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WLUK-TV
WLUK-TV Logo.png
Green Bay / Fox Cities, Wisconsin Estados Unidos
CiudadGreen Bay, Wisconsin
CanalesDigital : 12 ( VHF )
(aplicado para 18 ( UHF ))
Virtual : 11
MarcaFox 11 (general)
Fox 11 News (noticieros)
TV 11.2 (en DT2)
EsloganSu estación para cobertura de noticias equilibradas y condiciones meteorológicas adversas
Programación
Afiliaciones11.1: Fox (1995-presente)
11.2: Antenna TV
11.3: TBD ( O&O )
Propiedad
DueñoSinclair Broadcast Group
(licenciatario de WLUK, LLC )
Estaciones hermanasWCWF
Milwaukee : WVTV y WVTV-DT2
Madison : WMSN-TV
cable: Bally Sports Wisconsin , Bally Sports Detroit
Historia
Primera fecha de emisión11 de septiembre de 1954 (hace 66 años) [1] (1954-09-11)
Antiguos distintivos de llamadaWMBV-TV (1954-1959)
Número (s) de canal anteriorAnalógico:
11 (VHF, 1954-2009)
Digital:
51 (UHF, 2000-2009)
11 (VHF, 2009-2020)
Traductor:
W40AN-D 40 Escanaba, MI (hasta 2018)
Antiguas afiliacionesPrimaria:
NBC (1954-1959, 1983-1995)
ABC (1959-1983)
Secundaria:
NTA (1956-1961)
Significado del distintivo de llamadaLU c K y Eleven
(eslogan original al aire)
Información técnica
Autoridad para licenciarFCC
Identificación de la instalación4150
ERP40 kW
500 kW (aplicación)
HAAT384 m (1260 pies)
Coordenadas del transmisor44 ° 24′32 ″ N 87 ° 59′31 ″ O / 44.40889°N 87.99194°W / 44.40889; -87.99194
Enlaces
Información de licencia pública Perfil
LMS
Sitio webfox11online .com

WLUK-TV , canal virtual 11 ( VHF digital de canal 12), es un Fox - afiliada estación de televisión con licencia de Green Bay, Wisconsin , Estados Unidos. La estación es propiedad de la Broadcast Group Sinclair , como parte de un duopolio con Suring -licensed CW afiliado WCWF (canal 14). Las dos estaciones comparten estudios en Lombardi Avenue ( US 41 ) en la línea entre Green Bay y Ashwaubenon , junto al Resch Center ; El transmisor de WLUK está ubicado enScray Hill en Ledgeview . Por cable , WLUK está disponible en el canal 12 de Charter Spectrum .

Hasta el 11 de julio de 2018, la señal de la estación se transmitía en Upper Michigan en el traductor digital W40AN-D (canal 40), con licencia para Escanaba, Michigan y transmitiendo desde una torre en Wells Township .

Historia [ editar ]

Primeros años con NBC y ABC [ editar ]

WMBV-TV , con licencia para Marinette, Wisconsin (el indicativo significa " M arinette / B ay / V alley") fue aprobado para el canal 11 de VHF el 18 de noviembre de 1953. M & M Broadcasting Company, propiedad de William Walker, anunció el concesión de la licencia después de llegar a un acuerdo con una empresa competidora por los derechos de la licencia. [2] Se confirmó una afiliación con NBC el 9 de marzo de 1954. [3] WMBV-TV firmó al aire el 11 de septiembre de 1954. Walker vendió la estación a Morgan Murphy Stations en 1958.

1959 vio varios cambios para la estación. El 1 de febrero, WMBV intercambió afiliaciones con WFRV-TV (canal 5), convirtiéndose en una afiliada de ABC. [4] La estación cambió su ciudad de licencia a Green Bay y el 22 de agosto de 1959 cambió su distintivo de llamada al actual WLUK-TV (en referencia a su entonces lema en el aire " Lu c k y 11"), cuando comenzó a transmitir a máxima potencia desde una nueva torre cerca de Green Bay. [5] WLUK transmitió por primera vez programas de la red en color en 1959 y los programas locales comenzaron a transmitirse en color a partir de 1965. Morgan Murphy luego vendió WLUK a Post Corporation (una pequeña cadena de medios no afiliada a The Washington Post Company o suPost-Newsweek Stations division), cuyas propiedades incluían el periódico Post-Crescent en la cercana Appleton y una estación hermana en Marquette, Michigan , WLUC-TV . [6] en 1965. En 1966, WLUK construyó un nuevo edificio de estudio y oficinas en Highland Avenue, que eventualmente se convertiría en Lombardi Avenue en 1968 después de que Vince Lombardi renunciara a sus funciones de entrenador en jefe con los Green Bay Packers . Se transmitieron algunos programas de entretenimiento local, incluido un espectáculo de polka el sábado por la noche y un programa diario de dibujos animados para niños con el personaje franquiciado Bozo the Clown .

El 18 de abril de 1983, WLUK recuperó la afiliación del mercado a NBC, cuando WFRV cambió a ABC. [7] En 1984, Gillett Broadcasting , nativo de Racine , George N. Gillett , compró Post Corporation. Gillett, a su vez, vendió la estación a Burnham Broadcasting más tarde ese año, para comprar las estaciones de KKR (que incluían la futura estación de Fox WITI en Milwaukee ; WLUK se vendió debido a las regulaciones de propiedad del mercado adyacente en ese momento por la Comisión Federal de Comunicaciones ( FCC)). Durante la mayor parte de su segundo período en NBC, WLUK minimizó en gran medida su afiliación, incluso durante los días de potencia de la cadena en la década de 1980; usó el NBC Peacock sólo con moderación en los anuncios de la estación.

Como afiliado de Fox [ editar ]

El 29 de julio de 1994, Burnham Broadcasting vendió WLUK-TV a SF Broadcasting - una empresa conjunta de Savoy Communications y Fox Broadcasting Company , entonces una división de News Corporation - por $ 38 millones; [8] la compañía vendió más tarde tres de sus otras cuatro estaciones ( KHON-TV en Honolulu , WVUE en Nueva Orleans y WALA-TV en Mobile, Alabama ) por $ 229 millones el 25 de agosto (una quinta estación de Burnham, KBAK-TV en Bakersfield , California, fue excluida del trato y, en cambio, se escindió a Westwind Communications, una nueva empresa formada por varios ex ejecutivos de Burnham). [9] Como resultado del acuerdo, SF Broadcasting anunció que las cuatro estaciones se convertirían en afiliadas de Fox; tanto Savoy como Fox compartieron la propiedad con Fox que originalmente eligió tener acciones con derecho a voto, y finalmente optó por no retenerlas antes del cierre de la venta de las estaciones. La compra fue impugnada por NBC, que presentó una petición ante la FCC el 23 de septiembre de 1994, alegando que News Corporation había establecido indebidamente una corporación fantasma para eludir los límites de la FCC sobre la cantidad de capital monetario en el que una empresa extranjera puede invertir. una estación de televisión estadounidense para hacerse con el control de WLUK. [10]Posteriormente, NBC retiró su petición contra la adquisición el 17 de febrero de 1995. [11] La FCC aprobó la compra de WLUK el 27 de abril de 1995. [12]

Imagen actual de las instalaciones de WLUK, con el edificio ampliado desde entonces para acomodar un centro de contenido y noticias y la señalización modificada para reconocer su estación hermana, WCWF (un letrero de pantalla digital estilo monumento lo ha reemplazado desde entonces). Un monumento " Oneida Nation Walk of Legends" al jugador de los Packers, Jerry Kramer, se encuentra en el jardín delantero del edificio.

WLUK se convirtió en afiliado de Fox el 28 de agosto de 1995, intercambiando afiliaciones con WGBA-TV (canal 26), que había adquirido la afiliación de Fox tres años antes después de que WXGZ-TV (canal 32, ahora WACY-TV ) cerrara debido a problemas financieros. . Como la mayoría de los antiguos afiliados de la red "Tres Grandes" que cambiaron a Fox durante ese tiempo, WLUK casi no obtuvo programación sindicada de WGBA, aunque fue innecesaria debido al acuerdo de marketing local de WGBA con WACY-TV (canal 32); En su lugar, la programación de WGBA se trasladó en gran medida a esa estación.

Debido a la adquisición de Fox 1994, de los derechos de televisión de la NFL 's Conferencia Nacional de Fútbol , [13] el interruptor hizo WLUK la no oficial 'casa' estación de los Green Bay Packers después de años de WBAY (y dos años en WFRV), que se convirtió en una gran sorteo de índices de audiencia (durante la temporada de 1994, WGBA fue la estación de registro de los Packers). A diferencia de las estaciones de New World Communications que se convirtieron en afiliadas de Fox, WLUK transmitió la programación de Fox Kids , ejecutándola una hora antes en las tardes entre semana de 1:00 a 4:00 pm La estación transmitió Fox Kids hasta que el bloque entre semana terminó en diciembre de 2001 [14 ](cuando se había retrasado a las 10:00 am), y su sucesor los bloques infantiles de los sábados por la mañana conocidos como Fox Box y más tarde 4KidsTV hasta que el último bloque terminó a nivel nacional en diciembre de 2008, cuando 4Kids Entertainment y Fox se separaron debido a una disputa contractual. Cuando 4Kids TV terminó su funcionamiento, Fox dejó de ofrecer programación para niños suministrada por la red de forma permanente, reemplazándola con el bloque infomercial Weekend Marketplace .

Desde que el canal 11 se unió a Fox, los juegos de fútbol de los Packer han atraído habitualmente una participación del 80% de la audiencia de espectadores, los programas de mayor audiencia en el mercado , y a través del acuerdo de derechos de la NFL de Fox, la estación ha transmitido dos de los tres Super Bowl. juegos en los que han aparecido los Packers, ambas victorias, desde 1994; Super Bowls XXXI y XLV , ambos con mucho los programas mejor calificados en la historia del mercado de Green Bay.

El 28 de noviembre de 1995, Silver King Communications (operado por el ex ejecutivo de Fox, Barry Diller ) anunció que adquiriría Savoy Pictures; [15] En el momento de la compra, las estaciones existentes de Silver King habían sido principalmente afiliadas de Home Shopping Network (tanto Silver King como HSN fueron adquiridas más tarde por USA Networks ). La venta de WVUE y las otras estaciones SF fue aprobada y finalizada en marzo de 1996, y sus otros activos se fusionaron con la empresa en noviembre. El 1 de abril de 1997, Silver King vendió posteriormente la estación, junto con las hermanas WVUE, KHON y WALA a Emmis Communications, con sede en Indianápolis.por $ 307 millones en efectivo y acciones, como parte de una venta de las principales afiliadas de la red de Silver King / USA para concentrarse en sus estaciones independientes anteriormente afiliadas a HSN . [dieciséis]

Propiedad de LIN Media [ editar ]

El 15 de mayo de 2005, Emmis Communications anunció que vendería sus 16 estaciones de televisión, incluida WLUK-TV, para concentrarse en las propiedades de sus estaciones de radio. [17] El 22 de agosto, LIN TV Corporation compró WLUK en un acuerdo de $ 260 millones que incluía WALA-TV y la estación hermana WBPG en Mobile; WTHI-TV en Terre Haute, Indiana y KRQE-TV en Albuquerque, Nuevo México ; la venta se cerró el 1 de diciembre de 2005. [18] [19]

El 4 de junio de 2010, LIN TV celebró acuerdos de servicios compartidos y ventas locales para operar la afiliada de CW WIWB (canal 14, ahora WCWF ) como parte de un acuerdo que involucraba estaciones propiedad de LIN y ACME Communications en mercados donde ambas compañías poseían estaciones. [20] [21]WLUK comenzó a proporcionar servicios de soporte técnico, de ingeniería, promocionales, administrativos y otros servicios operativos para WIWB, con servicios de venta de publicidad en virtud de un acuerdo de venta conjunta relacionado pero separado. Esa estación trasladó sus operaciones a los estudios de WLUK en agosto. LIN compraría WCWF directamente en abril de 2011, bajo una exención de estación fallida (una indicación de que la estación estaba en una posición económicamente inviable, lo que permitía un duopolio a pesar de que Green Bay tiene solo siete estaciones de energía completa, una menos de la requerida por las reglas de la FCC para permitir legalmente un duopolio entre WLUK y WCWF si ambos eran económicamente viables), creando el primer duopolio legal de estaciones de televisión del mercado de Green Bay . [22] [23] [24]

Propiedad de Sinclair Broadcast Group [ editar ]

El 21 de marzo de 2014, LIN Media celebró un acuerdo para fusionarse con Media General en un acuerdo de $ 1.6 mil millones. Porque, en ese momento, Media General era propietaria de la afiliada de ABC, WBAY-TV (que Media General adquirió en 2013 como parte de su fusión con Young Broadcasting ), y dado que WBAY y WLUK se encuentran entre las cuatro estaciones mejor calificadas en el mercado de Green Bay en audiencia total del día, las compañías debían vender WBAY o el duopolio WLUK / WCWF a otro propietario de la estación para cumplir con las reglas de propiedad de la FCC, así como los cambios planificados a esas reglas con respecto a las estaciones de televisión del mismo mercado que prohibirían los acuerdos de intercambio . [25] [26] [27]Para resolver la situación, Media General anunció el 20 de agosto de 2014 que mantendría WBAY, eligiendo vender WLUK y WCWF a Sinclair Broadcast Group como parte de un acuerdo multimercado (Sinclair también adquiriría WJAR en Providence y WTGS en Savannah , mientras que Media General adquiriría WTTA de Sinclair en Tampa y KXRM-TV / KXTU-LD en Colorado Springs ). [28]

Sinclair's acquisitions of WLUK and WCWF were completed on December 19, 2014,[29] and expanded the company's presence in Wisconsin, as it already owned Fox affiliate WMSN-TV in Madison and the Milwaukee duopoly of CW affiliate WVTV and MyNetworkTV affiliate WVTV-DT2 (formerly WCGV-TV). The deal also placed WLUK back under common ownership with Marquette NBC affiliate WLUC-TV, which Sinclair acquired in 2013 (both WLUK and WLUC shared common ownership from 1963 to 1987 under Post and Gillett), though this reunion was a brief one, as on October 1, 2015, Sinclair struck a deal to sell WLUC to Gray Television in exchange for CBS affiliate WSBT in South Bend, Indiana as part of station divestitures that Gray instituted in order to receive regulatory approval of its acquisition of the television stations operated by the latter station's longtime owner, Schurz Communications.[30] That deal closed on February 16, 2016, separating the two stations once again. WLUC then became a sister station to another Green Bay station, WBAY-TV in January 2017 as the result of another divestiture required by the FCC in the Nexstar/Media General merger which required the selling of WBAY-TV to Gray.

On July 6, 2016, Sinclair and WLUK announced they had placed the winning bid with ESPN for the local syndication of that cable network's Monday Night Football games with the Packers for multiple years; the agreement would have also included the 2016 preseason Pro Football Hall of Fame Game on August 7, a day after Brett Favre's induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame (this was due to regular rights carrier NBC passing the game to ESPN due to the 2016 Summer Olympics; the game was canceled an hour before kickoff due to poor field conditions).[31] With Fox's acquisition of Thursday Night Football rights through the 2022 season, this assures that WLUK will carry a minimum of ten Packers games per season, barring any NBC or CBS cross-flexing.

Digital television[edit]

Digital channels[edit]

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

ChannelVideoAspectPSIP Short NameProgramming[32]
11.1720p16:9WLUK-HDMain WLUK-TV programming / Fox
11.2480iAntennaAntenna TV
11.3TBDTBD

As part of a group affiliation deal between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Tribune Media, WLUK launched Antenna TV, a digital subchannel on virtual channel 11.2, on January 1, 2016 as an affiliate with the Tribune-owned classic television network. On February 13, 2017, WLUK-TV added TBD, a new channel mainly featuring web videos targeting millennials to 11.3.[33] WLUK's news and local content (outside sportscasts) is also available through Stirr, Sinclair's over-the-top streaming service.

Analog-to-digital conversion[edit]

WLUK-TV shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 11, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 51 to VHF channel 11.[34] On August 17, 2011, the station increased its transmitter power from 17.19 kW to 40 kW. Prior to this, Madison Fox affiliate WMSN-TV (a fellow Sinclair station pre-dating their ownership of WLUK) had broadcast its digital signal on channel 11, WLUK had to decrease its transmitter power to prevent interference with that station; when WMSN moved their digital channel to the UHF band to address reception issues in the Madison area, WLUK applied to the FCC to increase power once again.[35]

As part of the FCC's spectrum repack, the station will shift from physical channel 11 to 12 on July 3, 2020, but will continue to utilize virtual channel 11.[36] Sinclair has since applied to move the station to UHF physical channel 18 in order to address oncoming concerns about the ATSC 3.0 rollout, along with improving WLUK's signal in general, as it is the only Green Bay station with a VHF physical channel.[37]

Programming[edit]

In addition to the Fox network schedule, syndicated programs featured on WLUK include Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, Judge Judy, Live with Kelly and Ryan, and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.[38] WLUK is one of ten Fox affiliates to air both Jeopardy! and Wheel; the others being located in Baltimore; Syracuse, New York; New Orleans; Cincinnati; Denver; Lake Charles, Louisiana; Mobile, Alabama; Marquette, Michigan (WLUC-DT2); and Kansas City.

A longtime staple on WLUK's daily schedule was reruns of the NBC drama Little House on the Prairie; the station was one of the few in the nation to count Little House towards its fulfillment of educational and informational content obligations for young audiences, citing in part the series' inspiration from the Little House children's book series authored by state native Laura Ingalls Wilder. Little House was dropped from WLUK's daily schedule in September 2013, in part to make room for new acquisition Live!. For that year, it purchased syndicated E/I programming on a barter basis for weekend airings to fulfill E/I requirements, which was reduced to an hour in mid-September 2014 as WLUK took the Fox-offered E/I block Xploration Station, which features two hours of compliant programming (as such, it was the first Fox affiliate owned-and/or-operated by Sinclair that carried the block, as the group's other Fox stations at the time carried E/I programs through existing contracts with syndicators of educational program content instead; the remainder of Sinclair's Fox-affiliated stations began carrying the Xploration Station block in September 2016[39]).

Since becoming a Fox affiliate in 1995, WLUK has featured an extensive amount of local news coverage (see below). Local non-news programming includes Living with Amy, which debuted in September 2008 and currently airs in the 10:00 a.m. weekday time slot; hosted by former Good Day Wisconsin anchor Amy Hanten, Living features lifestyle, cooking, and paid business spotlight segments, with the cooking segments mainly sponsored by Kroger's Pick 'n Save and Copps stores (previously sponsored by Festival Foods), which has made a recipe compilation book featuring previous Living with Amy recipes available in-store.

During the Green Bay Packers season, WLUK airs an assortment of Packers-related programming, including Inside the Huddle, which offers previews, reviews, and analysis of Packer games on Sunday mornings and Monday evenings, as well as extended newscasts with training camp coverage. Also airing during the Packers season is The Better Half; hosted by Rachel Manek and airing Friday mornings at 10:00 a.m., the show features interviews, discussions, and advice from wives and girlfriends of Packers players and coaches.[38] Wheel of Fortune is moved back an hour on nights when WLUK carries Thursday Night Football from Fox or a Monday Night Football game to lower schedule disruption.

News operation[edit]

WLUK-TV presently broadcasts 43 hours of local newscasts each week (with seven hours each weekday and four hours each on Saturdays and Sundays); in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output among the Green Bay market's broadcast television stations and the second-highest among Wisconsin's television stations (behind fellow Fox affiliate WITI in Milwaukee, which carries 56 hours each week).

In addition to its main facilities, the station operates a Valley Newsroom on West College Avenue in Appleton along US 41. The station has its own weather radar, known as "Fox 11 StormTrackerX", at its main studios on Lombardi Avenue. The station also maintains a tower camera on its Doppler tower known as the "Lambeau Cam" which is mainly pointed in the direction of Lambeau Field.

The station dropped its nightly newscast in 1967 and did not resume regular local news broadcasts until 1971.[40] However, WLUK did occasionally run documentaries and sports programs to fulfill FCC public service regulations as well as a weekly commentary by Appleton Post-Crescent editor John Torinus. After gaining the Fox affiliation in August 1995, this station expanded its local news offerings: in its first year with the network, local news ran on weekdays from 6:00 to 8:00 a.m. (the morning newscast being extended by one hour and syndicated programming filling the 8:00 a.m. hour to fill timeslots vacated by the departure of Today), 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. (with a half-hour added at 5:30 p.m. to fill the timeslot vacated by the departure of NBC Nightly News), and 9:00 to 10:30 p.m. The 10:00 p.m. newscast was eventually dropped by the early 2000s and replaced with syndicated programming, with the 6 p.m. show ended in 2005 when the station acquired the Sony game show rights, while the morning newscast expanded over time to four hours; additional morning newscasts on Saturdays and Sundays were added later in the 2000s. WLUK returned to airing a 10 p.m. newscast on September 21, 2015.

In 2007 (during Fox's coverage of the Major League Baseball League Championship Series), WLUK's 9:00 p.m. newscast began to air over a leased access channel on Time Warner Cable on nights in which Fox broadcasts sports programming or movies during the prime time hours that run into the 9:00 p.m. timeslot on channel 11; WCWF took over carriage of the preempted/delayed 9 p.m. newscasts in October 2010, as a result of the SSA between WCWF and WLUK. On June 5, 2007, WLUK replaced WGBA-TV as the provider of weather updates for the 11-station Midwest Communications radio cluster in Green Bay/Fox Cities and Sheboygan. In 2009, a new addition to the Lombardi Avenue studios was completed to expand the station's newsroom space,[41] and is known as the "Fox 11 Digital Content Center".

Channel 11 was also the first local television station in the market to have full featured iOS and Android Market applications (for mobile phones and tablets). In March 2012, the station's newscasts were moved into the Content Center as the station prepared its studio and facilities for high definition broadcasting, and began construction of an HD-optimized news set.[42] Beginning with the 5:00 p.m. newscast on April 23, 2012, WLUK became the third station in the Green Bay-Appleton market to begin broadcasting its local news programming in high definition.[43] The station uses the AFD #10 flag to present its newscasts in letterboxed widescreen for viewers watching on cable television through traditional 4:3 sets.

Notable former on-air staff[edit]

  • Ross Becker-Buchberger – reporter (1974–1975) went on to report and anchor in Indianapolis, Los Angeles and for MSNBC
  • Sean Cronin – meteorologist (1984–1986); was a candidate for the U.S. House from Wisconsin's 7th congressional district in 2000
  • Jay Johnson – anchor (1982–1987); previously at WFRV-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin; elected to represent the 8th District in the U.S. House from 1997 to 1999 and was U.S. Mint Director from 2000 to 2001; died October 17, 2009[44]
  • Kyra Phillips – now political reporter for ABC News
  • Bill Weir – now with CNN; former co-anchor of ABC's GMA Weekend and Nightline and sports anchor of WGN Morning News

Out-of-market carriage[edit]

In the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, WLUK is only available over-the-air in Menominee County. A low powered digital translator in Escanaba operated until July 11, 2018. Despite this, WLUK was formerly carried by Charter Communications in the West and Central Upper Peninsula, along with WLUC-DT2 except in Gogebic County which is covered by the signal of Duluth, Minnesota's Fox affiliate KQDS-TV and the Eastern Upper Peninsula which is covered by WWUP-DT 10.2 (a high definition digital simulcast of Cadillac, Michigan's WFQX-TV). WLUK can also be seen on Charter in Ludington, Michigan, across Lake Michigan from the Green Bay area.

Retransmission controversies[edit]

Until April 2008, WLUK's high definition signal was only available over-the-air as the station had maintained edicts going back to its ownership under Emmis not to allow local cable or satellite providers to broadcast its digital signal without paid retransmission consent. LIN TV continued to apply this policy after its purchase of the Emmis stations and eventually extended it further to the remainder of its existing stations. Station officials kept their stance against local pay television providers defending the station's stance on WLUK's website and in on-air promotions. The first provider to carry WLUK-DT was Dish Network as part of a March 13, 2008 carriage agreement with LIN TV.[45] Originally, the signal was to be added in May 2008, but Dish began offering HD feeds of the Green Bay stations early on April 16,[46] surprised viewers with WLUK carried on channel 5163. DirecTV followed on June 8.[47]

With retransmission agreements firmed up with the satellite providers, LIN TV began to pursue the market's major cable providers for new deals. Charter was the first to be affected with its carriage agreement with WLUK expiring on July 1. By June 11, Charter and LIN reached a new agreement under undisclosed terms[48] and WLUK-DT began to be carried on digital channel 611 shortly thereafter;[49] AT&T U-verse struck an agreement to carry the digital signal on June 30, 2008,[50] while Comcast's Manitowoc system offered compensation to carry WLUK-DT on June 12 on digital channel 234.[51] This left Time Warner Cable as the lone holdout in the area to carry the HD feed as the provider and LIN TV had not come to an agreement nationally.

With no success from either viewer pressure or contentious negotiations, the system was forced to pull WLUK from its systems on October 3, 2008.[52] Time Warner quickly offered free antennas for customers to receive the station. WLUK encouraged viewers to switch to Dish Network and U-verse in order to continue to watch the station in some form.[53] In the month that followed, the ratings of LIN TV stations affected by the Time Warner dispute plunged,[54] while viewers complained about the loss of Green Bay Packers and MLB Playoff games on WLUK.

By the time of the 2008 World Series, Time Warner Cable made an odd but creative move to allow its viewers to watch the games by offering Fox Sports en Espanol on basic cable, which carried the Series in Spanish while encouraging viewers to turn down the Spanish play-by-play audio and listen to the game in English on ESPN Radio affiliate WDUZ.[55][56] Eventually the two companies came to a new carriage agreement on October 29,[57] and WLUK's analog signal was restored on the same day with WLUK-DT being added on digital channel 712 (currently 1012) shortly thereafter,[58] giving the station's digital signal full cable and satellite carriage on par with the other "Big Three" network affiliates.

On March 5, 2011, WLUK was removed from Dish Network as LIN and Dish could not come to terms on a new carriage agreement, and was restored when a new agreement was reached on March 12. WCWF remained unaffected as LIN's purchase of that station had not yet been finalized and was under the terms of their pre-WLUK SSA carriage agreement negotiated with ACME Communications.

Removal from out-of-market cable providers[edit]

On September 4, 2012, WLUK's signal was removed by Charter Communications systems in the Upper Peninsula and Marquette,[59] and from systems in Sheboygan County, Lomira (both with WITI in-market) and Montello (part of the Madison market served by WMSN-TV) on September 27, 2012.[60] This was due not to either the station or LIN removing access to the station, but contractual agreements by the Fox network itself which disallow signal duplication of network programming by an out-of-market signal despite the station's longtime service to each area, a source of controversy already in other duplicative market areas in the past.[61] WITI added the WLUK-produced The Better Half to their Friday afternoon schedule for the Milwaukee market that year, which has since moved to WTMJ. WLUK continues to present the forecasts on Midwest Communications' Sheboygan radio stations despite the loss of coverage on that city's cable provider. Despite the loss of cable carriage in the Upper Peninsula, it was still available to antenna viewers in Escanaba via W40AN-D until July 2018.

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