 29, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States [[Digital television transition in the United States|transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts]] under federal mandate.<ref>{{cite web|title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds|url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf|format=PDF|date=|accessdate=March 24, 2012}}</ref> WTTV's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 48;<ref name="FCCForm387-WTTV">[http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101274577&formid=387&fac_num=56523 CDBS Print]</ref> through the use of [[Program and System Information Protocol|PSIP]], digital television receivers display the station's [[virtual channel]] as its former VHF analog channel 4. WTTK relocated its digital signal from its pre-transition UHF channel 54, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to its analog-era UHF channel 29.<ref name="FCCForm387-WTTK">[http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101274572&formid=387&fac_num=56526 CDBS Print]</ref>

As part of the [[Short-term Analog Flash and Emergency Readiness Act|SAFER Act]],<ref name="FCC Nightlight">{{cite web|url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-291375A1.pdf|title=UPDATED List of Participants in the Analog Nightlight Program|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|format=PDF|date=June 12, 2009|accessdate=June 4, 2012}}</ref> WTTV kept its analog signal on the air until June 26 to inform viewers of the digital television transition through a loop of [[public service announcement]]s from the [[National Association of Broadcasters]].

After WXIN shut down its analog signal on June 12, WTTK began broadcasting its signal from a newly installed common antenna atop WXIN's transmitter tower on Westlane Road in northwestern Indianapolis.<ref name="FCCForm301">[https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101311661&qnum=5460&copynum=1&exhcnum=1]</ref> Prior to the digital transition, WTTK operated its analog transmitter on [[Indiana State Road 213|State Route 213]], just south of [[Windfall, Indiana|Windfall]];<ref name="ASRN-1026126">[http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/AsrSearch/asrRegistration.jsp?regKey=101892]</ref> the site remains owned by Tribune, although the FCC does not have an application on file for use of the transmitter as a backup Digital Auxiliary Service.
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==Programming==
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WTTV clears the entire CBS schedule; this differs from WISH-TV, which preempted select programs from the network and passed them to sister station WNDY from 2005 to 2014.<ref name=CBS4WTTVLineup>[https://tribwttv.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/cbs4-schedule.pdf WTTV's CBS-era schedule]</ref> {{As of|September 2015}}, [[Broadcast syndication|syndicated]] programs broadcast on WTTV include ''[[TMZ on TV]]'', ''[[The People's Court]]'', ''[[Elementary (TV series)|Elementary]]'', ''[[Person of Interest (TV series)|Person of Interest]]'' and ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]'' (the latter three of which also air their first-run episodes on the station via CBS).<ref>{{cite web|title=Listings for WTTVDT (WTTV-DT)|url=http://affiliate.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCSGrid.do?aid=twttv|website=[[Zap2It]]|publisher=[[Tribune Media|Tribune Digital Ventures]]|accessdate=October 1, 2015}}</ref> Syndicated programming on WTTV-DT2, which is programmed as an independent station,<ref name="WTTV 4.2 independent"/> includes ''[[Friends]]'', ''[[America's Court with Judge Ross]]'', ''[[Mike & Molly]]'', ''[[Seinfeld]]'' and ''[[Two and a Half Men]]'' (these programs had previously aired on WTTV as a CW affiliate).<ref>{{cite web|title=Listings for WTTVDT2 (WTTV-DT2)|url=http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCSGrid.do?stnNum=50839&channel=47|website=Zap2It|publisher=Tribune Digital Ventures|accessdate=October 1, 2015}}</ref>
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===Sports programming===
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For over half a century, WTTV was central Indiana's home for [[college basketball]] games from the [[Big Ten Conference]], with a focus on games involving [[Indiana University Bloomington|Indiana University]] and [[Purdue University]]. Until the late 1990s, it produced telecasts of [[Indiana Hoosiers|Hoosiers]] and [[Purdue Boilermakers|Boilermakers]] games, earning it the nickname of "Indiana's Sports Station." In fact, many cable providers in Indiana began carrying WTTV simply so viewers across the state could watch the Hoosiers and Boilermakers. Due to cost-cutting measures in the 1990s, channel 4 shuttered its in-house productions and opted instead for syndication deals with [[Raycom Sports]] and [[ESPN Events|ESPN Plus]]. WTTV also presented other Big Ten football and men's basketball telecasts on Saturdays, until the station lost the rights to those games when the conference launched the [[Big Ten Network]] in August 2007. From 2007 to 2013, WTTV aired basketball games from the "old" [[Big East Conference (1979-2013)|Big East Conference]], presumably due to the [[Notre Dame Fighting Irish]]'s large following in the area. WTTV regained some rights to Big Ten basketball upon its switch to CBS.

WTTV also previously served as the flagship station for [[Indianapolis Colts]] [[National Football League|NFL]] preseason games in the past until 2011, when WISH/WNDY took over the rights. WTTV traditionally produced statewide boys' and girls' [[high school basketball]] tournament finals and [[high school football]] championship games; however, after the Indiana High School Athletics Association converted its basketball tournament from a single-class to a multi-class format in 1997, WTTV chose not to renew those rights citing a decline in ratings (the broadcasts subsequently moved to [[WHMB-TV]] (channel 40)); a new agreement with the IHSAA returned these events to WTTV in the fall of 2010. The IHSAA moved the tournaments to [[Fox Sports Indiana]] in the 2013-14 season.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.dmjuice.com/story/sports/preps/preps-blog/2013/07/18/ihsaa-announces-television-deal-with-fox-sports-indiana/2549487/|title=IHSAA announces television deal with Fox Sports Indiana|last=Neddenreip|first=Kyle|date=18 July 2013|work=[[Indianapolis Star]]|accessdate=29 March 2015}}</ref>

WTTV also served as the television flagship for the [[Indiana Pacers]] from the team's days in the original [[American Basketball Association (1967–1976)|American Basketball Association]] (except in 1984-85, when those rights were held by present-day sister station WXIN due to Pacers owner [[Melvin Simon]]'s part-ownership of the station) to 2006. WTTV lost the rights to the Pacers telecasts after the [[2005–06 Indiana Pacers season|2005-06 season]],<ref>[http://www.nba.com/pacers/news/fox_tv_060815.html PACERS ANNOUNCE FOX SPORTS Partnership], [[National Basketball Association|NBA]], August 15, 2006.</ref> when the [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] team moved their local game telecasts to [[Fox Sports Indiana]].

In August 2008, WTTV debuted ''Hoosier High School Sports Overtime'', a weekly half-hour program devoted to Indiana high school athletics that airs Sunday mornings at 11:30&nbsp;a.m.; it is hosted by WXIN sports anchor Jeremiah Johnson. In November of that year, the station also began running ''Hoosier High School Sports Classics'', a two-hour program that features rebroadcasts of past Indiana high school football and basketball state championship games, interspersed with present-day interviews of coaches and athletes that were involved; it aired on Sundays from 9:30 to 11:30&nbsp;a.m.

With the switch to CBS, WTTV became the de facto home station of the Colts, due to [[NFL on CBS|CBS' contract]] to carry a schedule mainly made up of [[American Football Conference]] games and ''[[Thursday Night Football]]'', and a deal between Tribune Broadcasting and the team making the station and WXIN exclusive broadcast partners. This means both stations will air Colts preseason games, team programming and coach's show beginning in the summer of 2015; advertising within [[Lucas Oil Stadium]] is also included in the deal. Additionally, both stations will carry the Super Bowl for two out of every three years starting in 2016, with WTTV carrying CBS coverage of [[Super Bowl 50]] in 2016 and WXIN Fox's coverage of [[Super Bowl LI]] in 2017. Between CBS' AFC rights and Fox's NFC rights, the only time the Colts would not play on a Tribune station would be if they were scheduled for an ''[[NBC Sunday Night Football]]'' telecast, which would air on [[WTHR]], or ''[[ESPN Monday Night Football]],'' which has traditionally aired on [[WRTV]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/81868/wxinwttv-to-carry-indianapolis-colts|title=WXIN-WTTV To Carry Indianapolis Colts|author=Staff Report|date=29 December 2014|work=TVNewsCheck|accessdate=30 December 2014}}</ref> The first Colts game to air on WTTV as a CBS affiliate was the team's first-round playoff victory over the [[Cincinnati Bengals]] on January 4, and it carried two more games in the [[2014 NFL season]] before the Colts lost to the Patriots in the [[Deflategate|AFC Championship]] on January 18, 2015.

WTTV, through CBS, also owns the local rights to the [[NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament]], which has traditionally ranked among the highest-rated programs in the market during tournament season due to Indiana's traditional status as a college basketball hotbed and as the home base for the [[NCAA]]. Lucas Oil Stadium holds a regular slot in the Final Four rotation (including the 2015 tourney). WTTV, as previously stated, also carries Big Ten games picked up by CBS, including the [[Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Tournament|conference tournament]], which is held every other year at [[Bankers Life Fieldhouse]].

By coincidence, in addition to trading the CW to WISH-TV, Tribune Media has also taken a large role in programming that station since the switch of CBS to WTTV, along with sister station WNDY, via rights deals for the two stations to carry professional Chicago sports over those two stations which are broadcast by [[WGN-TV]] in Chicago, including baseball's [[Chicago Cubs|Cubs]] and [[Chicago White Sox|White Sox]] and [[Chicago Blackhawks|Blackhawks]] hockey to replace [[WGN America]]'s former carriage of those sports in the area, as Indianapolis is claimed as Chicago team territory by [[Major League Baseball]] and the [[National Hockey League]].
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==Local programming==

===Newscasts===
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WTTV presently broadcasts 24½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 4½ hours on weekdays and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). Unlike most CBS affiliates and most Tribune-owned stations that maintain news operations, WTTV does not air any local newscasts on weekend mornings.

In 1950, WTTV began operating an in-house news department; after losing its ABC affiliation in 1957, it became one of the few independent stations outside of the ten largest television markets that had a functioning news department. In 1979, the station began airing the first primetime newscast in the Indianapolis market, when it moved its nightly evening news program to 10:00&nbsp;p.m. (predating WXIN's first and shorter-lived primetime news effort by five years). Capitol Broadcasting abruptly shut down WTTV's news department on November 1, 1990 due to financial problems, with the last 10:00 newscast airing the night before on [[Halloween|October 31]]; 34 staffers were laid off as a result.<ref>[http://business.highbeam.com/392340/article-1N1-108530A946FECB52/indianapolis-wttv4-cancels-news-operation INDIANAPOLIS' WTTV-4 CANCELS NEWS OPERATION]'', ''[[Post-Tribune]]'', November 3, 1990. Retrieved June 19, 2014 from HighBeam Research.</ref>

The station replaced the newscast in the 10:00&nbsp;p.m. slot with syndicated programming for the next few months, before it entered into a news share agreement with ABC affiliate WRTV in April 1991 to produce a half-hour 10:00&nbsp;p.m. newscast<ref>[http://business.highbeam.com/5280/article-1G1-10892417/wttv-wrtv-discuss-joint-newscast WTTV, WRTV discuss joint newscast], ''Indianapolis Business Journal'', April 1, 1991. Retrieved June 19, 2014 from HighBeam Research.</ref> – titled ''WRTV 6 News at Ten'' and later ''6 News at Ten'' – which debuted that fall. After Tribune bought the station, WTTV terminated the news share agreement with WRTV, so as to not compete with new sister station WXIN's longer-established 10:00&nbsp;p.m. newscast; the WRTV-produced newscast was discontinued on December 31, 2002, with channel 4 filling the 10:00&nbsp;p.m. slot with syndicated programming thereafter.<ref>[http://business.highbeam.com/5280/article-1P3-271228881/channel-6-early-news-may-sign-off-dec-31 Channel 6 early news may sign off Dec. 31], ''[[Indianapolis Business Journal]]'' (via [[HighBeam Research]]), December 23, 2002. Retrieved June 19, 2014 from HighBeam Research.</ref>

Upon becoming a sister station to WXIN, WTTV began carrying that station's primetime newscast during instances where Fox's [[Major League Baseball postseason|MLB playoff]] game telecasts run into the 10:00&nbsp;p.m. timeslot (not using a ''News at Ten'' logo on-air in place of the ''Fox 59 News'' branding, unlike what [[Hartford, Connecticut]] sister station [[WCCT-TV]] does during broadcasts of sister station [[WTIC-TV]]'s newscasts). On January 2, 2008, the station began simulcasting the 6:00 to 9:00&nbsp;a.m. block of WXIN's weekday morning newscast;<ref>[http://business.highbeam.com/5280/article-1G1-172635181/wxin-simulcast-morning-news-wttv WXIN to simulcast morning news on WTTV], ''Indianapolis Business Journal'', December 3, 2007. Retrieved June 19, 2014 from HighBeam Research.</ref> the 5:00&nbsp;a.m. hour of the program began to be simulcast on WTTV on March 31, 2008. The simulcast was briefly discontinued on September 18, 2009, before returning the following month on October 12; the simulcast – by then, running only from 4:30 to 6:00&nbsp;a.m. – was moved to WTTV/WTTK's [[This TV]]-affiliated second digital subchannel on September 13, 2010, later expanding to include the full six-hour broadcast from 4:00 to 10:00&nbsp;a.m. along with the three-hour weekend morning newscast; the simulcast was discontinued again in September 2013. The only locally produced programming on WTTV/WTTK that was close to a news product after the simulcast moved from the stations' main channel was the business showcase ''Indy's MarketPlace'' (or ''Indiana's Market''), which aired weekdays at 8:00 and 11:30&nbsp;a.m.; the program ended on September 10, 2010.

Other than simulcasts and default carriage of WXIN's newscasts due to [[Fox Sports (United States)|Fox Sports]] programming delays, WTTV did not carry traditional local newscasts produced specifically for itself from the 2002 cancellation of the WRTV-produced newscast to its switch to CBS; it was one of only five Tribune-owned stations that did not carry daily newscasts (alongside [[WNOL-TV]] in [[New Orleans]], WCCT-TV in Hartford/[[New Haven, Connecticut|New Haven]], [[WDCW]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] and [[WSFL-TV]] in [[Miami]]) of any kind.

However, with the announcement of the CBS affiliation's move to WTTV, the station announced plans to launch newscasts separate from those on WXIN with its own on-air staff (similar to, though also differing in structure from the shared news operation of [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]] sister duopoly [[KTVI]]/[[KPLR-TV]], the latter of which maintains separate anchors from KTVI for certain newscasts), which is housed out of the two stations' shared facility on Network Place.<ref>{{cite news|title=CBS affiliation switch means major changes at WTTV|url=http://www.ibj.com/cbs-affiliation-switch-means-major-changes-at-wttv/PARAMS/article/48994|first=Anthony|last=Schoetle|date=August 11, 2014}}</ref> This makes WXIN/WTTV the first known duopoly (legal or virtual) involving a Big Three affiliate and a Fox station, in which the two stations maintain separate news departments and newscasts in competing timeslots (the presence of two separate, but jointly based news departments controlled by one company structured in this manner is more common with duopolies involving stations affiliated with two of the Big Three networks). There is a considerable amount of sharing between WTTV and WXIN in regards to news coverage, video footage and the use of reporters; though both outlets maintain their own primary on-air personalities (such as news anchors and meteorologists) that only appear on their respective station.

In December 2014, WTTV announced the hirings of its weekday morning, noon and evening anchor teams, which include weeknight anchors [[Debby Knox]] (who had previously retired from WISH in 2013) and [[Bob Donaldson (news anchor)|Bob Donaldson]] (who is also the anchor of WXIN's 10:00&nbsp;p.m. newscast), morning anchors Marianne Lyles (formerly of [[WISN-TV]] in [[Milwaukee]]) and Tim Doty (formerly of [[Grand Rapids, Michigan|Grand Rapids]] sister station [[WXMI]]), and meteorologists Chris Wright (formerly of WTHR and WXIN) and Lindsay Riley (formerly of [[KXAS-TV]] in [[Dallas]]-[[Fort Worth, Texas|Fort Worth]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://fox59.com/2014/11/12/wttv-announces-anchor-teams-for-new-newscasts-beginning-jan-1/ |title=WTTV announces anchor teams for new newscasts beginning January 1|author=Amanda Rakes|website=Fox59.com|publisher=[[WXIN]]/[[Tribune Media]]|date=November 12, 2014|accessdate=November 21, 2014}}</ref> The newscasts launched with WTTV's CBS affiliation on January 1, 2015; while it does hinder both stations, WTTV and WXIN each produce newscasts that run concurrently in most traditional timeslots, except on weekend mornings (as WTTV carries the [[CBS Dream Team]] lineup), weekdays at noon and weekends at 6:00&nbsp;p.m. (as WXIN airs syndicated programming in both periods, with sports programming periodically airing in the latter slot on either station). With the launch of the news department, WTTV immediately began battling for second place (behind dominant [[WTHR]]) in the local news ratings against WRTV, WISH-TV and sister station WXIN.<ref>{{cite news|title=Plethora of TV sports programming to give Tribune a huge boost|url=http://www.ibj.com/articles/51244-plethora-of-tv-sports-programming-to-give-tribune-a-huge-boost|first=Anthony|last=Schoetle|date=January 10, 2015}}</ref>
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