journalist and news personality later Steve Physioc – sports anchor; now play-by-play announcer for Kansas City Royals radio and television broadcasts Russ Ptacek - morning anchor/reporter (1988-1993); now at VNI Television and documentary filmmaker. Devin Scillian – anchor/reporter; now at WDIV-TV in Detroit, and a children's author and country singer Fred White – sports anchor; also former broadcaster for Kansas City Royals baseball games Awards WIBW-TV has won numerous awards for numerous newscasts and reporting throughout its history: Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Analog-to-digital conversion WIBW-TV signed on its digital signal on UHF channel 44 in 2002. The station shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 13, on February 16, 2009, the day prior to the original date in which full-power television stations in the United States were set to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later rescheduled for June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 44 to VHF channel 13. However, since the transition, some viewers in urban areas of the Topeka market have experienced difficulty receiving the station's channel 13 signal over-the-air. On December 7, 2009, the FCC granted WIBW a construction permit to build transmitter facilities for a fill-in digital translator on the station's pre-transition UHF digital channel 44. Notes References External links Television stations in Topeka, Kansas CBS network affiliates MeTV affiliates Heroes & Icons affiliates Start TV affiliates Circle (TV network) affiliates Grit (TV network) affiliates Gray Television Television channels and stations established in 1953 Wabaunsee County, Kansas Low-power television stations in the United States 1953 establishments in Kansas