WQMY
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| WQMY | |
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| Williamsport / Scranton / Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania |
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| Branding | My TV WQMY |
| Slogan | Northeast Pennsylvania's MyNetworkTV |
| Channels | Analog: 53 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | MyNetworkTV |
| Owner | New Age Media, LLC (New Age Media of Pennsylvania License, LLC) |
| First air date | December 30, 1992 |
| Call letters’ meaning | MYNetworkTV |
| Sister station(s) | WOLF-TV WSWB |
| Former callsigns | WILF (1992-2006) |
| Former affiliations | Fox (1992-1997) primary WB and secondary UPN (1997-2006) |
| Transmitter Power | 1320 kW (analog) 200 kW (digital) |
| Height | 244 m (analog) 223 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 52075 |
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| Website | www.nepatoday.com |
WQMY, channel 53, is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for northeastern Pennsylvania, licensed to Williamsport. Its transmitter is located near Nisbet. The station is owned by New Age Media and is sister to Fox affiliate WOLF-TV and CW affiliate WSWB. The three stations share studios on SR 315 in the Fox Hill section of Plains Township.
[edit] Overview
Although WQMY's transmitter is located in Williamsport, the station is considered part of the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre market. However, the station's over-the-air signals signals do not reach those two locations. Therefore, WQMY is offered on WOLF-TV's third digital subchannel as well as area cable systems.
Along with MyNetworkTV primetime and overnight paid programming, WQMY's syndicated lineup includes: Roseanne, The Munsters, The Addams Family, and Scrubs. There are no news programs on this station.
[edit] History
Channel 53 began broadcasting on December 30, 1992 as a satellite of Fox affiliate WOLF-TV, under the call letters of WILF. In 1997, WOLF (now WSWB) became a WB affiliate after WYLN-LP dropped it and converted WILF to that affiliation. WSWB's other satellite, WWLF (who took the WOLF-TV calls), became the Fox affiliate for northeastern Pennsylvania. WSWB and WILF also picked up UPN as a secondary affiliation.
On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN networks announced that they would end broadcasting and merge. The new combined network would be called The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of its corporate parents: CBS (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner.
On February 22, News Corporation announced that they would start up another new broadcast television network called MyNetworkTV. The new network, which would be sister to Fox, would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division, Twentieth Television. MyNetworkTV was created in order to give UPN and WB stations, not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates, another option besides becoming independent. It was also created to compete against The CW.
On May 1, Pegasus Television, the owner of WSWB and WILF, announced that WILF would become a separate station and be the area's MyNetworkTV affiliate. Also at that point, WSWB was announced as being affiliated with The CW. Due to the limitation of WILF's signal in the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre area, it was announced that the station would become offered on WOLF-TV's new third digital subchannel.
WILF changed its call sign to the current WQMY on July 7, 2006 to reflect its affiliation change. MyNetworkTV began broadcasting on September 5. On that gate, WQMY introduced a new MynetworkTV logo. As a WSWB repeater, WQMY did not have a logo so the MyNetworkTV logo is the first for the station. WSWB began broadcasting The CW on September 18, 2006. Due to Pegasus' bankruptcy, WQMY was bought out by CP Media, LLC after it gained the MyNetworkTV affiliation. CP Media eventually founded a new broadcasting company, New Age Media.
[edit] External links
- WQMY channel 53
- MynetworkTV
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WQMY
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WQMY-TV
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