WNYO-TV

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WNYO-TV
Buffalo, New York
Branding	MyTV Buffalo
Channels	49 (UHF) analog, 34 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	My Network TV
Owner	Sinclair Broadcast Group (New York Television, Inc.)
Founded	February 15, 1984
Call letters meaning	Western New York Ontario
Former callsigns	WBKL-TV (1984) WNYB-TV (1984-1996)
Former affiliations	Fox (1987-1990) TBN (1990-1996) The WB (1996-2006)
Transmitter Power	4,900 kW Analog 0.65 kW Digital STA 175 kW Digital CP
Website	www.mytvbuffalo.com

WNYO-TV is a broadcast television station in Buffalo, New York, United States, affiliated with My Network TV as of September 5, 2006. It broadcasts on channel 49. It is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which also owns WUTV, the Fox affiliate in the Buffalo market. WNYO runs a general entertainment format featuring My Network TV prime time first-run shows, sitcoms, first-run talk shows, reality shows, and court shows.

WNYO's transmitter is located in Cowlesville, New York at 2034 Folsomdale Road. It is commonly known as MyTV Buffalo. The station originally planned for the its post-WB moniker to be "NYO 10" (10 being their channel assignment on most area cable television systems), but the plans were changed soon after the affiliation agreement with MNTV. [1]

Contents 1 History 2 News 3 Logo gallery 4 External links

[edit] History

Channel 49 was founded on February 15, 1984 as WBKL-TV but then changed its call letters to WNYB-TV just twelve days later. The station did not begin its broadcasting operation until 1987 when it went on the air as a Fox affiliate as Fox 49, under a corporate deal from its owner, TVX.

In 1988, the station was sold to Act III Broadcasting, which almost immediately turned around and offered to buy WUTV Channel 29 from Citadel Broadcasting. Citadel accepted the offer in 1989, and the sale was finalized in June 1990. Act III moved WNYB's programming (including its Fox affiliation) to WUTV. WNYB was then sold to Tri-State Christian Television and began to carry religious programming full-time, including programming from the Trinity Broadcasting Network.

Grant Broadcasting acquired Channel 26 in Jamestown in 1995, and negotiated with Tri-State Christian Television for Channel 49 in exchange for Channel 26 and cash, as well as a new broadcasting facility. As a result, in September 1996, Trinity Broadcasting moved to Channel 26 along with the WNYB call letters, and Channel 49 became WNYO, a WB affiliate.

The Sinclair Broadcast Group purchased WUTV in 1997 and WNYO in 2001, making WUTV and WNYO sister stations. Because of this, WNYO became an affiliate of Fox's new My Network TV in September 2006 when the merger of The WB and UPN into The CW Television Network took place. (Former Buffalo UPN affiliate WNLO, owned by LIN TV, became an affiliate of The CW when that network officially launched on September 18, 2006.)

[edit] News

Until March 2006, it ran the WB49 News at Ten, a nightly newscast as part of Sinclair's News Central operation. However, due to poor ratings and poor responses regarding the structure of that newscast, WNYO cancelled its own news operation; News Central folded at the end of March.

On April 13, 2006, Sinclair announced that NBC affiliate WGRZ-TV would produce a new 10PM newscast for WNYO, using WGRZ's current news staff. Originally to be called 2 On NYO 10 at 10, that newscast began Thursday, April 20, as 2 News on 49, Ten at 10. [2] [3]

The newscast is now known as 2 on Your Side at 10. (Originally with 10 minutes of news and a sports show called "The Sports Zone" completing the half hour. However due to low ratings "The Sports Zone" has been cut to only 6-8 minutes of sports news)

[edit] Logo gallery

WB49 logo pre 2004

an older WB logo used until 2004

logo used until Sept. 2006

Current MyNetworkTV Logo

[edit] External links

• My TV Buffalo Homepage
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WNYO-TV

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Broadcast television in the Buffalo/Niagara Falls, NY market (Nielsen DMA #49)

WGRZ 2 (NBC) - WIVB 4 (CBS) - WKBW 7 (ABC) - WNED 17 (PBS) - WNLO 23 (The CW) - WNYB 26 / WBNF 15 (TBN/TCT) - WUTV 29 (Fox) - WNYO 49 (MNTV) - WPXJ 51 (ION) - WBXZ-LP 56 (HSN) - WNGS 67 / WONS 25 (RTN)
Local Cable Television Channels LCTV (Lockport) See also Broadcast television in the Greater Toronto, Erie and Rochester markets