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{{Short description|Television station in South Bend, Indiana}}
{{Redirect|WMYS|the Indianapolis radio station formerly known as WMYS|WXNT}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2024}}
{{Infobox television station
| callsign = WMYS-LD
| city = 
| logo = WMYS-LD logo (cropped).svg
| logo_size = 200px
| branding = My Michiana
| digital = 28 ([[UHF]])
| virtual = 69
| subchannels = 
| translators = 
| affiliations = {{ubl|'''69.1:''' [[MyNetworkTV]]|'''[[WYTU-LD|69.2]]:''' [[Telemundo]]|''for others, see {{Section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| owner = [[Weigel Broadcasting]]
| licensee = WBND-TV [[Limited Partnership]]
| location = [[South Bend, Indiana]]
| country = United States
| airdate = {{start date and age|1987|12|2|p=y}}
| last_airdate = 
| callsign_meaning = MyNetworkTV South Bend
| sister_stations = [[WBND-LD]], [[WCWW-LD]]
| former_callsigns = {{ubl|W69BT (1987–1999)|WMWB-LP (1999–2002)|WRDY-LP (2002–2004)|WAAT-LP (2004–March 2006)|WCWW-LP (March 2006)|WMYT-LP (March–April 2006)}}
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 69 (UHF, 1987–2010)|'''Digital:''' 23 (UHF, 2007–2012), 39 (UHF, 2012–2018), 33 (UHF, 2018–2019)}}
| former_affiliations = {{ubl|[[Independent station|Independent]] (via [[WCIU-TV]], 1987–1995; sole affiliation, 2004–2006)|[[Telemundo]] (secondary, via WCIU-TV, 1987–1988)|[[Univision]] (secondary, via WCIU-TV, 1989–1994)|[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] (via WBND-LP; 1995–1999, 2002–2004)|[[UPN]] (secondary, 1995–2003)|[[The WB]] (1999–2002)|[[The Sportsman Channel]] (secondary, 2004–2009)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.michiguide.com/archives2004/2004/04/april-2004-news-and-notes.html|title=April 2004 News and Notes|website=Michiguide.com|date=April 30, 2004}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/hunting-fishing-and-danger-job-shows-expanding-on-cable-tv|title=Hunting, Fishing and 'Danger Job' Shows...Cable TV|website=Fox News Entertainment|date=August 16, 2010}}</ref>}}
| erp = 15 [[kW]]
| haat = {{convert|334.2|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id = 168647
| class = [[Low-power broadcasting#Television|LD]]
| coordinates = {{Coord|41|36|54.9|N|86|11|6.6|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| licensing_authority = [[FCC]]
| website = {{URL|http://www.mymichianatv.com/}}
}}

'''WMYS-LD''' (channel 69) is a [[low-power television station]] in [[South Bend, Indiana]], United States, affiliated with [[MyNetworkTV]]. It is owned by [[Weigel Broadcasting]] (as the company's only MyNetworkTV affiliate), and is [[sister station|sister]] to [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] affiliate [[WBND-LD]] (channel 57) and [[The CW|CW]] affiliate [[WCWW-LD]] (channel 25). The three stations share studios on Generations Drive (near the [[Indiana Toll Road]]) in northeastern South Bend; WMYS-LD's transmitter is located just off the [[St. Joseph Valley Parkway]] on the city's south side.

Due to its low-power status, its broadcasting radius only covers the immediate South Bend area. Therefore, Weigel relies on paid television subscription carriage for all three of its South Bend television stations to reach the entire [[media market|market]].

==History==
The station first signed on the air on December 2, 1987, as W69BT, broadcasting on UHF channel 69. It originally operated as a translator of [[Chicago]] sister station [[WCIU-TV]], which at the time was an [[independent station]] with [[Telemundo]] as a secondary affiliation. On October 18, 1995, W58BT (channel 58, now WBND-LD on channel 57) became the South Bend market's new ABC affiliate, after full-power [[WSJV]] (channel 28) ended its affiliation with that network to join [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Rocky Start for New South Bend ABC Affiliate|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Rq8_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=01YMAAAAIBAJ&pg=2484,3691678&dq=wsjv+abc&hl=en|access-date=October 25, 2012|newspaper=Times-Union|date=October 19, 1995}}</ref> Due to W58BT's low-power signal which could not reach the entire market, Weigel then converted W69BT into a translator of W58BT to reach areas that could not receive an adequate signal as Weigel campaigned the FCC to increase the station's signal radius, along with establishing its pay-TV coverage.

After several years, those efforts were successful. As most of the market could receive channel 57 without issue, in October 1999, channel 69 became an affiliate of [[The WB]] with its own schedule, just as [[WGN-TV]] in Chicago dropped The WB on [[NewsNation|its superstation feed]]. The station's callsign was changed to WMWB-LP (standing for "[[Michiana]]'s WB").

After Weigel purchased WYGN-LP (channel 25, now [[The CW|CW]] affiliate [[WCWW-LD]]) in 2002 from [[3ABN]], Weigel chose to move channel 69's schedule, call letters, and WB affiliation to that station, which was closer to the majority of the channels on the South Bend television dial. Channel 69 then adopted channel 25's former WRDY-LP call letters. It later changed its calls three more times: first to WAAT-LP in 2004, then briefly to WCWW-LP in March 2006. From 2002 until 2004, it was once again simulcasting ABC programming from WBND-LP; after that, it returned to being an independent station, with occasional programming from the [[Sportsman Channel]].

In March 2006, Weigel reached an affiliation deal to affiliate channel 69 with [[MyNetworkTV]], a network launched as a partnership between [[Fox Television Stations]] and [[Twentieth Television]]; in accordance to the new affiliation, it changed its calls to WMYT-LP before modifying it to WMYS-LP in April 2006. WMYS affiliated with MyNetworkTV when it launched on September 5, 2006. Until 2011, when [[MeTV]] launched on WBND-LD2, the station carried classic television series and retro commercials associated with MeTV's stations in Chicago, though without the branding due to its network affiliation and a sizeable amount of recent first-run programming within the station's schedule. Currently it carries a sizable amount of current-day programming, though it retains ''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]''. From 2015 and 2019, it carried [[Chicago Cubs|Cubs]] and [[White Sox]] games broadcast by [[WGN Sports]].

In early August 2008, Weigel Broadcasting agreed to sell all three of its South Bend stations, including WMYS, to [[Schurz Communications]], the longtime owner of the local [[CBS]] affiliate [[WSBT-TV]], for undisclosed terms.<ref name="SB">[http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6584274.html WSBT Purchases Three Low-Power Stations], ''Broadcasting & Cable'', August 4, 2008</ref> However, in the absence of action by the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC), the deal was called off in August 2009.<ref name="bc-salecollapse">{{cite news|url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/328731-WSBT_South_Bend_Deal_Fizzles_Absent_FCC_Action.php|title=WSBT South Bend Deal Fizzles Absent FCC Action|last1=Malone|first1=Michael|first2=John|last2=Eggerton |date=August 24, 2009|work=[[Broadcasting & Cable]]|access-date=August 25, 2009}}</ref>

==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
The station's signal is [[multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of WMYS-LD<ref name="Where to watch">[https://www.abc57.com/where-to-watch ABC 57: Where to watch]</ref><ref>[http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WMYS-LD#station RabbitEars TV Query for WMYS-LD]</ref>
! [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! Short name
! Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 69.1 
| [[720p]] || rowspan=4| [[16:9]] || MyMich || [[MyNetworkTV]]<ref name="Where to watch"/>
|- style="background-color: #E6FFF7;"
! scope = "row" | [[WYTU-LD|69.2]] 
| [[1080i]] || TLMNDO || [[Telemundo]] ([[WYTU-LD]])<ref name="Where to watch"/><ref>[https://www.rabbitears.info/search.php?request=network_search&network=Telemundo RabbitEars TV Query for Telemundo]</ref> 
|-
! scope = "row" | 69.3 
| rowspan=2| [[480i]] || CATCHY || [[Catchy Comedy]]<ref name="Where to watch"/><ref>[https://www.rabbitears.info/search.php?request=network_search&network=Catchy+Comedy RabbitEars TV Query for Catchy Comedy]</ref>
|-
! scope = "row" | 69.4
| DABL || [[Dabl]]
|}
{{legend|#E6FFF7|Simulcast of subchannels of another station}}

===Analog-to-digital conversion===
On September 14, 2007, WMYS and its sister stations began low-power digital broadcasts. On November 30, 2010, WMYS turned off its analog signal on channel 69 because of a power supply failure, although the station remained available on its digital companion signal and on digital cable.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]|date=December 10, 2010|title=Notification of Suspension of Operations / Request for Silent STA|work=CDBS Public Access|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1410918&Service=TX&Form_id=910&Facility_id=71426}}</ref> The station had a construction permit obtained by the FCC to move its analog signal to UHF channel 34, since channel 69 is an out-of-core allotment for post-digital transition television broadcasting and low-power television stations were at the time under no obligation to cease analog broadcasts. On April 16, 2012, the FCC granted a construction permit for WMYS-LD to move its digital frequency from channel 23 to channel 34 (its former proposed analog allotment and formerly occupied by the analog signal of [[WNIT (TV)|WNIT]]).<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|title=APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO CONSTRUCT OR MAKE CHANGES...|work=CDBA Public Access|url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101488936&formid=346&fac_num=71426|date=August 2011}}</ref> On August 19, WMYS-LD swapped digital frequencies with WBND-LD, with WMYS taking WBND's proposed channel 39 allotment and WBND taking the channel 34 allotment. On August 29, 2018, WMYS moved from channel 39 to channel 33.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abc57.com/news/rescan-your-tv-to-continue-receiving-wmys|title=Rescan your TV to continue receiving WMYS|last=Hudson|first=Melissa|work=ABC57.com|publisher=[[Weigel Broadcasting]]|date=July 27, 2018|access-date=August 30, 2018}}</ref> On October 18, 2019, WMYS moved from channel 33 to channel 28 (its former proposed analog allotment and formerly occupied by the analog signal of [[WSJV]]).

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.mymichianatv.com Official website]

{{South Bend TV}}
{{MNTV Indiana}}
{{MNTV Michigan}}
{{Other Indiana Stations}}
{{Weigel Broadcasting}}

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