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unusual facts about WPTA-DT2



Farrell, Pennsylvania

Because of Farrell's location near the Pennsylvania/Ohio border, it is served by WKBN-TV (CBS), WFMJ-TV (NBC), WYTV (ABC), WYFX-LD (Fox) and WBCB (CW), all broadcast from nearby Youngstown, OH.

Indiana's NewsCenter

The operation produces a weeknight 10 p.m. newscast for Granite-owned MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYD (channel 20) in Detroit (which utilizes WPTA/WISE staff members from its Fort Wayne studios, along with reports filed by journalists based in Detroit), and previously produced newscasts for WPTA's CW-affiliated subchannel WPTA-DT2 (channel 21.2) and WISE-TV's MyNetworkTV-affiliated subchannel WISE-DT2 (channel 33.2).

Until it became a primary Fox affiliate in 2011, WISE's second digital subchannel offered rebroadcasts of the weekday morning (at 7 a.m.), noon (at 1 p.m.) and weeknight 6 p.m. (at 6:30) newscasts.

In September 2009, WPTA began producing a pre-recorded weeknight 10 p.m. newscast for sister MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYD in Detroit (replacing a similar pre-taped newscast produced by the Davenport, Iowa-based Independent News Network), which utilizes anchor staff from WPTA/WISE as well as locally-based reporters in Detroit, who contribute stories to the broadcast.

KBJR-DT2

It can also be seen on KRII's ninth digital subchannel that originates from a transmitter in Meadow Brook.

KCAU-TV

Until January 16, 2012, KCAU was the only station owned by Citadel Communications to carry AccuWeather programming on a digital subchannel; sister stations KLKN, WOI-DT, and WHBF-TV instead carried RTV on their DT2 subchannels, while WLNE-TV did not offer a DT2 subchannel.

KECY-DT2

The market did not have its own ABC affiliate until the sign-on of KECY-DT2 which occurred January 1, 2007.

KEYC-DT2

KEYC-DT2's parent station has studios on Lookout Drive in North Mankato.

KFXL-TV

Since June 12, 2009, KFXL-TV has also been carried in high definition on the digital subcarriers of most of the stations in the KHGI/NTV network--KHGI-DT2 in Kearney, Nebraska; KWNB-DT2 in Hayes Center, Nebraska; and KWNB-LD2 in McCook, Nebraska.

KGET-DT2

The fate of the CW in the Bakersfield market remained unknown until just days before The CW was scheduled to launch, when Clear Channel Communications (the owner of KGET at the time) obtained the rights to The CW Plus affiliation for the Bakersfield market on a new digital subchannel of KGET.

KGNS-DT2

In May 2013, SagamoreHill Broadcasting reached a deal to sell KGNS, along with KGWN-TV in Cheyenne, Wyoming and KSTF in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, to Yellowstone Holdings, a subsidiary of Frontier Radio Management.

KKCO

Butch McCain - chief weather anchor; weeknights at 5:30, 6 (KKCO-DT2 MeTV) and 10 p.m.

KMEG

It also aired selected UPN programming out-of-pattern until the network merged with The WB (carried locally on KTIV-DT2 and cable television) to form The CW in 2006.

KOLN

UPN was broadcast on a DT2 subchannel of KOLN and KGIN under the banner UPN Nebraska; the service switched to MyNetworkTV in September 2006 and was locally branded as "MyTV" until being renamed "10-11 Central Nebraska" after the acquisition of KSNB in 2013.

KXII-DT2

Prior to KXII-DT2's launch, the UPN affiliation in the Sherman-Ada market was available only through now-defunct low-power station KOKT-LP (channel 20); that station switched its affiliation to Univision in 2004 when it became one of four repeaters of KUOK in Woodward, which affiliated with the Spanish language network that year.

WAJI

WAJI was known as WPTH throughout the 1960s and 1970s as a sister station to WPTA television, and in the mid to late 1970s branded themselves as "Rock 95", using TM Productions' "Stereo Rock" Top 40 reel to reel automation package.

WBKO-DT2

Viewers living in Warren, Butler, Hart, Edmonson, Barren, and Metcalfe Counties in South Central Kentucky are eligible to switch to Bowling Green local stations.

WBNG-DT2

WBNG-DT2's parent station has studios on Columbia Drive in Johnson City.

WBNG produces a nightly prime time newscast on this CW second digital subchannel which competes with another broadcast seen every night on rival Fox affiliate WICZ-TV.

WBOC-DT2

ABC affiliate WMDT operated and promoted cable-exclusive WB affiliate "WBD" provided through The WB 100+.

WCBD-TV

station branding = WCBD NBC 2 (general)
News 2 (newscasts)
Lowcountry CW 14 (on DT2)|

WCBI-DT2

In addition to its main studios, the station operates a Tupelo Bureau on Main Street/U.S. 278/MS 6/MS 178.

WCSH

The "News Center Weather Plus" feed on WLBZ-DT2 and the live video on their websites was replaced with the national NBC Weather Plus service.

WCYB

WCYB-DT2, The CW affiliate television station licensed to Bristol, Virginia, United States

WCYB-DT2

Over-the-air, the station broadcasts a digital signal on VHF channel 5.2 from a transmitter on Rye Patch Knob of Holston Mountain in the Cherokee National Forest.

WFFF-DT2

Before it was officially confirmed it would be a secondary CW affiliate, there was a possibility new television station WCWF (now WNMN) in Saranac Lake, New York would become affiliated with the network.

WFMJ-DT2

With digital subchannels more common by this point, ABC affiliate WYTV launched a second digital subchannel affiliated with MyNetworkTV (under the branding "MY-YTV") that fall.

Over the air, it broadcasts a standard definition digital signal on UHF channel 20.2 (or virtual channel 21.2 via PSIP) from a transmitter located on Mabel Street in Youngstown.

WFXP

So that it would not compete with WICU, WSEE's weeknight broadcast at 11 was moved to 10 on CW affiliate WSEE-DT2.

WGXA-DT2

Known on-air as ABC 16 after WGXA's physical digital channel location, its parent station has studios on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard (GA 11/GA 22/GA 49/U.S. 80/U.S. 129) in Downtown Macon.

WISE-DT2

CBS affiliate WANE-TV (channel 15) offered UPN on its second digital subchannel, while The WB was affiliated with cable-only "WBFW" (with programming provided through The WB 100+, and promotional and advertising services provided by WPTA, channel 21).

WLOX

The addition of CBS to WLOX-DT2 is be similar to a launch made by sister station WALB in Albany, Georgia.

WMAZ-DT2

On October 3, 2013, WMAZ-TV announced that it will carry The CW on a new sub-carrier, the new channel was launched on October 14, 2013; also with the launch of WMAZ-DT2, it replaced the cable-only CW Plus affiliate "WBMN" and took its place on Cox Cable channel 3.

WMGT-DT2

station slogan = Middle Georgia's My Network Station (general)
Clear.

WRLH-DT2

This channel's origins began on January 24, 2006 when UPN and The WB announced that the networks would cease broadcasting and merge.

Over-the-air, it broadcasts a standard definition digital signal on UHF channel 26.2 from a transmitter at the studios of PBS affiliates WCVE-TV/WCVW in Bon Air.

WSVF-CD

The Fox TV affiliation currently seen on WSVF-CD began on October 26, 2006, with the launch of WHSV-DT2, a standard definition subchannel of WHSV-TV broadcasting on Channel 3 from Harrisonburg, Virginia, available to Staunton and Waynesboro.

WTEN

There is no on-air mention that WCDC exists besides in WTEN's legal identification, its EEO public file reports, and on WTEN-DT2 "News 10 ABC Storm Tracker Weather Channel".

WTHI-DT2

The move came after Nexstar was stripped of its Fox affiliations for WTVW in Evansville, WFFT-TV in Fort Wayne and KSFX-TV in Springfield, Missouri following a dispute between Nexstar and Fox during affiliation renewal negotiations over the amount of local stations' retransmission consent fees that Fox demanded the stations share with the network.

It also made Terre Haute one of the only markets in the United States with all three historical commercial broadcast networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) as primary affiliations with the Fox and MyNetworkTV affiliations on a digital subchannel, but lacking an over-the-air affiliate of The CW (which is currently available via CW Plus affiliate "WBI" on area cable providers).

ET (4 a.m. CT on the Illinois side of the market); WTHI-TV became the third LIN Media station to carry a major network affiliation on both the main channel and a digital subchannel (LIN-owned NBC affiliate WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids, Michigan and Fox affiliate WNAC-TV in Providence, Rhode Island, owned by Super Towers, Inc. and operated by LIN, both carry MyNetworkTV on a second digital subchannel).

WWAY-DT2

Over-the-air, the station airs a 720p high definition digital signal on UHF channel 46.2 (or virtual channel 3.2 via PSIP) from a transmitter, west of Winnabow, in Town Creek Township.

WWAY's parent station has studios on North Front Street in Downtown Wilmington next to Cape Fear Community College.

WYTV-DT2

The official launch occurred September 5 while soon after on September 18 WB outlet "WBCB" (controlled and operated by NBC affiliate WFMJ-TV) became part of The CW television network.

In Bessemer, Pennsylvania, Comcast replaced Pittsburgh's WPCW with WYTV-DT2 in October despite the former becoming a CW affiliate.


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