WVNY
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| WVNY-TV | |
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| Burlington, Vermont / Plattsburgh, New York | |
| Branding | ABC 22 |
| Slogan | Vermont and New York's ABC Station |
| Channels | 22 (UHF) analog, 13 (UHF) digital |
| Translators | 55 W55AI Lake Placid, NY 63 W63AD Rutland 9 W09BB Schroon Lake |
| Affiliations | ABC |
| Owner | Lambert Broadcasting of Burlington, LLC (operated under JSA by Smith Media, LLC) |
| Founded | 1968 |
| Call letters meaning | Vermont / New York |
| Former callsigns | WEZF-TV ( |
| Transmitter Power | 1 MW (analog) 10 kW (digital) |
| Website | abc22.com |
WVNY-TV "ABC 22" is the ABC affiliate for the Burlington, Vermont / Plattsburgh, New York television market. The station broadcasts an analog signal on UHF channel 22 and a digital signal on UHF channel 13 from a transmitter located on Mount Mansfield, Vermont's highest elevation along with CBS affiliate WCAX, WFFF, and WPTZ-DT channel 14. WVNY's signal covers northern Vermont, upstate New York, and southern Quebec, including Montreal. Licensed to Burlington, WVNY shares its studios in nearby Colchester with sister station WFFF, the area's primary FOX and secondary CW affiliate. Although owned by Lambert Broadcasting of Burlington, LLC, WVNY is operated by Smith Media, LLC, the owner of WFFF, under a joint sales agreement.
On cable, WVNY can be seen on channel 4 in Burlington on Comcast systems and in Plattsburgh on Charter systems. On Videotron Montreal, it can be seen on channel 22 on analog cable and channel 51 on Illico digital.
[edit] History
The station began broadcasting in 1968. In 1971, it switched call letters to WEZF-TV to match its sister FM radio station, but in 1978, it switched back to WVNY.
WVNY was the host station for the 1980 Winter Olympics and the famous Miracle on Ice between the United States and the Soviet Union.
During the 1980s and early 1990s, WVNY dropped ABC's General Hospital in favor of cartoons, and aired Boston Red Sox baseball games on Friday nights. Viewers could still see General Hospital on CFCF in Montreal. For a time, WVNY even aired CFL footbal games. During the 1990s, the station frequently dropped network programming in favor of infomercials. As a result, several ABC shows were never seen in Montreal. Recently, it began pre-empting Jimmy Kimmel Live. Since the Canadian rights are owned by CHUM Limited, that show has never been seen in Montreal, but this may change with CTVglobemedia's purchase of CHUM.
After a long hiatus, WVNY opened a news department in 1999. However, due to financial considerations, news production was shut down in September of 2003.
In 2004, WVNY became a sister station to WFFF, the area's primary FOX and secondary WB affiliate after Lambert Broadcasting acquired WVNY and entered into a joint sales agreement with Smith Media, LLC, the owners of WFFF. Smith moved WVNY into WFFF's Colchester facility.
An announcement came in late 2005 that Smith Media was planning to start a news department for WVNY and WFFF. However, as of September of 2006, no details had been announced about a launch. To complicate things, WFFF picked up secondary relations with the new CW network on September 18, 2006, after The WB folded.
[edit] Outlying Transmitters
- W55AI channel 55, Lake Placid
- W63AD channel 63, Rutland
- W09BB channel 9, Schroon Lake (owned by the town)
[edit] External Links
- Station Website
- WFFF Website
- WVNY on TV Hat
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WVNY
- Query the FCC's TV station database for W55AI
- Query the FCC's TV station database for W63AD
- Query the FCC's TV station database for W09BB
| Local television stations
WCAX 3 (CBS) - WPTZ 5 / WNNE 31 (NBC) (WX+ on WPTZ DT2) - W16AL 16 (TBN) - W18AE 18 (RSN / A1) - WVNY 22 (ABC) - WWBI 27 (Daystar) - |
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