WKYI-CD
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Louisville, Kentucky United States |
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| Branding | This 24 Louisville |
| Slogan | Bringing Kentuckiana Together |
| Channels |
Digital: 24 (UHF) Virtual: 24 () |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Affiliations | This TV |
| Owner | (New Albany Broadcasting Co., Inc.) |
| First air date | March 1, 1996 |
| Call letters' meaning | W-KentuckY & Indiana |
| Former callsigns | W24BW (1994–2010) |
| Former affiliations |
Primary: MuchUSA (late 1990s–2003) America One (2003–2010) Secondary: JTV (2010–2013) |
| Transmitter power | 15 kW |
| Height | 204 metres (669 ft) |
| Class | Class A |
| Facility ID | 25078 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 38°21′55.0″N 85°50′24.0″W / 38.365278°N 85.840000°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.wkyitv.com |
WKYI-CD, virtual and UHF digital channel 24, is an independent station in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Since January 2015, the station now affiliates with the This TV network after WAVE-TV dropped that network as a subchannel. It does not air all of the network feed and also continues to air other programming it carries in syndication, as well as local and paid programming. The station is owned by New Albany Broadcasting Co., Inc. WKYI-CD maintains offices located on Potters Lane in Clarksville, Indiana, and its transmitter is located in rural northeastern Floyd County (northeast of Floyds Knobs).
On cable, the station is available on Charter Spectrum digital channel 138 (viewable only through either a digital converter or an adapter through a QAM-compatible television set) and on AT&T U-verse channel 24, and over the air antenna at 24.1. The channel has re-branded itself as thisTV Louisville - using this branding and logo also during times when they are local and syndicated programming which does not come from the network feed.
The station was founded on June 22, 1994 as W24BW, 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.,(1995-1997) 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.
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