WMYO-CD (channel 24) is a low-power,

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, United States, affiliated with several digital multicast networks. The station is owned by Aircom Media. WMYO-CD's studios are located on Potters Lane in

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, and its transmitter is located in the Louisville tower farm in Floyd County (northeast of

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History

The station was founded on June 22, 1994, as W24BW (although it had a

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as W62BM) and first signed on the air on March 1, 1996. It was founded by Greater Louisville Communications, Inc. (owned by local businessmen Jerome Hutchinson Sr. and Jerome Hutchinson Jr.). From the late 1990s until 2003, the station carried

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programming from MuchUSA (now

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), the U.S. counterpart of the

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music video network

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. In 2003, the station switched its affiliation to

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, and began airing community and regional programming as well as sporting events. Channel 24's first chief engineer, Virgil Baldon Jr. (1994–1997), had the foresight to install a forward-compatible Acrodyne analog-to-digital convertible solid-state transmitter when W24BW began operations, over ten years ahead of the 2009

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. Baldon also oversaw the change of the transmitting antenna's directional main beam to 135 degrees true for maximum signal over the city of Louisville. Baldon was the first African-American engineer to oversee and successfully launch a TV station in the state of Kentucky. In 2007, the

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, then-owners of Campbellsville-based WBKI-TV (channel 34), began operating W24BW under a

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; the station moved its operations into WBKI's studio facility off Blankenbaker Parkway in

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. The LMA also included a purchase option to buy the station. Cascade tried to rebrand channel 24 as the "Louisville Network" (or "LouNET"), and aired locally produced programs that were geared primarily towards the market's

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and

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community. The station also began to brand under the fictional "WYCS" call letters (standing for "Your Community Station"), to avert confusion with other local translator stations which just transmitted completely automated content straight from their network's satellites. Greater Louisville Broadcasting later sold channel 24 to New Albany Broadcasting Co., Inc. On November 10, 2009, the station changed its call sign to W24BW-D, upon beginning digital operation. On May 20, 2010, the station changed its call sign to WKYI-CD, denoting its status as a class A digital television station. This 24 Louisville logo

In January 2015, WKYI-CD took over the affiliation of

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on 24.2 in place of

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, which was required by a company-wide agreement to offer the new male-focused subchannel

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instead. This programming is mainly carried in the mornings, prime time and overnights on the station rather than the full 24/7 service. The station changed its call sign to WBKI-CD on December 27, 2017, and to WMYO-CD on February 12, 2018.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is

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References

External links

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