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Binghamton, New York United States |
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| Branding | Channel 34 (general) NewsChannel 34 (newscasts) NBC 5 (on DT2) |
| Channels |
Digital: 34 (UHF) Virtual: 34 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 34.1 ABC 34.2 NBC 34.3 Laff 34.4 Escape |
| Affiliations | ABC |
| Owner |
Nexstar Media Group (Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.) |
| First air date | November 24, 1962 |
| Call letters' meaning | Variant of sister station WIXT (now WSYR-TV) |
| Sister station(s) |
WBGH-CD, WSYR-TV, WETM-TV, WWTI, WROC-TV, WUTR, WFXV, WPNY-LP, WFFF-TV, WVNY |
| Former callsigns | WBJA-TV (1962–1978) WMGC-TV (1978–1998) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 34 (UHF, 1962–2009) Digital: 4 (VHF, 2003–2009) |
| Transmitter power | 345 kW |
| Height | 278 m |
| Class | DT |
| Facility ID | 11260 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°3′39.5″N 75°56′36″W / 42.060972°N 75.94333°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WIVT is the ABC-affiliated television station for the Eastern Southern Tier of Southern Upstate New York and Northern Pennsylvania. Licensed to Binghamton, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 34 from a transmitter at its studios on Ingraham Hill Road southwest of downtown. The station can also be seen on Time Warner Cable channel 6 and in high definition on digital channel 1200. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, WIVT is sister to Class A NBC affiliate WBGH-CD and the two outlets share studios.
Alfred E. Anscombe, former General Manager of WKBW-AM-TV in Buffalo, secured a construction permit for Binghamton's third television station on April 25, 1961. He named it WBJA-TV after his wife Beth J. Anscombe. Initially, the station was allocated to UHF analog channel 56. However, five years earlier, two competing ABC affiliates in Northeastern Pennsylvania (WILK-TV channel 34 in Wilkes-Barre and WARM-TV channel 16 in Scranton) merged to form WNEP-TV, retaining WILK's license but using WARM's old UHF channel 16.
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