WALV-CD (channel 46) is a low-power, Class A television station in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, affiliated with MeTV. It is owned by Tegna Inc. alongside NBC affiliate WTHR (channel 13). Both stations share studios on North Meridian Street (south of I-65) in downtown Indianapolis, while WALV-CD's transmitter is located near Ditch Road and West 96th Street (near I-465) in Carmel. Even though WALV-CD operates a digital signal of its own, the low-power broadcasting radius only covers the immediate Indianapolis area. Therefore, in order to reach the entire market, it is simulcast in 16:9 widescreen standard definition on WTHR's third digital subchannel (13.3) from the same transmitter site. History Early history The station first signed on the air on March 28, 1988, as W27AR, broadcasting on UHF channel 27. It operated first as a repeater of WTHR, and then as an independent station known as "27 Alive." Its programming consisted of live and pre-recorded newscasts, replays of daytime talk shows such as Sally Jessy Raphael, Donahue and Rush Limbaugh's television talk show, as well as an off-hours affiliation with National Empowerment Television. The station changed its call letters to WALV-LP on December 1, 1995 to reflect its name. It has been owned by Dispatch Broadcast Group as a sister station to WTHR since its inception. In 2000, WALV was converted into a local weather service operated by WTHR—branded as the "SkyTrak Weather Network" (in reference to the weather branding that WTHR has used since it resumed using the Eyewitness News format for its newscasts in 1995). The station moved to UHF channel 50 in 2002, at which time, it was granted permission by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to upgrade its license to Class A status as WALV-CA. WALV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 50, in 2012. The station flash-cut its digital signal into operation on UHF channel 46. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its physical UHF digital channel 46, instead of its former analog-era UHF channel 50; with the switch, Dispatch Broadcast Group received FCC permission to modify the station's call letters to WALV-CD. As a Cozi TV affiliate In March 2013, WALV-CD affiliated with the classic television and lifestyle network Cozi TV, dropping most of the ancillary programming from its schedule as a result–although it retained the second hour of Weekend Today on Saturday mornings. The station