WBXI-CD


WBXI-CD is a low-power, Class A television station in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, broadcasting programming from the digital multicast network Start TV. Owned and operated by the CBS News and Stations group, the station maintains an office on North Alabama Street in downtown Indianapolis; its transmitter is located on Walnut Drive on the city's northwest side.
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History

The station first signed on the air in 1990 as W47AZ. Originally serving as an affiliate of the viewer-request music video network The Box, the station changed its call letters to WBXI-CA in 2001; that year, the station switched to MTV2 following that network's acquisition by Viacom, which acquired WBXI-CA. For a few months in 2004, channel 47 served as a repeater of then-sister station and UPN affiliate WNDY-TV ; this ended when Viacom's Television Stations Group subsidiary sold WNDY-TV to the LIN TV Corporation, owners of then-CBS affiliate WISH-TV, in February 2005.
Unexpectedly, Viacom retained ownership of WBXI-CA, before spinning it off to CBS Corporation in December of that year, following CBS' split from the former company; Viacom retained ownership of the MTV Networks; however, the station maintained its MTV2 affiliation.
In 2007, the station switched to MTV2's Spanish language in the [United States|Spanish-language] sister network MTV Tr3s. This would end in 2014 upon the expiration of its last carriage contract, when WBXI would switch to continuous weather information.
On January 1, 2018, WBXI began carrying programming from CBS/Weigel Broadcasting's Decades, with a local hour of the weather loop remaining weekdays at 7 a.m., which is considered as WBXI's lone "local" program. On September 3, 2018, WBXI-CD launched CBS/Weigel's new network Start TV, dropping Decades. Decades shifted over to the second subchannel of WSDI-LD.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:
ChannelRes.AspectShort nameProgramming
47.11080i16:9StartTVStart TV
47.2480i16:9CatchyCatchy Comedy
47.3480i16:9StoryStory Television
47.4480i16:9Movies!Movies!
47.5720p16:9TCTTri-State Christian Television

Analog-to-digital conversion

WBXI-CA maintained a construction permit to shut down its analog signal and flash cut its digital signal into operation on UHF channel 47 on September 1, 2015. The station turned on its digital signal on August 21, 2015, and ceased operations of its analog signal on September 1, 2015, the mandatory date for Class A stations to cease operations.