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11 Facts About WSTM-TV

1.

WSTM-TV is a television station in Syracuse, New York, United States, affiliated with NBC and The CW.

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WSTM-TV changed WIXT-TV's calls to match WSYR radio, which it had owned for several years.

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3.

WSTM-TV was 48 and had previously suffered a mild heart attack two years earlier.

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4.

WSTM-TV carries substantial news stories from Utica and Herkimer County even though that area has its own NBC affiliate WKTV that produces local news.

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5.

WSTM-TV is still carried on Spectrum systems in Ogdensburg and Gouverneur along with replacement WPTZ out of Plattsburgh.

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From 1996 until 2000 through a news share agreement, WSTM-TV produced a prime time newscast for Fox affiliate WSYT.

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Meanwhile, in 2003, WSTM-TV brought back a weeknight prime time news show for newly acquired sister station WSTQ-LP.

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8.

The system set up by WTVH to use videotaped footage shot by WSTM-TV presented problems for WSTM-TV staff, who had to walk to WTVH's old studios to deliver raw video for WTVH to edit for its weeknight news programs.

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WSTM-TV usually featured more live reports from the field during a breaking news event.

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In mid-December 2010, WSTM-TV became the first television station in the market to produce local newscasts in 16:9 enhanced definition widescreen with the shows on WTVH being included in the change.

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11.

WSTM-TV was the first in Syracuse to use Doppler weather radar in 1985 and launched its own system in 2000.

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