WTVW
CW television affiliate in Evansville, Indiana, United States
WTVW (channel 7) is a television station in Evansville, Indiana, United States, airing programming from The CW. It is owned by Mission Broadcasting and operated by Nexstar Media Group alongside ABC affiliate WEHT (channel 25). The two stations share studios on Marywood Drive in Henderson, Kentucky; WTVW's transmitter is located just outside of Chandler, Indiana.
Before joining The CW, WTVW was the market's Fox affiliate from December 3, 1995, to June 30, 2011 (serving as an independent station after disaffiliating from the network until January 30, 2013); before that, it served as Evansville's original ABC affiliate from its August 21, 1956, sign-on to December 2, 1995.
History
As an ABC affiliate
WTVW began operations on August 21, 1956, as an ABC affiliate locally owned by Evansville Television, Inc. and operating on VHF channel 7. It was Evansville's third television station, and the first on the VHF band. In its early years on the air, WTVW fought an attempt by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deintermix the market, which would have moved the station to UHF channel 31 (which would have resulted in Evansville having only one VHF allocation on channel 9; its rivals, WEHT and WFIE, had operated on UHF since their inceptions in 1953) and reallocated channel 7 to Louisville, Kentucky. The station's original studio facilities were located on Carpenter Street in downtown Evansville.
Evansville Television went into bankruptcy in 1959, putting WTVW in the hands of a trustee; in 1962, the station was acquired by Polaris Corporation, which merged with Natco Corp., a subsidiary of Fuqua Industries, in 1966. Fuqua decided to leave broadcasting in 1979; the following year, WTVW was purchased by Charles Woods, owner of WTVY-FM-TV in Dothan, Alabama.
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