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WSYX, channel 6, is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Columbus, Ohio, USA. WSYX is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which also operates Fox affiliate WTTE (owned by Cunningham Broadcasting) through a local marketing agreement and The CW affiliate WWHO (owned by Manhan Media) through a shared services agreement. The three stations share studios located in northwest Columbus, near the suburb of Grandview Heights; WSYX and WTTE also share a transmitter in the Franklinton section of Columbus. ==History== The station began operations on September 30, 1949, as WTVN, Columbus' second television station.〔"WTVN (TV) start; Lamb station bows September 30." ''Broadcasting'', October 3, 1949, pg. 61. ()〕 It was owned by Picture Waves Inc., a company controlled by Toledo-based attorney and investor Edward Lamb; Lamb also owned WICU-TV in Erie, Pennsylvania, which went on the air six months earlier. WTVN was an affiliate of the DuMont Television Network at its inception, and was one of only three primary affiliates of that network. In 1953, it took on a secondary affiliation with ABC. Channel 6 became a full-time ABC affiliate in 1955, after DuMont closed down its operations. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network.〔 〕 The station was first housed within the Lincoln-LeVeque Tower in Downtown Columbus until 1952, when it moved into a new facility on Harmon Avenue in Franklinton. Channel 6's present home, on Dublin Road near the Columbus-Grandview Heights border, has been in operation since 1977. In March 1953, Picture Waves sold WTVN to Radio Cincinnati, Inc., the broadcasting interests of the Taft family of Cincinnati. Radio Cincinnati would later become the Taft Broadcasting Company.〔"Taft buys WTVN for $1.5 million." ''Broadcasting'', January 19, 1953, pg. 56. ()〕〔"FCC approves WTVN (TV) sale from Lamb to Taft family." ''Broadcasting'', March 2, 1953, pg. 54. ()〕 The following year, Radio Cincinnati purchased WHKC radio (610 AM) from the publishers of the ''Cleveland Plain Dealer'', renaming that station WTVN (AM) and subsequently adding a ''-TV'' suffix to channel 6's call sign.〔"WHKC bought by WTVN (TV), WKRC interests for $158,000." ''Broadcasting'', April 19, 1954, pg. 7. ()〕 Taft would launch a second radio station in Columbus, WTVN-FM (96.3 FM, now WLVQ), in April 1960. In the early 1970s, Taft's common ownership of WTVN-TV and WKRC-TV (channel 12) in Cincinnati was given protection under a "grandfather clause" by the Federal Communications Commission from its newly enacted "one-to-a-market" rule. The ordinance prohibited television stations with overlapping signals from sharing common ownership while protecting existing instances. One of channel 6's competitors, Crosley/Avco-owned WLWC (channel 4, now WCMH-TV), was given grandfathered protection through a similar situation with sister stations in Dayton and Cincinnati. At times, WTVN-TV/WSYX has served as the default ABC affiliate in the western parts of the Wheeling/Steubenville market that couldn't receive WTAE-TV from Pittsburgh, which served as the ''de facto'' affiliate in most of that market; some viewers in the market are also able to receive WYTV in Youngstown. This gave viewers in the Wheeling/Steubenville market an option to watch ABC programming in pattern, since the only stations in the market (WTRF-TV and WSTV-TV/WTOV-TV) aired ABC programming only in the off-hours, and largely dropped them altogether by the 1980s. (WTOV-TV is now a sister station to WSYX) That market finally received its own full-time ABC affiliate in 2008 when WTRF-TV launched one on its third digital subchannel, although WSYX remains available on cable in the western parts of the market. In 1987, Cincinnati financier Carl Lindner acquired a majority of Taft's shares in a hostile takeover, renaming the company Great American Broadcasting, as a subsidiary of his Great American Insurance Company. However, as the FCC considered the restructuring as an ownership change, WTVN-TV lost its grandfathered protection and could not be retained by Great American. A group of former Taft Broadcasting shareholders, led by Texas millionaire Robert Bass (who also participated in the hostile takeover), purchased WTVN-TV for their new company, called Anchor Media. The sale closed on August 31, 1987, and the new owners renamed the station WSYX that same day. WTVN and WLVQ-FM remained owned by Great American for several years. Anchor Media, who also purchased ABC affiliates WLOS in Asheville, North Carolina (in April 1987) and KOVR in Stockton, California (in January 1989), was purchased by River City Broadcasting in 1993. River City was merged into the Sinclair Broadcast Group in 1996. Sinclair owned Columbus' Fox affiliate, WTTE, but could not keep both stations since the FCC did not allow common ownership of two stations in a single market. Sinclair kept the longer-established WSYX and sold WTTE to Glencairn, Ltd., owned by former Sinclair executive Edwin Edwards. However, the Smith family (Sinclair's founding owners) controlled nearly all of Glencairn's stock. In effect, Sinclair now had a duopoly in Columbus in violation of FCC rules. Sinclair and Glenciarn further circumvented the rules by merging WTTE's operations with those of WSYX under a local marketing agreement, with WSYX as the senior partner. In 2001, after the FCC allowed duopolies, Sinclair tried to acquire Glencairn outright. However, the FCC would not allow Sinclair to repurchase WTTE for two major reasons. First, the FCC does not allow duopolies between two of the four highest-rated stations in a single market. Also, the Columbus market, despite its relatively large size, has only seven full-power stations—too few to legally permit a duopoly. Glencairn was renamed Cunningham Broadcasting but is still effectively owned by Sinclair because nearly all of its stock is owned by trusts controlled by the Smith family. This situation is one of many that has led to allegations that Cunningham is simply a shell corporation used by Sinclair to circumvent FCC ownership rules. Sinclair would later acquire WKRC-TV in 2012, reuniting the station with WSYX. In 2004, WSYX (along with other ABC affiliates owned by Sinclair, including sister station WKEF in Dayton) pre-empted the special showing of ''Saving Private Ryan'' in late 2004 due to concerns that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) would impose a fine on them if they had aired the World War II-set movie due to the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy earlier that year. As ABC affiliates owned by E. W. Scripps Company also pre-empted the film (including WEWS-TV in Cleveland and WCPO-TV in Cincinnati), only viewers in the far eastern (WYTV) and northwestern (then-ABC O&O WTVG in Toledo) parts of their market were able to view the film. It was later determined that the movie's broadcast was not a violation of FCC regulations. At one point, WTVN/WSYX was one of five ABC affiliates owned by Taft. WSYX is the only one of these stations still affiliated with ABC. 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「WSYX」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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