WBXI-CD

WBXI-CD

Company type	Television station
Industry	Broadcasting
Founded	1990
Headquarters	Indianapolis , United States
Owner	CBS News and Stations

WBXI-CD (channel 47) operates as a low-power, Class A television broadcaster based in Indianapolis, Indiana, delivering content from the digital multicast service Start TV. This station is owned and managed by the CBS News and Stations division, with its administrative offices situated on North Alabama Street in downtown Indianapolis and its transmission facilities located on Walnut Drive in the northwest part of the city.

History

Established in 1990 under the call sign W47AZ, the station's original affiliation was with the viewer-driven music video network The Box. In 2001, it adopted the WBXI-CA designation and transitioned to broadcasting MTV2 following acquisition by Viacom. For a brief period in 2004, WBXI functioned as a repeater for the then-sister UPN affiliate WNDY-TV, a role that concluded when WNDY was sold to LIN TV Corporation in 2005.

While Viacom divested other assets, it retained WBXI-CA initially but transferred ownership to CBS Corporation later that same year after the CBS/Viacom separation; throughout this period, the station continued its MTV2 affiliation. In 2007, WBXI shifted its programming to MTV Tr3s, MTV2's Spanish-language counterpart, maintaining this format until 2014 when it adopted a continuous local weather broadcast schedule.

Starting January 1, 2018, WBXI began airing CBS/Weigel Broadcasting's Decades, while preserving a weekday local weather segment at 7 a.m. On September 3, 2018, the station replaced Decades with CBS/Weigel's newly launched network Start TV, with Decades relocating to the secondary subchannel of WSDI-LD.

Subchannels

WBXI-CD’s broadcast signal is multiplexed as follows:

WBXI-CD Subchannels

Channel	Resolution	Aspect Ratio	Identifier	Programming
47.1	1080i	16:9	StartTV	Start TV
47.2	480i		Catchy	Catchy Comedy
47.3			Story	Story Television
47.4			Movies!	Movies!
47.5	720p		TCT	Tri-State Christian Television

Analog-to-digital conversion

On August 21, 2015, WBXI-CA commenced digital transmissions on UHF channel 47 and discontinued its analog signal by September 1, 2015, complying with the mandated deadline for Class A television stations to complete their transition to digital broadcasting.