WNYA
 
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Pittsfield, Massachusetts- Albany, New York United States |
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| Branding | My 4 Albany (general) NewsChannel 13 |
| Slogan | Coverage You Can Trust |
| Channels |
Digital: 13 (VHF) Virtual: 51 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 51.1 MyNetworkTV 51.2 Antenna TV 51.3 Decades |
| Owner |
Hubbard Broadcasting (WNYT-TV, LLC) |
| First air date | September 1, 2003 |
| Call letters' meaning | New York and Albany |
| Sister station(s) | WNYT, WHEC-TV |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 51 (UHF, 2003–2009) |
| Former affiliations | UPN (2003–2006) |
| Transmitter power | 12.69 kW |
| Height | 301 m |
| Class | DT |
| Facility ID | 136751 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°38′13″N 73°59′45″W / 42.63694°N 73.99583°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
WNYA is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for the Capital District of New York State and Western New England. Licensed to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 13 (or virtual channel 51.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter on the Helderberg Escarpment west of New Salem, New York (a hamlet of New Scotland). The station is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting as part of a duopoly with NBC affiliate WNYT and the two television outlets share studios on North Pearl Street, along NY 32/Wolfert Avenue, in Menands (with an Albany postal address). Syndicated programming on WNYA includes Family Feud, The Wendy Williams Show and among others.
What today is WNYA can indirectly trace its history to WVUW, an un-built station on channel 51 in Pittsfield. WVUW was granted a construction permit in 1984, but was deleted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1990. In October 1996, Pappas Telecasting applied for a new permit for this allocation; however, in 2001, the FCC placed the channel up for auction. In addition to Pappas, which by then planned to use the station as an Azteca América affiliate, bidders included Hubbard Broadcasting, Equity Broadcasting, the Trinity Broadcasting Network, and Venture Technologies Group. When the auction took place in February 2002, Venture Technologies ended up with the winning bid for $1.3 million. The FCC granted the construction permit and the WNYA call sign to Venture a year later. To accommodate the new WNYA, WNYT moved its Adams translator, which had broadcast on channel 51 since 1984, to channel 38.
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