WBKO-DT2 is a Fox-affiliated television station licensed to Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States and serving South Central Kentucky. It is a second digital subchannel of ABC affiliate WBKO (channel 13) that is owned by Gray Television. Over the air, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on virtual and VHF channel 13.2 from a transmitter along KY 185/Richardsville Road in unincorporated northern Warren County. The station can also be viewed via Charter Spectrum channels 8 (SD) and 910 (HD). WBKO-DT2's parent station has studios on Russellville Road (US 68/KY 80) along the William H. Natcher Parkway in Bowling Green.
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History
Fox's previous presence in Bowling Green
From January 10, 1992 until Match 10, 2001, WKNT (channel 40, now NBC affiliate WNKY) served as the original Fox network affiliate serving south-central Kentucky. When WNKY became the area's NBC affiliate, the Bowling Green area was being served over-the-air and via cable television by WZTV in nearby Nashville, Tennessee by default. WZTV also previously served as the areas default Fox affiliate from 1990 until January 1992, but it was WCAY-TV (later UPN affiliate WUXP-TV, now a MyNetworkTV affiliate]]) that served as the default Fox affiliate from the network's 1987 beginning until 1990, when WZTV took the Fox affiliation in Nashville. Carriage of the distant Fox affiliates were a way for the market to be served by Fox without resorting to carrying the Foxnet national service for the smallest markets.
Meanwhile, in Hart County, cable systems in that area was served by Louisville Fox affiliate WDRB. WDRB was also carried on Glasgow based South Central Rural Telephone Cooperative and the Glasgow Electric Plant Board cable systems throughout the 1990s, the 2000s. In areas east of Bowling Green, Campbellsville-based WGRB (now the defunct WBKI-TV), which mainly served the Louisville market's southern areas, was an alkternative default Fox affiliate from 1990 until 1992. That station later became the default over-the-air affiliate of The WB for parts of the area.
New Fox affiliate
On September 5, 2006, the Fox network returned to the Bowling Green area as WBKO-DT2 was launched in Bowling Green to serve as a new Fox affiliate for the area after five years without a local affiliate. Thirteen days later, WBKO-DT3 went on the air as an over-the-air relaunch of the cable-exclusive CW affiliate]] "WBWG." Over a course of eight years, the remaining two networks, CBS and MyNetworkTV, became available over local outlets in 2007 and 2014 via WNKY-DT2 and WCZU-LD, respectively. As a result, Ion Television is now the only major programming service not available from a local outlet in Bowling Green. Cookeville-licensed Ion Owned-and-operated station WNPX-TV is the default over-the-air Ion station, and all cable and satellite providers carry ION's national feed. The over-the-air signal of WZTV and four other Nashville-area full-power stations (WTVF, WUXP-TV, WSMV-TV, and WKRN-TV) can still be picked up in some areas of the market over-the-air with a properly-placed antenna. WZTV was dropped from many cable systems in the market, but both WZTV and WBKO-DT2 are available on Mediacom cable systems serving the Morgantown (Butler County) and Brownsville (Edmonson County) areas. In addition, the two Fox affiliates are also carried on WesternCable, the in-campus cable system available in classrooms and residential halls at locally based Western Kentucky University.
In 2014, Louisville's WDRB and WMYO were also dropped from the Glasgow-based cable systems after they began carrying WCZU-LD's channels, which would get both WBKO-DT2 and WCZU to claim exclusivity in terms of Fox and MyNetworkTV outlets on Glasgow-area cable.
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Programming
General programming
WBKO-DT2 broadcasts the entire Fox network primetime schedule and weekend schedules, except for the Xploration Station Saturday morning block. Fox's programming also includes some national Special Reports from Fox News and Fox News Sunday, as well as sports programming from Fox's sports broadcasting division. Syndicated programs on WBKO-DT2 include Pawn Stars, The People's Court, The Big Bang Theory, 2 Broke Girls, How I Met Your Mother, The Andy Griffith Show, Mike & Molly, Everybody Loves Raymond, Two and a Half Men, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Extra.
Until June 2016, WBKO-DT2 ran programming from Jewelry Television overnights from 1:00 to 9:00 a.m. CT. Jewelry Television was dropped overnights and replaced with infomercials and replays of certain syndicated programming from the main channel.
Past sports programming
Sports programming on WBKO-DT2 includes Fox College Football games on Saturday, NASCAR on Fox, and NFL Sunday afternoon games featuring NFC teams. This also includes instances when the Tennessee Titans (based in Nashville), who play in the AFC, plays host to an NFC opponent, which usually happens two to three times per season. In addition, the station also carries THIS is Kentucky Basketball as part of the UK IMG Sports Network's television division's package offered by sister station WKYT-TV in Lexington.
Until the discontinuation of the Southeastern Conference men's basketball and football syndication packages by Raycom Sports and ESPN Plus-operated SEC TV in 2009 and 2014, respectively, WBKO-DT2 had carried any ABC broadcast of a college football game that would conflict with the timing of SEC TV's broadcast of a football game.
Newscasts
On October 21, 2007, WBKO-DT2 began airing a thirty-minute prime time newscast on weeknights known as WBKO Fox News at 9. Sarah Goebel originally anchored the show until early 2008, when she was promoted to WBKO's main weeknight broadcasts. After this, Daniel Kemp was the news anchor until early June, when he moved to the weekend newscasts on the main channel. Julie Talley would host the prime time broadcast for a short time in mid-2008, after which reporter and internet producer Sam Provenzano anchored the show until its cancellation. WBKO Fox News at 9 stopped airing on November 28, 2008, as a result of financial issues. WBKO-DT2 continues to replay the main channel's MidDay Live on a tape delay on weekdays at 12 noon CT. The broadcast features news anchor Hayley Harmon and Weather Director Chris Allen. In addition, the station also carries the WBKO LiveWire Weather Alert Scroll on the top of the screen during severe weather as the situations may warrant.
Beginning on June 13, 2016, WBKO-DT2 began broadcasting a replay of AM Kentucky, the main channel's 90-minute weekday morning newscast.
References
External links
- WBKO website
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WBKO
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WBKO-TV
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