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WTBY-TV, channel 54, is a television station licensed to Poughkeepsie, New York, USA. WTBY is owned and operated by Trinity Broadcasting Network, and serves as TBN's owned and operated station in the New York City television market. Its studios are located on Union Square in Midtown Manhattan, while its transmitter is located near Beacon. == History == The station signed on April 6, 1981 as WFTI-TV. The station was initially owned by Family Television, Inc., founded by Keith Houser in 1979, and headquartered in the Poughkeepsie Plaza Mall on U.S. Route 9 in the city of Poughkeepsie. WFTI's early programming including reruns of ''The Lone Ranger'' and ''The Cisco Kid'', and the station originated coverage of Army Cadets sports (except the Army-Navy college football game); Family TV also produced ''Valley Magazine'' a nightly 30 minute program with interviews of local celebrities, such as James Cagney. After Irving Trust, the station's sole banking source, experienced financial problems and prematurely called the station's loan in 1982 (Irving Trust was ultimately shut down by the Federal Reserve), Family Television sold the station to the Trinity Broadcasting Network in June 1982,〔("Changing Hands." ''Broadcasting''. June 21, 1982, pg. 73 )〕 though the sale would not be completed until over a year later, in July 1983. TBN then changed the station's call letters to the present WTBY and moved the station's operations to studios in the village of Fishkill. While Poughkeepsie is part of the New York City television market, WTBY's over-the-air signal can only be seen clearly in the northern fringes of the area. Most of the core of the New York area gets only a rimshot signal even in digital, and it completely misses Staten Island and most of Long Island. For most of its first quarter-century as a TBN-owned station, the bulk of its viewership was in the Albany/Schenectady/Troy market. Until 2010, WTBY operated two translators in that market--W52DF channel 52 to reach Albany and the Capital District, and W47CM on channel 47 to reach Glens Falls and the Adirondacks. Both stations ceased broadcasting due to declining support, which has been attributed to the digital transition, with W52DF shutting down on March 13 and W47CM shutting down one month later. W52DF's license, along with 43 other silent TBN repeaters, was canceled on December 1, 2011 for remaining silent over a year. Until 2007, it was not carried on the two main cable systems in New York City itself (Cablevision and Time Warner Cable), and its cable penetration is still spotty at best on the New Jersey and Connecticut sides of the market. It is not available on DirecTV or Dish Network's New York City local feeds; only the national version is available. Despite its modest cable penetration in the area, TBN has poured significant resources into WTBY in recent years. In 2007, when TBN opened a new studio in the former Century Center for the Performing Arts near Union Square in Manhattan, WTBY's studio/office operations were moved to that location. 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「WTBY-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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