WHAS-TV
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Louisville, Kentucky United States |
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| Branding | WHAS 11 (general) WHAS 11 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan |
On Your Side (news) Start Here, Stay Here. (general) |
| Channels |
Digital: 11 (VHF) Virtual: 11 () |
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| Owner |
Tegna, Inc. (Sander Operating Co. I LLC D/B/A WHAS Television) |
| Founded | September 1946 |
| First air date | March 27, 1950 |
| Call letters' meaning | Derived from former sister station WHAS radio |
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| Transmitter power | 16.4 kW |
| Height | 392 metres (1,286 feet) |
| Facility ID | 32327 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°21′22.66″N 85°50′51.09″W / 38.3562944°N 85.8475250°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WHAS-TV, virtual and VHF channel 11, is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The station is owned by Tegna, Inc. WHAS-TV maintains studio facilities located on West Chestnut Street in Downtown Louisville, and its transmitter is located in rural northeastern Floyd County, Indiana (northeast of Floyds Knobs). On cable, WHAS-TV is available on Spectrum channel 4 and in high definition on digital channel 908.
The station first signed on the air on March 27, 1950. Originally broadcasting on VHF channel 9; it was the second television station to sign on in the Louisville market and the state of Kentucky (after NBC affiliate WAVE-TV, which signed on in November 1948). WHAS-TV was founded by the Bingham family, publishers of morning newspaper The Courier-Journal, afternoon newspaper The Louisville Times and operator of WHAS (840 AM), Louisville's oldest radio station. It operated from brand-new studios in the Courier-Journal/Times Building at 6th & Broadway, in downtown Louisville-even though WHAS-TV's construction permit (1946) was issued before WAVE-TV's (1947), the Bingham family waited until the new TV facility was finished to begin telecasting, 16 months after WAVE, who adapted an existing building at Preston and Broadway. The station originally operated as a primary CBS affiliate, owing to its sister radio station's longtime affiliation with the CBS Radio Network, with a secondary affiliation with ABC. It moved to VHF channel 11 on February 7, 1953, one of several channel shifts resulting from the Federal Communications Commission's 1952 Sixth Report and Order. Under the same decree, WAVE-TV relocated from channel 5 to channel 3.
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