WBXI-CD

This article is about the Class A TV station in Indianapolis. For the WBXI that is now WBNG-DT2, seeWBNG-TV.

WBXI-CD

Indianapolis, Indiana United States
Channels	Digital:36 (UHF) Virtual:47
Branding	WBXI-CD Indianapolis
Programming
Affiliations	47.1:Start TV for others, see§ Subchannels
Ownership
Owner	CBS News and Stations (CBS Mass Media Corporation)
History
Founded	August 23, 1989(1989-08-23)
First air date	1990(1990)
Former call signs	W47AZ (1990–2001) WBXI-CA (2001–2015)
Former channel number(s)	Analog:47 (UHF, 1990–2015) Digital:47 (UHF, 2015–2019)
Former affiliations	The Box(1990–2001) MTV2(2001–2004 and 2004–2007) UPN(viaWNDY-TV,2004) MTV Tres(2007–2014) Local Weather (2014–2017) Decades(2018)
Call signmeaning	The Box Indianapolis (former affiliation)
Technical information
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	70416
Class	CD
ERP	15 kW
HAAT	268.6 m (881 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	39°53′39.2″N86°12′20.5″W
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	wbxica.cbslocal

WBXI-CD(channel 47) is alow-power,Class A television stationinIndianapolis, Indiana,United States, broadcasting programming from thedigital multicast networkStart TV.Owned and operatedby theCBS News and Stationsgroup, the station has a transmitter on Walnut Drive in northwestern Indianapolis.

History

The station first signed on the air in 1990 as W47AZ. Originally serving as an affiliate of the viewer-requestmusic videonetworkThe Box,the station changed its call letters to WBXI-CA in 2001; that year, the station switched toMTV2following that network's acquisition byViacom,which acquired WBXI-CA. For a few months in 2004, channel 47 served as arepeaterof then-sister station andUPNaffiliateWNDY-TV(channel 23, now aMyNetworkTVaffiliate); this ended when Viacom's Television Stations Group (nowCBS News and Stations) subsidiary sold WNDY-TV to theLIN TV Corporation,owners of then-CBS(nowCW) affiliateWISH-TV(channel 8), in February 2005.

Unexpectedly, Viacom retained ownership of WBXI-CA, before spinning it off toCBS Corporationin December of that year, following CBS'splitfrom the former company;Viacomretained ownership of theMTV Networks;however, the station maintained its MTV2 affiliation.

In 2007, the station switched to MTV2'sSpanish-languagesister networkMTV 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'sDecades,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 networkStart TV,dropping Decades. Decades shifted over toWSDI-LD2. The station transitioned toViacomCBSownership in December 2019.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal ismultiplexed:

Subchannels of WBXI-CD

Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming
47.1	480i	16:9	WBXI-CD	Start TV
47.2			WBXICD2	Catchy Comedy
47.3			WBXICD3	Story Television
47.4			WBXICD4	Movies!

Analog-to-digital conversion

WBXI-CA maintained aconstruction permitto shut down its analog signal andflash cutits digital signal into operation on UHF channel 47 on September 1, 2015.The station turned on its digital signal on August 21, 2015, and ceased operations of its analog signal on September 1, 2015, the mandatory date for Class A Low Powered Stations to cease operations.