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===Television=== {{div col|colwidth=15em}} * [[WPBI-LD]] 16 ([[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]; [[NBC]] on LD2; [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] on [[WPBY-LD|LD3]]) * [[WLFI-TV]] 18 ([[CBS]]; [[The CW|CW]] on DT2; [[ION Television|ION]] on DT3; [[GetTV]] on DT4; [[Start TV]] on DT5) * [[WPBY-LD]] 35 ([[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]; [[MeTV]]/[[MyNetworkTV]] on LD2) {{div col end}} From 1953 until the 2016 launch of [[WPBI-LD]], [[WLFI-TV]] had been the only [[Big Three television networks|"Big Three"]] ([[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], [[CBS]] and [[NBC]]βor, including [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]], "big four") commercial network television broadcaster in the Lafayette [[Media market|market]]. With the 2017 launch of [[WPBY-LD]], local broadcasts of all "big four" networks became available.<ref>[http://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/local-tv/lafayette-ind-gets-its-own-abc-affiliate/166108 "Lafayette, Ind. Gets Its Own ABC Affiliate"]. ''[[Broadcasting & Cable]]''. Retrieved May 25, 2017.</ref><ref>[http://www.jconline.com/story/money/business/2017/05/30/wpbi-begins-news-broadcast-launches-abc-affiliate/102307748/ "WPBI begins news broadcast, launches ABC affiliate"]. ''[[Journal & Courier]]''. Retrieved May 30, 2017.</ref> Lafayette also remains one of few television markets without its own [[PBS]] station, the market being served by [[WFYI (TV)|WFYI]] in [[Indianapolis, Indiana|Indianapolis]]. [[WRTV]], [[WTHR]], [[WTTV]], and [[WXIN]], the respective ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox affiliates in Indianapolis which had been carried by cable and satellite providers in the Lafayette market as [[Significantly viewed out-of-market television stations in the United States|"out-of-market" stations]], remain viewable in the area via a large [[Television antenna|over-the-air antenna]] or, in some cases, via a subscription satellite or [[Internet television|streaming service]]. Cable provider [[Comcast|Comcast Xfinity]] discontinued its remaining carriage of Indianapolis-based "big four" stations on March 7, 2018,<ref>[http://www.jconline.com/story/news/2018/03/08/comcast-kills-last-indy-stations-lafayettes-cable-lineup/407606002/ "Comcast kills last of Indy stations from Lafayette's cable lineup"]. ''Journal & Courier''. Retrieved March 8, 2018.</ref> but resumed carriage of WTHR and WRTV two days later.<ref>[https://www.jconline.com/story/news/2018/03/09/comcast-indianapolis-network-stations-back-least-now/410575002/ "Comcast: Indianapolis broadcast stations back β¦ at least for now"]. ''Journal & Courier''. Retrieved March 9, 2018.</ref>
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