WNYO-TV
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| WNYO-TV | |
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| Buffalo, New York | |
| Branding | MyTV Buffalo |
| Channels | Analog: 49 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | MyNetworkTV |
| Owner | Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (New York Television, Inc.) |
| First air date | September 1987[1] |
| Call letters’ meaning | Western New York Ontario |
| Sister station(s) | WUTV |
| Former callsigns | WNYB-TV (1987-1996) |
| Former affiliations | Fox (1987-1990) TBN/TCT (1990-1996) The WB (1996-2006) |
| Transmitter Power | 4900 kW (analog) 175 kW (digital) |
| Height | 376 m (analog) 288.3 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 67784 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | (analog) (digital) |
| Website | www.mytvbuffalo.com |
WNYO-TV is a broadcast television station in Buffalo, New York, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV as of September 5, 2006. It broadcasts on channel 49 (Cable 8). It is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which also owns WUTV, the Fox affiliate in the Buffalo market. WNYO runs a general entertainment format featuring My Network TV prime time first-run shows, sitcoms, first-run talk shows, reality shows, and court shows.
WNYO's transmitter is located in Cowlesville, New York at 2034 Folsomdale Road. It is commonly known as MyTV Buffalo. It is widely available on cable in Ontario, distibuted in the eastern areas (Kingston, Brockville, and Cornwall) via a fiber optic line. The station originally planned for the its post-WB moniker to be "NYO 10" (10 being their channel assignment on most area cable television systems), but the plans were changed soon after the affiliation agreement with MNTV. [1]. WNYO is also the MyNetworkTV affiliate on digital cable systems in Canadian markets that utilize Buffalo stations, such as the Toronto/Niagara region.
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[edit] History
Channel 49 began broadcasting in September 1987 as a Fox affiliate as Fox 49, under a corporate deal from its owner, TVX.
In 1988, the station was sold to Act III Broadcasting, which almost immediately turned around and offered to buy WUTV Channel 29 from Citadel Broadcasting. Citadel accepted the offer in 1989, and the sale was finalized in June 1990. Act III moved WNYB's stronger programming (including its Fox affiliation) to WUTV. WNYB was then sold to Tri-State Christian Television and began to carry religious programming full-time, including programming from the Trinity Broadcasting Network.
Grant Broadcasting acquired Channel 26 in Jamestown in 1995, and negotiated with Tri-State Christian Television for Channel 49 in exchange for Channel 26 and cash, as well as a new broadcasting facility. The station changed hands in the spring of 1996 and the Kid's WB was added late in the afternoons and the WB Network was added on nights it offered programming. TBN and other Christian programming continued to air for the rest of the day until September of 1996. At that point, Trinity Broadcasting continued to air from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 12 a.m. to 7 a.m. on weekdays and until 3 p.m. on Sundays, while the station ran general entertainment programming as well as WB programming the rest of the day. Channel 49 also became WNYO. Because channel 26 still was not operable, the Christian WNYB intellectual unit was unable to move there in 1996. Finally, in January of 1997 the Christian programming moved to Channel 26 along with the WNYB call letters.
The Sinclair Broadcast Group purchased WUTV in 1997 and WNYO in 2001, making WUTV and WNYO sister stations. Because of this, WNYO became an affiliate of Fox's new My Network TV in September 2006 when the merger of The WB and UPN into The CW Television Network took place. (Former Buffalo UPN affiliate WNLO, owned by LIN TV, became an affiliate of The CW when that network officially launched on September 18, 2006.).
[edit] News
Until March 2006, it ran the WB49 News at Ten, a nightly newscast as part of Sinclair's News Central operation. However, due to poor financial planning by Sinclair in spite of the record growth in ratings by WB49 News at Ten within the broadcast group, and a 5 year verbal commitment to its staff from Sinclair WNYO's WB49 News at Ten was shutdown. This occurred as part of the systematic shutdown of Sinclair news operations around the country which actually began roughly 12 months after the inaugural news cast at WNYO which was August 16th 2004 ; News Central folded at the end of March 2006.
On April 13, 2006, Sinclair announced that NBC affiliate WGRZ-TV would produce a new 10PM newscast for WNYO, using WGRZ's current news staff. Originally to be called 2 On NYO 10 at 10, that newscast began Thursday, April 20, as 2 News on 49, Ten at 10. [2]
The newscast is now known as 2 on Your Side at 10. (Originally with 10 minutes of news and a sports show called "The Sports Zone" completing the half hour. However due to low ratings "The Sports Zone" has been cut to only 6-8 minutes of sports news). Unlike the other area 10 pm newscast on WIVB, it is broadcast only on weeknights.
The newscast has consistently lagged behind the WIVB-produced newscast on WNLO in the ratings; possibly because it is not a 7 day operation. (Sister station WUTV airs no local newscasts despite its Fox network affiliation.)
[edit] Logo gallery
 Logo used until 2001 |
 Logo used from 2001-2004 |
 Logo used until Sept. 2006 |
Current MyNetworkTV Logo |
[edit] See also
- WNYO-FM, an FM Radio station with the same four-letter call sign.
[edit] External links
- MyTV Buffalo Homepage
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WNYO
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WNYO-TV
[edit] References
- ^ The Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook says September 2, while the Television and Cable Factbook says September 1.
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