AM Buffalo
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Buffalo/Niagara Falls, New York/ Niagara Falls, Ontario United States/Canada |
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| City | Buffalo, New York |
| Branding | 7 ABC (general) 7 Eyewitness News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Everywhere |
| Channels |
Digital: 38 (UHF) (to move to 34 (UHF)) Virtual: 7 () |
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| Owner |
E. W. Scripps Company (Scripps Broadcasting Holdings LLC) |
| First air date | November 30, 1958 |
| Call letters' meaning | Well Known Bible Witness |
| Former channel number(s) | 7 (VHF analog, 1958–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
RTV (DT2, 2006–2009) This TV (DT2, 2009) Universal Sports (DT3, 2008) |
| Transmitter power | 358 kW 331 kW (CP) |
| Height | 432.9 m (1,420 ft) 432 m (1,417 ft) (CP) |
| Facility ID | 54176 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°38′14.8″N 78°37′11.9″W / 42.637444°N 78.619972°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WKBW-TV, virtual channel 7 (UHF digital channel 38), is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Buffalo, New York, United States and owned by the E. W. Scripps Company. The station's studios are located at 7 Broadcast Plaza in downtown Buffalo and its transmitter is located at 8909 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.
The Channel 7 frequency was hotly contested during the 1950s; the 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 News's WBEN-TV), but was unable to secure a license. The competition for the channel 7 allocation continued to grow when the city's first UHF station, WBES-TV, failed. Clinton Churchill, original owner of 50,000 watt radio station WKBW (1520 AM) in Buffalo, was granted the license to operate the station in 1957. WKBW-TV was originally intended to be an independent station. However, when NBC shut down its owned-and-operated station, WBUF-TV (channel 17, now WNED-TV), on September 30, 1958, then-ABC affiliate WGR-TV (channel 2, now WGRZ) went back to NBC. As a result of the network shuffle, WKBW-TV premiered as ABC's new Buffalo affiliate when it went on the air on November 30, 1958. The station's studios were originally located at 1420 Main Street and remained there until 1978, at which point it moved to its current location at 7 Broadcast Plaza. Churchill sold the WKBW stations to Capital Cities Broadcasting (which later became Capital Cities Communications) in 1961. CapCities would serve as WKBW-TV's longest-tenured owner, owning it and its radio sister for 25 years, and the station would reach its peak during Capital Cities' ownership. WKBW-TV produced iconic children's programing such as Rocketship 7 and The Commander Tom Show from the 1960s to the 1980s. 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.
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