Television
WRGB has the distinction of being the very first affiliated station of the NBC Television Network. The Albany TV DMA is served by the following stations, providing programming from many of the English-language American broadcast television networks: WRGB-CBS, WTEN-ABC, WNYT-NBC, WXXA-Fox, WMHT-PBS, WCWN-CW, WNYA-MyNetworkTV, and WYPX-ION. All of these services, with the exception of WNYA, also have companion digital television transmitters serving the region. There are currently no local affiliates for any of the Spanish-language domestic broadcast television networks, however the national service of Univision is provided via cable TV. Local cable TV operator Time Warner Cable provides a 24-hour cable news television channel, YNN Capital Region (formerly Capital News 9; now covering Albany and Glens Falls). Christian television networks TBN and 3ABN are available via low-power translator service to the immediate metro area. Unlike many television markets around the country, TV stations from neighboring markets cannot normally be received in the greater Albany area due to distance and terrain.
| Channel (Cable) | Callsign | Affiliation | City of license | Owner | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 (6) | WRGB | CBS | Schenectady, NY | Freedom Communications | DTV Ch. 39 (1806) |
| 10 (10) | WTEN | ABC | Albany, NY | Young Broadcasting | DTV Ch. 26 (1810); See also WCDC |
| 13 (13) | WNYT | NBC | Albany, NY | Hubbard Broadcasting | DTV Ch. 12 (1813) |
| 15 (4) | WNYA | MyTV | Albany, NY | Freedom Communications | Relay for WNYA Pittsfield |
| 17 (11) | WMHT | PBS | Schenectady, NY | WMHT Educational Telecommunications | DTV Ch. 34 (1811) |
| 21 (21) | WSSN | ION | Germantown, NY | DTV Ch. 21 | |
| 23 (8) | WXXA-TV | FOX | Albany, NY | Aloha Station Trust, LLC/ Newport Television |
DTV Ch. 7 (1808) |
| 45 (15) | WCWN | CW | Schenectady, NY | Freedom Communications | DTV Ch. 43 (1815) |
| 51 (4) | WNYA | MyTV | Pittsfield, MA | Venture Technologies Group | Will flash-cut to DTV service in or near Feb. 2009. |
| 58 (None) | W58CX | 3ABN | Saratoga Springs, NY | 3ABN Inc. | Satellite fed low-power translator Transmitter located in New Scotland NY |
| 50 (20) | WYPX | ION | Amsterdam, NY | ION Media Networks | DTV service only on UHF Ch. 50. Analog transmitter signed-off in 2007. |
Time Warner Cable also provides a local 24-hour rolling news service to its subscribers, YNN Capital Region (formerly Capital News 9) on cable channel 9. Audio portion is simulcast in the Albany area via radio station WUAM, 900 AM.
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn’t there something reassuring about it!—that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another’s eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms—nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)
“It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the greatest change is evident. In the place of traditional, sometimes ancient childhood games that were still popular a generation ago, in the place of fantasy and make- believe play . . . today’s children have substituted television viewing and, most recently, video games.”
—Marie Winn (20th century)
“It is marvelous indeed to watch on television the rings of Saturn close; and to speculate on what we may yet find at galaxy’s edge. But in the process, we have lost the human element; not to mention the high hope of those quaint days when flight would create “one world.” Instead of one world, we have “star wars,” and a future in which dumb dented human toys will drift mindlessly about the cosmos long after our small planet’s dead.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)