WSTQ-LP

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WSTQ-LP
Syracuse, New York

Branding	CW 6 (general) CNY Central
Slogan	TV Now (general) We Know What's Central to You
Channels	Analog: 14 (UHF) Digital: WSTM-DT 24.2 (UHF) Virtual: 3.2 (PSIP)
Affiliations	The CW
Owner	Sinclair Broadcast Group (WSTQ Licensee, LLC)
Founded	June 19, 2000
Call letters' meaning	disambiguation of WSTM
Sister station(s)	WSTM, WTVH
Former callsigns	WAWA-LP (2000-2003)
Former affiliations	Independent (2000-2001) UPN (2001-2006)
Transmitter power	9.8 kW (analog) 210 kW (WSTM-DT2)
Height	203.6 m (analog) 393 m (WSTM-DT2)
Facility ID	10320 (analog) 21252 (WSTM-DT2)
Transmitter coordinates	43°3′30″N 76°10′0″W / 43.05833°N 76.16667°W / 43.05833; -76.16667 (analog) 42°56′42″N 76°7′7″W / 42.94500°N 76.11861°W / 42.94500; -76.11861 (WSTM-DT2)

WSTQ-LP is the low-powered, CW-affiliated television station for Central Upstate New York. Licensed to Syracuse, it broadcasts an analog signal on UHF channel 14 from a transmitter on West Kirkpatrick Street (alongside WOLF-FM's tower) in the city's Lakefront section. Owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, the station is sister to NBC affiliate WSTM-TV and CBS affiliate WTVH. The latter, however, is actually owned by the Granite Broadcasting Group but operated by Sinclair through joint sales and shared services agreements.

All three outlets share studios on James Street in the Near Northeast section of Syracuse. Syndicated programming on WSTQ includes How I Met Your Mother, Frasier, The Ricki Lake Show, and America's Funniest Home Videos among others. WSTQ and WSTM split coverage of New York Yankees games produced by the YES Network for MyNetworkTV affiliate WWOR-TV.

Due to its low-powered status, the station does not currently operate a digital signal of its own. However, it can be seen in 720p high definition on WSTM's second digital subchannel. This can be seen on UHF channel 24.2 (or virtual channel 3.2 via PSIP) from a transmitter in Onondaga. WSTQ is also offered on Time Warner Cable and Verizon FiOS channel 6 (hence the on-air branding, CW 6) with HD on Verizon FiOS channel 506 and Time Warner Cable channel 866.

History

First CW logo.

The station signed-on June 19, 2000 as WAWA-LP owned by Venture Technologies Group, LLC. It was technically an Independent although very few syndicated programming was shown since the majority of the line up consisted of home shopping and other paid shows. On October 20, 2001 ten months after WNYS-TV dropped its UPN affiliation, WAWA picked it up.

For two years, it fought to get carriage on Time Warner Cable. Due to the lack of programming on the station, the cable company refused to carry it. It could be argued Time Warner's partial ownership of the rival WB network played some role. By federal law, it was not obligated to carry WAWA due to its status as a low-powered station which has no "must-carry" protection.

Time Warner had already added WSBK-TV from Boston to its line-up on channel 6 in July 2001. This was done even though there was a cost of nearly $1 million a year in out-of-market licensing fees. At one point, WAWA even offered to pay Time Warner Cable to carry the station. Low-powered outlets buying channel space on cable is commonplace due to the lack of "must-carry" protection. WAWA took the case to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and asked them to adopt a rule that would require Time Warner to black out WSBK's prime time UPN line up whether it carried WAWA or not. In the end, the FCC ruled against the station.

In 2003, Raycom Media (then-owner of WSTM) purchased WAWA from Venture Technologies for an undisclosed amount of money. The station had its call letters changed to WSTQ-LP (derived from WSTM) and was given the on-air branding of "UPN 6, The Q". Raycom used "6" to reflect its pending cable channel slot on Time Warner which was obtained July 1, 2003 following WSTQ's acquisition by the company. Ironically, the same "must-carry" laws that kept WAWA off Time Warner eventually got the station on the system.

The law gives full-powered stations the option of "retransmission consent" or requesting compensation from cable systems to carry them. In this case, full-powered WSTM can require cable systems like Time Warner to offer low-powered WSTQ on the system as part of the compensation for carrying the full-power station. As a result of the ownership change, this station moved into WSTM's facilities.

Until 2005, WSTQ carried the Bill Keeler Show (a daily and later weekly local comedy series). When the show did not register in the ratings and was losing money, Keeler yanked the show from the Syracuse market in 2005. Keeler also cited FCC requirements that would require his show to be captioned in Syracuse which was an additional infrastructural expense. On March 27, 2006, Raycom Media announced the sale of WSTQ and WSTM to Barrington Broadcasting. As a result of the January 2006 announcement of UPN and The WB networks merging to create The CW, WSTQ revealed in March that it would become Syracuse's affiliate with the new network.

The station became a CW affiliate on September 18 and became known on-air as "CW 6". Also in 2006, Ion Television affiliate WSPX-TV filed an application with the FCC to broadcast its digital signal on channel 14 where WSTQ's analog signal is located now. This was abandoned in favor of channel 15 on December 3, 2008. Originally, this station had a separate section on WSTM's website located at "wstq.com" (it has since been abandoned). WSTQ was not affected by the consolidation of sister station WSTM with rival WTVH. On February 28, 2013, Barrington Broadcasting announced the sale of its entire group, including WSTQ-LP, to Sinclair Broadcast Group.^[1] The sale was completed on November 25.^[2]

Newscasts

News logo.

After Raycom acquired WSTQ, WSTM began producing a prime time newscast on this station. Originally known as Action News at 10 on UPN 6, The Q, the broadcast could be seen for thirty minutes and competed with Fox 68 Eyewitness News at 10 seen on WSYT. That program, produced by WTVH, was seen every night unlike WSTQ's show which only aired on weeknights. Action News at 10 would eventually be expanded to a seven night operation on January 8, 2005. In April 2006, WTVH ceased newscast production on WSYT in order to focus on improving its own third place ranked operation. However, the Fox outlet's 10 p.m. show was WTVH's most successful soundly beating WSTQ in the ratings.

When this station became a CW affiliate, the title changed to Action News at 10 on CW 6. On August 30, 2010, the newscast's format was extended to an hour on weeknights featuring more coverage and additional segments. Soon after, on September 7, rival ABC affiliate WSYR-TV added a prime time newscast to its second digital subchannel. Unlike traditional 10 o'clock shows, however, this only airs live for fifteen minutes and is then repeated four times in the hour.

In mid-December 2010, WSTM became the first station in the market to upgrade local newscasts to 16:9 enhanced definition widescreen. Although the broadcast on WSTQ was technically included, it was initially only seen in the updated resolution on Time Warner Cable channel 866. This is because WSTM-DT2 (serving as WSTQ's digital signal) only transmitted in pillarboxed 4:3 standard definition until January 2013 when the subchannel was upgraded to high definition transmissions (allowing the WSTQ broadcasts to be seen terrestrially in widescreen). However, the WSTQ newscast is still seen in downscaled 4:3 on the station's analog feed. Corresponding with the upgrade, the program received an updated graphic and music package while being renamed The CW 6 News at 10, from CNY Central.

News team

Anchors

Matt Mulcahy - Managing Editor; also weeknight news
Katie Corrado - weekend news; also multimedia journalist
Wayne Mahar (AMS Seal of Approval) - Chief Meteorologist; fill-in
Matt Stevens (AMS Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; Monday and Tuesday nights
Mike Brookins (AMS Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; Wednesday through Sunday nights
Niko Tamurian - Sports Director; weeknights
Tom Eschen - weekend sports; also sports and news multimedia journalist

Multimedia journalists

Laura Hand - Community Affairs Director; also "Weekend’s Best Bets", "The Week Ahead", and "CNY in Focus" segments producer
William Fitzpatrick - "Inside Justice with Bill Fitzpatrick" segment producer
Stacy Johnson - "Money Talks News" segment producer
Jim Kenyon - Chief Investigative
Alex Dunbar - news and sports
Dora Scheidell
Brandon Roth
Alex Resila
Lisa Spitz

References

↑ Malone, Michael (February 28, 2013). "Sinclair's Chesapeake TV Acquires Barrington Stations". Broadcasting & Cable. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
↑ http://www.sbgi.net/site_mgr/temp/Barrington%20Closes.pdf

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v t e Television Stations viewable in Central New York, including Syracuse

Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television

Local stations	WSTM-TV (3.1 NBC, 3.2 The CW, 3.3 Weather) WTVH (5.1 CBS) WVOA 6 (Audio only) WSYR (9.1 ABC, 9.2 Me-TV]) WONO 11 / WTVU-CD 22 (COR) WBLZ 13 (NASA TV) WSTQ 14 (The CW) WCNY (24.1 PBS, 24.2 Create, 24.3 PBS World, 24.4 PBS HD) WOBX 35 (AMGTV) WDSS-LD 38 (Daystar) W42EB-D (Ind) WNYS (43.1 MNTV, 43.2 silent) WNDR 49 (Ind) WHSU 51 (HSN) WNYI (52.1 Daystar) WSPX (56.1 ION, 56.2 qubo, 56.3 Life) WSYT (68.1 Fox, 68.2 ZUUS Country)

Cable-only stations	YNN Central New York CitrusTV WTOP ICTV

Adjacent locals	Rochester, NY WROC (8.1 CBS) WHEC (10.1 NBC, 10.2 Me-TV) WHAM (13.1 ABC, 13.2 The CW) WXXI (21.1 PBS, 21.2 World, 21.3 Create) WUHF (31.1 Fox, 31.2 silent) Watertown, NY WWNY (7.1 CBS, 7.2 Fox) WPBS (16.1 PBS, 16.2 Create / ThinkBright, 16.3 PBS HD) WWTI (50.1 ABC, 50.2 The CW)

New York State television Albany/Schenectady Binghamton Buffalo Burlington/Plattsburgh Elmira New York City Rochester Syracuse Utica Watertown

v t e Television Stations viewable in Northern New York State and the St. Lawrence Valley

Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television

Watertown / Carthage	WWNY (7.1 CBS, 7.2 Fox) WPBS (16.1 PBS, 16.2 Create/World, 16.3 PBS HD) WTKJ-LP 19 (GCN) WNYF-LD (28.1 Fox) WWTI (50.1 ABC, 50.2 The CW)

St. Lawrence County	WNPI (18.1 PBS, 18.2 Create/World, 18.3 PBS HD) WWNY-CD (28.1 Fox, 28.2 CBS-HD)

Kingston/Belleville (see also Ontario TV)	CJOH 6 _Analog (CTV) CKWS-DT (11.1 CBC)

Adjacent locals	Ottawa, ON CBOT (4.1 CBC) CBOFT (9.1 Ici Radio-Canada) CJOH (13.1 / 8 _Analog CTV) Syracuse, NY WSTM (3.1 NBC, 3.2 The CW, 3.3 weather) WTVH (5.1 CBS) WSYR (9.1 ABC, 9.2 IND) WCNY (24.1 PBS, 24.2 Create, 24.3 Cinema24, 24.4 HD) WSYT (68.1 Fox) Plattsburgh, NY WPTZ (5.1 NBC, 5.2 The CW/Me-TV) WCFE (57.1 PBS, 57.2 MHz, 57.3 World)

Cable	Time Warner Cable Sports Channel YNN Central New York YES MSG Network WCKN (Clarkson University)

Defunct	W20BA 20 (TBN) WLOT-LP 46 (UPN / A1, Watertown)

New York State television Albany/Schenectady Binghamton Buffalo Burlington/Plattsburgh Elmira New York City Rochester Syracuse Utica Watertown

v t e Television Stations viewable in the Mohawk Valley, including Utica and Rome, New York

Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television

Local stations	WKTV (2.1 NBC, 2.2 CW) WPNY-LP 11/W53AM 53 (MNTV) WUTR (20.1 ABC, 20.2 MNTV) WFXV (33.1 FOX) WVVC-LD (40.1 Cornerstone) W22DO-D (22.1 PBS, 22.2 Create, 22.3 World, 22.4 PBS Plus, all via WCNY-TV)

Outlying areas	W04AE 4 (ABC, Herkimer, via WTEN)

Adjacent locals	Syracuse, NY WTVH (CBS) WCNY-TV (24.1 PBS, 24.2 Create, 24.3 World, 24.4 PBS Plus) WSPX-TV (56.1 ION, 56.2 Qubo, 56.3 Ion Life, 56.4 Ion Shop, 56.5 QVC, 56.6 HSN) Albany, NY WRGB (6.1 CBS, 6.2 This TV) WTEN (10.1 ABC, 10.2 Weather, 10.3 LWN) WMHT (TV) (17.1 PBS, 17.2 Create, 17.3 World) Kingston, ON CKWS-DT (11.1 CBC)

Cable-only stations	YES MSG Network Time Warner Cable News Central New York SNY

New York State television Albany/Schenectady Binghamton Buffalo Burlington/Plattsburgh Elmira New York City Rochester Syracuse Utica Watertown

v t e Television Stations viewable in the Greater Rochester, New York area

Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television

Local stations	WROC (8.1 CBS, 8.2 Bounce TV) WHEC (10.1 NBC, 10.2 Me-TV, 10.3 WX) WHAM (13.1 ABC, 13.2 CW) WXXI (21.1 PBS, 21.2 World, 21.3 Create) WUHF (31.1 Fox) WBGT-CD (40.1 MNTV, 40.2 This TV, 40.3 Tuff TV, 40.4 Heartland, 40.5 MRTV, 40.6 QVC Over Air) W42CO-D (42.1 TCT, 42.2 TCT HD, 42.3 TCT Family, 42.4 La Fuente) WPXJ (51.1 ION, 51.2 qubo, 51.3 ION Life, 51.4 ION Shop, 51.5 QVC Over Air)

Cable-only stations	Time Warner Cable News Rochester YES MSG

Adjacent locals	Buffalo WGRZ (2.1 NBC, 2.2 Antenna TV) WIVB (4.1 CBS) WKBW (7.1 ABC) WNED (17.1 PBS-HD, 17.2 PBS, 17.3 World) WNLO (23.1 CW) WUTV (29.1 Fox, 29.2 ZUUS Country) WNYO (49.1 MNTV) WBBZ (67.1/67.3 Me-TV, 67.2 This, 67.4 Daystar) Syracuse WSTM (3.1 NBC, 3.2 The CW, 3.3 WX) WTVH (5.1 CBS) WSYR (9.1 ABC, 9.2 WSYR-DT2) WCNY (24.1 PBS, 24.2 YourTV, 24.3 World, 24.4 WCNY-HD) WNYS (43.1 MNTV, 43.2 silent) WSPX (56.1 ION, 56.2 qubo, 56.3 ION Life) WSYT (68.1 Fox, 68.2 ZUUS Country)

New York State television Albany/Schenectady Binghamton Buffalo Burlington/Plattsburgh Elmira New York City Rochester Syracuse Utica Watertown See also Toronto Ontario

v t e CW Network Affiliates in the state of New York

WKTV-DT 2.2 (Utica) WPTZ-DT 5.2 (Plattsburgh) WBNG-DT 7.2 (Binghamton) WPIX 11 (New York City) WHAM-DT 13.2 (Rochester) WSTQ 14 (Syracuse) WNLO 23 (Buffalo) WENY-DT 36.3 (Elmira) WCWN 45 (Schenectady) WWTI-DT 50.2 (Watertown)

See also ABC CBS CW Fox ION MyNetworkTV NBC PBS Other stations in New York

v t e Sinclair Broadcast Group

ABC network affiliates	KATU KDNL KHQA KOMO KTVO KVII / KVIH WCHS WEAR WGTU / WGTQ¹ WHOI WHAM² WICD WICS WKEF WLOS WPDE WSYX WTVC WXLV

CBS network affiliates	KBAK KBOI KDBC KEPR KEYE KFDM KGAN KGBT KHQA KIMA KLEW KMEG³ KRCG KTVL KTVO KUTV KVAL / KCBY / KPIC WGME WHP WKRC WPEC WRGB WTVH⁴ WWMT

The CW network affiliates	KEPR KFDM KFRE KIMA KMTR / KTCW / KMCB⁵ KMYS² KOCB KTVL KVII / KVIH KVCW KXTU KXVO⁶ KYUU WBUI⁷ WBSF¹ WCWN WHAM² WHOI WKRC WLFL WLYH⁸ WNAB⁹ WNUV¹ WSTQ WTTO / WDBB WTVX WUCW WVTV WWHO¹⁰ WWMB¹¹ WWMT

Fox network affiliates	KABB KBFX KBSI KBTV² KDSM KFOX KFXA¹² KMPH KOKH KPTH KPTM KRXI KSAS KXRM WACH WBFF WDKY WFXL WLUC WMSN WPFO¹³ WPGH WRGT¹ WRLH WRSP / WCCU⁷ WSMH WSYT¹⁴ WTAT¹ WTTE¹ WUHF WUTV WVAH¹ WYZZ^{1, 15} WZTV

MyNetworkTV affiliates	KAME² KDBC KMTW¹⁶ KMYU KUTV KVMY WABM WCGV WDKA¹⁷ WFGX WMMP WMYA¹ WMYV WNYO WNYS¹⁴ WPMY WRDC WRGT¹ WRLH WSTR² WSYX WTCN WTTA WTVZ WUTB² WUXP

NBC network affiliates	KMTR / KMCB / KTCW⁵ KRNV / KENV¹⁸ WEYI¹¹ WJAC WLUC WNWO WOAI WPBN / WTOM WPMI² WSTM WTOV WTWC

Other affiliates	Independent station WJTC² This TV affiliates KMYU WFGX Univision KUNP^MFX KUNS^MFX KUNW-CD / KVVK / KORX Azteca América WWHB

Radio Stations	KOMO-AM KOMO-FM¹⁹ KPLZ-FM KVI

Wrestling promotion	Ring of Honor

¹Nominally owned by Cunningham Broadcasting and operated by Sinclair under an LMA. However, trusts belonging to members of SBGI's founding Smith family control almost all of Cunningham's stock. ²Owned by Deerfield Media and operated by Sinclair under an LMA. ³Owned by Waitt Broadcasting and operated by Sinclair. ⁴Owned by Granite Broadcasting and operated by Sinclair. ⁵Owned by Roberts Media and operated by Sinclair. ⁶Owned by Mitts Telecasting and operated by Sinclair. ⁷Owned by GOCOM Media and operated by Sinclair. ⁸Operated by Sinclair, owned by Nexstar. ⁹Owned by Tennessee Broadcasting and operated by Sinclair by an outsourcing agreement. ¹⁰Owned by Manhan Media and operated by Sinclair. ¹¹Owned by Howard Stirk Holdings and operated by Sinclair under an LMA. ¹²Owned by Second Generation Ltd. and operated by Sinclair. ¹³Owned by Corporate Media Consultants Group (itself 49% owned by Max Media) and operated by Sinclair. Sale to Cunningham Broadcasting, pending FCC approval. ¹⁴Owned by Bristlecone Broadcasting, Sinclair operates WSYT through transitional agreement. WNYS is owned by RKM Media, LLC, its LMA assignment will be transfered to Bristlecone. ¹⁵Operated by Nexstar under an LMA. ¹⁶Owned by Mercury Broadcasting Company and operated by Sinclair. ¹⁷Owned by WDKA Acquisition Corporation and operated by Sinclair. ¹⁸Owned by Intermountain West Communications Company and operated by Sinclair. Sale to Cunningham Broadcasting, pending FCC approval. ¹⁹Owned by South Sound Broadcasting, Sinclair programs this station, as a simulcast of KOMO (AM).

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