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WNYT is the NBC-affiliated television station for the Capital District of New York State and Western New England. Licensed to Albany, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 12 (or virtual channel 13.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter on the Helderberg Escarpment west of New Salem, a hamlet of New Scotland. Owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, WNYT is sister to MyNetworkTV affiliate WNYA and the two outlets share studios at the WNYT Broadcast Center on North Pearl Street (along NY 32) in Menands (with an Albany postal address). ==History== The station began broadcasting on February 17, 1954, as ABC affiliate WTRI, licensed to Troy. The station was co-owned by Troy Broadcasting Co., owner of WTRY radio 980 AM, (now WOFX) and Van Curler Broadcasting Corp., a unit of the Stanley Warner Theaters chain, which operated the station. The station originally operated on UHF channel 35. WTRI's studios and transmitter were east of Troy on Bald Mountain in the town of Brunswick, New York. In December 1958, Van Curler was granted by the FCC moved the license to Albany under the new call letters WAST (for ''A''lbany/''S''chenectady/''T''roy), and as part of a dial realignment, the station got a new channel location, channel 13 from WKTV, Utica which was assigned to channel 2. Originally, the station had wanted to take the ''WTAS'' call sign (for Troy/Albany/Schenectady) but the similarity of the letters ''TAS'' to the news agency of the Soviet Union led to the use of WAST. Shortly after the upgrade, WAST moved to a converted warehouse on the Albany/Menands line on 715 North Pearl St., which previously housed Selective Service records. Channel 13 still operates from this location today. Despite the increased transmitter power, WAST's signal was still significantly weaker in some directions than the other Capital District television stations. This was because as a condition of being allowed to move to the VHF band, it remained on its original transmitter on Bald Mountain (a legacy of the days when it was licensed to Troy) and use a somewhat directional signal to protect WNTA-TV (now WNET) in New York City. The other stations in the market had their transmitters at a common location southwest of Voorheesville. This forced WAST to build several translators to expand its coverage. Combined with the fact it was affiliated with ABC, the smallest and weakest of the three major networks, channel 13 was not really on par with rivals WRGB and WTEN until cable arrived in the Capital District in the early 1970s. In 1969, WAST was sold to Sonderling Broadcasting. On October 23, 1977, the station switched affiliations with WTEN and became the Capital District's CBS affiliate. In 1978, Viacom purchased Sonderling which made WAST the company's first television station holding. On September 28, 1981, WAST swapped affiliations with WRGB and became the area's NBC affiliate. Seeking a fresh start and a new identity, Viacom decided to mark the affiliation change with the current call sign of WNYT. It is one of the few stations in the United States to have been a primary affiliate of all of the big three networks. In 1994, after Viacom bought Paramount Pictures, Viacom transferred all of its television stations to Paramount's broadcasting arm, the Paramount Stations Group. Not long after that, Paramount announced formation of the United Paramount Network. It also announced it would sell off all of its non-UPN stations. In 1996, Paramount/Viacom traded WNYT and WHEC-TV in Rochester to Hubbard Broadcasting in exchange for UPN affiliate WTOG in the Tampa Bay area. WNYT signed-on its digital signal in October 2003 on VHF channel 12. Unlike the station's analog signal, WNYT-DT's transmitter was and continues to be southwest of Voorheesville with the market's other stations. On February 25, 2013, Hubbard announced that it would purchase WNYA from Venture Technologies to form a duopoly with WNYT, for $2.3 million, pending Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval. Hubbard sought a failed station waiver to acquire the station;〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/492006-WNYT_Albany_to_Purchase_MyNet_WNYA.php )〕〔(Application For Consent To Assignment Of Broadcast Station Construction Permit Or License ) Federal Communications Commission, 8 March 2013〕 Venture had put WNYA up for sale in 2009, but no other potential buyers came forward. The sale did not include Class A repeater WNYA-CA which will remain with Venture Technologies. Under a clause of the sale of WNYA that required WNYA-CA to use a new call sign that does not feature the letters "N" or "Y," 〔 that station became WEPT-CA on March 8, 2013. On May 29, 2013, the FCC approved the sale of WNYA to Hubbard, with Venture retaining ownership of WEPT-CA. 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「WNYT (TV)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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