18 Facts About WKBW-TV

WKBW-TV is a television station in Buffalo, New York, United States, affiliated with ABC.

WKBW-TV is one of many local Buffalo television stations that are available over-the-air and on cable television in Canada, particularly in Southern Ontario.

WKBW-TV produced iconic children's programing such as Rocketship 7 and The Commander Tom Show from the 1960s to the 1980s.

In 1977, WKBW-TV unsuccessfully sued the Canadian Radio-Television Commission over simultaneous substitution rules.

In Capital Cities Communications Inc v Canadian Radio-Television Commission, WKBW-TV argued that the CRTC did not have jurisdiction to enforce simultaneous substitution if the stations simulcasting an American program did not broadcast across a provincial line .

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From 2006 to April 2009, WKBW-TV operated WNGS, owned at the time by Equity Media Holdings, under a local marketing agreement for most of that time while channel 67 was affiliated with the then-Equity-owned Retro Television Network.

The completion of the purchase resulted in WKBW-TV becoming Scripps' first station in the state of New York.

WKBW-TV redesigned its website in April 2007 using the YouNews TV platform for locally contributed viewers photos and videos.

From 1970 to September 1,2003 and again from October 27,2008 to December 31,2021, WKBW-TV has called its news operation Eyewitness News and used variations of the iconic circle 7 logo until 2022.

Furthermore, WKBW-TV was a source for much of WPVI-TV's on-air talent.

In 2000, WKBW-TV displaced longtime 5:00pm anchor Kathleen Leighton to mornings in favor of former WIVB-TV weather anchor Maria Genero, who had been host of the talk show Good Day New York.

WKBW-TV decided to adopt a new identity, thus bringing the Eyewitness News era to an end.

From 2006 to 2007, WKBW-TV produced Sportsnite, a nightly sports talk program hosted by members of WKBW-TV's sports department, that aired weeknights at 7 p m on WNGS.

WKBW-TV suspended its Saturday newscasts in September 2008, during college football season; the station resumed those newscasts that December after football season ended .

Preliminary results were promising: due to this and WIVB-TV's carriage disputes with Time Warner Cable and Atlantic Broadband, WKBW-TV's newscasts climbed back to a strong second place, behind WGRZ.

However, WIVB-TV strengthened their morning show staff at the same time, undermining any possible gains WKBW-TV may have made with its re-staffing and the morning show lost a third of its audience in the fall of 2013, even with promos for the morning show during Bills preseason coverage .

Scripps planned on using WKBW-TV's morning show as a pilot system to test the format; had it been successful, the company would have rolled out the new format on its other stations across the United States.

WKBW-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 7, on June 12,2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate.