WMYS-LD
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South Bend, Indiana United States |
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| Branding | My Michiana |
| Slogan | South Bend's MyNetworkTV |
| Channels |
Digital: 39 (UHF) Virtual: 69 () |
| Subchannels | 69.1 MyNetworkTV 69.2 Telemundo 69.3 Decades |
| Affiliations | MyNetworkTV (2006–present) |
| Owner |
Weigel Broadcasting (Weigel Broadcasting Company) |
| First air date | December 2, 1987 |
| Call letters' meaning | W MYNetworkTV South Bend |
| Sister station(s) | WBND-LD, WCWW-LD |
| Former callsigns | W12BK (1987) W69BT (1987–1999) WMWB-LP (1999–2002) WRDY-LP (2002–2004) WAAT-LP (2004–2006) WCWW-LP (March 2006) WMYT-LP (March–April 2006) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 12 (VHF, 1987) 69 (UHF, 1987–2010) Digital: 23 (UHF, 2007–2012) |
| Former affiliations |
WCIU-TV/Univision translator (1987–1995) WBND-LP/ABC translator (1995) The WB (1995–2002) Independent (2002–2006) |
| Transmitter power | 15 kW |
| Height | 71431 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°36′54.9″N 86°11′6.6″W / 41.615250°N 86.185167°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | MyMichianaTV.com |
WMYS-LD, virtual channel 69 (UHF digital channel 39), is a low-powered MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station located in South Bend, Indiana, United States. The station is owned by Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasting, and is sister to ABC affiliate WBND-LD (channel 57) and CW affiliate WCWW-LD (channel 25). All three stations share studios located near the Indiana Toll Road on Generations Drive in northeastern South Bend; WMYS's transmitter is located just off the St. Joseph Valley Parkway in the southern portion of South Bend.
The station can also be seen on Comcast Xfinity channel 269 and AT&T U-verse channel 69.
The station first signed on the air on December 2, 1987 as W12BK, broadcasting on VHF channel 12; later that month, it moved to UHF channel 69 and accordingly changed its calls to W69BT. It originally operated as a translator of Chicago sister station WCIU-TV (WMYS currently carries Cubs and White Sox games that are carried on WCIU through its broadcast partner WGN-TV, as well as WCIU's morning news/lifestyle program You & Me This Morning). On October 18, 1995, W58BT (channel 58, now WBND-LD on channel 57) became the South Bend market's new ABC affiliate, after full-power WSJV (channel 28) ended its affiliation with that network to join Fox. Due to W58BT's low-power signal which could not reach the entire market, Weigel converted W69BT into a translator of W58BT to reach areas that could not receive an adequate signal.
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