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WKTV-DT2 is the CBS-affiliated television station for Central Upstate New York's Mohawk Valley. The station is a second digital subchannel of NBC affiliate WKTV that is owned by Heartland Media. Over-the-air, WKTV-DT2 broadcasts a standard definition digital signal on UHF channel 29.2 (or virtual channel 2.2 via PSIP) from a transmitter in the Eatonville section of Fairfield and Herkimer. WKTV-DT2's parent station has studios on Smith Hill Road in Deerfield (with a Utica postal address). ==History== The station signed-on in September 1998 alongside the creation of The WB 100+. WKTV partnered with the group to launch a cable-only WB affiliate. This new service replaced network flagship WPIX from New York City on Time Warner Cable systems in the Mohawk Valley and it used the "WBU" (standing for The WB Utica) call sign in a fictional manner. In January 2006, The WB and UPN announced that they would merge and form The CW Television Network, from which affiliates were to be drawn from existing WB and UPN affiliates. "WBU" was chosen to become the CW affiliate for Utica, while UPN affiliate WPNY-LP associated itself with MyNetworkTV (a network started by Fox, whose Utica affiliate WFXV was a sister station to WPNY-LP) for UPN or WB affiliates not chosen by The CW. Responding to the selection, WKTV launched a new second digital subchannel to simulcast WBU and offer off-air access to CW programming, which begun along with the CW on September 18. The station then began using the WKTV-DT2 calls in an official manner. Originally, this subchannel was known on-air as "Central New York CW" but was eventually re-branded to "Central New York CW 11" (and more recently "The CW 11") to reflect its location on Time Warner Cable systems. Due to an ongoing retransmission dispute, Time Warner Cable replaced WKTV with fellow NBC affiliate WBRE-TV from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on December 16, 2010. WKTV-DT2 was also dropped and eventually replaced by HBO Family. On the same date, rival ABC outlet WUTR began to be seen in the Burlington, Vermont/Plattsburgh, New York market on Time Warner Cable after then-sister station WVNY was dropped for the same reason.〔http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2010/12/16/47829/denied-locals-twc-importing-distant-signals〕 Nexstar Broadcasting Group, owner of WBRE, and Mission Broadcasting (a company whose stations are operated by Nexstar), owner of WUTR and eventual owner of WVNY, opposed the use of their stations as replacement programming and requested the Time Warner Cable franchise for the affected regions be revoked. Incidentally, Nexstar's former sister company Atlantic Broadband is the only other company with operations in Upstate New York. WKTV and Time Warner reached an agreement, the terms of which both sides refused to reveal, on January 8, 2011 allowing WKTV and its subchannel to return to the cable system the next day. On October 1, 2013, Smith Media reached a deal to sell WKTV (and thus WKTV-DT2) to Heartland Media, a company owned by former Gray Television executive Bob Prather. The sale was completed on March 20, 2014. 〔(Consummation Notice ), ''CDBS Public Notice'', Federal Communications Commission, Retrieved 21 March, 2014.〕 On October 26, 2015, WKTV announced that it would change WKTV-DT2's affiliation from The CW to CBS on November 22. The new affiliation marks the first time CBS has had an affiliate in Utica since the end of WKTV's secondary affiliation with the network in the mid-1950s, as well as the first time CBS has ever had a full-time affiliate in Utica. (Prior to this, WTVH in Syracuse and WBNG in Binghamton served as the default CBS affiliates for the Utica market.) WKTV-DT2's former CW affiliation, as well as its programming and cable channel position, moved to WKTV's third subchannel, and Me-TV in turn was transferred to a new fourth subchannel.〔(WKTV bringing CBS affiliation to Utica )〕 While no official dates have been set, it is anticipated that WKTV-DT2 will replace WTVH on Time Warner Cable channel 5 in Utica proper "on or about November 30th", according to the cable company. DirecTV and Dish Network plan to add WKTV-DT2 to their local packages on December 1st or sooner. It is also not known when WKTV-DT2 will be made available to cable viewers in Herkimer or Otsego Counties.〔(WKTV's new CBS Affiliation: Confused? Check here for some answers )〕 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「WKTV-DT2」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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