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28-564: WDKY-TV (channel 56) is a television station licensed to Danville, Kentucky , United States, serving the Lexington area as an affiliate of the Fox network. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group and maintains studios on Euclid Avenue in Lexington's Chevy Chase neighborhood and a transmitter southeast of the city off Interstate 75 . Built as the market's first independent station in early 1986,

56-431: A barter in some cases. WLJC-TV WLJC-TV (channel 65) is a television station licensed to Beattyville, Kentucky , United States, serving the Lexington area as an affiliate of the digital multicast network Cozi TV . The station is owned by local minister Margaret Drake and her ministry, The Hour of Harvest, Inc. WLJC-TV's studios are located on Radio Station Loop north of Beattyville, and its transmitter

84-636: A lease for the property in 1995. Sook then sold WDKY and KOCB in Oklahoma City to Sinclair Broadcast Group in 1996. On January 27, 2020, Sinclair announced that it would sell WDKY and the non-license assets of KGBT-TV in Harlingen, Texas , to Nexstar Media Group as part of a settlement between the two companies over Sinclair's failed acquisition of Tribune Media , which was ultimately acquired by Nexstar. The deal reunited Sook, who had gone on to found Nexstar almost immediately after selling Superior, with

112-490: A management consultant with the option to buy a minority stake in the station. Backe sold WDKY in 1992 to Superior Communications, a company owned by 34-year-old Perry Sook ; it was his first TV station property. It took Sook 14 months to find a station to buy and assemble financing to make the deal work. Superior moved the station from its original Lexington base on Interstate Avenue to the Chevy Chase Plaza after signing

140-415: A much shorter wavelength, and thus requires a shorter antenna, but also higher power. North American stations can go up to 5000 kW ERP for video and 500 kW audio, or 1000 kW digital. Low channels travel further than high ones at the same power, but UHF does not suffer from as much electromagnetic interference and background "noise" as VHF, making it much more desirable for TV. Despite this, in

168-425: A variety of ways to generate revenue from television commercials . They may be an independent station or part of a broadcasting network , or some other structure. They can produce some or all of their programs or buy some broadcast syndication programming for or all of it from other stations or independent production companies. Many stations have some sort of television studio , which on major-network stations

196-496: Is non-commercial educational (NCE) and considered public broadcasting . To avoid concentration of media ownership of television stations, government regulations in most countries generally limit the ownership of television stations by television networks or other media operators, but these regulations vary considerably. Some countries have set up nationwide television networks, in which individual television stations act as mere repeaters of nationwide programs . In those countries,

224-470: Is broadcast via terrestrial radio waves. A group of television stations with common ownership or affiliation are known as a TV network and an individual station within the network is referred to as O&O or affiliate , respectively. Because television station signals use the electromagnetic spectrum, which in the past has been a common, scarce resource, governments often claim authority to regulate them. Broadcast television systems standards vary around

252-652: Is located on Tip Top Road. The station first signed on the air on October 16, 1982, and claims to be the oldest Christian television station in Kentucky. The Hour of Harvest, Inc. also owns two Christian radio stations, Air 1 outlet WLJC-FM and K-LOVE outlet WEBF . From 2017 through 2022, WLJC carried a half-hour local newscast produced by Lexington ABC affiliate WTVQ at 9 p.m. titled ABC 36 News at Nine on WLJC . In November 2018, WLJC's main channel began airing Cozi TV programming (which moved from 65.6; that subchannel now airs Start TV ). The station also simulcast

280-792: Is often used for newscasts or other local programming . There is usually a news department , where journalists gather information. There is also a section where electronic news-gathering (ENG) operations are based, receiving remote broadcasts via remote pickup unit or satellite TV . Outside broadcasting vans, production trucks , or SUVs with electronic field production (EFP) equipment are sent out with reporters , who may also bring back news stories on video tape rather than sending them back live . To keep pace with technology United States television stations have been replacing operators with broadcast automation systems to increase profits in recent years. Some stations (known as repeaters or translators ) only simulcast another, usually

308-405: The broadcast range , or geographic area, that the station is limited to, allocates the broadcast frequency of the radio spectrum for that station's transmissions, sets limits on what types of television programs can be programmed for broadcast and requires a station to broadcast a minimum amount of certain programs types, such as public affairs messages . Another form of television station

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336-534: The electricity bill and emergency backup generators . In North America , full-power stations on band I (channels 2 to 6) are generally limited to 100 kW analog video ( VSB ) and 10 kW analog audio ( FM ), or 45 kW digital ( 8VSB ) ERP. Stations on band III (channels 7 to 13) can go up by 5 dB to 316 kW video, 31.6 kW audio, or 160 kW digital. Low-VHF stations are often subject to long-distance reception just as with FM. There are no stations on Channel 1 . UHF , by comparison, has

364-557: The 6:30 p.m. newscast from Fox affiliate WDKY-TV from 2022 through late 2023. The station's signal is multiplexed : WLJC-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 65, in July 2007. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition VHF channel 7, using virtual channel 65. The station was granted a construction permit to increase its effective radiated power from 70  kW to 185 kW. WLJC-TV's digital signal covers much of eastern and central Kentucky as

392-627: The U.S., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is taking another large portion of this band (channels 52 to 69) away, in contrast to the rest of the world, which has been taking VHF instead. This means that some stations left on VHF are harder to receive after the analog shutdown . Since at least 1974, there are no stations on channel 37 in North America for radio astronomy purposes. Most television stations are commercial broadcasting enterprises which are structured in

420-635: The WDKY construction permit to Backe Communications. Backe set out to build studios in Danville and Lexington, and WDKY-TV began broadcasting on February 10, 1986. It was the first independent station in the Lexington market and became a charter affiliate of Fox later that year. After several venture capital investors in Backe Communications opted to exit television, owner John Backe reluctantly put WDKY and other stations up for sale. In 1989, Backe agreed to sell

448-484: The first station he had purchased nearly 30 years prior; it also gave Nexstar its first television station in Kentucky. The transaction was completed on September 17, 2020. On January 2, 1995, CBS affiliate WKYT-TV began producing a nightly 10 p.m. newscast for WDKY, starting a relationship that would last for 27 years. WKYT supplied all of the talent except co-anchor Marvin Bartlett, an employee of WDKY. Within two years,

476-420: The highest point available in the transmission area, such as on a summit , the top of a high skyscraper , or on a tall radio tower . To get a signal from the master control room to the transmitter, a studio/transmitter link (STL) is used. The link can be either by radio or T1 / E1 . A transmitter/studio link (TSL) may also send telemetry back to the station, but this may be embedded in subcarriers of

504-400: The local television station has no station identification and, from a consumer's point of view, there is no practical distinction between a network and a station, with only small regional changes in programming, such as local television news . To broadcast its programs, a television station requires operators to operate equipment, a transmitter or radio antenna , which is often located at

532-419: The main broadcast. Stations which retransmit or simulcast another may simply pick-up that station over-the-air , or via STL or satellite. The license usually specifies which other station it is allowed to carry. VHF stations often have very tall antennas due to their long wavelength , but require much less effective radiated power (ERP), and therefore use much less transmitter power output , also saving on

560-518: The newscast, which WDKY paid channel 27 to produce, made money. On March 12, 2007, WDKY began airing an hour of news on weekday mornings at 7 a.m., also produced by WKYT. Under its new Nexstar management, WDKY ended the WKYT arrangement and began to originate its own 10 p.m. newscasts on January 1, 2022, employing a fully-staffed news department. Two days later, on January 3, WDKY debuted an expanded morning show (5–9 a.m.) and 6:30 p.m. newscast. On June 6, 2022,

588-476: The programmes seen on its owner's flagship station, and have no television studio or production facilities of their own. This is common in developing countries . Low-power stations typically also fall into this category worldwide. Most stations which are not simulcast produce their own station identifications . TV stations may also advertise on or provide weather (or news) services to local radio stations , particularly co-owned sister stations . This may be

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616-459: The station added a 7 p.m. newscast, the second in that time slot in the market. Since 2023, WLJC has aired WDKY's 6:30 p.m. newscast in a simulcast under an agreement. On March 27, 2023, WDKY added another weekday hour of locally produced content with the debut of Live from Chevy Chase at 9 a.m. and a half hour of morning news at 9:30 a.m., further expanding WDKY to 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours of local morning news each weekday. On May 12, 2024,

644-845: The station began airing a weekly 30-minute public affairs show titled Red, White and Bluegrass . The station's signal is multiplexed : WDKY-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 56, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal moved from its pre-transition VHF channel 4 to UHF channel 31, using virtual channel 56. WDKY moved its channel allocation from digital channel 31 to 19 at 10 a.m. on May 7, 2019, and remains on virtual channel 56. Television station The Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow ( TV Station Paul Nipkow ) in Berlin , Germany ,

672-652: The station built. Officials with the Kentucky Airport Zoning Commission fretted over proximity of the proposed Mercer County mast to several aviation facilities, and while the zoning board overruled objections from the aviation community, the FCC refused to approve the site. With a busy law practice, Bertram found he no longer had time to pursue construction of the station, having already secured an alternative tower site in Garrard County . In 1985, Bertram sold

700-486: The station has been affiliated with Fox since the network started later that year. It has aired local newscasts since 1995, first in partnership with another local station, WKYT-TV , and since 2022, producing them internally with its own personnel. On December 29, 1982, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted a construction permit to Robert Bertram, an attorney, to build a new channel 56 television station at Danville. However, it took more than three years to get

728-558: The station to the Pruett family of Little Rock, Arkansas , through MMC Television Corporation; the Pruetts cited the station's profitability and the demise of its only independent competitor, WLKT (channel 62), which had operated for less than a year. The deal, however, collapsed in March 1990 when the Pruetts failed to arrange the necessary financing. Act III Broadcasting was then retained by Backe as

756-399: The world. Television stations broadcasting over an analog system were typically limited to one television channel , but digital television enables broadcasting via subchannels as well. Television stations usually require a broadcast license from a government agency which sets the requirements and limitations on the station. In the United States, for example, a television license defines

784-674: Was the first regular television service in the world. It was on the air from 22 March 1935, until it was shut down in 1944. The station was named after Paul Gottlieb Nipkow , the inventor of the Nipkow disk . Most often the term "television station" refers to a station which broadcasts structured content to an audience or it refers to the organization that operates the station. A terrestrial television transmission can occur via analog television signals or, more recently, via digital television signals. Television stations are differentiated from cable television or other video providers as their content

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