WTVQ-DT2

WTVQ-DT2, branded as MyKentuckyTV or MyKY, is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station that is licensed to and serving the Lexington, Kentucky area. The station is a digital subchannel of ABC-affiliate WTVQ, which is owned by Morris Multimedia. It is broadcast over the air digitally on UHF channel 40.2 (Virtual channel 36.2 through the use of PSIP) from a transmitter located at WTVQ-DT2's parent station's studios on the Man o' War Boulevard (KY 1425) in the Brighton section of eastern Fayette County. It is within a mile of competing CBS-affiliate WKYT and its CW-affiliated subchannel, WKYT-DT2.

WTVQ-DT2 is carried on Insight digital cable channel 138 and in HD on digital channel 917 in the Lexington area.

History

The original MyNetworkTV affiliate in Lexington was the market's original UPN affiliate, the now-defunct WBLU-LP, which originally broadcast on analog channel 62. The original channel 62 designation was used by WTVQ (which was WBLG-TV at the time) from its 1968 inception until their move to channel 36 in 1980.