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WBNG-TV
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	Binghamton, New York
Branding	WBNG 12; Action News; Binghamton CW 11; (on DT2)
Slogan	Your News Leader
Channel	Digital: 7 (VHF); Virtual: 12 (PSIP);
Subchannels	12.1 CBS; 12.2 The CW
Affiliations	CBS Television Network
Owner	Granite Broadcasting Corporation; (WBNG License, Inc.)
First air date	December 1, 1949
Callsign meaning	BiNGhamton
Former callsigns	WNBF-TV (1949-1973)
Former channels	Analog:; 12 (VHF, 1949-2009)
Former affiliations	DuMont (1949-1955); NBC (1949-1957); ABC (1949-1962); all secondary
Effective power	20.4 kW
Height	342 m
Facility ID	23337
Antenna coordinates	42°3′31″N 75°57′6″W / 42.05861°N 75.95167°W
Website	wbng.com

WBNG-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the eastern Southern Tier of New York State that is licensed to Binghamton. Owned by the Granite Broadcasting Corporation, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 7 from a transmitter southwest of downtown on Ingraham Hill Road. The station can also be seen on Time Warner Cable channel 2 and in high definition on digital channel 701. It has studios on Columbia Drive in Johnson City. Syndicated programming on the station includes: Entertainment Tonight, Inside Edition, Oprah, and Rachael Ray. WBNG operates the area's CW affiliate on a second digital subchannel. This can also be seen on Time Warner Cable channel 11 hence the branding Binghamton CW 11. WBNG-DT2 gets all of its programming from The CW Plus. WBNG is the default CBS affiliate for most of Otsego County in the Utica market.

[edit] History

The station launched on December 1, 1949 as WNBF-TV and was affiliated with all four American television networks at the time (CBS, DuMont, NBC, and ABC). WNBF aired an analog signal on VHF channel 12. It subsequently lost its affiliations with DuMont in 1955 after the network's collapse, NBC in 1957 (to WICZ-TV, now a FOX affiliate), and ABC in 1962 (to WBJA-TV, later WMGC and now WIVT). Triangle Publications, the owner of various broadcasting and newspaper properties such as WFIL-TV (now WPVI-TV) in Philadelphia, bought WNBF in 1955. The station adopted its current call-sign, WBNG-TV, in 1973 when Triangle sold the station to Gateway Communications. In 2000, Gateway Communications was purchased by SJL Broadcasting which reduced staff from 100 to 58 over five years to fit the aggressive SJL automation model. In 2002, WBNG's digital signal on VHF channel 7 signed-on. In April 2006, it was announced that the Granite Broadcast Corporation made a deal to acquire the station from Television Station Group License Subsidiary, LLC (the successor to SJL and a subsidiary of Alta Communications) for $45 million dollars.

The required money was funded by a new senior credit facility created after the previously announced sales of Detroit, Michigan's WMYD and San Francisco, California's KBWB fell apart. Granite closed on its purchase of WBNG on July 26, 2006. Its digital signal began broadcasting network programming in high definition in late-January 2007. Beginning in September 2007, CW affiliate "WBXI" started to be simulcasted on a new second digital subchannel of WBNG and began using the WBNG-DT2 call letters in an official manner. However, the station continues to use the fictional WBXI calls for promotion purposes. In December 2008, it was announced that a deal was reached with Granite and Time Warner Cable to carry WBNG's high definition digital signal on channel 701 throughout the Binghamton region. This is the first time that HD programming from CBS is available to customers in the Southern Tier of New York State without using an antenna.

On January 19, 2009, WBNG went off-the-air for about 30 minutes around 11 P.M. The reason for this was due to a power failure. Although the digital transition date was switched from February 19 to June 12, the station still ceased analog transmission and became digital exclusive. On June 12, it left channel 12 and moved to channel 7 when the analog to digital conversion completed. Additional delays in digital transition at WENY-TV, an Elmira station which was to begin carrying CBS as a digital subchannel, had temporarily left WBNG in place as the default CBS affiliate for that area. However, WENY went on-air with its digital signal on April 25. Like all CW Plus stations in the Eastern Time Zone, WBNG-DT2 airs the nationally syndicated morning show The Daily Buzz on weekdays from 6 to 9. There is also a weeknight 10 o'clock newscast on that station known as Action News at 10 on Binghamton CW 11. This competes with local news that airs on FOX affiliate WICZ.

[edit] News team

Anchors

Erik Burling- weekday mornings and noon
James Gaddis - weeknights at 5, 10, and 11
Candace Chapman - News Director seen weeknights at 6
Caitlin Nuclo - weekends

Storm Tracker Meteorologists

Doug Peters (NWA Seal of Approval and Certified Broadcast Meteorologist) - weeknights
Samantha Augeri - weekday mornings and Noon
Howard Manges - weekends and reporter

Sports

Brendan O'Reilly - weeknights at 6, 10, and 11
Justin Horowitz - weekends and reporter

Reporters

Caitlin Nuclo - evenings
Gabe Osterhout
Reed Buterbaugh
Leigh Dana
Natalie Jenereski
Rachael Hidalgo

[edit] News/Station Presentation

[edit] Newscast Titles

Action News (late 1950s-present)

[edit] Station Slogans

Your News Leader (1996-present)

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