WMYS-LD
WMYS-LD, virtual channel 69, is a low-powered MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station licensed to South Bend, Indiana, United States. Owned by Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasting, it is a sister station to ABC affiliate WBND-LD and CW affiliate WCWW-LD. The three stations share studios on Generations Drive in northeastern South Bend; WMYS-LD's transmitter is located just off the St. Joseph Valley Parkway on the city's south side.
On cable, the station can be seen on Comcast Xfinity channel 269 and AT&T U-verse channel 69.
History
The station first signed on the air on December 2, 1987 as W12BK, broadcasting on VHF channel 12; later that month, it moved to UHF channel 69 and accordingly changed its calls to W69BT. It originally operated as a translator of Chicago sister station WCIU-TV, which at the time was an independent station with Telemundo as a secondary affiliation. On October 18, 1995, W58BT became the South Bend market's new ABC affiliate, after full-power WSJV ended its affiliation with that network to join Fox. Due to W58BT's low-power signal which could not reach the entire market, Weigel converted W69BT into a translator of W58BT in November of that year to reach areas that could not receive an adequate signal as Weigel campaigned the FCC to increase the station's signal radius, along with establishing its pay-TV coverage.After several years, those efforts were successful. As most of the market could receive channel 57 without issue, in October 1999, channel 69 became an affiliate of The WB with its own schedule. The station's callsign was changed to WMWB-LP.
After Weigel purchased WYGN-LP in 2002 from 3ABN, Weigel chose to move channel 69's schedule, call letters, and WB affiliation to that station, which was closer to the majority of the channels on the South Bend television dial. Channel 69 then adopted channel 25's former WRDY-LP call letters. It later changed its calls three more times: first to WAAT-LP in 2004, then briefly to WCWW-LP in March 2006. During that period of time, it was programmed as an independent station once again, with occasional programming from the Sportsman Channel.
In March 2006, Weigel reached an affiliation deal to affiliate channel 69 with MyNetworkTV, a network launched as a partnership between Fox Television Stations and Twentieth Television; in accordance to the new affiliation, it changed its calls to WMYT-LP before modifying it to WMYS-LP in April 2006. WMYS affiliated with MyNetworkTV when it launched on September 5, 2006. Until 2011, when MeTV launched on WBND-LD2, the station carried classic television series and retro commercials associated with MeTV's stations in Chicago, though without the branding due to its network affiliation and a sizeable amount of recent first-run programming within the station's schedule. Currently it carries a sizable amount of current-day programming, though it retains The Andy Griffith Show. From 2015 and 2019, it carried Cubs and White Sox games broadcast by WGN-TV in Chicago.
In early August 2008, Weigel Broadcasting agreed to sell all three of its South Bend stations, including WMYS, to Schurz Communications, the longtime owner of the local CBS affiliate WSBT-TV, for undisclosed terms. However, in the absence of action by the Federal Communications Commission, the deal was called off in August 2009.
Digital television
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:| Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP Short Name | Programming |
| 69.1 | 720p | WMYS | Main WMYS-LD programming / MyNetworkTV | |
| 69.2 | 1080i | TELMNDO | Simulcast of WYTU-LD | |
| 69.3 | 480i | DECADES | Decades |
In January 2008, the station began to be carried on digital cable channel 269 on Comcast's South Bend system.