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WBGH-CA is the Class A, NBC-affiliated television station for the Eastern Twin Tiers of Southern Upstate New York and Northern Pennsylvania. Licensed to Binghamton, it broadcasts a low-powered digital signal on UHF channel 20 from a transmitter at its studios on Ingraham Hill Road southwest of downtown. The station can also be seen on Time Warner Cable channel 5 (hence the ''NBC 5'' branding) and in full high definition on digital channel 1203. Owned by the Nexstar Broadcasting Group, WBGH is sister to ABC affiliate WIVT and the two outlets share studios. It can be seen in 720p high definition over-the-air on its own signal and on the second digital subchannel (UHF channel 34.2) of full power WIVT from the same tower. ==History== The station began broadcasting on September 10, 1995. It aired an analog signal on VHF channel 8 with the call sign W08DL. The sign-on occurred after the market's long time NBC affiliate WICZ-TV switched to Fox in wake of similar affiliation switches in other parts of the country. W08DL was initially a semi-satellite of WETM in Elmira owned by Smith Broadcasting. In 1997, this station upgraded to low-powered status and changed its calls to WBGH-LP. As time went on, it largely separated from the WETM partial simulcast but continued to air that station's newscasts. In 2000, Smith Broadcasting sold the station (along with Watertown's ABC affiliate WWTI) to the Ackerley Group of Seattle, Washington which also entered into a local marketing agreement (LMA) to take over operations of WETM. With this sale, WBGH's last ties with WETM were severed as Ackerley already owned WIVT. WBGH moved its operations into WIVT's studios on Ingraham Hill south of Binghamton. Shortly after, it upgraded to Class A status, moved to UHF channel 20 (to accommodate WICZ's digital signal on channel 8), and changed call letters to WBGH-CA. Ackerley was bought out by Clear Channel Communications in 2002. On April 20, 2007, the company entered into an agreement to sell its entire television stations group to Providence Equity Partners with the group deal closing on March 14, 2008. As a low-powered Class A television station with limited range, reception of WBGH is limited to the immediate Binghamton area. However, in order to serve the rest of the region, full power sister station WIVT has carried WBGH on its second digital subchannel in 720p high definition since February 9, 2010. Newport announced on July 19, 2012 that it would sell twelve of its stations, including WBGH and WIVT, to Nexstar. The sale was finalized on December 3. On September 16, 2013, it was announced that Mission Broadcasting would acquire WICZ and low-powered MyNetworkTV affiliate WBPN-LP from the Stainless Broadcasting Company. Upon the deal's completion, the stations' operations would have been taken over by Nexstar making them sisters to WBGH and WIVT. In March 2015, Mission's purchase of WICZ and WBPN was canceled; as a result, Stainless withdrew the license assignment applications on March 18. 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「WBGH-CA」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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