WBNG-TV
 
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Binghamton, New York United States |
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| Branding |
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| Slogan |
Your Weather Authority Dare to Defy |
| Channels |
Digital: 7 (VHF) Virtual: 12 () |
| Subchannels | 12.1 CBS 12.2 CW+ 12.3 MeTV |
| Owner |
Quincy Media (WBNG License, LLC) |
| First air date | December 1, 1949 |
| Call letters' meaning | BiNGhamton |
| Former callsigns | WNBF-TV (1949–1973) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 12 (VHF, 1949–2009) |
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| Transmitter power | 20.4 kW |
| Height | 342 m |
| Class | DT |
| Facility ID | 23337 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°3′31″N 75°57′6″W / 42.05861°N 75.95167°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WBNG-TV is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Eastern Twin Tiers of Southern Upstate New York and Northern Pennsylvania. Licensed to the city of Binghamton, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 7 (or virtual channel 12.1 via ) from a transmitter on Ingraham Hill Road in the town of Binghamton. The station can also be seen on Charter Spectrum channel 2, in HD on digital channel 1209, and in Otsego County on digital channel 1211. Owned by Quincy Media, WBNG has studios on Columbia Drive in Johnson City.
The station signed-on December 1, 1949 as WNBF-TV and was originally owned by Clark Associates Inc. along with WNBF radio (1290 AM and 98.1 FM, now WHWK). At its launch, WNBF carried programs from all four American television networks at the time (CBS, DuMont, NBC, and ABC) since it was the market's first television outlet to launch. For many of its early years, WNBF was the only station available to viewers in the nearby Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania market as set owners pointed their roof-top antennas north towards Binghamton. The station subsequently lost its affiliations with DuMont in 1956 after the network's collapse, and the others when new UHF stations arrived in town, NBC on WINR-TV (channel 40, now WICZ-TV) in 1957 and ABC to WBJA-TV (channel 34, now WIVT) in 1962.
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