WYTV
  
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Youngstown, Ohio United States |
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| Branding | 33 WYTV (general) 33 WYTV News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | We believe in this Valley. |
| Channels |
Digital: 36 (UHF) Virtual: 33 () |
| Subchannels | 33.1 ABC 33.2 MyNetworkTV 33.3 Bounce TV |
| Owner |
Vaughan Media (WYTV Television, LLC) |
| Operator | Nexstar Media Group |
| First air date | April 4, 1953 |
| Call letters' meaning | W Youngstown TeleVision |
| Sister station(s) | WKBN-TV, WYFX-LD |
| Former callsigns | WKST-TV (1953–1964) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 45 (UHF, 1953–1959) 33 (UHF, 1959–2009) |
| Former affiliations | Fox (secondary, 1994–1998) |
| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 177 m |
| Facility ID | 4693 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°3′43″N 80°38′7″W / 41.06194°N 80.63528°W |
| Website | wytv |
WYTV, channel 33, is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Youngstown, Ohio, USA. WYTV's broadcast license is owned by Vaughan Media, who cedes operational control of the station to Nexstar Media Group through joint sales and shared services agreements. WYTV shares studios and offices with Nexstar-owned WKBN-TV (channel 27) in Youngstown's Pleasant Grove neighborhood; the station's transmitting tower is based at the site of its former studios in the city's Lansingville section.
The station originated as WKST-TV with an analog signal on UHF channel 45. As the television partner to WKST radio, which still exists on AM 1200, it was licensed to New Castle, Pennsylvania and signed-on April 4, 1953. Besides serving New Castle, which was its own market at the time, it was the default ABC affiliate in Youngstown. It also served western portions of the Pittsburgh market that didn't get a good signal from WENS-TV (now WINP-TV). At the time of its sign-on, New Castle was its own TV market. After WENS-TV signed off due to financial problems, WKST-TV was the only full-time ABC affiliate in Western Pennsylvania until WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh signed-on in September 1958. As ABC was by far the smallest and weakest of the three major networks, it had a hard time getting full-time affiliates, as only a few were large enough to support three full network affiliates. Youngstown was thus fortunate to have a full-time ABC affiliate in this period, as many markets comparable to Youngstown's size or even bigger didn't get one until the 1960s or even as late as the 1980s, while some very small markets didn't get one until the DTV transition in the 2000s.
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