WNYT

WNYT may refer to:

WNYT (TV)

WNYT is the NBC-affiliated television station for the Capital District of New York State and Western New England. Licensed to Albany, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 12 (or virtual channel 13.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter on the Helderberg Escarpment west of New Salem, a hamlet of New Scotland. Owned by Hubbard Broadcasting, WNYT is sister to MyNetworkTV affiliate WNYA and the two outlets share studios at the WNYT Broadcast Center on North Pearl Street (along NY 32) in Menands (with an Albany postal address).

History

The station began broadcasting on February 17, 1954, as ABC affiliate WTRI, licensed to Troy. The station was co-owned by Troy Broadcasting Co., owner of WTRY radio 980 AM, (now WOFX) and Van Curler Broadcasting Corp., a unit of the Stanley Warner Theaters chain, which operated the station. The station originally operated on UHF channel 35. WTRI's studios and transmitter were east of Troy on Bald Mountain in the town of Brunswick, New York. When the station lost its CBS affiliation to Albany’s WROW-TV (Now WTEN in January of 1955, Channel 35 went silent. Van Curler Broadcasting purchased the station and put WTRI back on the air in 1956, this time as an ABC affiliate.

WNYT (internet radio)

WNYT is the college radio station for the New York Institute of Technology. It is available via Internet radio, and heard at various places on NYIT's campus.

History

Located on the Old Westbury campus of New York Institute of Technology, WNYT Radio was formed in 1964 as a student organization, where it began and still is a completely student-run station. WNYT also operated as a separate closed-circuit station at the college's New York City campus when it was located at 888 7th avenue in Manhattan in the early to mid-1970s. It was entirely student operated and featured a rock format.

With the lack of available frequency allocations in the area, WNYT has gone through an array of changes through the years in its broadcasting mediums — carrier current, closed circuit, the background music for Cablevision’s on-screen program guide, and most recently, Internet streaming audio. In addition changes have occurred in the programming formats WNYT has relied upon, from all rock music to its current open format.