WNYS-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = WNYS-TV
city =
station_deletable image-caption
station_slogan =
station_branding = My43
analog = 43 (UHF)
digital = 44 (UHF)
time warner syracuse = 7 (VHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = MyNetworkTV
network =
founded =
airdate = October 1989 [The "Broadcasting and Cable Yearbook" says October 7, while the "Television and Cable Factbook" says October 1.]
location = Syracuse, New York
callsign_meaning = We're
New
York
Syracuse
-or-
Wonderful
New
York
State
former_callsigns = WSNR-TV (1989-1994)
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.
licensee = RKM Media, Inc.
sister_stations = WSYT
former_affiliations = independent (1989-1995)
UPN (1995-2001)
The WB (2001-2006)
effective_radiated_power = 776 kW (analog)
680 kW (digital)
HAAT = 445 m (both)
class =
facility_id = 58725
coordinates = coord|42|52|50.4|N|76|11|55.2|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.my43.tv/ www.my43.tv]

WNYS-TV is a broadcast television station in the Syracuse, New York DMA. An Affiliate with News Corp's MyNetworkTV. It broadcasts on Analog Channel 43. WNYS is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group. Its transmitter is located in Otisco, New York. The station was formerly an affiliate of both UPN from 1995 to 2001 and The WB from 2001 to 2006. The WNYS call was originally used for the Syracuse ABC affiliate on Channel 9, between 1962 and 1978.

The My43 signal reaches as far as Kingston, Ontario where it is available to digital cable ready televisions (480i only) through Cogeco. The corresponding digital signal is licensed to use a strongly-directional pattern which gives severely weakened coverage to the west and northwest, effectively precluding WNYS-DT 44 from reaching the Kingston market despite a relatively-weak analogue signal being available from WNYS-TV 43 in that region.

History

Channel 43 in Syracuse began on October 7, 1989 as independent station WSNR-TV. The call letters were changed five years later (1994) to its current WNYS-TV. In January 1995, WNYS joined the then-fledging UPN TV network, billing itself as UPN 43, and was the affiliate for eight years, until they switched to The WB in 2001. On September 5, 2006, WNYS affiliated with their third network in the last twelve years, when they joined the new "My Network TV".

External links

* [http://www.wnys.com/ My43]
*TVQ|WNYS
*BIA|WNYS|TV|TV

References