WQMY

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = WQMY
city =
station_
station_slogan = Northeast Pennsylvania's
MyNetworkTV
station_branding = My TV WQMY
analog = 53 (UHF)
digital = 29 (UHF)
& WOLF-DT 56.3
other_chs =
affiliations = MyNetworkTV
network =
founded =
airdate = December 30, 1992
location = Williamsport / Scranton /
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
callsign_meaning = MYNetworkTV
former_callsigns = WILF (1992-2006)
former_channel_numbers =
owner = New Age Media, LLC
licensee = New Age Media of Pennsylvania License, LLC
sister_stations = WOLF-TV
WSWB
former_affiliations = Fox (1992-1997)
primary WB and secondary UPN (1997-2006)
effective_radiated_power = 1320 kW (analog)
200 kW (digital)
HAAT = 244 m (analog)
223 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 52075
coordinates = coord|41|12|1.7|N|77|7|11.7|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://media.myfoxnepa.com/special/mynet/mynetworktv.html WQMY]

WQMY, channel 53, is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for northeastern Pennsylvania, licensed to Williamsport. Its transmitter is located near Nisbet. Owned by New Age Media, the station is sister to Fox affiliate WOLF-TV and CW affiliate WSWB. The three stations share studios on SR 315 in the Fox Hill section of Plains Township. Although WQMY's transmitter is located in Williamsport, the station is considered part of the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre market. However, the station's over-the-air signals do not reach those two locations. Therefore, WQMY is offered on WOLF-TV's third digital subchannel as well as area cable systems. Syndicated programming on the station includes: "Roseanne", "The Munsters", "The Addams Family", and "Scrubs". There are no news programs on this station.

History

Channel 53 began broadcasting on December 30, 1992 as a satellite of Fox affiliate WOLF-TV (channel 38) under the call letters of WILF. In 1997, WOLF (now WSWB) became a WB affiliate after WYLN-LP dropped it and converted WILF to that affiliation. WSWB's other satellite, WWLF (who took the WOLF-TV calls), became the Fox affiliate for northeastern Pennsylvania. WSWB and WILF also picked up UPN as a secondary affiliation. On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN networks announced that they would end broadcasting and merge. The new combined network would be called The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of its corporate parents: CBS (the parent company of UPN) and the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner.

On February 22, News Corporation announced that they would start up another new broadcast television network called MyNetworkTV. This new network, which would be sister to Fox, would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division, Twentieth Television. MyNetworkTV was created in order to give UPN and WB stations, not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates, another option besides becoming independent. It was also created to compete against The CW. On May 1, Pegasus Television, the owner of WSWB and WILF, announced that WILF would become a separate station and be the area's MyNetworkTV affiliate. Also at that point, WSWB was announced as being affiliated with The CW. Due to the limitation of WILF's signal in the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre area, it was announced that the station would become offered on WOLF-TV's new third digital subchannel.

WILF changed its call sign to the current WQMY on July 7 to reflect its affiliation change. MyNetworkTV began broadcasting on September 5. On that gate, WQMY introduced a new MynetworkTV logo. As a WSWB repeater, WQMY did not have a logo so the MyNetworkTV logo is the first for the station. WSWB began broadcasting The CW on September 18. Due to Pegasus' bankruptcy, WQMY was bought out by CP Media, LLC after it gained the MyNetworkTV affiliation. CP Media eventually founded a new broadcasting company, New Age Media. In early-2009, WQMY will add the Retro Television Network to its digital signal.

External links

* [http://media.myfoxnepa.com/special/mynet/mynetworktv.html WQMY channel 53]
* [http://www.mynetworktv.com/ MynetworkTV]
*TVQ|WQMY