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WTVH is the CBS-affiliated television station for Central Upstate New York that is licensed to Syracuse. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 47 (or virtual channel 5.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in Onondaga. Owned by Granite Broadcasting, the station is operated through joint sales and shared services agreements by the Sinclair Broadcast Group (owner of NBC affiliate WSTM-TV and low-powered CW outlet WSTQ-LP). All three outlets share studios together on James Street/NY 290 in the Near Northeast section of Syracuse. ==History== The station debuted on December 1, 1948 as WHEN-TV airing an analog signal on VHF channel 8. It went on-the-air as Syracuse's first television station. The channel was the first station owned-and-operated by the Meredith Corporation and was the 47th station to launch in the United States. Meredith simultaneously entered the television field in several Midwestern cities including Omaha and Kansas City. In 1954, it purchased WAGE radio (620 AM) and changed that station's call letters to WHEN (AM); it also switched the station's network affiliation to CBS Radio in 1956 matching it with other Meredith-owned outlets.〔"Syracuse affiliates switch." ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', March 12, 1956, pg. 84. ()〕 The station became a primary CBS affiliate on January 1, 1949,〔"New CBS TVs; four affiliates added." ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', January 10, 1949, pg. 35. ()〕 and also carried secondary affiliations with NBC, ABC, and DuMont. When the original WSYR-TV (now WSTM-TV) signed-on in 1950, WHEN-TV shared ABC with that channel until WNYS-TV (channel 9, later WIXT-TV and now the present WSYR-TV) signed-on in 1962. The affiliation with DuMont ended in 1956 when that network ceased operations. In July 1961. WHEN-TV moved to channel 5 swapping channel locations with WROC-TV in Rochester as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) revised its Upstate New York allocation table to provide more VHF service in the two cities.〔"Final orders add vhf to three markets." ''Broadcasting - Telecasting'', August 7, 1961, pg. 55. ()〕 In 1963, the WHEN stations moved from their original Court Street studios into a new state-of-the-art facility on James Street near WSYR (AM)-FM-TV's studios. Popular national radio and television personality Arthur Godfrey originated his late-morning CBS network radio show from the new WHEN studios on the day the facility opened to help Meredith celebrate. In 1976, the company sold WHEN radio to Park Communications but retained WHEN-TV. Since the radio station kept the WHEN call letters, Meredith had to change channel 5's call sign. It originally wanted the new call letters WTVF (TeleVision Five referring the station's on-air identity) but those had already been claimed by a station in Nashville, Tennessee. At this point, Meredith chose WTVH as the new calls with "H" being a link to its WHEN-TV heritage.〔"Media briefs: New call for pioneer." ''Broadcasting'', August 23, 1976, pg. 64. ()〕 In June 1993, Meredith announced the sale of WTVH and sister station KSEE-TV in Fresno, California to Granite Broadcasting with the sale closing on December 23 of that year. Granite soon increased its Northeastern holdings with the purchase of WKBW-TV in Buffalo in 1995 and WBNG-TV in Binghamton in July 2006. As part of the WBNG-TV purchase, Les Vann (formerly President and General Manager of WTVH) was promoted to Executive Vice President of Central and Southern New York operations with regional responsibilities at both WBNG-TV and WTVH. At the same time, Matthew Rosenfeld was promoted to Vice President and Station Manager of this channel after holding the General Sales Manager position since 2004. WTVH was featured in the film ''Bruce Almighty'' in 2003. It is portrayed as the rival station ("WIEW" channel 5) of WKBW-TV in Buffalo mainly because the common ownership of both stations made gaining rights to use them in the movie easier. It is also said that WKBW-TV's real-life rival, WIVB-TV, refused to allow its branding to be used in the film resulting in WTVH being substituted. In April 2008, Matthew Rosenfeld was appointed to the position of President and General Manager of WTVH and its Binghamton sister stations (WBNG and "WBXI"). On April 6, 2008, Jean Daugherty died at age 84. She was known to many baby boomer children as "The Play Lady" on this station's locally produced children program, ''The Magic Toy Shop'', from 1955 until 1982. Jean wrote more than 6,000 episodes of the program, which after ending its run, was the longest running local kid show in the country. On March 2, 2009 as a result of continual low ratings, slow advertising sales, and the loss of the Ithaca area to WENY-DT2, it was announced that WTVH would enter into joint sales and shared services agreements with rivals WSTM-TV and WSTQ-LP.〔Fybush, Scott. (A Great Voice is Stilled ). NorthEast Radio Watch. March 2, 2009.〕〔(Channel 5 cuts at least 40 workers, guts news division ) ()〕 〔(New York television stations join forces ) ()〕 Initially, WTVH continued to operate out of its own facilities on James Street but eventually moved into WSTM-TV's studios a block away. The original holders of the WTVH calls from 1953 to 1965, WHOI in Peoria, Illinois, had an equivalent deal announced the very same day between the same two companies. That Barrington Broadcasting-owned station is now managed by WTVH's Granite sister station, WEEK-TV. WTVH's studios were put up for lease in Summer 2009, but so far, no takers have come forward. On September 6, 2009, its transmitter was damaged after a power failure. While Granite Broadcasting worked to fix the signal, WSTM-TV's third digital subchannel (normally a 24-hour local weather channel) carried WTVH.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Latest local news, weather and sports for Syracuse and Central New York )〕 As of September 12, its signal was restored even though, as late as November 12, over-the-air viewers continued to experience breakup of the signal.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=WTVH's broadcast signal has been restored : Entertainment )〕 On February 28, 2013, Barrington Broadcasting announced the sale of its entire group, including WSTM-TV and WSTQ-LP, to Sinclair Broadcast Group. The existing LMA for WTVH was included in the deal; however, Granite retained ownership of WTVH's license assets. WSTM-TV will continue to operate the station until March 2016 (the agreement was to last until March 2017 but the FCC later voted to outlaw all existing joint sales agreements by 2016). The group deal also resulted in Sinclair selling its existing Syracuse market station (Fox outlet WSYT) and the LMA and purchase option for MyNetworkTV affiliate WNYS-TV to its sidecar company, Cunningham Broadcasting. However, in an updated filing that August, Sinclair would instead sell WSYT and the LMA for WNYS-TV to Bristlecone Broadcasting, a company owned by Stainless Broadcasting Company owner Brian Brady. Sinclair continued to operate WSYT and WNYS-TV through a transitional services agreement for six months after the sale was consummated (until May 2014).〔http://www.sbgi.net/site_mgr/temp/Barrington%20Closes.pdf〕 With the sale of KSEE to the Nexstar Broadcasting Group in February 2013 and the announced sales of most of Granite's remaining stations to the E. W. Scripps Company and Quincy Newspapers in February 2014, WTVH is one of the two Granite stations (along with KOFY-TV in San Francisco, California) that remain unsold. WTVH's future, after March 2016 when the operational agreement with WSTM-TV expires, remains uncertain and is speculative. 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「WTVH」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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