WNDY-TV

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WNDY-TV
Marion / Indianapolis, Indiana
Branding	MyNDY
Channels	23 (UHF) analog, 32 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	My Network TV
Owner	LIN TV
Founded	March 14, 1987
Call letters meaning	INDY short for Indianapolis, IN
Former callsigns	WMCC (1987-1995)
Former affiliations	Independent (1987-1995), The WB (1995-1998), UPN (1998-2006)
Website	www.myndytv.com

WNDY-TV is currently the My Network TV affiliate serving Indianapolis, Indiana, broadcasting on analog channel 23. Its tower is located 3 miles northeast of Cicero, Indiana. It is owned and operated by LIN TV and is sister station to WISH-TV and WIIH-CA. The station currently airs talk shows, reality shows, court shows, sitcoms and first-run shows.

Contents 1 History 2 Newscasts 3 Logo gallery 4 Trivia 5 External links

[edit] History

The station signed on March 14, 1987 as independent WMCC. Initially it ran a lot of paid programming, but slowly added classic TV sitcoms, cartoons and old movies. The station was programming a traditional general entertainment format by 1987. The station continued to acquire more recent sitcoms and added some talk and reality shows in the early 1990s. It became a The WB affiliate in 1995, and called itself WB23.

The station was purchased by the family of Tony George of Indianapolis Motor Speedway fame in 1995. It received its current call letters at the time of the purchase as well as a checkered-flag logo (a nod to the Speedway and its signature Indianapolis 500 race). The next year, the Hoosier Lottery awarded WNDY the rights to its programming, which had aired on WTTV since 1989; WTTV would regain those broadcasting rights in 1999.

In 1998, the station swapped affiliations with WTTV and joined the UPN Network. For part of the year, the station was a dual affiliate airing both UPN and WB programming.

Paramount Stations Group (now CBS Television Stations Group) bought the station in 1999. By 2003, the station had stopped referring to itself by its channel number, simply using the name "UPN Indiana", due to its location on most area cable systems on channel 10 -- and the UPN division of the CBS Mandate for UHF stations. A few weeks before the Fall 2003 TV season, WNDY had a countdown stating the amount of days until "UPN Indy" would launch. It was reported that at the last minute the name was ditched in favor of "UPN Indiana" to appeal to the larger audience, rather than just those living in Indianapolis.

In 2005, WNDY was acquired from CBS-Viacom by LIN TV, owners of Indianapolis stations WISH-TV and WIIH. The 10 p.m. newscast produced for WNDY by WTHR was dropped because of contractual issues prior to the acquisition and was replaced with a newscast produced by WISH-TV a month later. The station rebranded as "WNDY UPN 23" in July 2005. The station serves as a secondary CBS affiliate, carrying the Saturday Early Show, additional NCAA basketball tournament games when more than one team of local interest is playing, and prime-time programs bumped from WISH to make room for local special programming.

WNDY aired Indianapolis Colts games that were a part of ESPN's Sunday Night Football package, and it is assumed they will do the same with ESPN's monday night games starting in Fall 2006. The station also airs selected Ball State University men's basketball games.

On January 24, 2006 Time Warner and CBS Corp. announced that both The WB and UPN will shut down in September 2006 and be replaced by a new network, The CW Television Network. WTTV was chosen as the CW outlet in the Indianapolis market. WNDY joined News Corp's My Network TV in September 2006. [1] Accordingly, the station recently rebranded to MyNDY.

[edit] Newscasts

Weekdays

• 24 Hour News 8 at Ten on MyNDY - 10 PM-10:35 PM
  • Karen Hensel, Angela Buchman (weather), Anthony Calhoun (sports)

Weekends

• 24 Hour News 8 at Ten on MyNDY - 10 PM-10:35 PM
  • Mike Corbin, Shana Kelley, Sean Ash (weather), Chris Widlic (sports)

[edit] Logo gallery

WNDY Logo 1995-1998	WNDY Logo 1998-2002.	WNDY logo from the archived website.	WNDY Logo 2002-2005 before sale to LIN TV.
Old Logo (2005-06) This logo can still be seen on the back of the studio building.	Current Logo

[edit] Trivia

WNDY was also the callsign of the fictional television station in the 1990-91 CBS series WIOU; the show pre-dated channel 23's adoption of the WNDY calls by about four years.

WNDY was also the former callsign of radio station WBRI.

[edit] External links

• WNDY.com or MyNdytv.com
• My Network TV Homepage
• LIN TV Homepage
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WNDY-TV