WPNY-LP

WPNY-LP is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for Central New York State's Mohawk Valley. Licensed to Utica, it broadcasts a low-powered analog signal on VHF channel 11 from a transmitter at studios on Smith Hill Road in Deerfield (official address is Utica). The station can also be seen on Time Warner Cable channel 12. Owned by the Nexstar Broadcasting Group, WPNY is sister to Fox affiliate WFXV and ABC affiliate WUTR.

The latter is actually owned by Mission Broadcasting but operated by Nexstar through local marketing and joint sales agreements. Syndicated programming on WPNY-LP includes Extra, The Queen Latifah Show, Judge Mathis and Divorce Court among others. It also simulcasts some New York Yankees games produced by the YES Network for fellow MyNetworkTV affiliate WWOR-TV in New York City.

History

The station signed-on January 1, 1988 with the call sign W11BS licensed to Little Falls. It was a low-powered translator and general entertainment Independent outlet. The station joined UPN as a charter affiliate on January 16, 1995. On December 22 of that year, W11BS upgraded to low-lowered status and adopted the WUPN-LP calls. However, less than a year later, the station became WPNY-LP after a full-powered outlet in Greensboro, North Carolina took the call letters.