WBKI (TV)

WBKI (channel 58) is a television station licensed to Salem, Indiana, United States, serving the Louisville, Kentucky, area as a dual affiliate of The CW and MyNetworkTV.

Block formerly operated a CW affiliate with the WBKI-TV call sign on channel 34, licensed to Campbellsville, Kentucky, under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with owner LM Communications, LLC.

WFTE also aired the police procedural series NYPD Blue during the 1994–95 season as ABC affiliate WHAS-TV (channel 11) declined to carry the program, as many ABC affiliates in the Southern United States did when it premiered, but would later cede to viewer and advertiser pressure to carry it when the show gained traction in the national ratings.

MyNetworkTV was created to compete against another upstart network that would launch at the same time that September, The CW (an amalgamated network that originally consisted primarily of UPN and The WB's higher-rated programs) as well as to give UPN and WB stations that were not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates another option besides converting to independent stations.

[7] In early 2011, the master control operations for WDRB and WMYO were upgraded to allow the transmission of syndicated and locally produced programs in high definition; it also upgraded its severe weather ticker seen on both stations to be overlaid on HD programming without having to downconvert the content to standard definition.

According to the contract terms, WMYO is offered at no cost, with all fees going towards carriage of WDRB and affiliation dues that Block pays to Fox and MyNetworkTV.

In 2017, WMYO carried eight Louisville City FC soccer matches as part of their three-station broadcast deal with WDRB and WBNA.

[14] Sometime in late March 2014, the station relaunched 58.3, which had the PSIP label "COZI TV" and featured only SMPTE color bars.

In the Bowling Green, Kentucky media market, the station, as WMYO, was previously carried on the cable systems of the Glasgow Electric Plant Board, in spite of the close proximity of WUXP-TV in Nashville.

It was also available on the cable system of the South Central Rural Telephone Cooperative (also based in Glasgow), which serves Barren, Hart, and Metcalfe counties in the Bowling Green market.

The original logo for channel 58 under its original WFTE calls is visible on the sign at the entrance of its shared transmitter with WDRB north of Louisville atop Floyds Knobs, Indiana ; it was only used for one year before it took on UPN's affiliate design language upon that network's launch.
Channel 58 has been co-operated with WDRB since coming to the air in 1995 from the latter's studio on Muhammad Ali Blvd. in downtown Louisville.