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City | Salem, Indiana |
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Founded | November 1, 1990 |
First air date | March 16, 1994 |
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Call sign meaning | "WB Kentuckiana" (carried over from the original WBKI-TV) |
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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 |
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Website | www |
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.