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For awesome audio wherever you are, choose from a wide selection of wireless speakers available from Verizon, including portable styles with Bluetooth. Find the latest business news on Wall Street, jobs and the economy, the housing market, personal finance and money investments and much more on ABC News. Transmitter power. W3. 31 k. W CPHeight. CPFacility ID5. 41. JCI109lyE/0.jpg' alt='Bose Trade Up Program Lifestyle' title='Bose Trade Up Program Lifestyle' />Transmitter coordinates. N7. 83. 71. 1. 9W 4. N 7. 8. 6. 19. 97. W 4. 2. 6. 37. Licensing authority. FCCPublic license information Profile. CDBSWebsitewww. wkbw. WKBW TV,virtual channel 7 UHFdigital channel 3. ABC affiliatedtelevision stationlicensed to Buffalo, New York, United States and owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. The stations studios are located at 7 Broadcast Plaza in downtown Buffalo and its transmitter is located at 8. Center Street in Colden. WKBW TV is one of many local Buffalo television stations that are available over the air and on cable television in Canada, particularly in Southern Ontario. For many years, it was carried via microwave to cable systems in such areas as Corning and Horseheads this ended when WENY TV signed on as the ABC affiliate for the Elmira market. HistoryeditClinton ChurchillCap. Cities ownership 1. The Channel 7 frequency was hotly contested during the 1. Buffalo Courier Express and former WBUF TV owner Sherwin Grossman tried several times to gain rights to the channel allocation to compete with The Buffalo Newss WBEN TV, but was unable to secure a license. The competition for the channel 7 allocation continued to grow when the citys first UHF station, WBES TV, failed. Clinton Churchill, original owner of 5. WKBW 1. 52. 0 AM in Buffalo, was granted the license to operate the station in 1. WKBW TV was originally intended to be an independent station. However, when NBC shut down its owned and operated station, WBUF TV channel 1. WNED TV, on September 3. ABC affiliate WGR TV channel 2, now WGRZ went back to NBC. As a result of the network shuffle, WKBW TV premiered as ABCs new Buffalo affiliate when it went on the air on November 3. The stations studios were originally located at 1. Main Street and remained there until 1. Broadcast Plaza. Churchill sold the WKBW stations to Capital Cities Broadcasting which later became Capital Cities Communications in 1. Cap. Cities would serve as WKBW TVs longest tenured owner, owning it and its radio sister for 2. Capital Cities ownership. WKBW TV produced iconic childrens programing such as Rocketship 7 and The Commander Tom Show from the 1. Ost The Musical Drama Korea here. A staple of its morning programing for many years was Dialing for Dollars, which later became AM Buffalo after the Dialing for Dollars franchise was discontinued AM Buffalo still airs today. Queen City BroadcastingGranite Broadcasting Co. WKBW TVs customized Circle 7 logo, used and modified in various forms from September 8, 2. September 2. 7, 2. When Capital Cities merged with ABC in 1. WKBW TV to Queen City Broadcasting instead of becoming an ABC owned and operated station. At that point, WKBW radio was sold to Price Communications and had its call letters changed to WWKB that station is currently owned by Entercom Communications. In late 1. 99. 3, Granite Broadcasting acquired a 4. WKBW TV from Queen City Broadcasting. A year and a half later, in June 1. Granite bought the remaining 5. Until 2. 00. 0, New York Lottery drawings were shown on WKBW TV these have since moved to WGRZ and were discontinued in October 2. WKBW TV, through at least the early 2. Niagara Frontier radio reading service on its second audio program feed, though it was pulled after the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy in 2. FCCs stricter enforcement of obscenity laws, which included some RRS titles. WNED FMs subcarrier then was contracted to carry the service from then on. From 2. 00. 6 to April 2. WKBW TV operated WNGS, owned at the time by Equity Media Holdings, under a local marketing agreement for most of that time while channel 6. Equity owned Retro Television Network. Equity went bankrupt in 2. RTN to company shareholder Henry Lukens Luken Communications by January 2. WNGS and other Equity stations dropping the network and the Equity stations being liquidated, with WNGS sold to the Daystar Television Network in April 2. Philip A. Arno. As a result of the changes, WKBW TV ended the LMA with WNGS which has since changed its call to WBBZ TV. The Scripps era 2. On February 1. 0, 2. E. W. Scripps Company announced that it would acquire WKBW TV as well as My. Network. TV affiliate WMYD in Detroit, Michigan from Granite Broadcasting for 1. The FCC approved the sale on May 2. The sale was completed on June 1. With Scripps acquisition of WKBW TV, each of Buffalos Big Three network affiliates will have at one point or another been owned by a company with newspaper interests WIVB TV, founded in 1. WBEN TV, was owned by the Butler family, then owners of the Buffalo Evening News, from its inception until the early 7. Warren Buffetts Berkshire Hathaway since 2. BHs stake in Media General Gannett Company, publishers of USA Today and various other newspapers around the country, acquired WGRZ TV in 1. E. W. Scripps spun off their papers to Journal Media Group on April 1, 2. Gannetts publishing and digital media operations were spun off to the new Tegna on June 2. Digital televisioneditDigital channelseditThe stations digital signal is multiplexed Between 2. The two networks carried by WKBW TV on its digital subchannels prior to 2. Retro Television Network, via WNGS, and the now defunct World Championship Sports Network were later carried on WGRZ TV Retro is now on WBXZ. It was announced that WKBW TV would air the LAFF network on 7. April 1. 5, 2. 01. Both Laff and Escape, which airs on 7. April 2. 8, 2. 01. Shortly following WUTV dropping its affiliation with the network, WKBW added Grit as a third subchannel in midlate June 2. Analog to digital conversioneditWKBW TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 7, on June 1. United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The stations digital signal remained on its pre transition UHF channel 3. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the stations virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 7. VHF channel 7 was reassigned to WNGS channel 6. WBBZ TV, at the time under the control of WKBW, for its post transition digital channel. In 2. 01. 8, WKBW is slated to move its physical frequency down to channel 3. WVTT CD, which is moving down the dial to VHF channel 1. The stations virtual channel 7 will not change. ProgrammingeditUntil recently, WKBW TV signed off on Saturday and Sunday mornings for a half hour from 4 0. American and Canadiannational anthems were played before and after the test pattern, like Sinclair owned stations WUTV channel 2. WNYO TV channel 4. Monday mornings. Local programmingeditCurrenteditAM Buffalo with Linda PellegrinoAirs weekday mornings from 1. The program, which dates back to the early 1. Dialing for Dollars until 1. The show only had an AM version prior to 2. PM Buffalo version aired between 2. Buffalo Weekend aired from 2.