WGRZ
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Buffalo, New York United States |
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| Branding | Channel 2, 2 On Your Side, WGRZ (general) Channel 2 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan |
On Your Side (newscasts) This Is Home (station identification) |
| Channels |
Digital: 33 (UHF) Virtual: 2 () |
| Subchannels | 2.1 NBC 2.2 Antenna TV 2.3 Justice Network |
| Owner |
Tegna Media (Multimedia Entertainment, LLC) |
| First air date | August 14, 1954 |
| Call letters' meaning |
WGR ("World's Greatest Radio", derived from former sister radio station) Z=2 (refers to virtual channel and former analog channel) |
| Former callsigns | WGR-TV (1954–1983) WGRZ-TV (1983–2009) |
| Former channel number(s) | 2 (VHF analog, 1954–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Primary: NBC (1954–1956) ABC (1956–1958) Secondary: DuMont (1954–1955) DT2 RTV (2009–2011) |
| Transmitter power | 480 kW |
| Height | 295 m |
| Facility ID | 64547 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°43′6.6″N 78°33′47.2″W / 42.718500°N 78.563111°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WGRZ, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 33), is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Buffalo, New York, United States. The station is owned by Tegna. WGRZ maintains studios located at 259 Delaware Avenue in downtown Buffalo, and its transmitter is located at 11530 Warner Hill Road in South Wales, New York.
WGRZ carries the following programming:
WGRZ-DT2 was affiliated with NBC Weather Plus until that network shut down in December 2008, and aired a locally originated "Weather Plus" channel between that time and June 2009. The DT2 channel then switched to Universal Sports, which it carried through the end of 2011.
Retro Television Network was previously seen on WGRZ-DT3. The 2.3 channel was removed in September 2011 with no replacement in order to provide better picture quality to both the DT2 and the main WGRZ signal; the DT3 subchannel had never gained significant cable carriage and by that time, much of the programming was being duplicated by WBBZ-TV. Although the DT2 subchannel has achieved significant cable penetration dating to its time as a Weather Plus outlet, Universal Sports itself converted to a cable and satellite-only service in January 2012 as part of Comcast's overhaul of the NBC Sports division. WGRZ-DT2 then became an affiliate of Antenna TV, competing with WBBZ-TV. The DT2 subchannel returned to weather on January 1, 2014, affiliating with WeatherNation TV with the local branding StormTeam 2 WeatherNation; Antenna TV then moved to a reactivated DT3.
Justice Network was added as a digital subchannel in January 2015, replacing WeatherNation TV.
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