History
WGGB-DT2 first became active under Sinclair Broadcast Group ownership as part of The Tube, a 24-hour digital music channel. At the end of 2006, the channel became vacant when the network folded due to lack of advertising. Before the second launch of WGGB-DT2, the Springfield/Holyoke television market was the largest DMA to not have a Fox affiliate of its own. Previously, WTIC-TV in Hartford had served as the market's default Fox affiliate, even identifying as "Hartford/New Haven/Springfield" for a time. Some cable systems also piped in WFXT in Boston.
On November 16, 2007 the Springfield Republican reported WGGB would launch a Fox affiliate on this second digital subchannel. It was expected to begin broadcasting by the end of the year but was delayed until March 31, 2008. When it re-launched, WGGB-DT2 took WTIC's cable channel location on Comcast systems. The latter moved to the digital tier on channel 292.
Charter followed suit as well placing WTIC on digital channel 261. When the station relaunched on March 31, it also started to show MyNetworkTV programming as a secondary affiliate. On weeknights, programming from the network is delayed until 11:30. The layout for its separate website was the same as Fox stations that are owned-and-operated by the network but has since been abandoned.
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