WQMY
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| WQMY-TV | |
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| Williamsport / Scranton / Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania | |
| Branding | My TV WQMY |
| Slogan | Northeast Pennsylvania's My Network TV |
| Channels | 53 (UHF) analog, 29 (UHF) & WOLF-TV DT 45.3 digital |
| Affiliations | MyNetworkTV |
| Owner | CP Media, LLC |
| Founded | October 2, 1989 |
| Call letters meaning | MY Network TV |
| Former callsigns | WDZA-TV (1989-1990) WILF-TV (1990-2006) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1989-1990) FOX (1990-1997) The WB (primary) & UPN (secondary) (1997-2006) |
| Transmitter Power | 1320 kW/244 m(analogue) 200 kW/223 m (digital) |
| Website | nepatoday.com |
WQMY-TV, channel 53, is a television station serving the Williamsport, Pennsylvania area of the United States. The station is affiliated with MyNetworkTV and shares studios in Plains Township near Wilkes-Barre with sister stations FOX affiliate WOLF-TV channel 56 and CW affiliate WSWB channel 38. Although WQMY's transmitter is located in Williamsport, the station is considered part of the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre DMA. However, its signal does not reach Scranton or Wilkes-Barre. Therefore, WQMY is offered on sister station WOLF-TV's DT3 digital subchannel. WQMY does have a digital signal of its own on UHF channel 29.
[edit] History
Channel 53 began broadcasting on October 2, 1989 as an independent station under the call letters of WDZA-TV. Four months later, on February 10, 1990, it changed its calls to WILF-TV and became a satellite of FOX affiliate WOLF-TV. In 1997, WOLF (now WSWB) became a WB affiliate after WYLN-LP dropped it and converted WILF to that affiliation. WSWB's other satellite, WWLF (who took on the WOLF-TV calls), became the FOX affiliate for Northeastern Pennsylvania. WSWB / WILF also picked up UPN as a secondary affiliation.
[edit] MyNetworkTV
On May 1, 2006, Pegasus Television, the owner of WILF, announced that the station would become the affiliate of MyNetworkTV, a new sister broadcast televison network to FOX, for the Scranton and Wilkes-Barre television market. Also at that point, WSWB was announced as being affiliated with the other new network The CW, which was the result of the UPN and WB networks merging. Due to the limitation of WQMY's signal, the station was announced as being offered on WOLF-TV's DT3 digital subchannel. MyNetworkTV began broadcasting on September 5, 2006, while The CW began on September 18, 2006.
WILF changed its call sign to the currentWQMY on July 7, 2006 to reflect its new affiliation. WQMY currently shares its website with WSWB and WOLF-TV. The station has shown a new MNTV logo, and it is the first logo of the station, because as a repeater for WSWB, it did not have one of its own.
Due to Pegasus announcing its bankruptcy, WQMY was bought out by CP Media, LLC after it gained the MyNetworkTV affiliation in September of 2006.
[edit] External Links
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WPHL 17 (Philadelphia) - WHP-DT 21.2 (Harrisburg) - WPMY 22 (Pittsburgh) - WHVL-LP 29 (State College) - WQMY 53 (Williamsport / Scranton / Wilkes-Barre) |
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| See also: ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, NBC, PBS, and Other Stations in Pennsylvania | |
