WBFW

WNFW virtual channel 21 (UHF digital channel 24), is an affiliate of The WB Television Network located in Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States. The station is owned by Graham Media Group. Its studios and transmitter facilities are located on Butler Road in Northwest Fort Wayne, directly across from those of YesNet affiliate WNFW.

History
The station first signed on the air on September 28, 1987 to give Fort Wayne viewers a new second independent station as a replacement for a station who had became a charter affiliate of the fledgling Fox network nearly a year before. It was signed on by Field Communications and originally competed with what had just become the leading independent station in Fort Wayne, WFWY (now Rainbow Dash Network owned-and-operated station WRFW), which had become the leading independent as a result of the other station joining Fox.

WXXI became a charter affiliate of The WB when the network launched on January 11, 1995. The callsign was then changed to WBFW in 1996 to match it's affiliation. In January 2006, The WB listed WBFW as one of the affiliates it planned to keep after switching most of it's other stations to The CW that September.

In July 2015, Graham Media Group agreed to purchase WBFW from Field, earlier that same month WNFW's owner, Septic Communications, announced that it would not renew that station's New Line (DT1) and RBC (DT2) affiliations as it had planned on taking that station dark to make room for expanded cellular phone reception in the FCC spectrum auction. On September 15, 2015, the FCC approved the deal, which was completed on November 2. On August 1, 2016, New Line and RBC programming previously seen on WNFW moved to subchannels of WBFW, and WNFW promptly shut down (it has since signed back on as a YesNet affiliate).

Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion
WBFW shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 21, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 24. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 21.