states city marion indiana branding my indy tv general slogan whatcha wan na watch channels digital 32 uhf virtual 23 psip affiliations .1 mynetworktv .2 bounce tv 1 .3 the cw owner media general sale to nexstar broadcasting group pending indiana broadcasting llc first air date november 1 1987 ; 28 years ago 1987 11 01 call letters meaning wndy short for indianapolis sister station s wish tv wiih cd former callsigns wmcc 1987 1995 former channel number s analog 23 uhf 1987 2009 former affiliations primary independent 1987 1995 the wb 1995 1998 upn 1998 2006 secondary cbs 2005 2014 dt2 thecooltv 2010 2013 dt3 bounce tv 2011 2013 ; moved to dt2 transmitter power 1 000 kw height 284 m facility id 39269 transmitter coordinates 40 08 56.0 n 85 56 07.0 w 40.148889 n 85.935278 w 40.148889 ; 85.935278 licensing authority fcc public license information profile cdbs website wishtv.com myindy tv wndy tv virtual channel 23 uhf digital channel 32 is a mynetworktv affiliated television station serving indianapolis indiana united states that is licensed to marion . the station is owned by media general as part of a duopoly with cw affiliate wish tv channel 8 . the two stations share studio facilities located on north meridian street at the north end of indianapolis television row in northwestern indianapolis ; wndy maintains transmitter facilities located in white river township . on cable wndy is available on comcast xfinity bright house networks and at & t u verse channel 10 in standard definition and in high definition on xfinity bright house and at & t u verse channel 1010 . contents 1 history 1.1 early history 1.2 as a mynetworktv affiliate 2 digital television 2.1 digital channels 2.2 analog to digital conversion 3 programming 3.1 sports programming 4 newscasts 4.1 notable current on air staff 5 references 6 external links history edit early history edit the station first signed on the air on november 1 1987 as wmcc . founded by g.j. robinson it originally operated as an independent station ; it ran mostly paid programming but slowly added classic sitcoms cartoons and older movies . the station s original studios and transmitter were located on east 246th street state road 213 in white river township . wmcc continued to acquire more recent sitcoms and added some talk and reality shows during the early 1990s . the station would later relocate its operations to a new studio facility on west 16th street in indianapolis . on december 7 1994 2 wmcc was sold for 10 million to wabash valley broadcasting making it a sister station to wthi am fm tv in terre haute and two florida television stations 3 a company owned by the hulman george family the longtime owners of indianapolis motor speedway ; the station s license was held by ims broadcasting llc during this time . 4 the new owners changed channel 23 s call letters to wndy tv on january 9 1995 5 and rebranded the station indy tv ; the station also began using a checkered flag as part of its logo a nod to the speedway and its signature indianapolis 500 race which covered the left diagonal line of the w in the calls . 4 wndy became a charter affiliate of the wb when the network launched two days later ; 6 the station eventually amended its branding to indy tv wb 23 in reflection of the affiliation . the hulman george family decided to sell wndy tv in 1997 . spartan communications which planned on turning over wndy s operations to fox affiliate wxin channel 59 under a local marketing agreement with tribune broadcasting agreed to acquire the station in august 1997 7 only to back out of the deal an hour before it was scheduled to be finalized on october 3 . paxson communications then made a 28.4 million offer for wndy before it was outbid by the paramount stations group now cbs television stations which purchased the station for 35 million in october 1997 ; 8 paramount decided to buy the station after the sinclair broadcast group signed an agreement to switch its upn affiliates and independent stations to the wb with upn affiliated wttv channel 4 and its kokomo satellite wttk channel 29 slated to switch . 9 10 wndy tv began carrying upn programming on january 22 1998 ; initially the station aired the network s programming on thursdays fridays and saturdays as it remained a wb affiliate . 11 the move followed the expiration of wttv s contract with upn a week earlier . 12 the sale to paramount was finalized on february 4 1998 . 13 though channel 23 s contract with the wb was originally slated to expire in january 1999 14 wb programming moved to wttv on april 6 1998 ; 15 at that time wndy became a upn owned and operated station and changed its branding to upn 23 . with the switch the station became the first o & o of a major commercial broadcast network in the indianapolis market . the station adopted the upn indiana branding in september 2003 dropping on air references to its channel 23 allocation ; this was done partly due to the fact that most cable providers in the indianapolis market carry wndy on channel 10 . a few weeks before the start of the 2003 04 television season wndy began displaying a countdown of days until it rebranded as upn indy . it was reported that the upn indy moniker was ditched in favor of upn indiana at the last minute to appeal to the larger audience across the state rather than just those living in the indianapolis area along with the fact that the indianapolis motor speedway had stopped allowing the station to use the trademarked word indy . on february 10 2005 paramount sold wndy and columbus sister station wwho to the lin tv corporation owners of then cbs affiliate wish tv channel 8 and 24 hour weather service wiih ca channel 17 now a fill in translator for wish for 85 million ; 16 the station rebranded as wndy upn 23 that july . wndy had previously been used as the calls for local radio station wbri 1500 am and fictionally as the call sign of the television station in the 1990 91 cbs series wiou which predated channel 23 s adoption of the wndy calls by about four years and for a fictional chicago radio station in the 1992 dolly parton film straight talk . as a mynetworktv affiliate edit on january 24 2006 cbs corporation which acquired upn in its split from viacom one month earlier and the warner bros. entertainment unit of time warner announced that they would dissolve upn and the wb that september in favor of creating the cw a new fifth network that would combine the programming from its respective predecessors . 17 18 one month later on february 22 news corporation announced the launch of another new network called mynetworktv ; originally operated by its fox television stations subsidiary and its twentieth television syndication division it was designed to give upn and wb affiliates that would not affiliate with the cw another option besides becoming independent stations . 19 wttv wttk was named as indianapolis s cw outlet through an affiliation deal with that station s owner tribune broadcasting that covered 16 of the company s 19 wb stations at that time ; wndy was named as the market s mynetworktv affiliate in a four station deal with lin on april 26 2006 . 20 shortly before becoming a charter affiliate when mynetworktv launched on september 5 the station accordingly rebranded as my indy tv . on may 18 2007 lin tv announced that it was exploring strategic alternatives that could have resulted in the sale of the company . 21 on october 2 2008 cable provider bright house networks pulled wish tv wndy and wiih ca from its indianapolis area system as it and lin had been unable to reach a new agreement for the stations regarding compensation for their carriage . wndy and wish were restored by bright house as part of an agreement that was reached 20 days later on october 26 . 22 on march 21 2014 media general announced that it would merge with lin media in a 1.6 billion deal . 23 24 the merger was completed on december 19 . 25 just over a year later on january 27 2016 it was announced that the nexstar broadcasting group would buy media general for 4.6 billion . wndy and wish will become part of nexstar media group . 26 digital television edit digital channels edit the station s digital channel is multiplexed channel video aspect psip short name programming 27 23.1 1080i 16 9 wndy hd main wndy tv programming mynetworktv 23.2 480i 4 3 bounce tv bounce tv 23.3 1080i 16 9 wish hd simulcast of wish tv 28 wndy formerly carried thecooltv on its second digital subchannel from 2010 to 2013 when lin media terminated its affiliation agreement with the music video network . 29 analog to digital conversion edit in october 2002 wndy began transmitting a digital signal on uhf channel 32 . wndy tv shut down its analog signal over uhf channel 23 on june 12 2009 the official date in which full power television stations in the united states transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate . the station s digital signal remained on its pre transition uhf channel 32 . 30 31 through the use of psip digital television receivers display the station s virtual channel as its former uhf analog channel 23 . the station s former analog era channel 23 allocation was then used by muncie pbs member station wipb channel 49 for its post transition digital signal . programming edit syndicated programs broadcast by wndy include the doctors cops reloaded hot bench community and the real . wndy carried the saturday edition of cbs this morning with the last broadcast on december 27 2014 and the weekend editions of the cbs evening news and the second half hour of face the nation both ending on december 28 2014 in lieu of wish tv in the case of the former two programs wish declined to air them in order to run expanded saturday morning and weekend 6 00 p.m. newscasts . occasionally as time permitted wndy aired other cbs programs that wish tv was unable to air due to extended breaking news or severe weather coverage or other special programming including certain ncaa men s basketball championship games when more than one team of local interest is playing . as a result of wish tv losing the cbs affiliation wndy also stopped airing select cbs programs after december 28 2014 wttv cleared the entire cbs schedule upon joining the network on january 1 2015 . the hoosier lottery awarded wndy the rights to televise its daily drawings the following year assuming the contract from wttv which had been airing the drawings since 1989 ; wttv would regain the broadcast contact to the drawings in 1999 before losing them again when the lottery discontinued the televised draws in 2001 . sports programming edit in 1995 the indiana high school athletics association awarded wndy the broadcast contract to air the statewide boys and girls high school basketball tournament games ; after the station terminated its contract with the ihsaa in august 1999 due to declining overall interest in the tournament the organization filed a breach of contract lawsuit against wndy in march 2000 seeking 3.28 million in damages . 32 wndy occasionally airs indianapolis colts games that are televised on espn s monday night football as nfl regulations require games that air on one of the league s cable partners to be simulcast on a broadcast television station in the participating team s home market the station had been