WBES-TV
WBES-TV was an early UHF television station in Buffalo, New York. The station operated on channel 59 from studios in the Hotel Lafayette in Buffalo. WBES-TV, the second UHF station (and fourth TV station overall) in Western New York, was very short-lived, signing on September 29, 1953 and shutting down for the last time on December 19 of the same year. An independent station for its entire existence, WBES-TV was plagued by technical and financial problems, the primary factor in the station's failure. Channel 59 was never reissued; it would not be used again in Western New York until being reallocated to Rochester, New York station WHAM-TV, where it was used as the temporary digital channel prior to the digital television transition.
WBES-TV has occasionally been erroneously listed as being on channel 56 or 58, two channels that were indeed later issued to other licensees: 56 became WBXZ, a shopping channel that is part of Craig Fox's network of low-power stations. Channel 58, last known as WFHW-LP, has also gone silent.
Channels 52 through 69 were removed entirely from broadcast television use soon after the 2009 completion of US DTV transition.
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- WBBZ (67.1 Me-TV, 67.2 This, 67.3 Me-TV, 67.4 Daystar)
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- Johnstown, PA
- WPSU (3.1 PBS, 3.2 Create, 3.3 World)
- WJAC (6.1 NBC, 6.2 Me-TV)
- WTAJ (10.1 CBS)
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