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A WIVB-TV truck driving through the streets of the 2012 St. Patrick's Day parade in Buffalo, New York. For most of the time since 2000, WIVB-TV has been the most-watched news station in Western New York (according to Nielsen) after rival WKBW-TV's long winning streak ended. The station regularly scores ratings wins for every newscast it airs ...
With Scripps' acquisition of WKBW-TV, each of Buffalo's "Big Three" network affiliates have at one point or another been owned by a company with newspaper interests; WIVB-TV, founded in 1948 as WBEN-TV, was owned by the Butler family, then-owners of the Buffalo Evening News, from its inception until the early 1970s (and both had shared partial ...
O'Connell was born in Buffalo, New York and attended Buffalo State College. His father is George O'Connell, the City Comptroller who led to effort to save the Shea's Performing Arts Center after it had fallen prey to taxes. His sister is Mary Kate O'Connell, a stage actress and WBBZ-TV host. His son Kevin Jr. is a chef who has operated ...
The WIVB-TV Tower is a 321.9-meter-tall (1,056 ft) guyed steel mast located at 8242 Center Street in Colden, New York, United States. [1] The tower site was first used in 1948 by the Buffalo Evening News as the main broadcast tower for WIVB-TV (channel 4, the former WBEN-TV), now owned by Nexstar Media Group, who also owns the tower itself.
WGRZ's newscasts, which have performed a strong second in recent years to rival WIVB-TV, has begun to challenge channel 4's dominance in news ratings, specifically in the 5 and 5:30 p.m. newscasts according to Nielsen's May 2007 sweeps data. By July 2007, WGRZ's morning newscast, Daybreak, was soundly beating WIVB-TV's Wake Up! in the ratings ...
Disaffiliated from CBS in 1995 when WUNI became a full-time Univision affiliate. (Around that time, CBS signed an affiliation deal with WBZ-TV owners Westinghouse Broadcasting, under which WBZ-TV would clear all CBS programming except in cases of breaking news.) Buffalo, New York: WBUF-TV 17: 1953-1954 (secondary) Defunct WIVB-TV 4 Secondary ...
Pages in category "Television stations in Buffalo, New York" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The station signed on the air as WNEQ-TV on May 13, 1987, and was the second public television outlet serving the Buffalo market.It was operated under an educational license and was sister station to WNED-TV (channel 17), which had a commercial license but operated as an educational station (WNED-TV operated on channel 17 because of the donation of equipment to it by WBUF-TV, a defunct ...