WNYB

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WNYB
Jamestown/Buffalo, New York
Channels Analog: 26 (UHF)

Digital: 27 (UHF, 234kW)
Translators WBNF-CA 15 Buffalo
W42CO Rochester
Affiliations Tri-State Christian Television
Owner Tri-State Christian Television, Inc.
(Faith Broadcasting Network, Inc.)
First air date January 10, 1997
Call letters’ meaning New York Buffalo (carried over calls from Channel 49)
Former affiliations TBN (1997-2007)
Transmitter Power 5000 kW (analog)
213 kW (digital)
Height 463 m (analog)
448 m (digital)
Facility ID 30303
Transmitter Coordinates 42°23′35.6″N, 79°13′42.8″W
Website www.tct-net.org

WNYB Channel 26 is a religious television station owned by Tri-State Christian Television. It runs Christian programming 24 hours a day. It is licensed to Jamestown, New York, and serves the Buffalo television market. WNYB's main transmitter is located in Arkwright. It also operates repeaters in Buffalo (WBNF-CA channel 15) and Rochester (W42CO).

The Channel 26 license has been in existence since the 1960's, when it was utilized by an independent station called WNYP-TV circa 1966-1969, when the station went dark.

The license was re-issued to a new group years later, and Channel 26 signed on again as September 24, 1988 under the new calls WTJA. Part of the station's programming lineup duplicated those on the Buffalo stations. The station once again went dark in 1991 due to financial problems.

Grant Broadcasting purchased the license in 1995. Rather than immediately putting the station back on the air, Grant negotiated with Tri-State Christian Television, owner of WNYB Channel 49 (now WNYO), for the Channel 49 position, in exchange for the Channel 26 position, cash and a new broadcasting facility.

Tri-State accepted, and on January 10, 1997, it took over the Channel 26 position, moving its religious programming and the WNYB call letters to the new channel. (Grant in turn took over Channel 49, which became WB affiliate WNYO.).

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Broadcast television in the Buffalo/Niagara Falls, NY market (Nielsen DMA #50)

Local television stations
WGRZ 2 (NBC) - WIVB 4 (CBS) - WKBW 7 (ABC) - WNED 17 (PBS) - WNLO 23 (The CW/CBS) - WNYB 26 / WBNF 15 (TCT) - WUTV 29 (Fox) - WNYO 49 (MNTV) - WPXJ 51 (ION) - WBXZ-LP 56 (HSN) - WNGS 67 / WONS 25 (RTN)

Local cable television channels
LCTV (Lockport) - WNYF (SUNY Fredonia) - Time Warner SportsNet 13

Defunct channels
Empire Sports Network
See also Broadcast television in Toronto, Ontario, Erie and Rochester
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Broadcast television in the Rochester market  (Nielsen DMA #78)

WGCE 6 (Ind) - WROC 8 (CBS) - WHEC 10 (NBC) - WHAM 13 (ABC) - WXXI 21 (PBS) - WUHF 31 (Fox) - WBGT 40 (MNTV/A1) - W42CO 42 (TCT) - WPXJ 51 (ION)

Local digital television channels
CW-WHAM 13.2 (The CW)

Local cable television channels
R News - Time Warner Sports 26
See also broadcast television in Buffalo, Syracuse, Elmira and Ontario
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Other Television Stations in the state of New York
Religious stations
Spanish-language stations
Other stations
See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, ION, MyNetwork TV, NBC and PBS stations in New York.