13 Facts About WDRB

WDRB is a television station in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, affiliated with the Fox network.

Not long after going on air, WDRB-TV debuted an afternoon children's program, "Presto the Magic Clown", hosted by Bill "Presto" Dopp.

Under Block, WDRB-TV dropped the channel 21 application, clearing the way for WBNA to launch.

WDRB-TV became one of two Fox affiliates serving the Louisville market in 1990, when Campbellsville-based WGRB affiliated with the network.

Channel 34 served the southern portions of the market before it moved its transmitter farther north to service more of the market; WDRB became the sole Fox station in Louisville when WGRB became a WB affiliate in 1997.

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WDRB continued to carry cartoons through Fox Kids throughout the 1990s; the Fox Kids weekday afternoon lineup was discontinued at the end of 2001, when the remaining Saturday block moved to channel 58 until its successor 4KidsTV was discontinued by Fox in November 2008.

Additionally, station management wanted to distinguish the station from Fox News Channel; WDRB is one of a handful of Fox affiliates that omit network references in their branding.

However, for many years, WDRB had rights to University of Louisville Cardinals football and men's basketball games, some of which were syndicated through the Lorimar Sports Network or Raycom Sports packages of Metro Conference basketball games from the 1980s until the Metro Conference merger with the Great Midwest Conference to create Conference USA in 1995.

June 2019 saw Bill Lamb departing the station after his successes with WDRB, and becoming the general manager of Fox Television Stations' West Coast flagship duopoly of KTTV and KCOP-TV.

WDRB had previously been carried on many cable systems in areas adjacent to the Louisville market, including Kentucky's capital city, Frankfort.

From 1987 to 1992, and from 2001 to 2006, WDRB had been one of the two default Fox affiliates for Bowling Green media market area, especially in the years after that area's original Fox affiliate WNKY lost its affiliation and replaced it with NBC in 2001.

WDRB remains available to Mediacom customers in Hart and Metcalfe counties.

WDRB is available on Charter Spectrum channel 70 in the Owensboro and Henderson areas, as well as on Crystal Broadband Networks in Lewisport.