The WXIX studios moved to a small area at the top of Milwaukee's Schroeder Hotel (renamed the Sheraton Schroeder Hotel in 1965 renamed the Marc Plaza in 1972 currently known as the Hilton Milwaukee City Center hotel). WXIX went dark that same day but returned on July 20 of that year after being purchased by Gene Posner, the owner of Cream City Broadcasting and others. WITI also took over the WXIX studio facilities on North 27th Street, the same facilities once occupied by former CBS affiliate WCAN-TV. CBS officially moved its programming to WITI on Ap(although WXIX would later make a secondary arrangement to carry any CBS shows that WISN-TV pre-empted after the latter's switch to the network in 1961). The obvious candidate was independent station WITI-TV (channel 6), which had just signed on two years earlier. CBS concluded that it was better to have its programming on a VHF station, even if it was only an affiliate. However, this saw little improvement in the ratings. The station moved to channel 18 in 1958 in a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) channel alignment change. However, unlike many early UHF stations, it managed to survive into the All-Channel era. Those viewers not lucky enough to get a signal from WBBM-TV in Chicago, WISC-TV in Madison, or WBAY-TV in Green Bay were forced to rely on expensive UHF converters to watch channel 19, and even then the picture quality left a lot to be desired. Only a small percentage of television sets in the Milwaukee area were even capable of receiving UHF stations at the time, as set manufacturers were not required to equip televisions with UHF tuners until 1964 as a result of the 1961 passage of the All-Channel Receiver Act.
WXIX's tenure as a CBS O&O, however, was not successful. This made the station the first network owned-and-operated station in the Milwaukee market. It then moved into WCAN's former studio on North 27th Street, where it remained until being sold by CBS less than four years later. The purchase resulted in a call letter change to WXIX (referencing the Roman numeral for 19) on February 27, 1955. On October 21, 1954, CBS purchased WOKY-TV for $335,000 and announced it was moving its programming there from its original affiliate in the city, WCAN-TV (channel 25, now defunct). The station originally operated as a primary ABC and secondary DuMont affiliate. It was owned by Bartell Broadcasters, along with WOKY radio (920 AM). The station first signed on the air on Octoas WOKY-TV, broadcasting on UHF channel 19. WVTV is the second-oldest continuously operating station in Milwaukee.
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It uses virtual channel 24.1, formerly utilized by separately-licensed WCGV-TV until January 2018, when Sinclair turned in WCGV-TV's license and merged its subchannels onto WVTV's spectrum after selling WCGV-TV's spectrum in the 2016 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) incentive auction.
WVTV operates a second digital subchannel affiliated with MyNetworkTV which brands as "My 24". The station's studios are located on Calumet Road in the Park Place office park near the I-41/ US 45 interchange on Milwaukee's northwest side its transmitter is located on North Humboldt Boulevard in Milwaukee's Estabrook Park neighborhood as part of the Milwaukee PBS tower.
WVTV (channel 18) is a television station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, affiliated with The CW and owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group.
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