WLFI-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = WLFI-TV
city =
station_
station_slogan = News From Where You Live
station_branding = WLFI 18 (general)
NewsChannel 18 (newscasts)
analog = 18 (UHF)
digital = 11 (VHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = CBS
network =
founded =
airdate = June 15, 1953
location = Lafayette, Indiana
callsign_meaning = LaFayette, Indiana
former_callsigns = WFAM-TV (1953-1960s)
former_channel_numbers = 59 (1953-1957)
owner = LIN TV Corporation
licensee = Primeland Television, Inc.
sister_stations =
former_affiliations =
effective_radiated_power = 1480 kW (analog)
30 kW (digital)
HAAT = 238 m (analog)
214 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 73204
coordinates = coord|40|23|22.3|N|86|36|45.1|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.wlfi.com/ www.wlfi.com]

WLFI-TV News Channel 18 is the CBS television affiliate in Lafayette, Indiana. It operates on analog channel 18. Its transmitter is located in Rossville, Indiana. It is owned by LIN Television, who also owns WISH-TV in Indianapolis and WANE-TV in Fort Wayne.

History

WLFI began broadcasting on June 15, 1953 [http://www.wlfi.com/Global/story.asp?S=6512244] on channel 59, as WFAM-TV. It was owned by Sarkes Tarzian, a radio manufacturer in Bloomington, and was a sister station to WTTV in Indianapolis and WPTA in Fort Wayne. It moved to Channel 18 in 1957 and changed its call letters to WLFI-TV around 1967. Formerly, the news division of WLFI was known as "News Service 18" and then for many years as "Lafayette Live TV-18." Jeff Smith, Chris Morisse, Larry Clisby, and Steve Scherer have been associated with the station for more than twenty years.

The station was owned by Block Communications from the mid-1990s until 2000, when current owner LIN Television acquired WLFI in exchange for 67 percent of then-ABC (now NBC) affiliate WAND in Decatur, Illinois. LIN TV has since sold off the remainder of WAND to Block Communications.

On May 18, 2007, LIN TV announced that it was exploring strategic alternatives that could result in the sale of the company. [http://www.lintv.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=298&Itemid=114]

Personalities

Current

*Seth Conley - Morning Anchor
*Alyssa Rossomme - Morning Anchor
*Sue Scott - Noon, 5pm Anchor; executive producer
*Jeff Smith - Noon, 5pm, & 6pm Anchor; assistant news director
*Mike Prangley - 5pm, 6pm & 11pm Meteorologist
*Niccole Caan - 6pm & 11pm Anchor
*Laura Kirtley - Weekend Anchor/Reporter
*Julie Krizen - Reporter/Producer
*Mike Cleff - Sports Director
*Matt Wettersten - Sports Reporter
*Tiffany Dismore - Sports Reporter
*Renetta DuBose - Reporter
*Kristin Crowley- Reporter
*Steve Scherer - Weather Anchor [http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~scherer/]

Notable WLFI Alumni

*Dan Ablan, Author, 3D Animator, Photographer; now at AGA Digital Studios, Inc in Chicago, IL [http://www.danablan.com]
*Joel Allen, News Anchor; now at WPDE-TV in Myrtle Beach, SC
*Jill Bauer, host of QVC's "At Home With Jill" [http://www.qvc.com/qic/qvcapp.aspx/main.html.file.%7Ccp%7Ccp_host_bauer,html/left.html.file.%7Cnav%7Cnavhqhosts,html]
*Angela Buchman, Meteorologist, WISH-TV, Indianapolis
*Kelly Crull, Sports Reporter, now at KOCO-TV Oklahoma City
*Kevin Gregory, Chief Meteorologist, WRTV, Indianapolis [http://www.theindychannel.com/weather/123875/detail.html]
*Jane King, CNN New York correspondent [http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/king.jane.html]
*Paul Poteet, Meteorologist, WRTV, Indianapolis
*Gina Quatrocchi, News Anchor 1999-2008,

Logo Gallery

External links

* [http://www.wlfi.com/ Station website]
*TVQ|WLFI
*BIA|WLFI|TV|TV