WISH-TV

WISH-TV, channel 8, is the CBS affiliate in Indianapolis, Indiana. The station first went on the air on June 1, 1954, and became affiliated with CBS in 1956. Its transmitter is located in Indianapolis.

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It is currently owned by the LIN TV group, which also owns Indianapolis stations WIIH (a Univision affiliate, whose studios are housed in WISH's building on Meridian Street) and WNDY, the UPN affiliate whose tower is located south of nearby Marion. WISH's newsroom has produced WNDY's 10 o'clock news since LIN purchased WNDY in 2005 from Viacom. WISH also offers a 24-hour weather service, called LWS, to central Indiana cable systems.

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Mike Ahern was the main evening news anchor, as well as the de facto face of WISH's newsroom. He joined the station as a reporter in 1967, retiring from the anchor chair on December 1, 2004. His longtime co-anchor, Debby Knox, joined him in 1980 and is still on the air as of September 2005. Popular Stan Wood served as the station's main weatherman for much of the 1960s through the 1990s, while Patty Spitler was an afternoon news anchor and entertainment reporter from 1982 to 2004.

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