WSYX
  
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Columbus, Ohio United States |
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| Branding | ABC 6 (general) ABC 6 News (newscasts) My TV Columbus (on DT2) |
| Slogan | On your side |
| Channels |
Digital: 48 (UHF) Virtual: 6 () |
| Subchannels | 6.1 ABC 6.2 MyNetworkTV/This TV 6.3 Antenna TV |
| Affiliations | ABC (secondary until 1955) |
| Owner |
Sinclair Broadcast Group (WSYX Licensee, Inc.) |
| Founded | March 1948 |
| First air date | September 30, 1949 |
| Call letters' meaning | SYX (looks/sounds like channel "six") |
| Sister station(s) | WTTE, WWHO |
| Former callsigns | WTVN(-TV) (1949–1987) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 6 (VHF, 1949–2009) Digital: 13 (VHF, 2003–2010) |
| Former affiliations | DuMont (1949–1955) |
| Transmitter power | 1000 kW |
| Height | 286 m (938 ft) |
| Facility ID | 56549 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 39°56′14″N 83°1′16″W / 39.93722°N 83.02111°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | abc6onyourside |
WSYX, channel 6, is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Columbus, Ohio, USA. WSYX is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which also operates Fox affiliate WTTE (owned by Cunningham Broadcasting) through a local marketing agreement and The CW affiliate WWHO (owned by Manhan Media) through a shared services agreement. The three stations share studios located in northwest Columbus, near the suburb of Grandview Heights; WSYX and WTTE also share a transmitter in the Franklinton section of Columbus. The station also doubled as the default ABC affiliate for the Ohio side of the Marietta/Parkersburg TV market since it doesn't have an ABC affiliate of its own.
The station began operations on September 29, 1949, as WTVN, Columbus' second television station. At its launch, the station was owned by Picture Waves Inc., a company controlled by Toledo-based attorney and investor Edward Lamb; Lamb also owned WICU-TV in Erie, Pennsylvania, which went on the air six months earlier. WTVN was an affiliate of the DuMont Television Network at its inception, and was one of only three primary affiliates of that network; it also on a secondary affiliation with ABC. Channel 6 became a full-time ABC affiliate in 1955, after DuMont closed down its operations. During the late 1950s, the station was also briefly affiliated with the NTA Film Network. The station was first housed within the Lincoln-LeVeque Tower in Downtown Columbus until 1952, when it moved into a new facility on Harmon Avenue in Franklinton. Channel 6's present home, on Dublin Road near the Columbus-Grandview Heights border, has been in operation since 1977.
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