WKOI-TV

WKOI-TV, virtual channel 43 (UHF digital channel 31), is an Ion Television owned-and-operated station serving Dayton, Ohio, United States that is licensed to Richmond, Indiana. The station is owned by West Palm Beach, Florida-based Ion Media Networks. WKOI-TV's studios are located on South 9th Street in Richmond; transmission facilities are provided by unrelated Dayton-licensed NBC affiliate WDTN (channel 2), which shares its digital channel with WKOI-TV, along with WDTN's sister station, Springfield, Ohio-licensed CW affiliate WBDT (channel 26); the transmitter is located on Frytown Road in southwest Dayton.

WKOI-TV
Richmond, Indiana/Dayton, Ohio
United States
CityRichmond, Indiana
ChannelsDigital: 31 (UHF)
(shared with WDTN and WBDT[1])
Virtual: 43 (PSIP)
BrandingIon Television
SloganPositively Entertaining
Programming
AffiliationsIon Television (O&O, 2018–present)
Ownership
OwnerIon Media Networks
(Ion Television License, LLC)
History
First air dateMay 11, 1982 (1982-05-11)
Former call signsWKOI (1982–2003)
Former channel number(s)Analog:
43 (UHF, 1982–2009)
Digital:
39 (UHF, until 2018)
50 (UHF, 2018–2019)
Former affiliationsAnalog/DT1:
Independent (1982–1986)
TBN (1986–2018)
DT2:
Hillsong Channel (20??–2018)
DT3:
JUCE TV (20??–2018)/
Smile (2015–2018)
DT4:
Enlace (20??–2018)
DT5:
Smile (20??–2015)
TBN Salsa (2015–2018)
Call sign meaningKentucky
Ohio
Indiana
Technical information
Licensing authorityFCC
Facility ID67869
ERP1000 kW
HAAT275.2 m (903 ft) (STA)
329.9 m (1,082 ft) (CP)
Transmitter coordinates39°43′7″N 84°15′22″W
Links
Public license informationProfile
LMS
Websiteiontelevision.com

Background

WKOI-TV signed on May 11, 1982 as an independent station airing religious programming. In 1986, it was purchased by the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). As a TBN O&O, the station cleared almost all of the network's programming, only breaking away from the network once a week for local community public affairs programming.

Until June 7, 2018,[2][3] WKOI-TV's transmitter was located on SR 73 in Milford Township, Butler County, Ohio, near Collinsville, approximately halfway between Richmond and Cincinnati, which provided coverage to Northern Kentucky, Greater Cincinnati and the Miami Valley in Ohio, and East Central Indiana, hence its callsign WKOI-TV. Even though its transmitter was based within the Cincinnati television market, the station was officially assigned by Nielsen to the Dayton market.

TBN entered into an option agreement with Ion Media Networks on November 14, 2017, which gave Ion the option to acquire the licenses of WKOI-TV and three other TBN stations that had sold their spectrum in the FCC's incentive auction; Ion exercised the option on May 24, 2018.[4] The sale was completed on September 25, 2018.[5]

Digital television

Digital channel
Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming[6]
43.1480i16:9ION TVMain WKOI-TV programming / Ion Television

Analog-to-digital conversion

WKOI-TV (along with all other TBN-owned full-power stations) shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 43, on April 16, 2009.[6] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 39.[7] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 43. The station's digital signal was multiplexed, carrying TBN on 43.1, The Church Channel on 43.2, JCTV on 43.3, Enlace on 43.4 and Smile of a Child on 43.5. Later, The Church Channel became Hillsong Channel, JCTV became JUCE TV and was combined on 43.3 with Smile, and TBN Salsa was added on 43.5.

Spectrum sale and channel sharing agreement

On April 14, 2017, it was reported that WKOI-TV's over-the-air spectrum had been sold in the FCC's spectrum reallocation auction, fetching just over $20 million, with the station expected to go off the air.[8] On March 22, 2018, it was announced that WKOI-TV would share spectrum with unrelated NBC affiliate WDTN.[1]

On June 7, 2018, WKOI-TV began sharing WDTN's digital channel, with all TBN channels dropped, and Ion Television programming appearing on virtual channel 43.1.[2] WDTN also continued to carry Ion Television on virtual channel 2.3, as it had since February 1, 2018; on June 29, 2018, when WDTN's sister station WBDT also began sharing WDTN's digital signal, virtual channel 2.3 was dropped.

Former translators

WKOI-TV's programming was previously relayed on W20CL (channel 20) in Springfield, Ohio and W36DG (channel 36) in Cincinnati. A deal was reached to sell W20CL (now WLWD-LD in Dayton)[9] to Word of God Fellowship, owner of the Daystar Television Network, on March 19, 2010;[10] W36DG was also sold to Daystar, and is now WDYC-LD.[11][12][13]

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See also

References
  1. WKOI - Waiver Request(134365826_1)(final 3-22-2018) (002)
  2. Filby, Max (June 6, 2018). "TV antenna not working? Local channels start changing frequencies soon". Dayton Daily News. Retrieved June 22, 2018.
  3. "Suspension of Operations of a DTV Station Application". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. June 6, 2018. Retrieved June 8, 2018.
  4. "Application for Consent to Assignment of Broadcast Station Construction Permit or License". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. June 8, 2018. Retrieved June 11, 2018.
  5. "Consummation Notice". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. September 25, 2018. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
  6. RabbitEars TV Query for WKOI
  7. "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-03-24.
  8. Gnau, Tom (April 14, 2017). "2 Dayton-area TV stations sell spectrum to FCC for $47.3 million". Dayton Daily News. Retrieved April 30, 2017.
  9. FCC Data for WLWD-LD
  10. "APPLICATION FOR TRANSFER OF CONTROL OF A CORPORATE LICENSEE OR PERMITTEE, OR FOR ASSIGNMENT OF LICENSE OR PERMIT OF TV OR FM TRANSLATOR STATION OR LOW POWER TELEVISION STATION". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. March 24, 2010. Retrieved March 30, 2010.
  11. FCC Data for WDYC-LP
  12. "APPLICATION FOR TRANSFER OF CONTROL OF A CORPORATE LICENSEE OR PERMITTEE, OR FOR ASSIGNMENT OF LICENSE OR PERMIT OF TV OR FM TRANSLATOR STATION OR LOW POWER TELEVISION STATION". CDBS Public Access. Federal Communications Commission. November 30, 2009. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
  13. "BALTT-20091201AJW Authorization" (PDF). CDBS. Federal Communications Commission. January 15, 2010. Application Number: BALTT-20091201AJV, Call Sign: W45CP-D, Form: 732. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
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