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WCGV-TV and WVCY-TV Milwaukee Final Shutdowns, January 8, 2018

In Milwaukee, WCGV-TV, the market's MyNetworkTV affiliate on channel 24, and WVCY-TV, an independent religious station on channel 30, end their long runs as individual stations and begin to channel share with other stations after selling off their spectrum in the 2016 FCC auction. WCGV (under a whole lot of complications which if all had gone to plan, ended with their owners, Sinclair Broadcast Group owning both their sister CW affiliate WVTV and Tribune's Fox station WITI) leaves the air here after 38 years on its own on analog channel 24 and digital channel 25 at 5 a.m. on January 8, 2018 after an episode of the Canadian series "Heartland", along with a bizarre public service announcement involving Ed Begley Jr., his children, and sexual education (your guess is as good as mine here), followed by the last time the "My 24" schedule identifies as "WCGV-TV Milwaukee" and its technical particulars in its rarely seen sign-off message. The My 24 schedule remains on the air via WVTV's second subchannel, along with WCGV's former DT2 Comet subchannel, and it now identifies as WVTV (as I said, this all involved Sinclair getting WITI without FCC interference or hassle). But it still numbers as 24.1 to keep the branding going. Ultimately though, Sinclair tried to do a whole bunch of other things the FCC didn't like, and eventually the Sinclair/Tribune marriage was called off, with Tribune going to Nexstar instead, so WCGV didn't really have to sign off after all. That said, since cable and satellite providers didn't put up a fuss and kick the WCGV schedule off their systems, this has since become a way for Sinclair to consolidate affiliations from their sidecar 'station groups' (Deerfield, Cunningham, Max Media) onto subchannels and turn those formerly full-power competitive stations into oft-ignored subchannel farms that don't compete with anyone. Also, WITI went back to Fox Television Stations in February 2020. With all that said...WITI, they're sharing their own channel, now with the aforementioned WVCY-TV, which leaves their transmitter to channel share with WITI, along with an extra $76.3 million in their coffers from the FCC for their troubles (since put to good use to expand VCY's national radio network). Here, WVCY turns off their channel 22 transmitter after an episode of their "Inspiration Time" program from years and years ago, along with a pitch for a 2018 Bible reading challenge and a verse from Deuteronomy to close out their 34 years of operation on their own channel. Before 2024, they were still run in good old 4:3 480i and are barely a bother for the multiplexer to decode and crank out, but they certainly have much more power than they ever had on their old channel. They did go HD in the fall of 2024, but by then WITI had a new multiplexer that barely stresses out over WVCY's 720p signal, just like Fox 6 is carried in (along with Antenna TV, Fox Weather, and HSN in 480i). I would have gotten the transition of WMLW-TV to a channel share with WBME-CD...but Weigel decided to start their shuffles 25 minutes early from the agreed-upon deadline and my TiVo completely missed it. But they screwed up so many things (along with Spectrum) that it would have been ultimately frustrating to decode all of that. So we'll stick to WCGV and WVCY. This file was recorded from two separate streams on a TiVo via Charter Spectrum, then decoded and combined together in Shotcut.