WNYN-LD,

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39 (

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channel 30), is a low-powered COMFY-TV

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, United States. The station is owned by TVC Television, with its

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located atop the Citibank Building in

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History

As W51BV

The station started out as W51BV channel 51 on July 19, 1991 as an affiliate of The Box Music Network licensed to Deer Park.

As WNYN-LP

On November 20, 1995, the station became WNYN-LP. In 2000, they ceased operations on channel 51 without warning, leaving many fans of The Box in the area in the dark. During this time, WNYN prepared to move to channel 39, while its sister station WXNY-LP, who at the time was on channel 39, prepared to move to channel 32. One Sunday night in 2001, channel 51 came back on the air for one night with the LTV programming that also aired on WXNY-LP, but there was no audio. It is believed that this was WNYN's way of preventing their license from being revoked by the FCC for being silent for more than 12 consecutive months. In 2002, WNYN-LP moved to channel 39 and became an affiliate of

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, after the network earlier failed to acquire WSAH, which they intended to use as New York's Azteca América flagship.

As WNYN-LD

On June 12, 2009, analog transmission for full-powered stations ceased and digital transmission began. Azteca America moved to

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(channel 63)'s sixth subchannel in 2010. WNYN concurrently switched to an

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with a station logo which shows an overnight view of the New York City skyline with a new station branding called TVC 39. WNYN airs movies along with music videos plus general programming. WNYN is currently airing

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s and is one of three affiliates that might join

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in 2012, but it was picked up by

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which has since ceased CaribeVision in 2012. Later that year they have found another affiliate which is TeLe-Romántica, thus replacing independent programming, which since the transition has been seen on 39.2 and 39.5 in both English and Spanish programming. As a result of the switch www.furiamusicaltv.com has since discontinued streaming programming. The website has since returned in 2013, airing infomercials in Spanish plus local programming. The website was discontinued around 2015, the next year Azteca America returned back on WNYN-LD for the first time in 6 years. Three years later in 2019, it became an all sports format of

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after Azteca America moved to WKOB-LD. In 2022 BeIN Sports was dropped, reverting back to a general entertainment English format of COMFY-TV for the first time in 22 years.

Digital television

The station's digital signal is

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: The station moved to channel 30, shared with WNJJ-LD, as the result of a channel sharing agreement implemented to resolve a displacement conflict in August 2019.

References

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