Youngstown, Ohio United States |
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Branding | My YTV 33 WYTV News |
Slogan | Total Variety |
Channels |
Digital: WYTV-DT 36.2 (UHF) Virtual: 33.2 (PSIP) |
Affiliations | MyNetworkTV |
Owner |
Vaughan Media (WYTV Television, LLC) |
Operator | Nexstar Media Group |
First air date | September 5, 2006 |
Call letters' meaning | see WYTV |
Sister station(s) | WKBN-TV, WYFX-LD |
Former affiliations | America One (secondary) |
Transmitter power | 1,000 kW (digital) |
Height | 177 m (digital) |
Facility ID | 4693 (digital) |
Transmitter coordinates | 41°3′43″N 80°38′7″W / 41.06194°N 80.63528°W (digital) |
WYTV-DT2 is a digital subchannel of ABC affiliate WYTV for the Mahoning Valley of Northeastern Ohio and Northwestern Pennsylvania. owned by Vaughan Media, but operated through a shared services agreement (SSA) and a joint sales agreement (JSA) by Nexstar Media Group. It is affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It broadcasts in standard definition on 33.2. WYTV-DT2 can also be seen on Time Warner Cable digital channel 373. Syndicated programming on the sub channel includes Cops Reloaded, How I Met Your Mother, and The Middle among others.
The subchannels origins began on January 24, 2006 when UPN and The WB announced the two networks would end broadcasting and merge. The combined service would be called The CW. The letters would represent the first initial of corporate parents "C"BS (the parent company of UPN) and the "W"arner Bros. unit of Time Warner. On February 22, News Corporation announced it would start up another new network called MyNetworkTV. This new service, which would be a sister network to Fox, would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television.