WUTV
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Buffalo, New York United States |
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| Branding | Fox 29 (general) 2 News On Your Side at 10 (newscasts) |
| Slogan | On Your Side (newscasts) |
| Channels |
Digital: 14 (UHF) Virtual: 29 () |
| Subchannels | 29.1 Fox 29.2 The Country Network 29.3 Grit |
| Affiliations | Fox (1986–1989, 1990–present) |
| Owner |
Sinclair Broadcast Group (WUTV Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date | December 21, 1970 |
| Call letters' meaning |
UlTraVision (former owner) or UHF TeleVision (reference to its broadcast frequency) |
| Sister station(s) |
WNYO-TV, WUHF, WHAM-TV, WSTM-TV, WSTQ-LP, WRGB, WCWN |
| Former channel number(s) | 29 (UHF analog, 1970–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Independent (1970–1986, 1989–1990) UPN (secondary, 1995–1997) |
| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 299.5 m |
| Facility ID | 415 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°1′34.9″N 78°55′39.6″W / 43.026361°N 78.927667°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | wutv29.com |
WUTV, virtual channel 29 (UHF digital channel 14), is a Fox-affiliated television station located in Buffalo, New York, United States. The station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, as part of a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate WNYO-TV (channel 49). The two stations share studios located at 699 Hertel Avenue near Military Road in Buffalo. WUTV's transmitter is located at 951 Whitehaven Road (I-190) in Grand Island, New York.
Since February 2008, WUTV serves as the Fox network feed received in the Cayman Islands. It joined the Primetime 24 lineup in 2009, serving most of the Caribbean islands.
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
WUTV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 29, at 11:59 p.m. on February 17, 2009, the original target date in which full-power television stations in the United States were to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later moved to June 12); this made WUTV the first television station in Buffalo to switch to digital. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 14. Through the use of , digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 29.
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