Branding Me-TV Lexington | Affiliations MeTV (2011–present) | |
Channels Digital: WLEX-DT 39.2 (UHF)
Virtual: 18.2 (PSIP) Owner Cordillera Communications
(WLEX Communications, LLC) First air date November 25, 2009; 7 years ago (2009-11-25) Former affiliations Wazoo Sports Network (2009–2011) | ||
WLEX-DT2 is the Me-TV affiliated television station that is licensed to and serving Lexington, Kentucky. The station is the second digital subchannel of NBC affiliate WLEX-TV, which is owned and operated by Cordillera Communications. The station's digital signal is broadcast on UHF channel 39.2 (or virtual channel 18.2 via PSIP) from the WTVQ-DT transmitter near Hamburg Pavilion. WLEX-DT2's parent studios are located on Kentucky Route 353 (Russell Cave Road) in Lexington.
WLEX-DT2 can also be viewed on Time Warner Cable channel 186 in Lexington (channel 305 elsewhere in market), and Frankfort Plant Board channel 29.
History
WLEX-TV launched the second subchannel on November 25, 2009 as a charter affiliate of the then-newly founded Wazoo Sports Network. This was the main part of an agreement between the station and the online sports site of the same name. The channel provided live coverage of various high school sporting events across the Commonwealth of Kentucky, most of which were sanctioned by the Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA). The channel also aired replays of classic sporting events involving sports programs of Kentucky's major universities, including the locally based University of Kentucky.
On December 27, 2011, WLEX-DT2 replaced the Wazoo Sports Network with a locally oriented weather channel. This was due to the Wazoo network filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after losing its two other affiliates, WHAS-DT2 of Louisville and the now-defunct WEHT-DT2 in Evansville, Indiana.
On December 31, 2011, the local weather channel was replaced by the Me-TV network. Since then, the entire Me-TV program schedule was cleared.