13 Facts About WPTZ

WPTZ is a television station licensed to Plattsburgh, New York, United States, serving as the NBC affiliate for the Burlington, Vermont–Plattsburgh, New York market.

Until September 1965, WPTZ was the only station in its market to broadcast network color programs.

WPTZ continued to maintain the Television Drive facility for several months in Plattsburgh as a secondary studio, while closing a now-duplicative and smaller bureau in Colchester, Vermont.

WPTZ later relocated the bureau to a new location at 308 Cornelia Street in Plattsburgh, taking over the former Glens Falls National Bank branch and renovating the building to become its new secondary studio in the summer of 2020.

In September 2006, WPTZ established a daily web video forecast as part of a major revamping of its website.

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On digital cable, WPTZ-DT2 was carried on Comcast digital channel 169, Telecom digital channel 305, and Time Warner Cable digital channel 854.

WPTZ-DT2 remained on the three digital cable systems while being added to Charter digital channel 296.

Since the main WPTZ channel serves as one of the default NBC affiliates for Massena, New York, that area now has access to two CW affiliates when Watertown's WWTI-DT2 is included.

Currently, access in the Upper Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire to WNNE and WPTZ-DT3 is solely through digital cable and satellite services.

NBC was far less tolerant of program preemptions during the entire timeframe where WPTZ preempted programming from that network, but was incredibly unlikely to remove the affiliation from a VHF station that otherwise was highly-rated .

WPTZ left WPTZ in 2005 to report at sister station WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh.

WPTZ previously served as the default NBC affiliate for northern areas of the nearby Watertown, New York, market, while WSTM-TV in Syracuse served Watertown proper.

WPTZ is widely carried on cable in the province of Quebec as far north as Saguenay and as far east as Gaspe.