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Channel 49 was added to Buffalo in lieu of channel 76 in February 1966 as part of a national overhaul of UHF channel allocations. [3] The Beta Television Corporation obtained the construction permit that June, [4] but despite attempts to sell the permit to Evans Broadcasting Corporation and New York City's WPIX, [5] [6] as well as a call sign change from WBAU-TV to WBBU-TV, [7] the ...
In 2005, some of R News' operations were merged with two of its sister news networks in other parts of New York, Syracuse–based News 10 Now and Albany-based Capital News 9. On August 4, 2009, the channel rebranded as YNN Rochester, becoming the second TWC-owned news channel (after Buffalo-based sister channel YNN Buffalo) to adopt the "YNN ...
WBEN-TV was the early news leader in Buffalo until approximately 1972, when (briefly) WGR-TV and then (more long-term) WKBW-TV overtook it. Channel 4 then spent most of the next 30 years as a solid, if usually distant, runner-up to WKBW-TV, well ahead of market laggard WGR-TV (later WGRZ).
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
Since CTV, then as now, relies largely on American programming, Buffalo's "Big 3" U.S. network affiliates—WBEN-TV (channel 4, now WIVB-TV); WGR-TV (channel 2, now WGRZ); and WKBW-TV (channel 7)—threatened legal action in early 1969. Faced with the loss of its primary source of programming, WNYP cut back its local newscasts, laid off staff ...
YNN may refer to: . Your News Now, the brand for Time Warner Cable's 24-hour cable news television affiliates: . YNN Buffalo, serving Buffalo, New York; YNN Rochester, serving Rochester, New York
Fox then signed an agreement with WNYB-TV (channel 49, now WNYO-TV) to become its new Buffalo affiliate, and WUTV reverted to being an independent station full-time, effective September 1, 1989. [4] Ahead of the disaffiliation from Fox, Act III Broadcasting (a company controlled by Norman Lear) offered to buy WUTV, and Citadel accepted. [5]
The channel was launched at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time on March 25, 2009, as YNN Buffalo.It was initially carried on channel 14 on Time Warner Cable's Buffalo system, before moving to channel 9 in late 2009; YNN also replaced Erie-based NBC affiliate WICU-TV on its Chautauqua County system, local origination channel Time Warner 8 on its Jamestown system and Toronto-based CTV owned-and-operated ...