WKBW-TV
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Buffalo, New York United States |
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| Branding | 7 ABC (general) 7 Eyewitness News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | Seize the Possible |
| Channels |
Digital: 38 (UHF) Virtual: 7 () |
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| Owner |
E. W. Scripps Company (Scripps Media, Inc) |
| 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 |
| Height | 432.9 meters (1,420 ft) |
| 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 located in Buffalo, New York, United States. 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 it moved to its current location at 7 Broadcast Plaza in 1978.
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