WFMJ-TV
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Youngstown, Ohio United States |
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| Branding | 21 WFMJ (general) 21 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan |
More Local News Locally Owned, Locally Connected |
| Channels |
Digital: 20 (UHF) Virtual: 21 () |
| Subchannels | 21.1 NBC 21.2 The CW |
| Owner |
Vindicator Printing Company (WFMJ Television, Inc.) |
| First air date | March 8, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning |
William F. Maag, Jr. (former publisher of the Youngstown Vindicator) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 73 (UHF, 1953–1954) 21 (UHF, 1954–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 460 kW (digital) |
| Height | 295 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 72062 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°4′48″N 80°38′25″W / 41.08000°N 80.64028°W |
| Website | www |
WFMJ-TV, channel 21, is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Youngstown, Ohio, USA. Since its inception WFMJ-TV has been owned by the locally-based Vindicator Printing Company, publisher of Youngstown's lone newspaper, The Vindicator. The station maintains studios and offices on West Boardman Street in downtown Youngstown, and its transmitter is based in the city's Lansingville neighborhood.
The station was founded by William F. Maag, Jr., publisher of the Vindicator, and went on the air for the first time on March 11, 1953 on Channel 73. The station was owned alongside WFMJ radio (1390 AM, now WNIO, and 105.1 FM, now WQXK). WFMJ-TV has always been an NBC affiliate owing to its radio sister's long affiliation with NBC Red Network. The Maags then purchased the construction permit issued for channel 21 (originally granted to WUTV) and moved to that frequency on August 7, 1954. After moving channels, WFMJ was replaced on channel 73 by independent station WXTV which moved to channel 45 in 1959 (the former channel location of WYTV, then WKST-TV, before moving to channel 33) and remained on-the-air until late 1962.
In addition to its main service area of extreme northeastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania, WFMJ-TV can be seen as far as the eastern and southern suburbs of Cleveland with a good antenna. From its sign-on until 1957, WFMJ-TV served as the NBC affiliate for the far northern portion of the Pittsburgh market, mainly areas not covered by WJAC-TV in Johnstown, Pennsylvania and WTRF-TV in Wheeling, West Virginia for NBC programming (the latter station is now affiliated with CBS). This ended when Pittsburgh got its own NBC affiliate, WIIC-TV (now WPXI), in September 1957.
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