WFIE

WFIE (channel 14) is a television station in Evansville, Indiana, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Gray Media.

WFIE was granted a construction permit on June 10, 1953, and began broadcasting on November 15, 1953, on analog UHF channel 62.

WEHT (channel 25), while licensed to Evansville and having launched over a month before WFIE, has always had its studio located across the Ohio River in Henderson.

On February 1, 2006, Liberty Corporation merged with Raycom Media, with ownership remaining steady for over 12 years.

It became an independent TV channel devoted to local news, weather, and sports in the Evansville media market.

WTVW dropped the partial MeTV schedule when that station became the Evansville market's new affiliate of The CW in January 2013.

This is due in part of University of Notre Dame's sports programs (with the exception of the football team) joining the ACC that year.

In August 1977, the station became the first in Evansville to remotely broadcast local news, sports, and weather outside its studios.

It was the second station in Indiana (first in Evansville) to build its own Doppler weather radar system (located adjacent to the studios) in February 1988.

In addition to its main studios, the station operates Western Kentucky newsrooms in Owensboro and Madisonville.

[12] WFIE maintains a "sister-station" relationship with a television station in the western Ukraine city of Ternopil.

[citation needed] The station's signal is multiplexed: WFIE discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 14, on June 12, 2009, the official date when full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate.

The WFIE viewing area; counties where the station's signal reaches either over-the-air, on cable or satellite are shown in light red.