WTHI-TV (channel 10) is a television station in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States, affiliated with CBS, Fox, MyNetworkTV and MeTV.
Owned by Allen Media Broadcasting, the station has studios on 8th and Ohio Streets in downtown Terre Haute, and its transmitter is located along US 41/150 in unincorporated Sullivan County (south of Farmersburg).
[3] WTHI lost the DuMont affiliation when the network ceased operations in August 1956; NBC programming moved to the city's second television station, WTWO (channel 2), when it signed on the air in September 1965.
Local programs airing on the station during its earlier history featured Jerry Van Dyke of Coach and My Mother the Car fame, and "Captain Jack" Hanes, whose most famous guest was eventual Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird.
WTHI was a secondary affiliate of UPN when the network launched on January 16, 1995, carrying its programming immediately after CBS late night.
Rare for those arrangements with UPN, it continued until the network ended operations and merged with the WB in September 2006 to form The CW, as no full-power or low-power stations came on the air in the market through that time.
In October 2012, the station relocated its operations to a new facility located one block west of its original studios, at 800 Ohio Street in downtown Terre Haute;[5][6] the original studio building, which was also shared with former sister stations WWVR (105.5 FM) (which, along with WTHI-FM, remains owned by Emmis Communications), was demolished in December 2012 to accommodate parking for a new office building being constructed nearby.
As Nexstar already owns WTWO (and operates Mission Broadcasting-owned WAWV-TV) and since the Terre Haute market is too small to allow duopolies in any case, in order to comply with FCC ownership rules as well as planned changes to rules regarding same-market television stations which would prohibit future joint sales agreements, the company was required to sell either WTWO or WTHI to another company.
[17] WTHI-DT2, branded on air as MyFox10, is the primary Fox and secondary MyNetworkTV-affiliated second digital subchannel of WTHI-TV, broadcasting in 720p high definition on channel 10.2.
For the first nine years of the network's existence, Fox did not have an affiliate in Terre Haute as the market consists of only three full-power commercial television stations.
The market would not receive its own Fox station until January 31, 1995, when WBAK-TV ended its 22-year tenure with ABC—which it had been affiliated with since it signed on as WIIL-TV in April 1973—to join the network.
On September 6, 2017, WTHI-DT3 switched to a 720p HD feed of The CW's national CW+ service, succeeding cable-only "WBI" as the CW+ affiliate for the Terre Haute market; on that date, Ion Television was moved to a newly created subchannel on 10.4.
The cuts also restructured several news departments, including at WTHI, where anchor Patrece Dayton and meteorologist Kevin Orpurt were dismissed after long on-air tenures exceeding 35 years each.