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WAZE-TV (channel 19) was a television station licensed to Madisonville, Kentucky, United States. It served the Evansville, Indiana, television market from 1983 to 2013, and was most recently affiliated with The CW. The station's transmitter was located in Hanson, Kentucky. On March 24, 2011, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) canceled WAZE's license for failure to construct its full-power digital facility.
The station continued to broadcast via low-power translators WAZE-LP (channel 17), 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-TV's transmitter was located farther south than the other major Evansville stations because of FCC regulations requiring a station's transmitter to be no more than 15 miles (24 km) from the city of license—in this case, Madisonville, which is 50 miles (80 km) south of Evansville. As a result, despite its 2.7 million watt ERP, the channel 19 signal provided only grade B ("rimshot") coverage of Evansville itself, and was practically unviewable north and east of the city. The station relied on cable and satellite to reach most of its viewing area. However, many cable systems in the market (particularly on the Indiana side) did not carry it.
The station signed on October 15, 1983, as WLCN, the market's first independent television 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 Illinois–Indiana–Kentucky tri-state area for 11 years. However, cable systems piped in either WTTV in Indianapolis (now a CBS affiliate) or KPLR-TV in St. Louis (now a CW affiliate), depending on the location.
At the time of its inception, the station was owned by locally based non-profit Life Anew Ministries, who began their television venture by airing a locally produced Christian programming on the Madisonville area's public access station on cable. Before WLCN came on the air, the ministry leased a channel from the local cable company to air its Christian programming. Once on the air, the religious independent format was available free of charge for all viewers. The studios were originally located at the Life Anew Ministries headquarters along with its church and its Christian academy. However, the operation of the station did not go without financial difficulty as the station relied mostly on church resources and the station's supporters.
On May 20, 1986, the station attempted to erect a new transmission tower at a site near Earlington in order to expand signal reach, but it collapsed during construction due to unknown causes. Even with a technical upgrade with a finally-completed new tower and increase in signal power to 1.2 million watts in 1992, the station still had difficulty paying its debts, thus leading the station to extend its telethons for several nights.
Life Anew defaulted on its debts in 1991. However, an unknown "Good Samaritan" who heard of the station's financial troubles bought the church building after the 1992 telethons, thus bringing the ministry the financial help needed to keep the station on the air. Nightly church services, along with family programming and fare from the Inspirational Network, became part of the station's broadcast schedule by 1993.
South Central Communications, based in Evansville, acquired the station on September 18, 1997, for $5 million to convert it into a commercial general entertainment outlet. A few weeks later on November 1 of that year, it became affiliated with The WB, and changed its call letters to WWAZ-TV, activating a network of repeaters to better cover the Evansville market. From the time the station affiliated with The WB until 1998, the station was also affiliated with UPN to air that network's programming following The WB's prime time schedule. In 1999, it began branding as WAZE-TV, after its Evansville repeater, and changed its call letters to match in 2000. The original location of the studio at that time was in the South Central Communications building. Later, they occupied a facility just down a hill in a remodeled nursery/plant store that was later expanded to include a studio. The WWAZ-TV call letters were used by a station in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, which has since changed calls to WIWN.
On January 24, 2006, the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner and CBS Corporation announced that the two companies would shut down The WB and UPN and combine the networks' respective programming to create a new "fifth" network called The CW. WAZE-TV was announced to become a charter CW affiliate when the network launched on September 18.
WAZE-TV
WAZE-TV (channel 19) was a television station licensed to Madisonville, Kentucky, United States. It served the Evansville, Indiana, television market from 1983 to 2013, and was most recently affiliated with The CW. The station's transmitter was located in Hanson, Kentucky. On March 24, 2011, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) canceled WAZE's license for failure to construct its full-power digital facility.
The station continued to broadcast via low-power translators WAZE-LP (channel 17), 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-TV's transmitter was located farther south than the other major Evansville stations because of FCC regulations requiring a station's transmitter to be no more than 15 miles (24 km) from the city of license—in this case, Madisonville, which is 50 miles (80 km) south of Evansville. As a result, despite its 2.7 million watt ERP, the channel 19 signal provided only grade B ("rimshot") coverage of Evansville itself, and was practically unviewable north and east of the city. The station relied on cable and satellite to reach most of its viewing area. However, many cable systems in the market (particularly on the Indiana side) did not carry it.
The station signed on October 15, 1983, as WLCN, the market's first independent television 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 Illinois–Indiana–Kentucky tri-state area for 11 years. However, cable systems piped in either WTTV in Indianapolis (now a CBS affiliate) or KPLR-TV in St. Louis (now a CW affiliate), depending on the location.
At the time of its inception, the station was owned by locally based non-profit Life Anew Ministries, who began their television venture by airing a locally produced Christian programming on the Madisonville area's public access station on cable. Before WLCN came on the air, the ministry leased a channel from the local cable company to air its Christian programming. Once on the air, the religious independent format was available free of charge for all viewers. The studios were originally located at the Life Anew Ministries headquarters along with its church and its Christian academy. However, the operation of the station did not go without financial difficulty as the station relied mostly on church resources and the station's supporters.
On May 20, 1986, the station attempted to erect a new transmission tower at a site near Earlington in order to expand signal reach, but it collapsed during construction due to unknown causes. Even with a technical upgrade with a finally-completed new tower and increase in signal power to 1.2 million watts in 1992, the station still had difficulty paying its debts, thus leading the station to extend its telethons for several nights.
Life Anew defaulted on its debts in 1991. However, an unknown "Good Samaritan" who heard of the station's financial troubles bought the church building after the 1992 telethons, thus bringing the ministry the financial help needed to keep the station on the air. Nightly church services, along with family programming and fare from the Inspirational Network, became part of the station's broadcast schedule by 1993.
South Central Communications, based in Evansville, acquired the station on September 18, 1997, for $5 million to convert it into a commercial general entertainment outlet. A few weeks later on November 1 of that year, it became affiliated with The WB, and changed its call letters to WWAZ-TV, activating a network of repeaters to better cover the Evansville market. From the time the station affiliated with The WB until 1998, the station was also affiliated with UPN to air that network's programming following The WB's prime time schedule. In 1999, it began branding as WAZE-TV, after its Evansville repeater, and changed its call letters to match in 2000. The original location of the studio at that time was in the South Central Communications building. Later, they occupied a facility just down a hill in a remodeled nursery/plant store that was later expanded to include a studio. The WWAZ-TV call letters were used by a station in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, which has since changed calls to WIWN.
On January 24, 2006, the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner and CBS Corporation announced that the two companies would shut down The WB and UPN and combine the networks' respective programming to create a new "fifth" network called The CW. WAZE-TV was announced to become a charter CW affiliate when the network launched on September 18.