WYTV

WYTV is the ABC-affiliated television station for the Mahoning Valley of Northeastern Ohio and Northwestern Pennsylvania. Licensed to Youngstown, Ohio, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 36 (or virtual channel 33.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter on Shady Run Road in the city along East Midlothian Boulevard/OH 170.

Owned by Vaughan Media, LLC, WYTV is operated through a shared services agreement (SSA) and a joint sales agreement (JSA) by Media General. This makes it sister to CBS affiliate WKBN-TV and low-powered Fox affiliate WYFX-LD. All three outlets share studios on Sunset Boulevard near Youngstown's Pleasant Grove section.

Digital channels

History

The station originated as WKST-TV with an analog signal on UHF channel 45. As the television partner to WKST radio, which still exists on AM 1200, it was licensed to New Castle, Pennsylvania and signed-on April 4, 1953, serving as a secondary ABC affiliate to Pittsburgh's WENS-TV (now WINP-TV) as well as the default ABC affiliate to Youngstown. At the time of its sign-on, New Castle was its own TV market. After WENS-TV signed off due to financial problems, WKST-TV was the only full-time ABC affiliate in Western Pennsylvania until WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh signed-on in September 1958, while WJET-TV in Erie didn't sign on until 1966, after the station moved to Youngstown. As the third network behind NBC and CBS, ABC had a hard time getting full-time affiliates even in larger markets, and Youngstown was fortunate enough to gain a full-time ABC affiliate in television's early years, as many markets comparable to Youngstown's size or even bigger didn't get one until the 1960s or even as late as the 1980s, while some very small markets didn't get one until the DTV transition in the 2000s.

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WYTV

Digital channels

History

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