WAZE-TV
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Madisonville, Kentucky - Evansville, Indiana United States |
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| Branding | Ion Television |
| Slogan | Positively Entertaining |
| Channels |
Digital: 17 (UHF) Virtual: 17 (PSIP) |
| Affiliations | Ion Television (O&O) (2014–present) |
| Owner |
Ion Media Networks (WAZE-LP only) (Broadcast Trust) |
| First air date | October 15, 1983 |
| Last air date | March 24, 2011 (WAZE-TV) January 3, 2013 (repeaters) |
| Former callsigns | WLCN (1983–1997) WWAZ-TV (1997–2000) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 19 (UHF, 1983–2009) Virtual: 19 (PSIP, 1983–2013) |
| Former affiliations |
Independent (1983–1997) The WB (1997–2006) The CW (2006–2013) Dark (2013–2014, WAZE-LP; 2011–present, WAZE-TV; 2013–present, WIKY-LP & WJPS-LP) |
| Transmitter power | 1.1 kW (digital) |
| Height | 216 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 74592 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°24′56.6″N 87°31′29″W / 37.415722°N 87.52472°W |
WAZE-TV was a television station in Madisonville, Kentucky, in the United States, serving the Evansville, Indiana DMA from 1983 to 2013. The station was an affiliate of the CW Television Network. It broadcast a digital signal on channel 20 from a transmitter at Hanson, Kentucky; which redirected to former analog channel 19 via PSIP.
On March 24, 2011, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) canceled WAZE's license for failure to construct its full-power digital facilities.
The station continued to broadcast via low-powered Class A repeater WAZE-LP channel 17 and low-powered translators WJPS-LP channel 4 and WIKY-LP channel 5, all licensed to Evansville, until January 2013, when all three were shut down. They served as in-town relays of the main signal. WAZE's transmitter was located farther south than the other major Evansville stations because of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations requiring a station's transmitter to be no more than 15 miles from the city of license—in this case, Madisonville, which is 50 miles south of Evansville. As a result, despite its 2.7 million watt ERP, the channel 19 signal provided only a grade B ("rimshot") signal to Evansville itself, and was practically non-viewable north and east of the city.
The station relied on cable coverage to reach most of its viewing area. However, many cable carriers in the market (particularly outside the Evansville and Owensboro areas) didn't carry it.
WJPS-LP and WIKY-LP's licenses have since been deleted. WAZE-LP continues to operate as an Ion Television owned-and-operated station.
WAZE signed on October 15, 1983 as WLCN, the market's first independent station. It originally ran mostly Christian programming (the call letters presumably stood for "Local Christian Network") along with segments of HSN Spree. After WEVV-TV, which signed on a month later, became a charter Fox affiliate in 1987, WLCN was the only over-the-air source of non-network programming in the Indiana-Kentucky-Ohio tri-state area for 11 years. However, cable systems piped in either WTTV in Indianapolis or KPLR-TV in St. Louis, depending on the location.
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