WBXI-CD
WBXI-CD, virtual channel 47, is a Start TV-affiliated television station licensed to Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of ViacomCBS. WBXI-CD's transmitter is located near the "tower farm" on the Northside of Indianapolis.
History
The station first signed on the air in 1990 as W47AZ. Originally serving as an affiliate of the viewer-request music video network The Box, the station changed its call letters to WBXI-CA in 2001; that year, the station switched to MTV2 following that network's acquisition by Viacom, which acquired WBXI-CA. For a few months in 2004, channel 47 served as a repeater of then-sister station and UPN affiliate WNDY-TV ; this ended when Viacom's Television Stations Group subsidiary sold WNDY-TV to the LIN TV Corporation, owners of then-CBS affiliate WISH-TV, in February 2005.Unexpectedly, Viacom retained ownership of WBXI-CA, before spinning it off to CBS Corporation in December of that year, following CBS' split from the former company; Viacom retained ownership of the MTV Networks; however, the station maintained its MTV2 affiliation.
In 2007, the station switched to MTV2's Spanish-language sister network MTV Tr3s. This would end in 2014 upon the expiration of its last carriage contract, when WBXI would switch to continuous weather information.
On January 1, 2018, WBXI began carrying programming from CBS/Weigel Broadcasting's Decades, with a local hour of the weather loop remaining weekdays at 7:00 a.m. On September 3, 2018, WBXI-CD launched CBS/Weigel's new network Start TV, dropping Decades. Decades shifted over to WSDI-LD2.
Digital television
Digital channel
Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP Short Name | Programming |
47.1 | 480i | WBXI-CD | Main WBXI-CD programming / Start TV / Indianapolis Weather |