WKNY-TV was an independent TV station that served the Hudson Valley

Hudson Valley

The Hudson Valley comprises the valley of the Hudson River and its adjacent communities in New York State, United States, from northern Westchester County northward to the cities of Albany and Troy.-History:...

 in the mid-1950s.

Owned by Joseph K. Close and the Kingston Brodacasting Company (the same owners of WKNY

WKNY

WKNY is a radio station serving the Kingston, New York, area with an adult contemporary format. It broadcasts at a power of 1 KW from a single tower located off of Albany Avenue...

 radio), WKNY-TV, Channel 66, came on the air on May 24, 1954, licensed to Kingston, New York but broadcasting from studios in Poughkeepsie. Although techmically an independent, WKNY carried programs from all four major networks of the time: ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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, NBC

NBC

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, CBS

CBS

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 and DuMont

DuMont Television Network

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. as of 1955, they were broadcasting one hour a day in the morning (11am to noon) and 5 1/2 hours in the evening (5:30 to 11pm), seven days a week. (Telecasting Yearbook, 1955-56) Irv Rose served as WKNY-TV's program director.

WKNY-TV left the air on July 25, 1956, leaving Kingston without a TV station for almost three decades, until WRNN

WRNN-TV

WRNN-TV is an American independent television station licensed to Kingtson, New York.Broadcasting on digital channel 48, WRNN broadcasts a schedule of mainly infomercials and home-shopping programming. The station's studios are located in Rye Brook, New York, and its transmitter is based on Beacon...

began broadcasting in 1985.