12 Facts About WSYX

WSYX is a television station in Columbus, Ohio, United States, affiliated with ABC, MyNetworkTV and Fox.

The stations share studios on Dublin Road in Grandview Heights, while WSYX's transmitter is located in the Franklinton section of Columbus.

WSYX is the only one of these stations still affiliated with ABC, the only former Taft station whose ABC affiliation survives that friendship.

WSYX-DT3 continues to identify as "Fox 28" outside of the change of the call letters for their station identification, though in technicality as WSYX uses physical channel 28, it still properly identifies its channel position.

However, WSYX-DT2 remained the largest-market MyNetworkTV affiliate to be paired with another multicast digital network, until January 29,2019, when the Cleveland market's MyNetworkTV affiliation was transferred from WUAB to a late-night offering with MeTV on WOIO-DT2.

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Historically, WSYX has been third among Columbus's television news operations, with WBNS the longtime market leader and WCMH having NBC's strength in the 80s into the 2000s to keep up with WBNS.

WSYX has begun to challenge WBNS as Sinclair's ownership has become steady, with WCMH ending up a low-priority station under several new ownerships, and WBNS's local ownership ending in 2019 when the Wolfe family sold off the WBNS stations to Tegna, itself troubled by cost-cutting and shareholder turbulence and forced corporate-wide news imaging that discounted WBNS's local legacy.

WSYX launched their newscasts in high definition on May 10,2008, making them the last Columbus station to make the upgrade.

WSYX was one of Sinclair's first stations it acquired with an established news department, with the company having only dabbled with local news at WPTT in Pittsburgh and flagship station WBFF in Baltimore prior to buying River City Broadcasting, though it had just launched a 10 PM newscast for its other Pittsburgh broadcast property WPGH-TV around the time it took over WSYX.

Since Sinclair's 2019 purchase of the former Fox Sports Networks and subsequent conversion into Bally Sports, WSYX has actively promoted now-sister network Bally Sports Ohio as the home of the Columbus Blue Jackets and Columbus Crew SC, mentioning to viewers during its newscasts when their respective games air on Bally Sports Ohio.

WSYX moved its digital signal from channel 48 to channel 28 on October 19,2019, as part of the FCC's spectrum reallocation process.

In Wheeling–Steubenville, WSYX covered areas that couldn't receive WTAE-TV from Pittsburgh, which served as the de facto affiliate in most of that market, since it had to short-space its analog signal to protect WCMH-TV; some viewers in the market are able to receive WYTV in Youngstown.