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WVTT-CD, channel 25, is a television station for the Twin Tiers located in Olean, New York, broadcasting locally as a Youtoo America affiliate. It broadcasts on UHF channel 34, but the station can also be seen on Time Warner Cable channel 15. WVTT-CD is owned and operated by Vision Communications. WVTT-CD is the only locally operated television station in the Southern Tier of Western New York, which encompasses the Jamestown and Olean regions. Syndicated programming on the station includes ''Storm Stories''. ==History== WVTT-CD first signed on March 7, 1986 as W20AB on channel 20 by Choice Olean Television, Inc. and was affiliated with the American Christian Television System (ACTS) and Tempo Television. The station was the first station to broadcast from the city, and the first television station in the Southern Tier of Western New York to prove to be commercially viable; WNYP-TV, an earlier effort based in Jamestown, failed after only three years and was passed on to a religious broadcaster. Channel 20 was broadcast from the roof of the Palace Theater building in downtown Olean, but its signal was not well received outside of the city proper. The station acquired channel 25 (known then as W25AK) on August 24, 1987 as a repeater of the channel 20 signal, and signed on the air on April 12, 1989. The Palace Theater building was demolished in 1998 causing the channel 20 signal to go dark; its license, however, remains active . Channel 25 became the primary channel for the station and changed its call sign to WONS-LP (Olean's News Source) on March 8, 1999, gaining the shared UPN affiliation with Buffalo, New York station WNGS. The new UPN 25 held on to its affiliation until WNGS was added to the Olean-area cable line-up. WONS-LP later began to carry programming from the Urban America Television Network and Shop at Home Network, as well as a small share of local content. WONS-LP has also had past affiliations with Family Net, America One Network (A1), the American Independent Network (AIN), and Network One. The station was also among the initial affiliates of Main Street TV, the forerunner of America One. In 2006, Urban America and Shop at Home both ceased operations. The channel was then affiliated with The Sportsman Channel until that network moved exclusively to cable in 2009. America One Television Network once again lists the station as one of their affiliates.〔(America One website now lists WONS Olean as an affiliate )〕 That network merged with Youtoo TV in 2015. WONS-LP's operations were taken over by Colonial Radio Group, owners of WBYB, WXMT and WVTT, in October 2011.〔(List of stations owned by Colonial Radio Group ) and (Header of Twin Tiers News Blog.com ) both indicated WONS-LP as being owned by Colonial.〕 The call sign was changed to WVTT-CA (matching Colonial's talk radio station) in February 2012. On April 29, 2013, Colonial ended its involvement with the station. In June 2013, Choice Tower Rentals announced the sale of WVTT-CA, as well as the still-active W20AB license, to Milachi Media (an alias for William and Paige Christian, who also own Vision Communications); the deal will put the station under common ownership with WYDC and WJKP-LD in Corning, WBGT-CD in Rochester, and several Elmira-Corning radio stations. (Vision later transferred the license to another shell company, "Novia Communications," which has the same principal owners.) As of February 2014, Milachi Media also intended on acquiring WMXO, WOEN, WGGO and WQRS in Cattaraugus County, making the four stations sister stations to WVTT-CA.〔(GREAT RADIO & SOUND COMMUNICATIONS AGREE TO ACQUIRE ELMIRA/OLEAN, NEW YORK STATIONS )〕 On December 17, 2014, the station was licensed for digital operation, changing its call sign to WVTT-CD. Its channel 34 was previously used by WNYO-TV prior to the full-power analog shutdown in 2009; through PSIP, the station's virtual channel will still display as 25. W20AB is still allowed to broadcast in analog until September 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WVTT-CD」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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