WBGT-CD (channel 46) is a
low-power,
Class A television station
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in
Rochester, New York
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, United States, affiliated with
MyNetworkTV. Owned by
Vision Communications, the station has studios on Buffalo Road (
NY 33
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) in the town of
Gates
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* Gates (surname), various people with the last name
* Gates Brown (1939-2013), American Major League Baseball player
* Gates McFadde ...
(with a Rochester
postal address), and its
transmitter
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is located on Pinnacle Hill. It can also be seen on
Charter Spectrum channel 18 (hence the My 18 branding).
WBGT-CD was formerly also seen over-the-air on analog
repeater W26BZ (channel 26) in
Victor
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* ''Victor'' (1951 film), a French drama film
* ''Victor'' (1993 film), a French shor ...
, which is no longer licensed. This broadcast from a transmitter south of
Perinton's Egypt hamlet along the
Monroe and
Ontario
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County line. This translator was replaced with another, WGCE-CD, some time before 2018; WGCE was spun off to
HC2 Holdings in August 2018.
History
![BigTVWBGT](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/BigTVWBGT.jpg)
WBGT-CD began operations as WBGT-LP on February 2, 1998. For its first ten months on-air, it was an
independent station
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under the Big TV branding, before it became an
UPN
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affiliate in November of that year. Despite the affiliation, the station used the branding throughout the later years of the network.
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1oAN6wuPNI ] The Victor translator was added in 1999, and in 2001,
Time Warner Cable
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(predecessor of Charter Spectrum) added WBGT-LP to its lineup. On January 24, 2006,
The WB
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and UPN announced that the networks would end broadcasting and merge to form
The CW
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, which signed with cable-only WB affiliate WRWB (the forerunner of
WHAM-DT2). Several weeks later,
MyNetworkTV was announced by
Fox
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Twelve sp ...
as an alternative for UPN or WB affiliates not chosen by the CW. WBGT-LP quickly signed an affiliation deal with MyNetworkTV, and joined the network at its launch on September 5, 2006. Around this time, the suffix was changed from -LP to -CA.
The station has never been added to
DirecTV
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; the station has no
must-carry rights as a low-power operation. Eventually, when it signed on its digital facilities, the station's calls were changed to WBGT-CD.
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is
multiplexed:
See also
*
Channel 18 branded TV stations in the United States
*
Channel 29 digital TV stations in the United States
*
Channel 46 low-power TV stations in the United States
*
Channel 46 virtual TV stations in the United States
References
External links
WBGT-CD "My 18"
{{MNTV New York
Television channels and stations established in 1998
BGT-CD
Low-power television stations in the United States
MyNetworkTV affiliates
Dabl affiliates
Decades (TV network) affiliates
Movies! affiliates
TheGrio affiliates
1998 establishments in New York (state)