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WIVT
WIVT (channel 34) is a television station in Binghamton, New York, United States, affiliated with American Broadcasting Company, ABC. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside low-power broadcasting#Television, low-power, Class A television service, Class A NBC affiliate WBGH-CD (channel 20). Both stations share studios on Ingraham Hill Road in the Binghamton (town), New York, town of Binghamton, where WIVT's transmitter is also located. History Alfred E. Anscombe, former General Manager of WKBW-WWKB, AM-WKBW-TV, TV in Buffalo, New York, Buffalo, secured a construction permit for Binghamton's third television station on April 25, 1961. He named it WBJA-TV after his wife Beth J. Anscombe. Initially, the station was allocated to UHF analog channel 56. However, five years earlier, two competing ABC affiliates in Northeastern Pennsylvania (WILK-TV channel 34 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Wilkes-Barre and WARM-TV channel 16 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Scranton) merged to form WNEP- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wivt 2015
WIVT (channel 34) is a television station in Binghamton, New York, United States, affiliated with ABC. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside low-power, Class A NBC affiliate WBGH-CD (channel 20). Both stations share studios on Ingraham Hill Road in the town of Binghamton, where WIVT's transmitter is also located. History Alfred E. Anscombe, former General Manager of WKBW- AM- TV in Buffalo, secured a construction permit for Binghamton's third television station on April 25, 1961. He named it WBJA-TV after his wife Beth J. Anscombe. Initially, the station was allocated to UHF analog channel 56. However, five years earlier, two competing ABC affiliates in Northeastern Pennsylvania (WILK-TV channel 34 in Wilkes-Barre and WARM-TV channel 16 in Scranton) merged to form WNEP-TV, retaining WILK's license but using WARM's old UHF channel 16. Seeing a chance to use more signal at less cost, Anscombe sought and won a new construction permit for analog channel 34. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBGH-CD
WBGH-CD (channel 20) is a low-power, Class A television station in Binghamton, New York, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside ABC affiliate WIVT (channel 34). Both stations share studios on Ingraham Hill Road in the town of Binghamton, where WBGH-CD's transmitter is also located. Even though WBGH-CD transmits a digital signal of its own, its broadcast range is limited to the immediate Binghamton area. However, in order to serve the entire market, WBGH-CD has been carried in 720p high definition on WIVT's second digital subchannel since February 9, 2010. A direct-to-cable full 1080i HD feed of WBGH-CD/WIVT-DT2 is carried on Charter Spectrum channel 5 (hence the NBC 5 branding). History The original construction permit for the station was granted on November 10, 1993, and issued the call sign W08DL, reflecting its facilities on VHF channel 8. W08DL applied for a license to cover the permit in July 1996 and was granted it on August ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBGH20
WBGH-CD (channel 20) is a low-power, Class A television station in Binghamton, New York, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside ABC affiliate WIVT (channel 34). Both stations share studios on Ingraham Hill Road in the town of Binghamton, where WBGH-CD's transmitter is also located. Even though WBGH-CD transmits a digital signal of its own, its broadcast range is limited to the immediate Binghamton area. However, in order to serve the entire market, WBGH-CD has been carried in 720p high definition on WIVT's second digital subchannel since February 9, 2010. A direct-to-cable full 1080i HD feed of WBGH-CD/WIVT-DT2 is carried on Charter Spectrum channel 5 (hence the NBC 5 branding). History The original construction permit for the station was granted on November 10, 1993, and issued the call sign W08DL, reflecting its facilities on VHF channel 8. W08DL applied for a license to cover the permit in July 1996 and was granted it on August 12 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WICZ-TV
WICZ-TV (channel 40) is a television station in Binghamton, New York, United States, affiliated with Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox and MyNetworkTV. Owned by INSP (TV network), Imagicomm Communications, the station has studios on Vestal Parkway East (New York State Route 434, NY 434) in Vestal, New York, Vestal, and its transmitter is located on Ingraham Hill Road in the Binghamton (town), New York, town of Binghamton. History The station signed on November 1, 1957, as WINR-TV, the area's second television station, and aired an analog signal on ultra high frequency, UHF channel 40. The station was originally owned by the then-Rochester, New York, Rochester-based Gannett, Gannett Company, which purchased the station's Construction permit#Broadcasting, construction permit along with NBC Radio Network affiliate WINR (680 AM) in January of that year. The WINR stations were part of a Concentration of media ownership, newspaper-broadcast combination owned by Gannett in Binghamton, operat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WBNG
WBNG-TV (channel 12) is a television station in Binghamton, New York, United States, affiliated with CBS and CW+. The station is owned by Gray Television, and maintains studios on Columbia Drive in Johnson City and a transmitter on Ingraham Hill Road in the town of Binghamton. History The station signed on December 1, 1949, as WNBF-TV and was originally owned by Clark Associates Inc. along with WNBF radio (1290 AM and 98.1 FM, now WHWK). At its launch, WNBF carried programs from all four American television networks at the time (CBS, DuMont, NBC, and ABC) since it was the market's first television outlet to launch. For many of its early years, WNBF was the only station available to viewers in the nearby Scranton–Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, market as set owners pointed their roof-top antennas north towards Binghamton. The station subsequently lost its affiliations with DuMont in 1956 after the network's collapse, and the others when new UHF stations arrived in town: NBC on W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Binghamton, New York
Binghamton () is a city in the U.S. state of New York, and serves as the county seat of Broome County. Surrounded by rolling hills, it lies in the state's Southern Tier region near the Pennsylvania border, in a bowl-shaped valley at the confluence of the Susquehanna and Chenango Rivers. Binghamton is the principal city and cultural center of the Binghamton metropolitan area (also known as Greater Binghamton, or historically the Triple Cities, including Endicott and Johnson City), home to a quarter million people. The city's population, according to the 2020 census, is 47,969. From the days of the railroad, Binghamton was a transportation crossroads and a manufacturing center, and has been known at different times for the production of cigars, shoes, and computers. IBM was founded nearby, and the flight simulator was invented in the city, leading to a notable concentration of electronics- and defense-oriented firms. This sustained economic prosperity earned Binghamton the mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WSYR-TV
WSYR-TV (channel 9) is a television station in Syracuse, New York, United States, affiliated with ABC. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, the station maintains studios on Bridge Street (off NY 290) in East Syracuse (a village of DeWitt), and its transmitter is located on Sevier Road in Pompey, New York. However, master control and some internal operations are based at Springfield, Massachusetts-licensed Nexstar sister station and NBC affiliate WWLP's studios in Chicopee. WWTI (channel 50) in Watertown operates as a semi-satellite of WSYR-TV. As such, it clears all network programming as provided by its parent and simulcasts most of WSYR-TV's newscasts, but airs a separate offering of syndicated programming; there are also separate station identifications and commercial inserts. Although WWTI maintains its own studios on Court Street in downtown Watertown, master control and some internal operations are also based at WWLP. History Channel 9 was the last of Syracuse's major ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WNEP-TV
WNEP-TV (channel 16) is a television station licensed to Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the ABC affiliate for Northeastern Pennsylvania. Owned by Tegna Inc., the station maintains studios on Montage Mountain Road in Moosic. Through a channel sharing agreement with PBS member WVIA-TV (channel 44), the two stations transmit using WNEP-TV's spectrum from an antenna at Penobscot Knob near Mountain Top. WNEP-TV operates a digital replacement translator on UHF channel 22 that is licensed to Waymart with a transmitter in Forest City. It exists because wind turbines run by NextEra Energy Resources at the Waymart Wind Farm interfere with the transmission of full-power television signals. History WILK-TV and WARM-TV There were originally two ABC network affiliates in northeastern Pennsylvania. WILK-TV, operating on channel 34 and owned by WILK radio took to the air from Wilkes-Barre on September 16, 1953. It was followed by Scranton-licensed WARM-TV, broadcasting o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ingraham Hill
Ingraham Hill is a mountain in the Southern Tier of New York. It is located south-southwest of Binghamton in Broome County. The mountain contains the television and radio broadcast towers for the surrounding metropolitan area. The summit rises to an elevation of . These towers include TV stations WBNG, WICZ, WIVT, WSKG-TV and radio stations WNBF, WAAL, WWYL WWYL (104.1 FM, branded as ''KISS 104.1'') is a radio station serving Binghamton, New York with a top 40 (CHR) format. This station is under the ownership of Townsquare Media. The station signed on July 1, 1996, as WYOS, an oldies Oldies i ... and many more. The towers are visible throughout the region. History In 1950, the Conservation Department built an Aermotor LS40 steel fire lookout tower on the mountain. The tower was placed into service in 1951, reporting 6 fires and 39 visitors. Due to the increased use of aerial detection, the tower ceased fire lookout operations at the end of the 1970 fire lookout seas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is an American commercial broadcast television network. It is the flagship property of the ABC Entertainment Group division of The Walt Disney Company. The network is headquartered in Burbank, California, on Riverside Drive, directly across the street from Walt Disney Studios and adjacent to the Roy E. Disney Animation Building. The network's secondary offices, and headquarters of its news division, are in New York City, at its broadcast center at 77 West 66th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Since 2007, when ABC Radio (also known as Cumulus Media Networks) was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC has reduced its broadcasting operations almost exclusively to television. It is the fifth-oldest major broadcasting network in the world and the youngest of the American Big Three television networks. The network is sometimes referred to as the Alphabet Network, as its initialism also represents the first three letters of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WWKB
WWKB (1520 AM broadcasting, AM) is a commercial radio, commercial Radio broadcasting, radio station in Buffalo, New York. It broadcasts a sports betting radio format and is owned and operated by Audacy, Inc. Most programming is from the co-owned BetQL Radio Network, with some shows from CBS Sports Radio. The radio studio, studios are on Corporate Parkway in Amherst, New York. It is one of two sports radio stations owned by Audacy in the Buffalo media market, radio market. WGR 550 AM primarily broadcasts local sports programming. WWKB is powered at 50,000 watts, the maximum for AM stations in the U.S. It is a clear channel station, sharing list of North American broadcast station classes, Class A status on 1520 AM with KOKC (AM), KOKC in Oklahoma City. It uses a directional antenna with a three-tower array. The transmitter site is shared with WGR on Big Tree Road in Blasdell, New York. History Early years The station began operations, as WKBW, in late October 1926. It was originall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Analog Television
Analog television is the original television technology that uses analog signals to transmit video and audio. In an analog television broadcast, the brightness, colors and sound are represented by amplitude, instantaneous phase and frequency, phase and frequency of an analog signal. Analog signals vary over a continuous range of possible values which means that Noise (electronics), electronic noise and interference may be introduced. Thus with analog, a moderately weak signal becomes Noise (video), snowy and subject to interference. In contrast, picture quality from a digital television (DTV) signal remains good until the signal level drops below digital cliff, a threshold where reception is no longer possible or becomes intermittent. Analog television may be wireless (terrestrial television and satellite television) or can be distributed over a cable network as cable television. All broadcast television systems used analog signals before the arrival of DTV. Motivated by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
