Complex sentence: The station took to the air on January 4,1989 as low-power W05BN on channel 5, then became WBXD-LP on September 1,1995 and would later be acquired by Viacom in 2000, with the MTV2 music television network affiliation.
Split into simpler sentences: The station took to the air on January 4,1989, as low-power W05BN on channel 5. It then became WBXD-LP on September 1,1995, and would later be acquired by Viacom in 2000, with the MTV2 music television network affiliation.