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  • Jun 27
  • 8 min read

Updated: Oct 28

-INDIANAPOLIS-


CBS 4 NEWS

WTTV/Channel 4.1 (CBS)

Ownership: Nexstar Media Group

(Sister station of WXIN)


WRTV NEWS

WRTV/Channel 6.1 (ABC)

Ownership: Scripps; pending to Circle City Broadcasting


NEWS 8

WISH-TV/Channel 8.1 (The CW)

Ownership: Circle City Broadcasting


13 NEWS

WTHR/Channel 13.1 (NBC)

Ownership: Tegna; pending to Nexstar Media Group


NOTICIERO TELEMUNDO INDY

WDNI-CD/Channel 19.1 (Telemundo)

Ownership: Radio One


NEWS 8 WNDY-TV/Channel 23.1 (My Network TV)

Ownership: Circle City Broadcasting

(Sister station of WISH-TV; simulcast of WISH-TV morning and late newscasts)


CBS 4 NEWS

WTTK/Channel 29.1 (WTTV/CBS simulcast)

Ownership: Nexstar Media Group

(Satellite of WTTV)


FOX 59 NEWS

WXIN/Channel 59.1 (Fox)

Ownership: Nexstar Media Group

(Sister station of WTTV)


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-SOUTH BEND/ELKHART-


16 NEWS NOW

WNDU-TV/Channel 16.1 (NBC)

Ownership: Gray Media


WSBT 22 NEWS

WSBT-TV/Channel 22.1 (CBS)

WSBT 22 NEWS

WSBT-TV/Channel 22.2 (Fox)

Ownership: Sinclair Broadcast Group


ABC 57 NEWS

WCWW-LD/Channel 25.1 (The CW)

Ownership: Weigel Broadcasting

(Sister station of WBND-LD; newscasts produced by WBND-LD)


ABC 57 NEWS

WBND-LD/Channel 57.1 (ABC)

Ownership: Weigel Broadcasting


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-FORT WAYNE-


WANE 15 NEWS

WANE-TV/Channel 15.1 (CBS)

Ownership: Nexstar Media Group


21 ALIVE NEWS

WPTA/Channel 21.1 (ABC)

21 ALIVE NEWS

WPTA/Channel 21.2 (NBC)

Ownership: Gray Media


FOX 55 NEWS

INDIANA NEWS NOW

WFFT-TV/Channel 55.1 (Fox)

Ownership: Allen Media Group, pending to Gray Media


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-EVANSVILLE/HENDERSON, KY/OWENSBORO, KY-


EYEWITNESS NEWS

WTVW/Channel 7.1 (The CW)

Ownership: Mission Broadcasting

(SSA with WEHT; newscasts produced by WEHT)


14 NEWS

WFIE-TV/Channel 14.1 (NBC)

Ownership: Gray Media


EYEWITNESS NEWS

WEHT/Channel 25.1 (ABC)

Ownership: Nexstar Media Group

(SSA with WTVW)


44 NEWS

WEVV-TV/Channel 44.1 (CBS)

44 NEWS

WEVV-TV/Channel 44.2 (Fox)

Ownership: Allen Media Group, pending to Gray Media


44 NEWS

WEEV-LD/Channel 44.1 (WEVV-TV/44.2/Fox simulcast)

Ownership: Allen Media Group, pending to Gray Media

(Satellite of WEVV-TV 44.2)


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-TERRE HAUTE-


WTWO NEWS

WTWO/Channel 2.1 (NBC)

Ownership: Nexstar Media Group


NEWS 10

INDIANA NEWS NOW

WTHI-TV/Channel 10.1 (CBS)

NEWS 10

WTHI-TV/Channel 10.2 (Fox/My Network TV)

Ownership: Allen Media Group, pending to Gray Media


WAWV LIVE AT FIVE

WTWO NEWS

WAWV/Channel 38.1 (ABC)

Ownership: Mission Broadcasting

(SSA with WTWO; simulcast of WTWO 12pm news; 5pm news produced by WTWO)


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-LAFAYETTE-


STAR CITY NEWS

WPBI-LD/Channel 16.1 (Fox)

STAR CITY NEWS

WPBI-LD/Channel 16.2 (NBC)

Ownership: Waypoint Media

(Produced by NewsHub)


NEWS 18

INDIANA NEWS NOW

WLFI-TV/Channel 18.1 (CBS)

NEWS 18

WLFI-TV/Channel 18.2 (The CW)

Ownership: Allen Media Group, pending to Gray Media


STAR CITY NEWS

WPBY-LD/Channel 35.1 (ABC)

Ownership: Waypoint Media

(Produced by NewsHub)


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Past News Branding:


WTWO/Channel 2

Terre Haute

"W-2 News" (9/65-68)

"Total News" (1968-1/72)

"TV-2 News" (1971-73)

"TV-2 Eyewitness News" (1973-8/94)

"NewsChannel 2" (1994-2003)

"WTWO NewsChannel 2" (2003-2/06)

"WTWO NewsChannel" (2/06-10/17/10)

"NBC 2 News" (10/17/10-9/28/16)

Past Affiliation: ABC (Secondary, 1965-73)

Past Ownership: Illiana Telecasting (1965-68), Booth Newspapers (1968-75), Fabri Development Corp. (1975-90), TCS Television Partners/RP Companies (1990-97)


WTTV/Channel 4

Bloomington/Indianapolis

"Tonight in Indiana"

"Channel 4 News"

"News 4 Indiana" (1970s)

"The Nine O'Clock News/The Ten O'Clock News" (1980s)

"The Indiana Nightly News" (1980s)

"The Ten O'Clock News" (-11/1/90)

DEFUNCT

"6 News at Ten" (1991-98)

"6 News 10 @ 10" (1998)

"6 News at Ten" (1998-2001)

"The News at Ten" (2001-12/2002)

DEFUNCT; produced by WRTV

"Fox 59 Morning News" (2008-9/09)

DEFUNCT; former simulcast of WXIN morning news

Past Channel Number: 10 (1949-54)

Past Affiliation: NBC/DuMont (1949-56), ABC (1949-57), Independent (1957-1995), UPN (1995-1998), WB (1998-9/17/06), The CW (9/18/06-12/31/14)

Past Ownership: Sarkes Tarzian (1949-78), Teleco (1978-84), Tel-Am Corp. (1984-88), Capitol Broadcasting (1988-91), River City Broadcasting (1991-96), Sinclair (1996-2002), Tribune (2002-2019)


WRTV/Channel 6

Indianapolis

"WFBM TeleNews" (1950s)

"George Morrison and the News"

"TV-6 News" (1960s)

"Channel 6 News" (1960s-70s)

"The News" (1970s-80s)

"Channel 6 News" (1980s)

"WRTV 6 News" (1990s)

"6 News" (1990s-2001)

"The News on RTV 6" (2001-2006)

"6 News" (2006-2012)

"RTV 6 News" (2012-2020)

Past Call Letters: WFBM (1949-72)

Past Affiliation: CBS (1949-52), NBC (1952-79)

Past Ownership: Bitner Group (1949-57), Time-Life (1957-72), McGraw-Hill (1972-2012)


WTVW/Channel 7

Evansville

"The Tri-State Report"

"Don Shoultz and the News"

"News 7"

"Channel 7 Eyewitness News" (1970s-90s)

"Fox 7 News" (1996-98)

"Fox 7 First News" (1998-2000)

"Fox 7 News" (2000-2004)

"WTVW NewsChannel 7" (2004-2005)

"Fox 7 News" (2005-2007)

"Fox 7 WTVW News" (2007-2007)

"Fox 7 News" (2007-6/11)

"News 7" (6/11-7/1/11)

"Local 7 News" (7/2/11-11/30/11)

Past Affiliation: ABC (1956-95), Fox (1995-6/30/11), Independent (7/1/11-1/2013)

Past Ownership: Evansville Television, Inc. (1956-62), Polaris Corp. (1962-79), Woods Communications (1980-93), Banham Broadcasting (1993-95), Petracom (1995-97), Quorum Broadcasting (1997-2003), Nexstar (2003-2011)


WISH/Channel 8

Indianapolis

"The World at One"/"The World at Seven"

"Movietone News"

"WISH-TV News"

"Channel 8 News"

"The Big News" (1970s)

"Channel 8 News On The Scene" (1970s-80s)

"8 On the Scene News" (1980s)

"WISH-TV News 8" (1980s-)

"24 Hour News 8"

"News 8"

"24 Hour News 8" (-2018)

Past Affiliation: ABC (1954-56), DuMont (1954-55), CBS (1956-12/31/14)

Past Ownership: C. Bruce McConnell (1954-56), Corinthian Broadcasting (1956-84), LIN Media (1984-2014), Media General (2014-2016), Nexstar Media Group (2016-2019)


WWJS-CD/Channel 9

Jeffersonville

"NewsCenter 9"

"WNDA News"

DEFUNCT; produced by Independent News Network

Past Call Letters: W26AS (1989-96), WJYL-LP (1996-2002), WKQT-CA (2002), WJYL-CA (2002-2009), WNDA-CA (2009-2010)

Past Channel Number: 26 (1989-96), 9 (1996-2012)

DARK (2012)


WTHI/Channel 10

Terre Haute

"Video Views of the News"

"News Picture" (1950s)

"Channel 10 News" (-1974)

"NewsCenter 10" (1974-85)

"Action 10 News" (1985-2001)

"Action 10 News-WTHI" (2001-9/06)

Past Affiliation: CBS/ABC/NBC/DuMont (1954-)

Past Ownership: Hulman & Company (Wabash Valley Broadcasting Corp.), Emmis Broadcasting (1998-2005), LIN Media (2005-2014), Media General (2014-2016), USA TV Holdings, LLC (2016-2019), Allen Media Group (2019-2025)


WTHR/Channel 13

Indianapolis

"WLWI News"

"Tom Atkins and the 6:15 News"/"The World Tonight"

"Tom Atkins News"

"TV-13 News"

"Eyewitness To News"

"Eyewitness News" (1970s-76)

"Eyewitness NewsCenter 13" (1976-81)

"NewsCenter 13" (1981-94)

"NewsChannel 13" (1994-96)

"Eyewitness News" (1996-2020)

Past Call Letters: WLWI (1957-76)

Past Affiliation: ABC (1975-79)

Past Ownership: Crosley Broadcasting/Avco Broadcasting (1957-75), Dispatch Broadcast Group (1975-2019), Tegna (2019-)


WFIE/Channel 14

Evansville

"Channel 14 News" (1960s-70s)

"The Runyan/Edsel Report" (1960s-70s)

"Newslens" (1970s)

"Newswatch"/"Newswatch 14" (1970s-2006)

Past Channel Number: 62

Past Ownership: Orion Broadcasting, Liberty Corp[Cosmos Broadcasting] (-2005)


WANE/Channel 15

Fort Wayne

"Richard Hickox Reporting The News"

"This Day 195x"

"Big News" (1970s)

"Kurtz News" (1970s)

"News 15"

"NewsChannel 15" (-2018)

Past Ownership: Corinthian Broadcasting, LIN Media (-2014), Media General (2014-2016)


WNDU/Channel 16

South Bend

"Deadline 10:15"

"Deadline News"

"WNDU Priority News"

"NewsCenter 16" (-2019)

Past Channel Number: 46 (1955-57)

Past Ownership: Notre Dame University (1955-2006)


WIIH-LD/Channel 17.1

Indianapolis

"WIIH Noticias" (2003-2008)

DEFUNCT

Past Call Letters: W11BV (1988-), WIIH-LP

Past Channel Number: 11 (1988-)

Past Affiliation: Independent, Univision (2003-2008)

Past Ownership: LIN Media (-2014), Media General (2014-2016), Nexstar Media Group (2016-2019)


WAZE-LP/Channel 17

Evansville

"News 25 at Nine" (1999-2000)

DEFUNCT; 9pm newscast produced by WEHT

Past Call Letters: W52AZ, WWAZ-LP

Past Channel Number: 52, 17

Past Affiliation: UPN, The WB (-2006), The CW (2006-1/2013)

(DARK; Satellite of WAZE/Hopkinsville, KY)


WJTS-CD/Channel 18.1

Jasper

"27 Minutes"

Past Call Letters: W27BL

Past Channel Number: 27


WLFI/Channel 18

Lafayette

"Clete Roberts Report" (1953)

"WFAM-TV News"

"News Service 18" (1970s-80s)

"Lafayette Live: TV-18 News" (1980s-2000)

"NewsChannel 18" (2000-2012)

Past Call Letters: WFAM

Past Channel Number: 59

Past Ownership: Sarkes Tarzian, Blade Communications, LIN Media (-2014), Media General (2014-2016), USA TV Holdings, LLC (2016-2019), Allen Media Group (2019-2025)


WPTA/Channel 21

Fort Wayne

"Tom Atkins Reporting"

"21 Evening Report"

"21 Eyewitness News"

"21-Alive Newsroom" (1970s-90s)

"21-Alive News" (1990s-11/29/05)

"Indiana's NewsCenter (11/30/05-2012)

"21-Alive News" (2012-2016)

"ABC 21 News" (2016-2022)

Past Ownership: Sarkes Tarzian (1957-73), Combined Communications Corp (1973-79), Gannett (1979-83), Pulitzer Broadcasting (1983-89), Granite Broadcasting (1989-2005), Malara Broadcasting (2005-2015), Quincy Media Group (2015-2021)


WSBT/Channel 22

South Bend

"TV-22 News"/"The Early Report"/"The Late Report"

"Eyewitness News"

"WSBT-TV News"

"Eyewitness News"

"News 22" (-2006)

"WSBT News" (2006-2013)

"WSBT Channel 22 News" (2013-2015)

Past Ownership: Schurz Communications (1952-2015)


WVUT/Channel 22

Vincennes

"22 Report" (1970s-82)

DEFUNCT

"Evening Edition" (1984-90)

"NewsCenter 22" (1990-)

"NewsCenter"

Past Call Letters/Channel Number: WRAY/Channel 52 (licensed to Princeton, IN)

Past Affiliation: Independent (1967-68), NET (1968-1971)


WNDY/Channel 23

Marion/Indianapolis

"Channel 13 Eyewitness News at Ten on Indy-TV"

"Channel 13 Eyewitness News at Ten on UPN 23"

"Channel 13 Eyewitness News at Ten on UPN Indiana" (2003-2/14/05)

DEFUNCT; produced by WTHR

"24 Hour News 8" (2/15/05-2015)

DEFUNCT; morning and 10pm newscasts produced by WISH

Past Call Letters: WMCC

Past Affiliation: Independent (1984-95), WB (1995-98), UPN (1998-9/4/06)

Past Ownership: Kenko, Inc. (1984-94), Hulman & Company (1994-97), Viacom (1997-2005), LIN Media (2005-2014), Media General (2014-2016), Nexstar Media Group (2016-2019)


WEHT/Channel 25

Evansville/Henderson, KY/Owensboro, KY

"Total News"

"TV 25 NewsCenter"

"NewsFirst 25" (-1994)

"News 25" (1994-11/30/11)

Past Channel Number: 50 (1953-66)

Past Affiliation: CBS (1953-1995), ABC (Secondary, 1953-56)

Past Ownership: Malco Theater Corp. (1953-57), Hilberg Packing (1957-64), Gilmore Broadcasting (1964-2011)


WSJV/Channel 28

Elkhart/South Bend

"28 Newswatch" (1970s)

"Newswatch 28" (1980s-94)

"News 28" (1994-95)

”Fox 28 News” (1995-2016)

DEFUNCT

Past Channel Number: 52 (1954-58)

Past Affiliation: NBC (1954-55), ABC (1954-95), Fox (1995-2016)

Past ownership: Truth Publishing Company (1954-74), Quincy Media Group (1974-2021)


WTTK/Channel 29

Kokomo

"The Ten O'Clock News" (-11/1/90)

DEFUNCT

"6 News at Ten" (1991-98)

"6 News 10 @ 10" (1998)

"6 News at Ten" (1998-2001)

"The News at Ten" (2001-12/2002)

DEFUNCT; produced by WRTV

"Fox 59 Morning News (2008-9/09)

DEFUNCT; former simulcast of WXIN morning news

Past Call Letters: WWKI (1983-87)

Past Affiliation: Independent (1983-87), Independent (Satellite of WTTV; 1987-95), UPN (1995-98), WB (1998-9/17/06), The CW (9/18/06-12/31/14)

Past Ownership: Tel-Am Corp. (1987-88), Capitol Broadcasting (1988-91), River City Broadcasting (1991-96), Sinclair (1996-2002), Tribune (2002-2019)


WTAF/Channel 31

Marion

"Panorama"

DEFUNCT; DARK (1969)

Past Affiliation: Independent (1962-69)

Past Ownership: Geneco Broadcasting, Inc.


WISE/Channel 33

Fort Wayne

"WKJG News" (1970s)

"WKJG-TV 33 News" (1970s)

"NewsCenter 33" (1970s-80s)

"33 News" (1990s)

"NBC 33 News" (1990s-2003)

"WISE 33 News" (2003-3/2005)

DEFUNCT; newscast shut down after JSA entered into with WPTA.

"21-Alive News on WISE-33" (3/2005-11/29/05)

"Indiana's NewsCenter" (11/30/05-2012)

"NBC 33 News"/"21-Alive News" (2012-3/2013)

(Simulcast of WPTA newscasts; replaced with stand-alone newscasts)

”NBC 33 News” (2013-2016)

(Newscasts, network affiliation and syndicated programming moved to subchannel of WPTA)

Past Call Letters: WKJG (1953-2003)

Past Affiliation: NBC (1953-2016)

Past Ownership: William Kunkle (1953-71), Thirty-Three, Inc. (-1977), Corporation for General Trade (1977-2003), New Vision (2003-2005), Granite (2005-2015), SagamoreHill Broadcasting (2015-2018)


WISE/Channel 33.2

Fort Wayne

"Indiana's NewsCenter at 10" (-2012)

"My Fox News at Ten" (2012-2013)

DEFUNCT

Past Affiliation: My Network TV (-2011 primary); Fox (2011-2/28/13), My Network TV (2/29/13-2016)


WAWV/Channel 38

Terre Haute

"WIIL-TV Evening News" (1973-)

"TV-38 Evening News" (-3/74)

DEFUNCT

"News 38" (1977-81)

DEFUNCT

"Action 10 News Nightwatch on Fox 38" (1995-99)

"Fox 38 News at Ten" (1999-2004)

DEFUNCT; produced by WTHI, unrelated to current newscast

"NewsChannel 2 Prime Edition" (7/2004-5/31/05)

"Fox 38 News at Ten" (6/1/05-8/8/05)

"WFXW Prime Edition" (8/9/05-7/7/07)

"WTWO Prime Edition on WFXW" (7/07-7/09)

"Fox 38 News: First at Ten" (7/09-8/31/11)

"NBC 2 News Today" (-8/31/11)

(10pm newscast produced by WTWO; rebroadcast of WTWO 6am news)

"WAWV News" (9/1/11-4/11/25)

Past Call Letters: WIIL (1973-77), WBAK (1977-6/1/05), WFXW (6/1/05-8/31/11)

Past Affiliation: ABC (1973-95), Fox (1995-8/31/11)

Past Ownership: Alpha Broadcasting (1973-76), Bahakel Communications (1976-2003)


WHMB/Channel 40

Indianapolis

"UNKNOWN"

DEFUNCT

Past Call Letters: WURD


WEVV/Channel 44

Evansville

"Fox 44 News at Nine" (1992-94)

"News at Nine" (1994-95)

"44 NewsNow!" (1995-99)

"CBS 44 News" (1999-11/17/2001)

DEFUNCT; unrelated to current newscast

Past Affiliation: Independent (1983-86), Fox (1986-1995)

Past Ownership: Ralph C. Wilson Industries, Communications Corp. of America


WIPB/Channel 49

Muncie

"Hinshaw Edits The News" (1960s)

"Channel 49 News" (1960s)

"The Eighteenth Hour"/"Muncie Tonight" (1960s)

DEFUNCT

"On-Line 49" (1980s)

DEFUNCT

Past Call Letters: WLBC

Past Affiliation: NBC/ABC/CBS

Past Ownership: Don Burton (1953-71), Eastern Indiana Community Television (1971)


WCAE/Channel 50

St. John/Gary

"Channel 50 News"

DEFUNCT, DARK (1984)

Past Affiliation: NET (1967-70), PBS (1970-84)

Past Ownership: Lake Central School Corp. (1967-84)


WFFT/Channel 55

Fort Wayne

"The Ten O'Clock Report" (1980-81)

DEFUNCT

"Fox Fort Wayne News" (2009-2011)

"WFFT Local News" (2011-2018)

Past Affiliation: Independent (1977-1986), Fox (1986-7/31/11); Independent (8/1/11-2/28/13)

Past Ownership: Great Trails Broadcasting, Quorum Broadcasting, Nexstar Media Group (-2016), USA TV Holdings, LLC (2016-2019), Allen Media Group (2019-2025)


WYIN/Channel 56

Gary

"Indiana Nightly Report" (1990-)

"56 News"

"56 Nightly News" (-2006)

"Lakeshore News Tonight' (2006-1/14)

DEFUNCT

Past Call Letters: WCAE (-1984), DARK (1984-87)

Past Channel Number: 50

Past Ownership: Lake Central School Corp. (-1984)


WBKI/Channel 58

Salem/Louisvile, KY

"Fox News" DEFUNCT, rebroadcast of WDRB-TV news

Past Call Letters: WFTE (1994-2006), WMYO (2006-2018)

Past Affiliation: Independent, UPN (-9/4/06)


WXIN/Channel 59

Indianapolis

"59 Headline News" (1984)

DEFUNCT, unrelated to current newscast

"WXIN News Extra" (1980s)

DEFUNCT; news briefs unrelated to current newscast

"Fox 59 Nightcast" (1991-95)

"Fox News at Ten" (1995-98)

Past Call Letters: WPDS (1984-85)

Past Affiliation: Independent (1984-86)

Past Ownership: USA Communications (1984-85) Outlet Broadcasting (1985-89), Chase Broadcasting (1989-93), Renaissance Broadcasting (1993-96), Tribune (1996-2019)


WIPX/Channel 63

Bloomington/Indianapolis

"Channel 13 Eyewitness News at Ten" (2005-2005)

DEFUNCT, canceled with rebranding of Pax network to "i"

Past Call Letters: WIIB

Past Affiliation: Home Shopping Network





















 
 
 

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