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The current brand, Channel 2 News, dates to the 1980s and early 1990. WGRZ was the first in the market to adopt a 5 p.m. newscast (hence the newscast retaining its title "First at Five" ever since). In the early 1990s, WGRZ-TV used the "24 Hour News Source" format, providing news briefs each hour outside of regular newscasts.
Channel 2: WGRZ - - Buffalo, 2 On Your Side.Originally WGR prior to 1983. Channel 4: WIVB-TV - - Buffalo, News 4.Call letters stand for We're IV 4 Buffalo; originally WBEN-TV until 1977
O'Connell was chief weather anchor for WGRZ-TV, the NBC affiliate in Buffalo, New York, from the mid-1990s until 2018. [2] O'Connell also sub-hosted on The David Letterman Show on NBC, hosted the game show Go on NBC from October 1983 to January 1984, and presented the syndicated disco series Disco Step-by-Step from 1977 to 1980.
English: WGRZ-TV's studio facility at 259 Delaware Avenue in downtown Buffalo, New York, as seen in August 2021. Broadcasting on Channel 2 and an affiliate of the NBC network for all but the first four years of its history, WGR-TV (as it was originally known) signed on the air in 1954 from studios located in what's now the Jericho Road Community Health Center.
Taft sold off WGR-TV in 1983. Due to a current FCC rule that prohibited TV and radio stations in the same market, but with different owners, from sharing the same call letters, the TV station amended its call letters to WGRZ after it was sold. Taft retained both WGR and WGRQ (the former WGR-FM).
As the only station in Buffalo for its first several years, channel 4 also carried secondary affiliations with ABC and DuMont. It lost NBC when WGR-TV (channel 2, now WGRZ) signed on in August 1954, and ABC to WGR-TV when NBC moved its programs to newly purchased WBUF-TV (channel 17) in 1956. WBEN-TV continued to share DuMont programming with ...
Pages in category "Television stations in Buffalo, New York" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Aired music videos from various artists from around the world; purchased and shut down by Hubbard Broadcasting in 2008 to expand distribution for Ovation TV. m Channel: Aired syndicated music videos, TV shows, movies and news. Was folded under decision of the owner/creator of the network. MOR Music TV: August 31, 1997: Launched on September 1 ...