Programming
WLNY carries a typical independent schedule of movies and syndicated shows, plus religious programming and infomercials. WLNY offers "second-chance" viewing of programs such as Judge Judy, Dr. Phil, The Doctors and Entertainment Tonight, as WLNY airs these shows in the early evening and primetime, compared to earlier broadcasts on the main New York City stations. Often, most of WLNY's movie airings are also carried by another local station within a day or so.
The station enjoys widespread coverage on cable in New York City as well as other parts of lower New York state, Connecticut, and New Jersey. While many of those areas see a separate feed due to SyndEx laws (similar to the old WOR EMI Service and WGN America), Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune were the last two programs preempted on the SyndEx feed; both programs were dropped entirely as of March 30, 2012. Subscribers in the New York City market who receive the station on DirecTV and Dish Network view the station's clean over-the-air feed.
In June 2009, WLNY completely revamped its weeknight primetime schedule, replacing the movie with all of its syndicated programming. To replace the primetime movie WLNY recently reintroduced an afternoon movie to its schedule. It still airs a late night movie, or a rerun of Matlock (or, previously, one of the NBC Mystery Movie series WLNY had rights to -- Banacek, McCloud, and McMillan & Wife).
Over the years, WLIG/WLNY also broadcast professional and collegiate sports. WLNY carried Big East Conference college basketball for many years until that conference moved its games exclusively to cable in the New York City market. For a number of years, WLNY also carried New York Islanders hockey games and New Jersey Nets basketball games as overrun when they could not be broadcast on regional sports networks due to conflicts with other games. WLNY has occasionally picked up CBS Sports events that WCBS-TV cannot carry due to news pre-emptions, such as airing The NFL Today on September 11, 2011 while WCBS-TV aired the day's tribute ceremonies. It is possible that such arrangements may occur in the future with both stations now being commonly-owned.
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