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WMYO-CD

Louisville, Kentucky United States
Channels	Digital: 18 (UHF) Virtual: 24
Branding	Laff 24 Louisville
Programming
Affiliations	24.1: Laff for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Aircom Media (New Albany Broadcasting Co., Inc.)
History
Founded	November 30, 1987
First air date	March 1, 1996 (28 years ago) (1996-03-01)
Former call signs	W62BM (1987–1994) W24BW (1994–2009) W24BW-D (2009–2010) WKYI-CD (2010–2017) WBKI-CD (2017–2018)
Former affiliations	MuchUSA (late 1990s–2003) America One (2003–2010) This TV (2010–2017) JTV (secondary, 2010–2013)
Call sign meaning	Warehoused calls from channel 58 license; formerly meant "MyNetworkTV Ohio Valley"
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	25078
Class	CD
ERP	15 kW
HAAT	197 m (646 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	38°21′55.2″N 85°50′24.2″W / 38.365333°N 85.840056°W / 38.365333; -85.840056
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	aircommedia.com

WMYO-CD (channel 24) is a low-power, Class A television station in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, affiliated with several digital multicast networks. The station is owned by Aircom Media. WMYO-CD's studios are located on Potters Lane in Clarksville, Indiana, and its transmitter is located in the Louisville tower farm in Floyd County (northeast of Floyds Knobs).

History

The station was founded on June 22, 1994, as W24BW (although it had a construction permit as W62BM) and first signed on the air on March 1, 1996. It was founded by Greater Louisville Communications, Inc. (owned by local businessmen Jerome Hutchinson Sr. and Jerome Hutchinson Jr.). From the late 1990s until 2003, the station carried music video programming from MuchUSA (now Fuse TV), the U.S. counterpart of the Canadian music video network MuchMusic. In 2003, the station switched its affiliation to America One, and began airing community and regional programming as well as sporting events. Channel 24's first chief engineer, Virgil Baldon Jr. (1994–1997), had the foresight to install a forward-compatible Acrodyne analog-to-digital convertible solid-state transmitter when W24BW began operations, over ten years ahead of the 2009 digital television transition. Baldon also oversaw the change of the transmitting antenna's directional main beam to 135 degrees true for maximum signal over the city of Louisville. Baldon was the first African-American engineer to oversee and successfully launch a TV station in the state of Kentucky.

In 2007, the Cascade Broadcasting Group, then-owners of Campbellsville-based WBKI-TV (channel 34), began operating W24BW under a local marketing agreement; the station moved its operations into WBKI's studio facility off Blankenbaker Parkway in Jeffersontown. The LMA also included a purchase option to buy the station. Cascade tried to rebrand channel 24 as the "Louisville Network" (or "LouNET"), and aired locally produced programs that were geared primarily towards the market's African American and Hispanic community. The station also began to brand under the fictional "WYCS" call letters (standing for "Your Community Station"), to avert confusion with other local translator stations which just transmitted completely automated content straight from their network's satellites.

Greater Louisville Broadcasting later sold channel 24 to New Albany Broadcasting Co., Inc. On November 10, 2009, the station changed its call sign to W24BW-D, upon beginning digital operation. On May 20, 2010, the station changed its call sign to WKYI-CD, denoting its status as a class A digital television station.

In January 2015, WKYI-CD took over the affiliation of This TV on 24.2 in place of WAVE, which was required by a company-wide agreement to offer the new male-focused subchannel Grit instead. This programming is mainly carried in the mornings, prime time and overnights on the station rather than the full 24/7 service.

The station changed its call sign to WBKI-CD on December 27, 2017, and to WMYO-CD on February 12, 2018.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

References

1. "Facility Technical Data for WMYO-CD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
2. Dorsey, Tom (July 7, 2007). "Resurrected WYCS aims to be both local and diverse". The Courier-Journal. Archived from the original on July 31, 2012. Retrieved July 7, 2007.
3. Rabbit Ears TV Query for WMYO-CD
4. Stratton, Meghan (July 11, 2022). "WISH-TV adds WMYO in Louisville and Southern Indiana to Statewide News Network". WISH-TV. Retrieved October 24, 2023.

External links

• Official website

• Laff (TV network) affiliates
• Trinity Broadcasting Network stations
• Low-power television stations in Kentucky
• Television channels and stations established in 1996
• Television stations in Louisville, Kentucky
• 1996 establishments in Kentucky