WBK-TV

WBK-TV, virtual channel 6 (digital UHF channel 24), is an independent television station licensed to Block City. It is owned by The Mueller-Block Company as part of a duopoly with Ion Television affiliate WPXB-TV (channel 43).
== History ==
WBK-TV signed on the air on January 6, 1949 by The Block Times, owned by the Mueller family. It was one of the stations that was issued licenses before the 1948 freeze and signed on during the freeze.
Although WBK radio (660 AM and 88.5 FM) had ties with the Mutual Broadcasting System, and before, the CBS Radio Network, channel 6 signed on as an NBC affiliate, with secondary affiliations from the three other networks. WOXX radio, which applied for the channel 6 license, had radio ties with NBC, but lost the bid for the license.
Due to subsequent stations declining the DuMont, CBS, and ABC affiliations, WBK kept the latter two for a long time. DuMont left channel 6 in 1956, CBS went to WUAX-TV (channel 3) in 1961, and ABC to WJKX (channel 10; now an NBC owned-and-operated station) in 1963.
In 1964, NBC moved its affiliation to newly-signed WOXX-TV (channel 12), owing to WOXX radio's ties with the NBC Red Network. It was a big blow for WBK, but with financial help from the University of Block State by acquiring a 25% share of the newspaper company, WBK remained on the air as an independent station. 
In 1988, the university, then and now, their shareholder, housed WBK-AM-FM-TV in a big vacant space in their main campus. In 1998, WBK-TV was moved to the new Block City Television House that was built beside/connected to the Block Times Building. 
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