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WSTM-TV

WSTM-TV
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Syracuse, New York
United States
Branding NBC 3 (general)
NBC 3 News (newscasts)
CNY Central (weekend simulcasts with WTVH)
CW 6 (DT2)
Slogan We Know What's Central To You
Dare to Defy (DT2)
Channels Digital: 24 (UHF)
Virtual: 3 (PSIP)
Subchannels 3.1 NBC
3.2 The CW
3.3 Comet TV
Affiliations NBC
Owner Sinclair Broadcast Group
(WSTQ Licensee, LLC)
First air date February 15, 1950; 67 years ago (1950-02-15)
Call letters' meaning Syracuse Times Mirror (former owner)
Sister station(s) WSTQ-LP, WTVH
Former callsigns WSYR-TV (1950–1980)
Former channel number(s) Analog:
3 (VHF, 1950–2009)
Digital:
54 (UHF, until 2009)
Former affiliations DT3:
NBC Weather Plus
DT4:
The Tube
Transmitter power 210 kW
Height 393 m
Class DT
Facility ID 21252
Transmitter coordinates 42°56′42.9″N 76°7′5.9″W / 42.945250°N 76.118306°W / 42.945250; -76.118306
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website cnycentral.com

WSTM-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for Central Upstate New York that is licensed to Syracuse. The station, which originally signed on the air as WSYR-TV in 1950, broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 24 (or virtual channel 3.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in the town of Onondaga. Owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, the station is sister to low-powered CW affiliate WSTQ-LP and CBS affiliate WTVH. However, the latter is actually owned by Granite Broadcasting but operated by Sinclair through joint sales and shared services agreements. All three outlets share studios together on James Street/NY 290 in the Near Northeast section of Syracuse.

The station began operations on February 15, 1950 with the call sign WSYR-TV. It was owned by Advance Publications (the Newhouse family's company) along with the Syracuse Post-Standard, Syracuse Herald-Journal, and WSYR radio (AM 570 and FM 94.5, now WYYY). It was Syracuse's second television station, signing on a year and three months after WHEN-TV (now WTVH). It originally had facilities at the Kemper Building in Downtown Syracuse. In 1958, WSYR-AM-FM-TV moved to new studios on James Street.


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