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WIFR-LD, the Glossary

WIFR-LD (channel 23) is a low-power television station in Rockford, Illinois, United States, affiliated with CBS and The CW Plus.^[1]

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1965 establishments in Illinois
Low-power television stations in Illinois

AccuWeather

AccuWeather Inc. is a private-sector American media company that provides commercial weather forecasting services worldwide.

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Allen Media Group, alternately known by its former name of Entertainment Studios, Inc. is an American media and entertainment company based in Los Angeles.

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The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network that serves as the flagship property of the Disney Entertainment division of the Walt Disney Company.

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Antenna TV

Antenna TV is an American digital television network owned by Nexstar Media Group.

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Aspect ratio (image)

The aspect ratio of an image is the ratio of its width to its height.

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Bankruptcy in the United States

In the United States, bankruptcy is largely governed by federal law, commonly referred to as the "Bankruptcy Code" ("Code").

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Benedek Broadcasting

Benedek Broadcasting was a television broadcasting company, that owned and operated 22 network-affiliated television stations throughout the United States, all affiliated with major television networks, serving mainly small and medium-size markets. WIFR-LD and Benedek Broadcasting are Gray Television.

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Boone County, Illinois

Boone County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Carbondale, Illinois

Carbondale is a city in Jackson County, Illinois, United States, within the Southern Illinois region informally known as "Little Egypt".

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CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS (an abbreviation of its original name, Columbia Broadcasting System), is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global and is one of the company's three flagship subsidiaries, along with namesake Paramount Pictures and MTV.

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Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Cedar Rapids is a city in and the county seat of Linn County, Iowa, United States.

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Charlottesville, Virginia

Charlottesville, colloquially known as C'ville, is an independent city in Virginia, United States.

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Chicago Bulls

The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago.

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Chicago Cubs

The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago.

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Chicago White Sox

The Chicago White Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago.

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COVID-19 pandemic in Illinois

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic began in the U.S. state of Illinois on January 24, 2020, when a woman in Chicago, who had just returned from the pandemic's place of origin in Wuhan, Hubei, China, tested positive for the virus.

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Cozi TV

Cozi TV (stylized on-air as COZI TV) is an American free-to-air television network owned by the NBC Owned Television Stations division of NBCUniversal.

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Deadline Hollywood

Deadline Hollywood, commonly known as Deadline and also referred to as Deadline.com, is an online news site founded as the news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily by Nikki Finke in 2006.

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Defy (TV network)

Defy (also known by its original name Defy TV) is an American digital multicast television network owned by Free TV Networks in partnership with A&E Networks, airing primarily reality shows from the latter company, having launched on July 1, 2021, with broadcast coverage of 64% of the United States.

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Digital subchannel

In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a method of transmitting more than one independent program stream simultaneously from the same digital radio or television station on the same radio frequency channel.

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Digital television transition in the United States

The digital transition in the United States was the switchover from analog to exclusively digital broadcasting of terrestrial television programming.

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Display resolution

The display resolution or display modes of a digital television, computer monitor, or other display device is the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed.

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Duopoly (broadcasting)

A duopoly (or twinstick, referring to "stick" as jargon for a radio tower) is a situation in television and radio broadcasting in which two or more stations in the same city or community share common ownership.

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Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Eau Claire (French for "clear water") is a city in Eau Claire and Chippewa counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

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Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States.

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Free TV Networks

Free TV Networks is an American specialized digital multicasting and advertising-supported video on demand network media company owned as a joint venture between Warner Bros. Discovery, Lionsgate and Gray Television. WIFR-LD and Free TV Networks are Gray Television.

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Freeport, Illinois

Freeport is the county seat and largest city of Stephenson County, Illinois, United States.

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Gray Television

Gray Television, Inc. is an American publicly traded television broadcasting company based in Atlanta.

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Harrisonburg, Virginia

Harrisonburg is an independent city in the Shenandoah Valley region of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.

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Innovate Corp.

Innovate Corp. (formerly known as HC2 Holdings, Inc. and Primus Telecommunications Group, Inc.) is an American public financial services company founded in 1994.

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Ion Television

Ion Television (currently known on-air as simply Ion) is an American broadcast television network and FAST television channel owned by the Scripps Networks subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company.

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KWWL (TV)

KWWL (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Waterloo, Iowa, United States, serving as the NBC affiliate for Eastern Iowa.

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La Crosse, Wisconsin

La Crosse is a city in and the county seat of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, United States.

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Limited liability company

A limited liability company (LLC) is the United States-specific form of a private limited company.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Low-power broadcasting

Low-power broadcasting is broadcasting by a broadcast station at a low transmitter power output to a smaller service area than "full power" stations within the same region.

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Madison, Wisconsin

Madison is the capital city of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Dane County.

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Marquee Sports Network

Marquee Sports Network is a regional sports network operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group and the Chicago Cubs, launched on February 22, 2020.

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McHenry County, Illinois

McHenry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Milwaukee

Milwaukee is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Milwaukee County.

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Multiplex (television)

A multiplex or mux, also known as a bouquet, is a grouping of program services as interleaved data packets for broadcast over a network or modulated multiplexed medium, particularly terrestrial broadcasting.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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NBC Sports Chicago

NBC Sports Chicago (formerly Comcast SportsNet Chicago) is a soon-to-be-defunct American regional sports network that broadcasts regional coverage of professional sports teams in the Chicago metropolitan area, as well as college sports events and original sports-related news, discussion and entertainment programming.

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Penske Media Corporation (PMC) is an American mass media, publishing, and information services company based in Los Angeles and New York City.

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Poplar Bluff, Missouri

Poplar Bluff is a city in Butler County in southeastern Missouri, United States.

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Quincy Media, Inc., formerly known as Quincy Newspapers, Inc., was a family-owned media company that originated in the newspapers of Quincy, Illinois. WIFR-LD and Quincy Media are Gray Television.

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RabbitEars

RabbitEars is a website that provides information on over-the-air digital television in the United States, its territories, protectorates, and border areas of Canada and Mexico.

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Rockford IceHogs

The Rockford IceHogs are a professional ice hockey team based in Rockford, Illinois.

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Rockford Public School District 205

Rockford Public Schools, officially designated by the state as Rockford Public Schools District 205 is a large unit school district located in Rockford, Illinois.

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Rockford, Illinois

Rockford is a city in Winnebago County, Illinois, United States.

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Special Temporary Authority (STA) in U.S. broadcast law is a type of broadcast license which temporarily allows a broadcast station to operate outside of its normal technical or legal parameters.

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T-Mobile US

T-Mobile US, Inc. is an American wireless network operator headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

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The CW Plus

The CW Plus is a secondary national broadcast television syndication service feed of The CW (which is 75-percent owned by Nexstar Media Group, with Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery each owning 12.5-percent). WIFR-LD and The CW Plus are the CW affiliates.

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Tribune Broadcasting

Tribune Broadcasting Company, LLC was an American media company which operated as a subsidiary of Tribune Media, a media conglomerate based in Chicago, Illinois.

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True Crime Network

True Crime Network (formerly Justice Network) is an American digital multicast television network that is operated by True Crime Network, LLC, a limited liability company, which is owned by Tegna Inc. The network specializes in true crime, investigation and forensic science documentary programming aimed at adults – with a skew toward women – between the ages of 25 and 54.

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Ultra high frequency

Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter (one decimeter).

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United States Virgin Islands

The United States Virgin Islands, officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of Caribbean islands and an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Virtual channel

In most telecommunications organizations, a virtual channel is a method of remapping the program number as used in H.222 Program Association Tables and Program Mapping Tables to a channel number that can be entered as digits on a receiver's remote control.

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WAOW

WAOW (channel 9) is a television station in Wausau, Wisconsin, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Allen Media Group. WIFR-LD and WAOW are television channels and stations established in 1965.

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Waterloo, Iowa

Waterloo is a city in and the county seat of Black Hawk County, Iowa, United States.

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Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3.

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Wausau, Wisconsin

Wausau is a city in and the county seat of Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States, along the Wisconsin River.

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WBNB-TV

WBNB-TV (channel 10) was a television station in Charlotte Amalie, on the island of Saint Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands.

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Weigel Broadcasting

Weigel Broadcasting Co. is an American television broadcasting company based in Chicago, Illinois, alongside its flagship station WCIU-TV (Channel 26), at 26 North Halsted Street in the Greektown neighborhood.

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WGN Sports

WGN Sports (originally known as WGN-TV Sports from 1948 to 1993) was the programming division of WGN-TV (channel 9), an independent television station located in Chicago, Illinois, United States—which is owned by the Nexstar Media Group—that was responsible for all sports broadcasts on the station, some of which were previously also broadcast on its former national superstation feed, WGN America (now news and entertainment channel NewsNation).

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WHSV-TV

WHSV-TV (channel 3) is a television station in Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States, affiliated with ABC. WIFR-LD and WHSV-TV are Gray Television and Ion Television affiliates.

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Winnebago County, Illinois

Winnebago County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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WISN-TV

WISN-TV (channel 12) is a television station in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Hearst Television.

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WKOW

WKOW (channel 27) is a television station in Madison, Wisconsin, United States, affiliated with ABC and owned by Allen Media Group.

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WQOW

WQOW (channel 18) is a television station in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States, serving the Chippewa Valley as an affiliate of ABC.

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WREX

WREX (channel 13) is a television station in Rockford, Illinois, United States, affiliated with NBC.

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WSIL-TV

WSIL-TV (channel 3) is a television station licensed to Harrisburg, Illinois, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for Southern Illinois, Southeast Missouri, the Purchase area of Western Kentucky, and Northwest Tennessee. WIFR-LD and WSIL-TV are Ion Television affiliates.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIFR-LD

Also known as CBS 23, CBS 23 Rockford, CBS Rockford, W22EE-D, WIFR, WIFR-TV, WSLN.

, Special temporary authority, T-Mobile US, The CW Plus, Tribune Broadcasting, True Crime Network, Ultra high frequency, United States Virgin Islands, Variety (magazine), Virtual channel, WAOW, Waterloo, Iowa, Watt, Wausau, Wisconsin, WBNB-TV, Weigel Broadcasting, WGN Sports, WHSV-TV, Winnebago County, Illinois, WISN-TV, WKOW, WQOW, WREX, WSIL-TV, WXOW, WYTU-LD, 1080i, 16:9 aspect ratio, 2016 United States wireless spectrum auction, 480i.

WIFR-LD, the Glossary

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See also

1965 establishments in Illinois

Low-power television stations in Illinois

References