WBKI (TV)

WBKI

ATSC 3.0 station
Salem, Indiana Louisville, Kentucky United States
City	Salem, Indiana
Channels	Digital: 16 (UHF) Virtual: 58
Branding	WBKI-TV, The CW Louisville MyTV 58.3 (DT3)
Programming
Affiliations	58.1: The CW 58.3: MyNetworkTV for others, see § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	Block Communications (Independence Television Company)
Sister stations	WDRB
History
Founded	November 1, 1990
First air date	March 16, 1994 (30 years ago) (1994-03-16)
Former call signs	WFTE (1994–2006) WMYO (2006–2018) WBKI-TV (February 12–19, 2018)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 58 (UHF, 1994–2009) Digital: 51 (UHF, 2002–2019)
Former affiliations	Independent (1994–1995) UPN (1995–2006) MyNetworkTV (2006–2018; now on DT3) The CW (DT3, via the previous WBKI, 2012–2018)
Call sign meaning	"WB Kentuckiana" (carried over from the original WBKI-TV)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	34167
ERP	860 kW
HAAT	390.4 m (1,281 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	38°21′1″N 85°50′57″W / 38.35028°N 85.84917°W / 38.35028; -85.84917
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.wbki.tv

WBKI (channel 58) is a television station licensed to Salem, Indiana, United States, serving the Louisville, Kentucky, area as a dual affiliate of The CW and MyNetworkTV. It is the only full-power Louisville-area station licensed to the Indiana side of the market. WBKI is owned by Block Communications alongside Fox affiliate WDRB (channel 41). Both stations share studios on West Muhammad Ali Boulevard (near US 150) in downtown Louisville, while WBKI's transmitter is located in rural northeastern Floyd County, Indiana (northeast of Floyds Knobs). Despite Salem being WBKI's city of license, the station maintains no physical presence there.

Block formerly operated a CW affiliate with the WBKI-TV call sign on channel 34, licensed to Campbellsville, Kentucky, under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with owner LM Communications, LLC. Following the sale of channel 34's spectrum in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)'s incentive auction, the Campbellsville station ceased broadcasting on October 25, 2017 (with its license canceled on October 31); its channels are now broadcast solely through channel 58 on that station's license.