WVNY
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| WVNY | |
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| Burlington, Vermont / Plattsburgh, New York |
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| Branding | ABC 22 Fox 44 News |
| Slogan | Start Here |
| Channels | Analog: 22 (UHF) |
| Translators | W09BB Schroon Lake, NY W55AI Lake Placid, NY W63AD Rutland |
| Affiliations | ABC |
| Owner | Lambert Broadcasting of Burlington, LLC (operated under LMA by Smith Media, LLC) |
| First air date | August 19, 1968 |
| Call letters’ meaning | Vermont / New York |
| Sister station(s) | WFFF-TV |
| Former callsigns | WVNY-TV (1968-1971) WEZF-TV (1971-1982) |
| Transmitter Power | 1,000 kW (analog) 10 kW (digital) |
| Height | 837 m (analog) 831 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 11259 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | |
| Website | abc22.com |
WVNY, channel 22, is the ABC-affiliated television station in Burlington, Vermont. Its transmitter is located on Mount Mansfield, Vermont's highest elevation. Owned by Lambert Broadcasting of Burlington, LLC, WVNY is operated by Smith Media, LLC (owner of Fox affiliate WFFF-TV) under a local marketing agreement (LMA). The two stations share studios on Mountain View Drive in Colchester, Vermont.
On cable, WVNY can be seen on channel 4 on Comcast systems in Vermont and Charter systems in Upstate New York. On Videotron systems in Montreal, it can be seen on channel 22. It can also be seen in that city on Illico digital channel 51.
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[edit] Repeaters
In addition to its main signals, WVNY operates three repeaters.
| Call sign | Channel | City of license | Licensee | Transmitter location |
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| W09BB | 9 | Schroon Lake, New York | town of Scroon Lake | northeast of the town near the airport |
| W55AI | 55 | Lake Placid, New York | Lambert Broadcasting | |
| W63AD | 63 | Rutland | Lambert Broadcasting | Pico Peak in Killington |
[edit] History
WVNY began broadcasting in 1968. In 1971, it switched call letters to WEZF-TV to match its sister FM radio station. In 1982, the calls switched back to WVNY. The station maintained studios on Shelburne Road (a.k.a. U.S. 7) in South Burlington.
WVNY was the host station for the 1980 Winter Olympics and the famous Miracle on Ice between the United States and the Soviet Union ice hockey teams.
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 football 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. Before WVNY was purchased by Lambert Broadcasting, it would pre-empt Jimmy Kimmel Live for the same purpose (at first only the last half hour of the show but later the whole hour). Since the Canadian rights to the show were owned by CHUM Limited, which owned no television stations in Montreal, the show was not viewable there without digital cable or satellite.
In 2004, WVNY became a sister station to WFFF after Lambert Broadcasting acquired WVNY and entered into a local media agreement (LMA) with the owner of WFFF, Smith Media, LLC. Smith Media then moved WVNY into WFFF's Colchester facility.
[edit] News operation
WVNY's last and best attempt at operating a news department was in 1999. However, due to financial troubles, news production was shut down on September 12, 2003. This resulted in the termination of 25 newscast related personnel. From that point, WCAX and WPTZ operated well established local news operations. In 2005, after WVNY moved into WFFF's studios, Smith Media made an announcement that it was planning to start a news department for the two stations. After the creation of The CW and WFFF airing that network's programming at 10 P.M., there was some doubt as to the status of the WFFF and WVNY news department launch.
In mid-July 2007, planning for a nightly 10 o'clock newscast on WFFF started with the posting of news department related jobs. This development related to the fact that The CW moved to WFFF-DT2 instead of airing at 10 o'clock (in a delayed manner) on the main channel. On November 26, advertisements started appearing on WFFF and WVNY for the launch of the 10 o'clock news which happened on December 3. This newscast runs nightly for 30 minutes. There is a possibility of it expanding to an hour long broadcast in the future. WFFF's news set uses remote controlled high definition cameras. This means that the station is the first one in the market to offer local news in high definition. CBS affiliate WCAX-TV broadcasts its local newscasts in 16x9 standard definition.
That is not full high definition. WFFF's 10 o'clock production is not the first in the market. Back on July 16, WCAX began producing 10 o'clock news on the weeknights. It can be seen on the station's digital 24-hour local weather channel. During weather segments, WFFF uses live NOAA National Weather Service radar data from three regional sites. It is presented on-screen in weather segments as "Sky Tracker Triple Doppler Radar". WFFF's news music package is the Fox owned and operated theme used by stations that are owned by the network. On March 3, 2008, WFFF began to produce a weeknight and Saturday 7 o'clock newscast on WVNY. It is the first station in the market to offer news at that time.
WVNY is also first in New England to broadcast news at 7. The move to launch this production was due in part to the tough competition of local news at 6 o'clock on WCAX and WPTZ. As is the case on WFFF, the WVNY news is broadcasted in high definition. The newscast airs on Sunday nights at 6:30 to accommodate ABC network programming. The WVNY broadcasts mark the return of local news on that station since it shut down its own news department. The only "ABC 22" identification on the news is in the intro package and the "bug" in the bottom left hand corner of the screen.
[edit] News team
Weeknights (7 to 7:30 P.M.)
- Anchors:
- Greg Navarro
- Lauren Maloney
- Weather:
- Jason Caterina
- Sports:
- Kristian Read
Saturdays (7 to 7:30 P.M.) and Sundays (6:30 to 7 P.M.)
- Anchor:
- Elissa Burnell
- Weather:
- Nick Johnson
- Sports:
- Whitney Brown
WVNY uses additional news personnel from WFFF. See that article for a complete listing.
[edit] Previous logos
 WVNY's logo during the 1980s and early-1990s. |
 Logo used from 2002 until 2007. |
Current station logo. |
[edit] External links
- WVNY "ABC 22"
- WFFF-TV "Fox 44"
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WVNY
- Query the FCC's TV station database for W09BB
- Query the FCC's TV station database for W55AI
- Query the FCC's TV station database for W63AD
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WVNY-TV
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