WSTR-TV explained

Callsign:WSTR-TV
Logo Alt:A rounded rectangle divided into blue and gray parts with the word STAR in white, a pointed silver star with black shadow in the upper right, and a black 64 in a sans serif in the lower right corner.
Branding:Star 64
Digital:18 (UHF)
Virtual:64
Atsc3:yes
Owner:Deerfield Media
Licensee:Deerfield Media (Cincinnati) Licensee, LLC
Operator:Sinclair Broadcast Group
Location:Cincinnati, Ohio
Country:United States
Callsign Meaning:Star 64
Sister Stations:WKRC-TV
Erp:325 kW
Haat:3370NaN0
Facility Id:11204
Licensing Authority:FCC

WSTR-TV (channel 64), branded Star 64 (stylized as STAR64), is a television station in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Deerfield Media, which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of dual CBS/CW affiliate WKRC-TV (channel 12), for the provision of advertising sales and other services. The two stations share studios on Highland Avenue in the Mount Auburn section of Cincinnati; WSTR's transmitter, Star Tower, is located in the city's College Hill neighborhood.

WSTR-TV began broadcasting in 1980 as WBTI, which broadcast a mix of commercial advertising-supported and subscription television (STV) programs. The STV programming was relegated into overnight hours (before being dropped altogether) at the start of 1985, making way for the station to become an independent station under the callsign WIII. After financial trouble, channel 64 stabilized under ABRY Communications before being purchased by Sinclair in 1996. It was briefly an affiliate of UPN before switching to The WB in 1998 and becoming part of MyNetworkTV in 2006. WKRC-TV produces dedicated morning and late evening newscasts for air on WSTR-TV. The station is one of Cincinnati's two ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV) transmitters, serving the market's major commercial stations, which each broadcast some of WSTR-TV's subchannels on its behalf.

History

Construction and subscription television years

On June 30, 1977, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted a construction permit to Buford Television of Ohio, Inc., for a new channel 64 television station in Cincinnati, Ohio. WBTI signed on the air on January 28, 1980.[1] It broadcast with one million watts of power and operated from studios on Fishwick Drive in the Bond Hill area; the station's original transmitter was located on Chickasaw Street.

WBTI was conceived and began broadcasting as a hybrid. During the day, it was an advertiser-supported, general-entertainment independent station from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day, with a program schedule primarily consisting of classic reruns.[2] In the late evening hours, the station's signal was scrambled as it carried programming from the ON TV service, which provided movies, sports, and live events to viewers through a paid subscription and a decoder to receive ON TV programs. (Buford, which had planned a multi-city expansion into subscription television and even a national network of translators through its Residential Entertainment subsidiary,[3] licensed the ON TV name from Oak Communications in the Cincinnati market and also would build STV operations in Chicago and Minneapolis under the brand name Spectrum; it created the Home Entertainment Network division for this business.[4]) Local sports programming included a small package of Cincinnati Reds home games, a major advance for a team that had not permitted the telecast of more than three home games in a season on television since 1966.[5]

WBTI's ratings were less than stellar, while ON TV was being well received but already sensed that competition with cable was going to increase and present a difficulty in keeping subscribers. The subscription operation examined increasing to 20 hours a day—then the maximum amount of hours of non-free programming permitted by the FCC—as early as December 1981, and it carried out that expansion on April 1, 1982, relegating ad-supported WBTI programming to weekday mornings.[6] In June 1983, the station cut back its commercial programs to the 90-minute edition of The 700 Club on weekdays, with ON TV the rest of the day and weekends except for three further hours of religious programs on Sunday mornings.[7] It was able to do so because the FCC had abolished the so-called "28-hour rule"—which required stations to provide a minimum of, on average, four hours a day of non-subscription programming—in June 1982.[8]

ON TV was beginning to face a tough road. After much delay, the Warner-Amex cable service QUBE became available within the Cincinnati city limits in early 1983, making ON TV less attractive to viewers. In October 1983, United Cable, which had acquired 80 percent of Buford's three STV operations, wrote down the entire unit and offered the systems for sale.[9] All of this programming was also seen in Dayton, where Buford established translator W66AQ in 1981 to extend the marketing area of ON TV and WBTI's commercial fare.[10] [11]

Emerging from STV

United sold 90 percent of WBTI in November 1984 to Channel 64 Joint Venture for $9.4 million, at which time ON TV had just 12,500 local subscribers (75 percent of which subscribed to adult programming), compared to 45,200 in June 1982. The station relaunched as WIII, "The Eyes of Cincinnati", on January 1, 1985; it restored a general-entertainment schedule, with ON TV programming being relegated to overnight hours only.[12] At that time, general manager and Channel 64 Joint Venture part-owner Stephen Kent said the STV service "virtually runs itself" and could break even with just 2,600 customers.[13] However, with a mere 3,200 subscribers remaining and Oak shutting down its satellite feed, ON TV in Cincinnati ended on June 1, 1985, at which time WIII converted into a full-time general-entertainment independent station.[14]

Channel 64 soon ran into financial trouble. In April 1986, the station almost went off air after United Cable, which had retained a 10 percent stake after the 1984 sale to Channel 64 Joint Venture, sued the other partners, who refused to accept funding provided by the company to keep the station going. In a proceeding that saw the appointment of general manager Stephen A. Kent as receiver, it was revealed that the station owed more than $175,000 to program suppliers and had less than $5,000 in the bank.[15] A Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing soon followed;[16] the lengthy battle, marked by conflicts between United and the other partners,[17] as well as cable penetration in the market, hurt the station, which had to exit several programming contracts.[18] Talks with several potential buyers, including the Home Shopping Network, continued;[19] Gerald J. Robinson, owner of the Cincinnati Gardens arena, made an offer,[20] but it was ultimately United Cable that won out, immediately reselling the station to a consortium that included itself and two other investors.[21]

Under United, the station left behind its status as what The Cincinnati Enquirer media columnist John Kiesewetter called "the IOUs of Cincinnati" and began to spend again on syndicated programming.[22] However, the other investors opted not to buy the remainder of WIII from United Cable, resulting in the station—now with better ratings and reduced program costs—being put back on the market in August 1988.[23]

United sold WIII to Cincinnati TV 64 Limited Partnership, under the ownership of Andrew Banks and Royce Yudkoff, in November 1989.[24] Their initials served as the name for ABRY Communications. Soon after, stronger programming was added to include more recent sitcoms and better movies, and ABRY also invested in improved equipment.[25] On September 15, 1990, coinciding with a total program lineup overhaul, the station changed its call sign to WSTR-TV and its on-air branding to "Star 64".[26] In 1991, the station increased its transmitter power from one to five million watts at a brand new tower and transmitter site in Cincinnati's College Hill neighborhood. That tower would be known as the "Star Tower" and would eventually be home to several radio stations and other communications services.[27]

Network affiliation

Under ABRY's ownership, the station acquired additional syndicated programs; WSTR then became a charter affiliate of the United Paramount Network (UPN) on January 16, 1995.[28] In 1996, Sinclair Communications (now Sinclair Broadcast Group) acquired WSTR-TV (for $22 million) and KSMO-TV in Kansas City, Missouri, after already having purchased the remainder of the company's stations in 1993.[29] In July 1997, Sinclair signed an affiliation deal with The WB, that resulted in a number of the company's UPN affiliates and independent stations switching to the network, among them WSTR,[30] which began broadcasting WB programming in January 1998.[31] The former WB outlet—low-power WBQC-LP (channel 25), with its limited signal and cable carriage—joined UPN nine months later.[32]

In January 2006, The WB and UPN announced their effective merger into The CW.[33] [34] This was followed by the creation of MyNetworkTV by the Fox Television Stations group, which owned many UPN affiliates passed over for The CW.[35] [36] While Cincinnati only had one full-power affiliate between the two networks, Sinclair signed an affiliation agreement first with MyNetworkTV, which included WSTR-TV, two months before reaching any pact with The CW.[37] [38] (By that time, WKRC-TV had agreed to launch a subchannel to carry The CW.) WSTR carried MyNetworkTV's debut on September 5, 2006.[39] In 2009, WSTR reintroduced its 1990s brand, dropping the "My" branding in favor of "Star 64", while keeping the network's logo color and style scheme.[40]

Sinclair purchased WKRC-TV from Newport Television in 2012. To complete this acquisition, Sinclair assigned the WSTR-TV license to Deerfield Media, continuing to operate the station under a local marketing agreement that allows Sinclair to sell WSTR-TV's advertising time and provide technical, promotion, and support services for WSTR-TV's operation.[41] The sale was completed on December 3, 2012.[42]

Programming

Newscasts

In December 2003, WSTR began producing a local 10 p.m. newscast with a staff of 19, using Sinclair's News Central hybrid format with a local anchor—Kim Moening, previously of WXIX-TV—reading stories in Cincinnati and national segments produced from Sinclair's headquarters in Hunt Valley, Maryland.[43]

News Central was wound down nationally in early 2006, with the last newscast airing on February 24, 2006.[44] It was replaced by a news share agreement with WKRC-TV, which began to produce a dedicated 10 p.m. newscast for the station in August 2006.[45] After two years, WKRC-TV opted to reclaim the newscast for its CW subchannel.[46]

Local news from WKRC-TV was restored in January 2014 after the two stations came under common operation, including a 10 p.m. newscast[47] and a 7 a.m. hour of that station's Good Morning Cincinnati. An 8 a.m. hour of the morning show was added in 2015.[48]

Sports programming

From 2016 to 2022, WSTR was the television home of FC Cincinnati, airing all matches not chosen for national TV.[49]

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's ATSC 1.0 channels are carried on the multiplexed signals of other Cincinnati television stations:

Channel! scope = "col"
Res.AspectShort nameProgrammingATSC 1.0 host[50]
64.1MyTV WLWT
64.2Antenna WKRC-TV
64.3Comet Comet
64.4TBD WXIX-TV
64.5Dabl WCPO-TV

WSTR-TV turned off its analog signal, over UHF channel 64, on February 17, 2009, the originally intended digital television transition date.[51] [52]

ATSC 3.0

Channel! style="background-color: #bdbdff" scope = "col"
Res.AspectShort nameProgramming
5.1WLWT NBC (WLWT)
9.1WCPO ABC (WCPO-TV)
12.11080p WKRC CBS (WKRC-TV)
12.10T2 T2 (from Tennis Channel)
19.1720p WXIX Fox (WXIX-TV)
64.1WSTR MyNetworkTV

On September 14, 2021, WSTR-TV turned off its ATSC 1.0 signal and became Cincinnati's host station for ATSC 3.0 (NextGen TV), with reciprocal agreements with the four other commercial stations in the market to continue ATSC 1.0 broadcast of its subchannels while broadcasting the other stations in 3.0 format.[53]

See also

Notes and References

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  2. News: Here's Some New And Different TV. January 13, 1980. The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio. Newspapers.com. January 9, 2021. F-10. March 13, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210313004132/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67271991/heres-some-new-and-different-tv/. live.
  3. News: Texas company wants new TV station in Binghamton. January 21, 1981. The Evening Press. 5-A. Lisa. Rubenstein. January 9, 2020. July 29, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729052611/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67272374/texas-company-wants-new-tv-station-in/. live.
  4. News: ON-TV studies plan to expand time on the air. December 18, 1981. 7B. P.J.. Bednarski. The Cincinnati Post. Cincinnati, Ohio. Newspapers.com. July 29, 2022. July 29, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729052611/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106523980/on-tv-studies-plan-to-expand-time-on/. live.
  5. News: ON TV telecast may mean a new era. May 6, 1980. 2D. Barry. Cobb. The Cincinnati Post. Cincinnati, Ohio. Newspapers.com. July 29, 2022. July 29, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729052611/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106524187/on-tv-telecast-may-mean-a-new-era/. live.
  6. News: ON-TV faces cable. March 27, 1982. 26. The Cincinnati Post. Cincinnati, Ohio. Newspapers.com. July 29, 2022. July 29, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729052611/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106524868/on-tv-faces-cable/. live.
  7. News: Newspapers.com. WBTI Trades Free Programming For Profitable Cable Service. October 25, 2020. Angie. Cannon. The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio. June 10, 1983. B-2. October 22, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201022023447/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61252702/wbti-trades-free-cable-programming-for/. live.
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  18. News: E-1, E-6. Ch. 64's outlook dims. January 9, 2021. The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio. Jon. Newberry. January 19, 1987. July 29, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729052613/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67226197/ch-64s-outlook-dims/. live.
  19. News: WIII rejects pact with Columbia. January 9, 2021. February 28, 1987. The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio. Jon. Newberry. B-8. July 29, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729052612/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67226217/wiii-rejects-pact-with-columbia/. live.
  20. News: Robinson renews bid for station. January 9, 2021. July 31, 1987. B-7. The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio. Jon. Newberry. July 29, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729052613/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67226231/robinson-renews-bid-for-station/. live.
  21. News: Sale of Channel 64 approved by court. January 9, 2021. November 19, 1987. E-4. The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio. Jon. Newberry. July 29, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729052613/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67226270/sale-of-channel-64-approved-by-court/. live.
  22. News: Cable channels strut their stuff. January 9, 2021. D-6. John. Kiesewetter. The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio. April 4, 1988. July 29, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729052613/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67226317/cable-channels-strut-their-stuff/. live.
  23. News: TV station up for sale once again. January 9, 2021. August 18, 1988. B-7. The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio. Jon. Newberry. July 29, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729052613/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67226346/tv-station-up-for-sale-once-again/. live.
  24. News: Channel 64 sale pending. January 9, 2021. The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio. D-11. August 10, 1989. August 20, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220820190111/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67226373/channel-64-sale-pending/. live.
  25. News: Boston owners trying to make WIII city's No. 1 independent. January 9, 2021. The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio. Jeff. Harrington. January 22, 1990. D-1, D-4. July 29, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729052714/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67226388/boston-owners-trying-to-make-wiii/. live.
  26. News: New letters, new look, new lineup: Just about everything has changed at Channel 64. TV Week 2. John. Kiesewetter. The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio. September 16, 1990. January 9, 2021. July 29, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729052714/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67226438/new-letters-new-look-new-lineup-just/. live.
  27. News: Independent WSTR-TV boosts its power. January 9, 2020. November 15, 1991. Tom. Hopkins. Dayton Daily News. 10C. July 29, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729052726/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67273392/independent-wstr-tv-boosts-its-power/. live.
  28. News: WSTR to join Paramount network. January 9, 2020. July 27, 1994. B7. Associated Press. The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio. July 29, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729052714/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67274105/wstr-to-join-paramount-network/. live.
  29. News: Sinclair Broadcasting to buy Channel 62. January 9, 2021. Kansas City Star. December 13, 1995. Barry. Garron. F-6. July 29, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729052715/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67273869/sinclair-broadcasting-to-buy-channel-62/. live.
  30. News: WB woos and wins Sinclair. 4, 8. Steve. McClellan. World Radio History. July 21, 1997. Broadcasting & Cable. . January 9, 2021. January 11, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210111095533/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1997/BC-1997-07-21.pdf#page=6. live.
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  32. News: Beefed-up WBQC to air UPN shows. September 26, 1998. 8C. Greg. Paeth. The Cincinnati Post. Cincinnati, Ohio. Newspapers.com. July 29, 2022. July 29, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729052715/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106524709/beefed-up-wbqc-to-air-upn-shows/. live.
  33. News: 'Gilmore Girls' meet 'Smackdown'; CW Network to combine WB, UPN in CBS-Warner venture beginning in September. CNNMoney.com. January 24, 2006. August 3, 2020. March 16, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170316043531/http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/24/news/companies/cbs_warner/. live.
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  36. News: News Corp. Unveils MyNetworkTV. Broadcasting & Cable. February 22, 2006. September 21, 2013. April 17, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090417165134/http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/102922-News_Corp_Unveils_My_Network_TV.php. live.
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  38. News: Allison. Romano. Sinclair Signs On to MyNetworkTV. Broadcasting & Cable. Reed Business Information. March 2, 2006. May 20, 2006. March 23, 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20060323081011/http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6312455.html. live.
  39. News: Channel 64 joins MyNetworkTV team. John. Kiesewetter. The Cincinnati Enquirer. September 4, 2006. D3. Newspapers.com. August 2, 2022. August 20, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220820190109/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106776631/the-cincinnati-enquirer/. live.
  40. News: Old TV Star Returns To Channel 64. The Cincinnati Enquirer. Gannett Company. September 14, 2009. September 14, 2009. September 25, 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090925184520/http://cincinnati.com/blogs/tv/2009/09/14/old-tv-star-returns-to-channel-64/. live.
  41. News: Newport Sells 22 Station For $1 Billion. July 19, 2012. TVNewsCheck. July 19, 2012. March 8, 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130308212139/http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/60876/newport-sells-22-stations-for-1-billion. live.
  42. Sinclair Broadcast Group Closes TV Station Acquisitions. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20121207055905/http://www.sbgi.net/site_mgr/temp/Newport%20closing_qcm5mk7w.shtml . December 7, 2012. December 3, 2012. Sinclair Broadcast Group .
  43. News: Anchor feels right at home: Kim Moening helps Channel 64 build a news operation from the ground up. May 5, 2005. E1, E2. John. Kiesewetter. The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio. Newspapers.com. July 29, 2022. July 29, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729052718/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106525805/anchor-feels-right-at-home-kim-moening/. live.
  44. News: Sara. Pearce. Ch. 64 to drop local newscast. The Cincinnati Enquirer. Gannett. February 11, 2006. May 20, 2006.
  45. Sinclair Broadcast Group. April 24, 2006. WSTR & WKRC Enter Into 10PM News Share In Cincinnati. May 20, 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20060923101003/http://www.sbgi.net/press/release_2006424_158.shtml. September 23, 2006. dead.
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  47. News: Back on TV beat: Cincinnati police women will be featured on TLC show. January 5, 2014. D10. John. Kiesewetter. The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio. Newspapers.com. July 29, 2022. July 29, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729052716/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106526314/back-on-tv-beat-cincinnati-police/. live.
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  49. FC Cincinnati announce Star64, iHeartRadio as Local Broadcast Partners. FC Cincinnati. April 19, 2021. April 19, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210419025727/https://www.fccincinnati.com/post/2021/04/15/fc-cincinnati-announce-star64-iheartradio-local-broadcast-partners. live.
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  51. News: Some digital TV viewers just don't get the picture. February 17, 2009. A1, A2. John. Kiesewetter. The Cincinnati Enquirer. Cincinnati, Ohio. Newspapers.com. July 29, 2022. July 29, 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220729052716/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106526521/some-digital-tv-viewers-just-dont-get/. live.
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