WOW (TV station)

WOW is an Australian television station licensed to WIN Television, serving regional and remote Western Australia. The station officially commenced transmissions on 26 March 1999 as the second commercial regional broadcaster in Western Australia, alongside former monopoly, Golden West Network (GWN7).

History

Prior to WIN Television's expansion into Western Australia, the Golden West Network was the sole commercial network operating in regional areas, and carried programming from all three privately owned networks-- Seven, Nine and Ten. On 26 March 1999, WIN Western Australia officially commenced transmissions as a dual affiliate of Nine and Ten. This in turn left GWN to become a sole Seven affiliate.

WIN has struggled for ratings success in remote Western Australia, in part due to GWN/GWN7's 30-year run as the sole commercial television outlet in the region. WIN WA has run second to GWN7 in every ratings survey to date. The second ratings survey in 2005 placed WIN WA with only a 38.3% commercial audience share in prime time, compared to GWN7 with 61.7%.

WOWT

WOWT, virtual channel 6 (UHF digital channel 22), is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. The station is owned by Gray Television. WOWT's studios are located on Farnam Street near downtown Omaha; and its transmitter is located on a "tower farm" near North 72nd Street and Crown Point Avenue in north-central Omaha.

Digital television

Digital channels

The station's digital channel is multiplexed:

Mobile DTV channels

WOWT shut down its Mobile DTV signals at the end of 2015 in favor of offering an additional sub-channel, Antenna TV, over-the-air. Antenna TV went live on 6.3 on January 18th, 2016.

Analog-to-digital conversion

WOWT shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 6, on February 17, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television (which Congress had moved the previous month to June 12). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 22, using PSIP to display WOWT's virtual channel as 6 on digital television receivers. WOWT and PBS member station KYNE (part of the NET state network) were the only two stations in the Omaha market to shut down their analog signals on the original deadline.