WWNY TV

wwny tv began broadcasting at 8 pm, on the evening of october 22, 1954. it was a saturday, and the very first program was a live broadcast from our then-studio on champion hill. from the start, wwny stressed its local identity. in his remarks opening the station, john johnson sr. said “we are locally owned, managed, engineered and announced,” conditions that are still largely true today. . what changed for wwny after its sale to ucc was everything - and nothing. we remain the dominant presence in local television - our newscasts are regularly ranked among the top rated in the country, as is the station as a whole. we remain an oasis of family-owned and community-oriented broadcasting in an increasingly ‘corporatized’ world. people still come here to work, and stay for many years. the single most significant change within wwny came in 2001, when united communications corp. entered into an agreement with smith broadcasting to operate a fox network affiliate with low power t