ninth programming stream, affiliated with Ion Television. At the time, it was the most streams of any TV station in the state of Wisconsin, a distinction WIFS would keep until WIWN, in the Fond du Lac/Milwaukee area, expanded to 10 streams in September 2020. On March 1, 2021, after Ion Plus and Qubo ceased programming and Ion was relocated to 57.1, WIFS would readjust its subchannel lineup, moving Laff, Court TV Mystery, and Grit down one position each (with Laff moving to the 57.5 position Qubo had occupied). Subchannels 57.8 and 57.9 would remain dark until the second week of July 2021, when they respectively joined the Scripps-owned Defy TV and TrueReal networks. On September 1, 2021, another rearrangement would see the seven Scripps-owned networks carried by WIFS grouped together in the lower subchannel positions, while H&I and Movies! would be pushed back to the rear channels Defy TV and TrueReal initially occupied. Movies! would be dropped from 57.9 in February 2022, with the subchannel remaining silent until NBC-owned Cozi TV filled the spot the following July. Analog-to-digital conversion WIFS (as WBUW) discontinued programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 57, on February 17, 2009, the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). From February 17, the analog station acted as a "nightlight", broadcasting a loop of digital transition instructions until signing off for good the first week of March 2009. WBUW's (and later WIFS') digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 32. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 57, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the digital transition. As part of the FCC's reallocation and repackaging of station signals, WIFS relocated to UHF channel 21 on October 18, 2019. Logo gallery References External links Official WIFS Facebook page IFS (TV) Ion Television affiliates Heroes & Icons affiliates Bounce TV affiliates Laff (TV network) affiliates Ion Mystery affiliates Grit (TV network) affiliates Defy TV affiliates TrueReal affiliates Cozi TV affiliates Television channels and stations established in 1999 1999 establishments in Wisconsin Janesville, Wisconsin