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WAVE is the NBC-affiliated television station in Louisville, Kentucky. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 47 (virtual channel 3.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in New Albany, Indiana (alongside the digital transmitter of CBS affiliate WLKY-TV). Owned by Raycom Media, WAVE maintains studios on South Floyd Street in downtown Louisville. Syndicated programming seen on WAVE includes The Dr. Oz Show, America Now, Extra, Right This Minute and Ellen.
This station’s digital signal is multiplexed:
WAVE-TV shut down analog transmissions on June 12, 2009. The station remained on its pre-transition channel 47. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display WAVE-TV’s virtual channel as 3.
WAVE-TV began broadcasting on November 24, 1948, originally on channel 5 using 24,100 watts of power. It was Kentucky’s first television station, the 41st in the United States, and was owned by the Norton family, who had begun WAVE-TV (970 kHz, now WGTK-AM) in 1932. At…