WEHT
 
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Evansville, Indiana United States |
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| Branding | WEHT Local (general) Eyewitness News (newscasts) |
| Channels |
Digital: 7 (VHF) Virtual: 25 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 25.1 ABC 25.2 Laff |
| Affiliations | ABC (primary since 1995; secondary 1953–1956) |
| Owner |
Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| First air date | September 27, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Watch Evansville/ Henderson Television |
| Sister station(s) | WTVW |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 50 (UHF, 1953–1964) 25 (UHF, 1964–2009) Digital: 59 (UHF, 2002–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
DT1: CBS (1953–1995) DT2: RTV (2008–2010) Wazoo Sports Network (2010–2011) |
| Transmitter power | 12.5 kW |
| Height | 316 m |
| Class | DT |
| Facility ID | 24215 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 37°51′56″N 87°34′4″W / 37.86556°N 87.56778°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.tristatehomepage.com |
WEHT is the ABC-affiliated television station for the Tri-State area of Southwestern Indiana, Northwestern Kentucky and Southeastern Illinois; it is owned by Nexstar Media Group under a shared services agreement with CW affiliate WTVW (owned by Mission Broadcasting). Licensed to Evansville, Indiana, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 7 (or virtual channel 25.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter at its studios on Marywood Drive in Henderson, Kentucky.
The station signed-on September 27, 1953 as the first television station in the Tri-State area. It aired an analog signal on UHF channel 50 and was a primary CBS affiliate with secondary relations with ABC. Although the station was licensed to Evansville, the studios have always been located across the Ohio River in Henderson. WEHT was originally owned by the Malco Theater Corporation of Memphis, Tennessee; minority interest was held by several Henderson businessmen for the first year. It would drop ABC when WTVW launched in August 1956. Cincinnati meatpacker Henry S. Hilberg bought the station from Malco in 1957.
The Gilmore Broadcasting Corporation, owned by former Kalamazoo, Michigan mayor and businessman James Gilmore, Jr., bought WEHT and sister station KGUN in Tucson, Arizona from Hilberg in 1964. In September 1966, the station activated its current 988-foot tower. On the same day the new tower came into service, it moved to the stronger channel 25. The move allowed WEHT to boast of reaching an additional 70,000 families in the area, with improved picture quality for its total audience of 250,000 households.
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