WMYV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = WMYV
city = Greensboro
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding = My 48
analog = 48 (UHF)
digital = 33 (UHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = MyNetworkTV
network =
founded =
airdate = May 9, 1981
location = Greensboro / Winston-Salem /
High Point, North Carolina
callsign_meaning = MYNetworkTV
former_callsigns = WGGT-TV (1981-1996)
WUPN-TV (1996-2006)
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Sinclair Broadcast Group
licensee = WUPN Licensee, LLC
sister_stations = WXLV-TV
former_affiliations = Independent (1981-1991)
Fox (1991-1995, as satellite of WNRW)
ABC (primary 1995-1996, as satellite of WXLV)
UPN (1995-2006, secondary until 1996)
effective_radiated_power = 1,700 kW (analog)
700 kW (digital)
HAAT = 579 m (analog)
574.8 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 25544
coordinates = coord|35|52|2.6|N|79|49|25.4|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.my48.tv/ my48.tv]

WMYV, channel 48, is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for the Piedmont Triad area of North Carolina that is licensed to Greensboro. Its transmitter is located northeast of Newmarket along I-73 and U.S. 220. Owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, the station is sister to ABC affiliate WXLV-TV. The two stations share studios on Myer Lee Drive east of Winston-Salem along I-40. Syndicated programing on the station includes: "Two and a Half Men", "The Simpsons", "That '70s Show", "Judge Hatchett", and "Judge David Young".

History

An earlier independent station with call letters WUBC had operated on channel 48 in Greensboro during the late-1960s but went dark.

The current incarnation of the station signed on in 1981 as WGGT-TV running a general entertainment format featuring cartoons, old movies, classic sitcoms, religious shows, and CBS shows preempted by WFMY-TV. It was owned locally by Guilford Broadcasting.

The station was initially a strong competitor with the area's other independent station, WJTM-TV channel 45. However, it took a toll financially. The Triad was too small at the time to support two independent stations, and there wasn't enough programming to go around. Also, WGGT's signal was considerably weaker than WJTM's. WGGT fell further behind when TVX Broadcast Group bought rival channel 45 in 1983 and changed its call letters to WNRW. With stronger ownership, WNRW was able to pick most of the better programming clean, as well as outbid WGGT for the Triad's Fox affiliation in 1986.

By 1987, WGGT was forced to file for chapter 11 bankruptcy. However, for a time, it stayed on the air with the same format albeit with far more barter programming. The financial woes continued unabated, and it was close to filing for chapter 7 bankruptcy in 1991. At the last moment, Act III Broadcasting, which had bought WNRW in 1988, stepped in, bought WGGT's programming and merged it onto WNRW's schedule. WGGT then began simulcasting WNRW, creating a strong combined signal with over 60% overlap in the market. The two stations became known as the "Piedmont Superstation". The simulcast continued after Act III was bought by Abry in 1993.

WNRW and WGGT took a secondary UPN affiliation on January 16, 1995 and became the market's ABC affiliate in September of that year after WGHP dropped the network and became a Fox station. In 1996, Abry merged with Sinclair, and Glencairn bought WGGT from Guiliford Broadcasters. However, since 90 percent of Glencairn's stock was owned by Sinclair's founders (the Smith family) Sinclair effectively owned both stations and now had a duopoly in the Triad in violation of FCC rules. Sinclair further circumvented the rules by ending the simulcast and taking control of WGGT's operations under a local marketing agreement, with channel 45--by then known as WXLV--as senior partner. Under the terms of the LMA, UPN programming remained on channel 48, which changed its call letters to WUPN-TV after Glencairn officially took control on June 19. The station was purchased outright by Sinclair in 2001.

On January 24, 2006, The WB and UPN 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 network called MyNetworkTV. This new service, which would be a sister network 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. Sinclair decided that all of its UPN and WB affiliates would join the new MyNetworkTV except for one station in those markets where they owned both UPN and WB affiliates. This cleared the way for WTWB-TV (now WCWG) to take The CW affiliation. On June 19, WUPN changed its call letters to the current WMYV in anticipation of this affiliation switch.

Former news team

From the Fall of 2003 until August of 2005, WUPN aired a nightly 10 P.M. newscast known as "UPN 48 News at 10" featuring former WFMY anchor Frank Fraboni as well as national news, weather, and sports from Sinclair's "News Central". A newscast on WXLV, known "ABC 45 News Late Edition", aired at 11 P.M. from 2004 until 2005 which also featured the "News Central" format. Both newscasts were pulled by Sinclair due to poor ratings.

Anchors
*Frank Fraboni - weeknights
*McCall Pera - weekends and reporter
*Jennifer Gladstone - national news
**now weekday morning anchor at WBFF
*Morris Jones - national news
**now Sinclair Chief National Correspondent

"Weather Central Meteorologists"
*Vytas Reid - Chief seen on weeknights
**now Chief at WBFF
*Chuck Bell
*Kristin Emery
*Megan Glaros
*Elizabeth Hart
*Scott Padgett

Sports
*Jonas Schwartz - Director seen on weeknights
*Mark Armstrong - weekends

Reporters
*Robert Hamilton - producer
*Denise Jackson - producer
*Donald Robinson - general assignment and sports
*Jon Leiberman - Washington Bureau Chief
*Mark Hyman - "The Point" segment producer
*Leonard Simpson

External links

* [http://www.my48.tv/ WMYV "My 48"]
* [http://www.mynetworktv.com MyNetworkTV]
*TVQ|WMYV