WUPT

WUPT is an UPN affiliate serving Memphis, TN, and the Mid-South broadcasting area. Broadcasting on channel 28, WUPT is owned and operated by Flinn Broadcasting, WUPT is part of a duopoly (Flinn Broadcasting also owns and operated WB affiliate WRMX-LP. The station first signed on the air on December 31, 1994, under the call letters WFBI. it was launched by Flinn Broadcasting, a company owned by Memphis businessman, radiologist (and later Shelby County commissioner) George Flinn. The station initially aired programming from the Home Shopping Network, until Paxson Communications (now Ion Media Networks) began operating the station under a local marketing agreement in 1998, when the station became a charter affiliate of the upstart Pax TV network. When WWLM announced that they're dumping both The WB and UPN to join The WB, Flinn Broadcasting purchased WRMX from Gage Broadcasting and turned it into an affiliate of The WB and turned WFBI to become an affiliate of UPN, thus, they changed their call letters to WUPT. In 2010, Flinn Broadcasting began Mid-South News, where both WUPT and WRMX would share the news division. The newscast is simulcast on both WUPT and WRMX with the morning news and the prime-time newscasts.