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WBNG-TV
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Binghamton, New York <tr><th style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right;">Branding</th><td style="text-align: left;">WBNG 12; Action News</td></tr><tr><th style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right;">Slogan</th><td style="text-align: left;">Your News Leader</td></tr>
Channels	12 (VHF) analog, 7 (VHF) digital
Affiliations	CBS (secondary until 1962)
Owner	Granite Broadcasting
Founded	January 10, 1949 <tr><th style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right;">Call letters meaning</th><td style="text-align: left;">W BiNGhamton</td></tr><tr><th style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right;">Former callsigns</th><td style="text-align: left;">WNBF-TV (1949-1973)</td></tr><tr><th style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right;">Former affiliations</th><td style="text-align: left;">DuMont (1949-1955) NBC (1949-1957) ABC (1949-1962)</td></tr> <tr><th style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right;">Website</th><td style="text-align: left;">www.wbng.com/</td></tr>

WBNG-TV is the CBS television affiliate in Binghamton, New York. The station serves the South Central New York-North Central Pennsylvania area. It broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 12, and its digital signal on VHF channel 7. The station also operates WBXI, a cable-only affiliate of The CW network serving Binghamton. WBNG's transmitter is located in Binghamton.

In addition to the Binghamton market, WBNG is the default CBS affiliate for most of the Elmira TV market as well as Otsego County in the Utica TV market.

Contents 1 History 2 Logos 3 Newscasts 3.1 Monday-Friday 3.2 Saturday-Sunday 3.3 General Assignment Reporters 3.4 Meteorologists 3.5 Sports Reporters 4 External links

[edit] History

The station launched on January 10, 1949 as WNBF-TV, and was affiliated with all four American television networks at the time (CBS, DuMont, NBC and ABC). The station subsequently lost its affiliations with DuMont in 1955 (after the network's collapse), NBC in 1957 (to WICZ-TV, now a Fox affiliate) and ABC in 1962 (to WBJA-TV, later WMGC now WIVT). The station adopted its current callsign, WBNG-TV, in 1973 when the station was sold to Gateway Communications.

In 2000, Gateway Communications was purcased by SJL Broadcasting, which reduced staff from 100 to 58 over five years to fit the aggressive SJL automation model.

In 2002 the station's digital signal on channel 7 signed on. Presently WBNG-DT does not broadcast any network programming in high definition. Beginning in September 2006, WBXI will be simulcast on WBNG's new digital subchannel.

In April 2006, it was announced that Granite Broadcasting made a deal to acquire WBNG from Television Station Group License Subsidary, LLC (the successor to SJL and a subsidiary of Alta Communications) for $45 million. The required money will be funded by a new senior credit facility created after the previously announced sales of Detroit's WMYD and San Francisco's KBWB fell apart. Granite closed on its purchase of WBNG on July 26 2006. [1]

Coincident with the announced Granite deal, General Manager Joe McNamara took over as GM of KHON in Honolulu, recently acquired by SJL. Robert Krummenacker has taken over of GM of WBNG.

[edit] Logos

WNBF logo

A circle logo used when Gateway Communications owned the station

The logo used in the mid to late 1990s

[edit] Newscasts

[edit] Monday-Friday

• Action News This Morning (5:00-7:00AM) Anchor: James Wilcox
• Action News at Noon (12Noon-12:30PM) Anchor: Kerri O'Hara
• Action News at 5 (5:00-5:30PM) Anchor: James Gaddis
• Action News at 5:30 (5:30-6:00PM) Anchor: Kiersten Mathieu
• Action News at 6 (6:00-6:30PM) Anchors: Greg Catlin & Candace Chapman
• Action News at 11(11:00-11:35PM) Anchor: James Gaddis

[edit] Saturday-Sunday

• Action News Saturday Morning (7:30-8:00AM) Anchor: James Gaddis
• Action News Weekend Report (6:00-6:30PM), (11:00-11:35PM) Anchor: Justin Moss
• Sports Overtime (Saturday 11:35PM-12:00AM} Anchor: Matt Hobbs and Brendon O'Rilley

[edit] General Assignment Reporters

• Mike Trim
• Gabe Osterhout

[edit] Meteorologists

• Julia Sansom
• Jared Kaplan
• Justin Culligan

[edit] Sports Reporters

• Brendan O'Reilley
• Matt Hobbs

[edit] External links

• WBNG website
• Details history of WBNG under SJL
• Broadcast Localism in Binghamton Market, report filed under FCC's Broadcast Localism NOI.
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WBNG

CBS Network Affiliates in the state of New York
WCBS 2 (New York City) - WIVB 4 (Buffalo) - WTVH 5 (Syracuse) - WRGB 6 (Albany) - WWNY 7 (Watertown) - WROC 8 (Rochester) - WBNG 12 (Binghamton)
See also: ABC, CW, Fox, MyNetworkTV, NBC, PBS and Other stations in New York