WPNY-LD
kW | |
HAAT | 178.6 m (586 ft) |
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Transmitter coordinates | 43°8′41.1″N 75°10′32.2″W / 43.144750°N 75.175611°W |
Translator(s) | WUTR 20.2 Utica |
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Public license information | LMS |
Website | www |
WPNY-LD (channel 11) is a
The station broadcast on VHF
History
The station signed on January 1, 1988, with the call sign W11BS licensed to
At some point in time, WPNY became a sister outlet to WFXV and began to be housed at the latter's facility on Greenfield Road in Rome. In 1996, both stations were sold to Sullivan Broadcasting which would itself be bought out by the Sinclair Broadcast Group only two years later. Instead of being acquired by that company, WPNY and WFXV were purchased by Quorum Broadcasting founded by former Sullivan head Dan Sullivan.[2]
The stations were acquired by current owner Nexstar in 2003. It was announced in December of that year that
In 2006, UPN and
Newscast
After WUTR's sale to Mission Broadcasting, speculation began circulating that Nexstar would establish a combined news department for WUTR, WFXV and WPNY in order to take on longtime dominant WKTV. Progress was not made until March 31, 2011, when the company announced it would launch a news operation for the three stations by mid-September. Nexstar invested $1 million for new equipment and the hiring of twelve employees.
Eyewitness News at 6, seen weeknights at 6 p.m. on WUTR, was repeated at 7 p.m. on WPNY from September 2011 to September 2017.[3][4][5][6][7][8] It was the Mohawk Valley region's only local newscast in its time slot, since there was no such offering on WKTV. The quiet cancellation of this rebroadcast without advance notice left no local news programming on WPNY's schedule.
References
- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WPNY-LD". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ Fybush, Scott (July 9, 1998). "North East RadioWatch". Retrieved April 1, 2011.
- ^ "More News is Good News - Starting from scratch". Archived from the original on October 5, 2011. Retrieved September 19, 2023.
- ^ says, JMyrleFuller (March 31, 2011). "Utica's WUTR to Revive Local News Operation • CNYRadio.com / CNYTVNews.com". cnyradio.com.
- ^ "Company has not had news since 2003". Archived from the original on June 20, 2010. Retrieved September 19, 2023.
- ^ "Unknown page".[permanent dead link]
- ^ "WFXV, WUTR AND WPNY ELEVATE UTICA COMMUNITY CONTENT OFFERINGS WITH THE ADDITION OF NEW LOCAL NEWS PROGRAMMING". Archived from the original on October 5, 2011. Retrieved September 19, 2023.
- ^ "Nexstar to Launch News in Utica on Sept. 12". August 15, 2011.