WNYA
Encyclopedia
WNYA is the MyNetworkTV
-affiliated television station
for the Capital District
of New York State and Western New England
. Licensed to Pittsfield, Massachusetts
, WNYA broadcasts a high definition
digital signal on VHF channel 13 (remapped to virtual channel
51.1) from a transmitter northwest of New Salem, New York
, along with a repeater licensed to Albany, New York
, WNYA-CA
channel 15 (its transmitter is co-located with the main signal). Owned by Venture Technologies Group, WNYA is branded as "My 4 Albany" (the station's channel on area cable systems), and airs the full MyNetworkTV schedule along with syndicated
programming including Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
, Family Feud
, and The Wendy Williams Show
; off-network reruns including According to Jim
, George Lopez
, and South Park
; and New York Yankees
games that are split between WWOR-TV
and YES Network
.
(FCC) granted the construction permit and the WNYA calls to Venture a year later.
that was licensed to Easton
in Washington County, New York
on channel 39. In September 1997, WVBG became a UPN
affiliate although the station could never get carriage on Time Warner Cable
. Instead, the cable system offered WSBK-TV
from Boston. The UPN affiliation ended at the start of 2000 when cable-only "WEDG-TV
" (known later as "UPN 4") signed on as a joint operation between Time Warner Cable and Fox affiliate WXXA-TV
. WVBX would then become an independent station
before signing-off in early-2002. While dark, WVBX was upgraded to Class A status and had its license moved to Albany. A new transmitter was built northwest of New Salem. The station was given the call letters WNYA-CA and was announced as becoming a WNYA repeater. It is unusual for a repeater station to sign on earlier that its parent station.
(JSA) with Freedom Communications
, owner of CBS
affiliate WRGB
. WNYA and WNYA-CA then announced a sign-on date of September 1. WNYA signed on-air in mid-July for testing purposes and WNYA-CA did the same in late-August. The official launch of the two stations came at 6 in the morning on September 1 with the stations using the branding "UPN Capital Region". The main signal, WNYA, had an analog transmitter northwest of Pittsfield on Berry Mountain. It became the first full-powered, over-the-air UPN affiliate in the Capital District.
Although the two stations did not sign-on broadcasting digital signals of their own, WRGB added a new second digital subchannel to serve as that purpose. From its sign-on, WNYA took the cable channel position of "WEDG-TV" on Time Warner, Charter
, and independent Mid-Hudson Cablevision (in Greene County, New York
). Adelphia would replace WSBK with WNYA at the start of 2004 with DirecTV
and Dish Network
adding the station later that year. WNYA's original line-up included several new shows that had gone unclaimed in the market
, some not previously cleared, and various older ones.
unit of Time Warner
. On February 22, News Corporation
announced that it would start up another new broadcast television network called MyNetworkTV. This new network, which would be sister to Fox, would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television. MyNetworkTV was created to give UPN and WB stations, not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates, another option besides becoming independent. It was also created to compete against The CW.
It was announced that WEWB (now WCWN
) would become the market's CW affiliate after owner Tribune signed a ten year affiliation deal with the new network on most of its WB stations. On March 9, it was said that WNYA would become an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. It then began airing ads for the new network on-air and put banner ads on its website in June. On July 30, the station's web address became a promotional website for the new network. There was no information about the station and its programming. Then on August 2, a new website was shown with a new MyNetworkTV logo. With UPN affiliation, the station's logo did not include a channel number in it. The new logo was based on WEDG-TV's channel position on Time Warner Cable systems. Ironically, nowhere in Berkshire County, Massachusetts
is WNYA currently on channel 4. In North Adams
, that channel is the spot where Boston's CBS affiliate WBZ-TV
is located.
Despite its MyNetworkTV affiliation (which took effect on-air on September 5), WNYA aired the last two weeks of UPN programming. However, this aired from 1 to 3 in the morning from Tuesday to Saturday. WEWB began broadcasting The CW on September 18. On April 18, 2008, WNYA launched its high definition channel on Time Warner Cable in Albany despite being unable to broadcast HD over-the-air. This coincided with the first Yankee baseball broadcast it had the rights to. WNYA switched to digital broadcasting as part of the transition on June 12, 2009. The Albany repeater, WNYA-CA, had a construction permit to perform a "flash-cut
" to a low-power digital signal. The calls became WNYA-DC and remained on the same broadcast channel. Due to its Class A status, it was not mandated by law to make the transition.
in the form of Tribune Broadcasting
's Antenna TV
over Channel 51.2.
tennis
tournament on Labor Day because WRGB aired the Jerry Lewis
MDA
Telethon during that time. This arrangement continued in 2004, but due to a crop of syndication launches on Labor Day in 2005, it did not happen that year. U.S. Open Tennis did air on cable on Time Warner Cable channel 3 in the Capital District. There was also some swapping of syndicated programs between the two stations. Another byproduct of the JSA, WNYA aired replays of WRGB's weekday noon (at 1 p.m.) and weeknight 11 o'clock (at 11:35) newscasts. WRGB's public affairs program, known as Sunday Morning with Liz Bishop, was also included. The practice ended in mid-2004. In late 2005, Freedom Communications signed an extension that was to have kept the JSA agreement in place until the end of 2008 (it had been set to expire on August 31, 2006).
On April 17, 2006, it was announced that WNYA would begin airing an hour-long extension of WRGB's weekday morning show at 7 in the morning. The newscast was known as CBS 6 First News on My TV 4 Albany. This could be seen as a pre-emptive move by WRGB to fend off a challenge by WXXA which had announced its plans to launch weekday morning news two weeks earlier. Rumors of WRGB producing a prime time newscast at 10 on WNYA circulated as well. However, the pickup of a second run of Dr. Phil
to air at that hour killed the rumors.
On June 19, Freedom announced the purchase of WEWB from Tribune Broadcasting
for $17 million dollars. This purchase was finalized on December 6 giving the Capital District its first duopoly. As a result, WRGB began to control three stations in the area. At the start of 2007, the news on WNYA moved to WCWN because that station had higher ratings overall and the broadcast became CBS 6 First News on The Capital Region's CW. In February, the JSA with WRGB was terminated. As a result, WRGB-DT2's arrangement to broadcast as WNYA's digital signal ended as well. For a time after, WNYA's website listed WRGB's street address for advertising information.
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
-affiliated television station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
for the Capital District
Capital District
New York's Capital District, also known as the Capital Region, is a region in upstate New York that generally refers to the four counties surrounding Albany, the capital of the state: Albany County, Schenectady County, Rensselaer County, and Saratoga County...
of New York State and Western New England
New England
New England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of the six states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut...
. Licensed to Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Pittsfield is the largest city and the county seat of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the principal city of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses all of Berkshire County. Its area code is 413. Its ZIP code is 01201...
, WNYA broadcasts a high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
digital signal on VHF channel 13 (remapped to virtual channel
Virtual channel
In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel, is a channel designation which differs from that of the actual radio channel on which the signal travels....
51.1) from a transmitter northwest of New Salem, New York
New Salem, New York
New Salem is a hamlet in the town of New Scotland, Albany County, New York. It is located in a valley at the foot of the Helderberg Escarpment along New York State Route 85. A local fair and car show is held every year in this small hamlet...
, along with a repeater licensed to Albany, New York
Albany, New York
Albany is the capital city of the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Albany County, and the central city of New York's Capital District. Roughly north of New York City, Albany sits on the west bank of the Hudson River, about south of its confluence with the Mohawk River...
, WNYA-CA
Class A television service
The class A television service is a system for regulating some low-power television stations in the United States. Class A stations are denoted by the broadcast callsign suffix "-CA" or "-CD" , although very many analog -CA stations have a digital companion channel that was assigned the -LD...
channel 15 (its transmitter is co-located with the main signal). Owned by Venture Technologies Group, WNYA is branded as "My 4 Albany" (the station's channel on area cable systems), and airs the full MyNetworkTV schedule along with syndicated
Television syndication
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...
programming including Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (U.S. syndicated game show)
Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? is a daily syndicated version of the former primetime American quiz game show of the same name that aired on Fox. It ran from September 21, 2009 to March 24, 2011 and was produced by Mark Burnett, and, like the primetime version, was hosted by Jeff Foxworthy...
, Family Feud
Family Feud
Family Feud is an American television game show created by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman. Two families compete against each other in a contest to name the most popular responses to a survey question posed to 100 people...
, and The Wendy Williams Show
The Wendy Williams Show
The Wendy Williams Show is a syndicated talk show hosted by Wendy Williams that premiered on July 14, 2008, as six-week sneak peek, in Detroit, Dallas, Los Angeles, and New York City. The test run was picked up for a full season that began its run on July 13, 2009 in over 70% of the country in...
; off-network reruns including According to Jim
According to Jim
According to Jim is an American sitcom television series starring Jim Belushi in the title role as a suburban father of three children. It originally ran on ABC from October 3, 2001 to June 2, 2009.-Synopsis:Jim is an abrasive but lovable suburban father...
, George Lopez
George Lopez (TV series)
"The George Lopez Show" redirects here. For the late-night program hosted by the same comedian, see Lopez Tonight.George Lopez is an American sitcom starring comedian George Lopez...
, and South Park
South Park
South Park is an American animated television series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central television network. Intended for mature audiences, the show has become famous for its crude language, surreal, satirical, and dark humor that lampoons a wide range of topics...
; and New York Yankees
New York Yankees
The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the The Bronx, New York. They compete in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division...
games that are split between WWOR-TV
WWOR-TV
WWOR-TV, virtual channel 9 , is the flagship station of the MyNetworkTV programming service, licensed to Secaucus, New Jersey and serving the Tri-State metropolitan area. WWOR is owned by Fox Television Stations, a division of the News Corporation, and is a sister station to Fox network flagship...
and YES Network
YES Network
The Yankees Entertainment and Sports Network is a New York City-based, regional cable television channel; it broadcasts a variety of sports events, with an emphasis on New York Yankees baseball games, and New Jersey Nets basketball games. YES made its debut on March 19, 2002...
.
WNYA
What today is WNYA can indirectly trace its history to WUVW an un-built station on channel 51. It was licensed to Pittsfield and was given a permit in the mid-1950s (this was canceled in the 1970s). The allocation that became WNYA was proposed in October 1996 by Pappas Telecasting but went without an owner for several years until it was auctioned off in February 2002. Venture Technologies ended up getting the winning bid for $1.3 million. The Federal Communications CommissionFederal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
(FCC) granted the construction permit and the WNYA calls to Venture a year later.
WNYA-CD
What today is WNYA-CD signed on in 1996 known as WVBX-LP. The station was a low-powered repeater of WVBG-LPWVBG-LP
WVBG-LP is an low-power television station that broadcasts on UHF channel 25 from the Pinnacle Campsite area on the Heidelberg Mountains.The station signed on in 1998 as an affiliate of UPN. However, in 2000, it would lose its affiliation to cable-only WEDG-TV, which would later go off-the-air in...
that was licensed to Easton
Easton, New York
Easton is a town in southwestern Washington County, New York, United States along the county's western boundary. It is part of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town population was 2,259 at the 2000 census. The town is named after Easton, Connecticut...
in Washington County, New York
Washington County, New York
Washington County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. It is part of the Glens Falls, New York, Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the population was 63,216. It was named for the Revolutionary War general George Washington...
on channel 39. In September 1997, WVBG became a UPN
UPN
United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...
affiliate although the station could never get carriage on Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that operates in 28 states and has 31 operating divisions...
. Instead, the cable system offered WSBK-TV
WSBK-TV
WSBK-TV is a MyNetworkTV television station for eastern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire that is licensed to Boston. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 39 from a transmitter along the Needham and Wellesley town line southwest of the MA 9 and I-95 / MA 128...
from Boston. The UPN affiliation ended at the start of 2000 when cable-only "WEDG-TV
WEDG-TV
WEDG-TV was a cable-only UPN affiliate in New York's Capital District which was a joint venture between Time Warner Cable and Fox affiliate WXXA-TV.Edge TV, named for and promoted with a sister radio station, signed on at the start of 2000, displacing Boston's WSBK from...
" (known later as "UPN 4") signed on as a joint operation between Time Warner Cable and Fox affiliate WXXA-TV
WXXA-TV
WXXA-TV is the Fox-affiliated television station for Upstate New York's Capital District and Western New England. Licensed to Albany, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 7 from a transmitter southwest of New Scotland's Voorheesville section. The station can also be seen...
. WVBX would then become an independent station
Independent station
An independent station is in the category of television terminology used to describe a television station broadcasting in the United States or Canada that is not affiliated with any television network....
before signing-off in early-2002. While dark, WVBX was upgraded to Class A status and had its license moved to Albany. A new transmitter was built northwest of New Salem. The station was given the call letters WNYA-CA and was announced as becoming a WNYA repeater. It is unusual for a repeater station to sign on earlier that its parent station.
UPN Capital Region
In April 2003, WNYA's owner signed a joint sales agreementLocal marketing agreement
In U.S. and Canadian broadcasting, a local marketing agreement is an agreement in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another licensee...
(JSA) with Freedom Communications
Freedom Communications
Freedom Communications, Inc. is a media conglomerate in the United States. It owns approximately 100 daily and weekly newspapers in the US, with a combined daily circulation of nearly one million subscribers, and also operates over seventy local news websites...
, owner of CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
affiliate WRGB
WRGB
WRGB, channel 6, is a television station located in Schenectady, New York, USA. WRGB is owned by Freedom Communications, and is the CBS affiliate for the Albany-Schenectady-Troy television market...
. WNYA and WNYA-CA then announced a sign-on date of September 1. WNYA signed on-air in mid-July for testing purposes and WNYA-CA did the same in late-August. The official launch of the two stations came at 6 in the morning on September 1 with the stations using the branding "UPN Capital Region". The main signal, WNYA, had an analog transmitter northwest of Pittsfield on Berry Mountain. It became the first full-powered, over-the-air UPN affiliate in the Capital District.
Although the two stations did not sign-on broadcasting digital signals of their own, WRGB added a new second digital subchannel to serve as that purpose. From its sign-on, WNYA took the cable channel position of "WEDG-TV" on Time Warner, Charter
Charter Communications
Charter Communications is an American company providing cable television, high-speed Internet, and telephone services to more than 4.7 million customers in 25 states. By revenues, it is the fourth-largest cable operator in the United States, behind Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Cox Communications...
, and independent Mid-Hudson Cablevision (in Greene County, New York
Greene County, New York
Greene County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. Its name is in honor of the American Revolutionary War general Nathanael Greene. Its county seat is Catskill...
). Adelphia would replace WSBK with WNYA at the start of 2004 with DirecTV
DirecTV
DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...
and Dish Network
Dish Network
Dish Network Corporation is the second largest pay TV provider in the United States, providing direct broadcast satellite service—including satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services—to 14.337 million commercial and residential customers in the United States. Dish...
adding the station later that year. WNYA's original line-up included several new shows that had gone unclaimed in the market
Media market
A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area , Television Market Area , or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media including newspapers and Internet content...
, some not previously cleared, and various older ones.
MyNetworkTV
On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN announced that they would end broadcasting and merge. The newly combined network would be called The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of its corporate parents, CBS (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros.Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...
unit of Time Warner
Time Warner
Time Warner is one of the world's largest media companies, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in New York City. Formerly two separate companies, Warner Communications, Inc...
. On February 22, News Corporation
News Corporation
News Corporation or News Corp. is an American multinational media conglomerate. It is the world's second-largest media conglomerate as of 2011 in terms of revenue, and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009, although the BBC remains the world's largest broadcaster...
announced that it would start up another new broadcast television network called MyNetworkTV. This new network, which would be sister to Fox, would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television. MyNetworkTV was created to give UPN and WB stations, not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates, another option besides becoming independent. It was also created to compete against The CW.
It was announced that WEWB (now WCWN
WCWN
WCWN is the CW-affiliated television station for New York State's Capital District and Western New England. Licensed to Schenectady, New York, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 43 from a transmitter southwest of New Scotland's Voorheesville section...
) would become the market's CW affiliate after owner Tribune signed a ten year affiliation deal with the new network on most of its WB stations. On March 9, it was said that WNYA would become an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. It then began airing ads for the new network on-air and put banner ads on its website in June. On July 30, the station's web address became a promotional website for the new network. There was no information about the station and its programming. Then on August 2, a new website was shown with a new MyNetworkTV logo. With UPN affiliation, the station's logo did not include a channel number in it. The new logo was based on WEDG-TV's channel position on Time Warner Cable systems. Ironically, nowhere in Berkshire County, Massachusetts
Berkshire County, Massachusetts
Berkshire County is a non-governmental county located on the western edge of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. As of the 2010 census, the population was 131,219. Its largest city and traditional county seat is Pittsfield...
is WNYA currently on channel 4. In North Adams
North Adams, Massachusetts
North Adams is a city in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 13,708 as of the 2010 census, making it the least populous city in the state...
, that channel is the spot where Boston's CBS affiliate WBZ-TV
WBZ-TV
WBZ-TV, virtual channel 4, is a CBS owned-and-operated television station, located in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. WBZ-TV's studios and office facilities, shared with sister station WSBK-TV , are located in the Allston-Brighton section of Boston, and its transmitter is located in Needham,...
is located.
Despite its MyNetworkTV affiliation (which took effect on-air on September 5), WNYA aired the last two weeks of UPN programming. However, this aired from 1 to 3 in the morning from Tuesday to Saturday. WEWB began broadcasting The CW on September 18. On April 18, 2008, WNYA launched its high definition channel on Time Warner Cable in Albany despite being unable to broadcast HD over-the-air. This coincided with the first Yankee baseball broadcast it had the rights to. WNYA switched to digital broadcasting as part of the transition on June 12, 2009. The Albany repeater, WNYA-CA, had a construction permit to perform a "flash-cut
Flash-cut
A flash-cut, also called flash-cutover, is an immediate change in a complex system, with no phase-in period.Some telephone area codes were split immediately, rather than being phased in with a permissive dialing period. An example is telephone area code 213, which was split into 213 and 714 all at...
" to a low-power digital signal. The calls became WNYA-DC and remained on the same broadcast channel. Due to its Class A status, it was not mandated by law to make the transition.
Antenna TV
Around April 20, 2011, WNYA launched their first digital subchannelDigital subchannel
In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a means to transmit more than one independent program at the same time from the same digital radio or digital television station on the same radio frequency channel. This is done by using data compression techniques to reduce the size of each individual...
in the form of Tribune Broadcasting
Tribune Broadcasting
The Tribune Broadcasting Company is a group of radio and television stations located throughout the United States which are owned and operated by the Tribune Company, a media conglomerate based in Chicago, Illinois and named for the flagship Chicago Tribune newspaper.- History :Tribune Broadcasting...
's Antenna TV
Antenna TV
Antenna TV is an American digital broadcast television network, primarily featuring classic television series from the 1950s to the 1990s, along with some feature films. It is owned by Tribune Broadcasting, a division of the Chicago-based Tribune Company...
over Channel 51.2.
WRGB involvement
The JSA between WNYA and WRGB led to some common involvement between the two stations. It was first apparent a mere six hours after WNYA signed on when the station aired CBS's coverage of the U.S. OpenU.S. Open (tennis)
The US Open, formally the United States Open Tennis Championships, is a hardcourt tennis tournament which is the modern iteration of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, the U.S. National Championship, which for men's singles was first contested in 1881...
tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
tournament on Labor Day because WRGB aired the Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage and radio. He was originally paired up with Dean Martin in 1946, forming the famed comedy team of Martin and Lewis...
MDA
Muscular Dystrophy Association
The Muscular Dystrophy Association is an American organization which combats muscular dystrophy and diseases of the nervous system and muscular system in general by funding research, providing medical and community services, and educating health professionals and the general public...
Telethon during that time. This arrangement continued in 2004, but due to a crop of syndication launches on Labor Day in 2005, it did not happen that year. U.S. Open Tennis did air on cable on Time Warner Cable channel 3 in the Capital District. There was also some swapping of syndicated programs between the two stations. Another byproduct of the JSA, WNYA aired replays of WRGB's weekday noon (at 1 p.m.) and weeknight 11 o'clock (at 11:35) newscasts. WRGB's public affairs program, known as Sunday Morning with Liz Bishop, was also included. The practice ended in mid-2004. In late 2005, Freedom Communications signed an extension that was to have kept the JSA agreement in place until the end of 2008 (it had been set to expire on August 31, 2006).
On April 17, 2006, it was announced that WNYA would begin airing an hour-long extension of WRGB's weekday morning show at 7 in the morning. The newscast was known as CBS 6 First News on My TV 4 Albany. This could be seen as a pre-emptive move by WRGB to fend off a challenge by WXXA which had announced its plans to launch weekday morning news two weeks earlier. Rumors of WRGB producing a prime time newscast at 10 on WNYA circulated as well. However, the pickup of a second run of Dr. Phil
Dr. Phil (TV series)
Dr. Phil is a reality/talk television show hosted by Phil McGraw. After McGraw's success with his segments on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. Phil debuted on September 16, 2002...
to air at that hour killed the rumors.
On June 19, Freedom announced the purchase of WEWB from Tribune Broadcasting
Tribune Broadcasting
The Tribune Broadcasting Company is a group of radio and television stations located throughout the United States which are owned and operated by the Tribune Company, a media conglomerate based in Chicago, Illinois and named for the flagship Chicago Tribune newspaper.- History :Tribune Broadcasting...
for $17 million dollars. This purchase was finalized on December 6 giving the Capital District its first duopoly. As a result, WRGB began to control three stations in the area. At the start of 2007, the news on WNYA moved to WCWN because that station had higher ratings overall and the broadcast became CBS 6 First News on The Capital Region's CW. In February, the JSA with WRGB was terminated. As a result, WRGB-DT2's arrangement to broadcast as WNYA's digital signal ended as well. For a time after, WNYA's website listed WRGB's street address for advertising information.