WNKY-DT2

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WNKY-DT2 is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States and serving South Central Kentucky. Known on-air as CBS 40, it is a second digital subchannel of NBC affiliate WNKY (channel 40) that owned by Marquee Broadcasting. Over the air, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 16.2 (or virtual channel 40.2 via PSIP) from a transmitter on Pilot Knob in Smiths Grove along I-65. WNKY-DT2's parent station has studios on Emmett Avenue in Bowling Green.

WNKY-DT2 can also be seen on Charter Spectrum channels 10 (SD) and 912 (HD), as well as Dish Network channel 4. It can also be viewed on South Central Rural Telephone Cooperative (SCRTC) cable channels 2 (SD) and 302 (digital HD).

There is no separate website for this station. From its inception until 2013, its local logo includes the network's "eye logo" representing the "0" in "40".

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History

The CBS Television Network never had an affiliated station in the Bowling Green media market even after it was made out of areas that were formerly of the Nashville and Louisville markets. Bowling Green was one of the only few areas of the United States east of the Mississippi River to not have their own CBS station. Two distant CBS affiliates were the default CBS stations for the Bowling Green area, and they were WTVF (channel 5) in Nashville, and WLKY-TV (channel 32) in Louisville. Cable providers in the area carried either one or both of these stations, so cable was necessary to get the two stations, although WTVF had a signal strong enough to cover most of the Bowling Green DMA.

In late 2006, when digital broadcast TV became available, WNKY, the NBC affiliate in Bowling Green, signed a long-term agreement with CBS to air the network on a new second digital subchannel. The new CBS-affiliated sub-channel officially launched as WNKY-DT2 on February 1, 2007.

ABC affiliate WBKO began carrying the Fox network (WNKY's original affiliated network 1992-2001) and The CW on their second and third digital subchannels, respectively, in September 2006, and now, with CBS available on WNKY-DT2, and with the MyNetworkTV programming service and classic TV-specialty network Antenna TV available via WCZU-LD channel 39 since early 2014, the only major network or programming service Bowling Green does not currently have is Ion Television. Ion is only available via cable or satellite television, or through Ion O&O Cookeville-licensed WNPX-TV in Nashville, which would be the default over-the-air Ion station.

In early January 2015 just before the 2014-15 NFL Playoffs, WNKY-DT2 began broadcasting in 16:9 standard definition widescreen.

In early January 2018, WNKY-DT2 began broadcasting in 720p high definition.

Availability

Despite the existence of WNKY-DT2, cable systems in the Bowling Green market still offer WTVF, along with WNKY-DT2, including Insight Communications (later Time Warner Cable, now Spectrum). Glasgow's South Central Rural Telephone Cooperative (SCRTC) cable system carries WNKY-DT2, as well as the other channels of WTVF and WLKY. At one point during the 1990s and 2000s, the SCRTC in Glasgow offered WKYT from Lexington on its cable lineup. In late 2017, WNKY clinched cable exclusivity in terms of NBC and CBS affiliates on the Glasgow EPB cable system when that system dropped both WSMV and WTVF and their associated subchannels were dropped from Glasgow EPB cable. The distant NBC and CBS affiliates both remain on SCRTC cable.

In Morgantown (Butler County) and Brownsville (Edmonson County), WTVF remains available on Mediacom cable systems. WNKY-DT2 is also available to Mediacom's Butler and Edmonson County customers along with WTVF, with only one restriction: a digital-ready TV or a Mediacom digital converter is required for the reception of WNKY-DT2. Mediacom systems in Munfordville (Hart County) and Edmonton (Metcalfe County), however, still carries WLKY in Louisville, but WNKY-DT2 replaced WTVF as a second choice for CBS.

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Programming

General programming

WNKY-DT2 clears the entire CBS network schedule, including the weekday and Saturday morning editions of CBS This Morning and the entire CBS Dream Team lineup. Unlike most CBS affiliates in the Central Time Zone, The Young and the Restless is aired on the station at 11 a.m., whereas WTVF airs that program at 11:30 a.m. preceding their midday program Talk of the Town.

Syndicated programming on WNKY-DT2, as of June 2017, includes The Insider, Divorce Court, Modern Family, Hot Bench, Judge Mathis, and TMZ, among others. On weekends, WNKY-DT2 also airs The Simpsons, Whacked Out Sports, Whacked Out Videos, and CSI: Miami, among others.

Sports programming

As a CBS affiliate, WNKY-DT2 is also Bowling Green's local home to CBS Sports coverage of the Tennessee Titans (based in Nashville) games since the 2007 NFL season. This comes with the CBS affiliation, for the NFL on CBS carries all National Football League games played in the afternoon that feature a road team from the American Football Conference, in which the Titans play.

Additionally in 2016, WNKY began broadcasting the package of Titans Preseason Football games that are not nationally televised. Those broadcasts originate from Nashville ABC affiliate WKRN-TV. However, the first two games of the 2016 preseason were broadcast on WNKY-DT2 to avoid scheduling conflict with NBC's coverage of the 2016 Summer Olympics on the main channel.

Because the University of Kentucky Wildcats and University of Louisville Cardinals men's basketball teams are long-time fixtures in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, a major windfall in ratings has been in store for WNKY-DT2 since its launch. NCAA Tournament games on both WTVF and WNKY-DT2 are, in some cases, among the most-watched programs in the market during the tournament's run. However, the involvement of TNT, TBS, and TruTV in the rights to the tournament since 2011 cuts into the ratings a little, depending on the scheduling of the games in that tournament.

Newscasts

This station simulcasts weather updates from the main channel, which are aired at 4:55, 5:55, and 10:00 p.m. CT. Weather forecasts from the station can be heard on Forever Communications-owned radio stations WBGN-AM, WBVR-FM, WLYE-FM, and WUHU.

WNKY-DT2 previously replayed the main channel's Bowling Green Today show at 9 a.m. until October 23, 2015, when it was replaced by an hour-long SoKY Sunrise, which made its debut three days later. On April 10, 2017, WNKY-DT2 debuted a 12 Noon newscast titled SoKY@Noon, which features some local news headlines, weather updates, and interviews with people from local organizations and businesses.

On February 19, 2018, WNKY-DT2 began airing a live newscast at 6 p.m. weeknights. Combined with the 30-minute Noon newscast, WNKY-DT2 airs a total of five hours of news content, plus the usual 6-minute weather updates every night at 10 p.m.