WTVH5 - Syracuse, New York - Television and Cable Broadcasting Stations on Waymarking.com

WTVH debuted on December 1, 1948 as WHEN-TV on channel 8. It went on the air as Syracuse's first television station and the first station ever owned and operated by Meredith Corporation. Meredith had entered broadcasting only two years before after buying WAGE (620 AM) and changing the calls to WHEN. It has always been a CBS affiliate, though at first it also carried secondary affiliations with ABC and DuMont. When WSYR-TV (now WSTM-TV) signed on two months later, WHEN only had ABC as a secondary until WNYS-TV (later WIXT and now WSYR-TV) signed on in 1962. WHEN's affiliation with DuMont ended in 1956, when that network ceased operations. In July 1961, WHEN moved to channel 5, swapping channel locations with WROC-TV in Rochester.

In 1976, Meredith sold the WHEN stations to Park Communications, but kept WHEN-TV. It had to change the TV station's calls. It originally wanted the new call letters WTVF (for TV Five, the station's on-air identity), but those went to the former WLAC-TV in Nashville, Tennessee At this point, Meredith chose WTVH as the new calls, the H being a link to its WHEN heritage.

In June 1993, Meredith announced the sale of WTVH and sister station KSEE-TV in Fresno, California to Granite Broadcasting with the sale closing on December 23 of that year. With that deal, WTVH became Granite's oldest television station, based on the date and time the station began its broadcasting operation. Granite would soon increase its northeast holdings with their purchase of WKBW-TV in Buffalo in 1995 purchased WBNG-TV in Binghamton in July 2006.

Address: 980 James Street Syracuse, NY USA 13203 Website: [Web Link] Programming: CBS affilliate with occas. local programming and local and national news several times a day. Favorite Show/Personality: Donna Adamo is my favorite perosnality at this station

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