WENY-DT3

WENY-DT3 is the CW-affiliated television station for the central Southern Tier of New York State. The station is part of The CW Plus, a special CW feed that broadcasts on cable and / or over-the-air on a digital signal. It is a third digital subchannel of ABC affiliate WENY-TV which is owned by Lilly Broadcasting. Over-the-air, WENY-DT3 broadcasts a digital signal on UHF channel 36.3 from WENY's transmitter located in Corning. It is also offered on Time Warner Cable channel 2 which is where the on-air branding, Twin Tiers CW 2, comes from. WENY-DT3's parent station has studios on Old Ithaca Road in Horseheads. Like most CW Plus affiliates, the station offers the nationally syndicated morning show, The Daily Buzz, on weekday mornings from 6 to 9. Originally, this station was known by fictional call letters, "WBE". It broadcast exclusively on cable as a WB affiliate and part of The WB 100+. At one point, the station was known on-air as "Twin Tiers WB 2".

On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN 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. Lilly Broadcasting was granted the local CW affiliation in Spring of that year. The network's programming, from The CW Plus, began to air WBE when it launched on September 18. The CW Plus is a similar cable-only operation as The WB 100+. According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), WENY had a request to flash-cut from analog to digital broadcasting when the switchover took place on February 17, 2009. However, this was delayed until the end of March. At that point, WBE became offered on a new third digital subchannel of WENY. It also began to use the WENY-DT3 call sign in an official manner.

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• WENY-DT3 "Twin Tiers CW 2"
• WENY-DT
• The CW