April 13, 2017, the FCC announced that WBKI-TV had successfully sold their spectrum in the 2016 spectrum auction for $20.7 million without any channel sharing agreement. WBKI-TV ceased broadcasting October 25, 2017 and surrendered its license October 31, with its programming remaining available in the market via WMYO-DT3. On February 12, 2018, Block Communications returned the WBKI-TV calls to the air as part of several shuffles which saw what was WMYO become the newly called WBKI-TV, and WBKI's CW schedule become the primary 58.1 channel in order to return carriage of The CW to satellite providers and AT&T U-verse, with WMYO's main MyNetworkTV schedule moving to WBKI-DT3 and that declining service having that same carriage removed as a result. Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal was multiplexed: History of the original WBKI-DT2 In 2009, WBKI-TV added VasalloVision to a new second digital subchannel 34.2. Broadcasting of VasalloVision ended in August 2012. On September 1, 2014, the subchannel was reactivated to carry Weigel Broadcasting’s Movies! network. After the station shut down, a new fourth subchannel of what was WMYO became the Movies! affiliate for the Louisville market. Analog-to-digital conversion WBKI-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 34, on February 17, 2009, the original date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 19. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers displayed the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 34. Spectrum sale and channel sharing On April 13, 2017, the results of the FCC's 2016 spectrum auction were announced, with LM Communications successfully selling WBKI's UHF spectrum for over $20.65 million; LM indicated that the station would go off the air without entering into any channel sharing agreements. WBKI's channels were completely merged with those of WMYO. WBKI's principal signal at the Raywick transmitter was shut down on October 25, 2017. WBKI viewing area Primary coverage area WBKI-TV's transmitter was located south of downtown Louisville. This was as close as it could get to Louisville while providing a city-grade signal to its city of license, Campbellsville. Under FCC rules, a broadcast station (television or radio)'s transmitter must be located no farther than from its city of license. As a result, the station's main transmitter only provided "rimshot" coverage of Louisville itself