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WLFI-TV
Lafayette, Indiana
Branding	WLFI 18 (general) NewsChannel 18 (newscasts)
Slogan	News From Where You Live
Channels	Analog: 18 (UHF) Digital: 11 (VHF)
Affiliations	CBS
Owner	LIN TV Corporation (Primeland Television, Inc.)
First air date	June 15, 1953
Call letters’ meaning	LaFayette, Indiana
Former callsigns	WFAM-TV (1953-1960s)
Former channel number(s)	59 (1953-1957)
Transmitter Power	1480 kW (analog) 30 kW (digital)
Height	238 m (analog) 214 m (digital)
Facility ID	73204
Transmitter Coordinates	40°23′22.3″N 86°36′45.1″W / 40.389528, -86.612528
Website	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[1] 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.[2]

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 [3]

Notable WLFI Alumni

• Dan Ablan, Author, 3D Animator, Photographer; now at AGA Digital Studios, Inc in Chicago, IL [4]
• Joel Allen, News Anchor; now at WPDE-TV in Myrtle Beach, SC
• Jill Bauer, host of QVC's At Home With Jill [5]
• Angela Buchman, Meteorologist, WISH-TV, Indianapolis
• Kelly Crull, Sports Reporter, now at KOCO-TV Oklahoma City
• Angela Ganote, anchor/reporter, now at WXIN-TV Indianapolis
• Kevin Gregory, Chief Meteorologist, WRTV, Indianapolis [6]
• Jane King, CNN New York correspondent [7]
• Judy May, former host of "Cash Call Movie"
• Mary McDermott, anchor, now at sister station WISH-TV Indianapolis
• Paul Poteet, Meteorologist, WRTV, Indianapolis
• Gina Quatrocchi, News Anchor 1999-2008,

External links

• Station website
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WLFI
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WLFI-TV

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