WBNG-TV
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| WBNG-TV | |
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| Binghamton, New York | |
| Branding | WBNG 12; Action News |
| Slogan | Your News Leader |
| Channels | Analog: 12 (VHF) |
| Affiliations | CBS The CW (future DT2) |
| Owner | Granite Broadcasting Corporation (WBNG License, Inc.) |
| First air date | December 1, 1949 |
| Call letters’ meaning | BiNGhamton |
| Former callsigns | WNBF-TV (1949-1973) |
| Former affiliations | All secondary: DuMont (1949-1955) NBC (1949-1957) ABC (1949-1962) |
| Transmitter Power | 166 kW (analog) 20.4 kW (digital) |
| Height | 369 m (analog) 342 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 23337 |
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| Website | www.wbng.com |
WBNG-TV is the CBS television affiliate in Binghamton, New York. The station serves the South Central New York-North Central Pennsylvania area. It broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 12, and its digital signal on VHF channel 7. The station also operates WBXI, a cable-only affiliate of The CW network serving Binghamton. WBNG's transmitter is located in Binghamton.
In addition to the Binghamton market, WBNG is the default CBS affiliate for most of the Elmira TV market as well as Otsego County in the Utica TV market.
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[edit] History
The station launched on December 1, 1949 as WNBF-TV, and was affiliated with all four American television networks at the time (CBS, DuMont, NBC and ABC). The station subsequently lost its affiliations with DuMont in 1955 (after the network's collapse), NBC in 1957 (to WICZ-TV, now a Fox affiliate) and ABC in 1962 (to WBJA-TV, later WMGC now WIVT). The station adopted its current callsign, WBNG-TV, in 1973 when the station was sold to Gateway Communications.
In 2000, Gateway Communications was purchased by SJL Broadcasting, which reduced staff from 100 to 58 over five years to fit the aggressive SJL automation model.
In 2002 the station's digital signal on channel 7 signed on. WBNG-DT began broadcasting network programming in high definition in late January 2007. Beginning in September 2007, WBXI will be simulcast on WBNG's new digital subchannel.
In April 2006, it was announced that Granite Broadcasting made a deal to acquire WBNG from Television Station Group License Subsidiary, LLC (the successor to SJL and a subsidiary of Alta Communications) for $45 million. The required money will be funded by a new senior credit facility created after the previously announced sales of Detroit's WMYD and San Francisco's KBWB fell apart. Granite closed on its purchase of WBNG on July 26, 2006. [1]
Coincident with the announced Granite deal, General Manager Joe McNamara took over as GM of KHON in Honolulu, recently acquired by SJL. Bob Krummenacker has taken over of GM of WBNG.
[edit] Logos
 WNBF logo |
 A circle logo used when Gateway Communications owned the station |
 The logo used in the mid to late 1990s |
[edit] General Assignment Reporters
- Julianne Sweeney
- Candace Chapman
- Jessica Light
- Jon Bruce
- Erik Burling
- Greg Catlin
- James Gaddis
- Gabe Osterhout
[edit] Meteorologists
- Doug Peters (5, 5:30, 6, 11 weekdays)
- Justin Culligan (Weekday mornings and noon)
- Samantha Augeri (Weekends)
[edit] Sports Reporters
- Brendan O'Reilley
- Justin Horowitz
[edit] External links
- WBNG website
- Details history of WBNG under SJL
- Broadcast Localism in Binghamton Market, report filed under FCC's Broadcast Localism NOI.
- Reporting Cast
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WBNG
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WBNG-TV
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