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95-584: WIVB-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Buffalo, New York , United States, affiliated with CBS . It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside CW owned-and-operated station WNLO (channel 23). WIVB-TV and WNLO share studios on Elmwood Avenue in North Buffalo ; through a channel sharing agreement , the two stations transmit using WNLO's spectrum from a tower in Colden, New York . The station first signed on

190-536: A barter in some cases. Oceanside, California Oceanside is a beach city in the North County area of San Diego County, California . The city had a population of 174,068 at the 2020 United States census , up from 167,086 at the 2010 census , making it the most populous city in the North County region of San Diego. The city is a popular tourist destination, owing to its historic landmarks, beaches, and architecture. Oceanside's origins date to 1798, when

285-480: A female householder with no husband present, and 30.5% were non-families. Of all households 22.7% were made up of individuals, and 10.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.83 and the average family size was 3.33. The age distribution of Oceanside in 2000 was as follows: 27.6% under the age of 18, 10.2% from 18 to 24, 31.0% from 25 to 44, 17.6% from 45 to 64, and 13.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age

380-508: A half-hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). This totals 55 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours of newscasts on a weekly basis between the two stations; in regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the highest local newscast output among all broadcast television stations in the Buffalo market (in contrast, WGRZ produces 30 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours and WKBW-TV produces 24 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours of newscasts each week). Appropriately for

475-567: A large network of over eighty AWS/ WeatherBug weather stations (under the name "Neighborhood WeatherNet"), mostly at local schools. WIVB-TV's involvement in the Neighborhood WeatherNet was discontinued at the beginning of 2010, though the stations, now under WeatherBug's control, remain operational. In 2020, WIVB signed on with the New York State Mesonet , a state-operated weather station network. WIVB-TV also previously operated

570-661: A local Doppler radar in the 1990s and early 2000s (known as "4 × 4 Warn Doppler" because it factored in stations in Rochester , Syracuse and Cleveland ), but shut it down in the early 2000s in favor of using data from the nearby National Weather Service Doppler Radar in Cheektowaga . WIVB-TV ended its separate sports segments in March 2015 and integrated sports reports into the regular newscasts. The sportscasts returned under Nexstar ownership in 2017. A one-hour afternoon newscast

665-522: A local newscast in the entire nation, according to advertisements run by the station, an honor regained in February 2008. As of late, rival WGRZ, which has also had strong ratings in the area has begun to challenge WIVB-TV's dominance, specifically in the weeknight 5 and 5:30 newscasts according to Nielsen's May 2007 sweeps data. This station reclaimed the top position in the November 2007 sweeps although still in

760-415: A much shorter wavelength, and thus requires a shorter antenna, but also higher power. North American stations can go up to 5000 kW ERP for video and 500 kW audio, or 1000 kW digital. Low channels travel further than high ones at the same power, but UHF does not suffer from as much electromagnetic interference and background "noise" as VHF, making it much more desirable for TV. Despite this, in

855-639: A new deal. However, due to this date falling on a holiday, WIVB-TV granted a 30-day extension at the end of which was an agreement that allowed WIVB-TV to continue to be carried uninterrupted. The agreement, originally set to expire in January 2012, was presumably renewed, as the channel remains available on that company's providers. WNLO was not included in the agreement, and CW service is now provided in these areas by WSEE-DT2. On March 4, 2011, LIN Media pulled WIVB-TV and WNLO from Dish Network (the same service WIVB-TV and WNLO explicitly advised viewers to change to during

950-575: A population of 167,086. The population density was 3,961.8 inhabitants per square mile (1,529.7/km ). The racial makeup of Oceanside was 109,020 (65.2%) White , 7,873 (4.7%) African American , 1,385 (0.8%) Native American , 11,081 (6.6%) Asian (3.4% Filipino , 0.7% Japanese , 0.7% Vietnamese , 0.6% Chinese , 0.4% Korean , 0.2% Indian ), 2,144 (1.3%) Pacific Islander , 25,886 (15.5%) from other races , and 9,697 (5.8%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 59,947 persons (35.9%). The Census reported that 166,150 people (99.4% of

1045-623: A reference to WGRZ's use of the "On Your Side" slogan). Since 1993, the station has produced an annual holiday promo featuring a custom version of Jolly Demis's "Christmas Time Again". The promos, featuring short snippets of the families of each member of the WIVB news team, have become a tradition in Western New York, long after most other stations discontinued using the song (only WIVB and KSAZ-TV in Phoenix, Arizona , still use it). This station debuted

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1140-407: A separate license; WIVB continues to remap to virtual channel 4.1. The change took effect April 16, 2018. Because WNLO's broadcast signal is centered further north than the former WIVB-TV Tower that was in Colden , the move further deteriorated reception of the channel in the western Southern Tier , where it had already been marginalized after the first digital transition and move to UHF, while at

1235-716: A show hosted by local native Bob Smith , who had spent the past few years at WBEN radio before departing for national television. WBEN-TV picked up CBS programming in January 1949, and has remained with that network ever since. As the only station in Buffalo for its first several years, channel 4 also carried secondary affiliations with ABC and DuMont . It lost NBC when WGR-TV (channel 2, now WGRZ ) signed on in August 1954, and ABC to WGR-TV when NBC moved its programs to newly purchased WBUF-TV (channel 17) in 1956. WBEN-TV continued to share DuMont programming with WGR-TV until 1956 when that network ceased operations. It operated from studios on

1330-432: A smaller company, aging of its news team, and general programming mistakes) at WKBW-TV in the mid-1990s. Most notably, it snagged local rights to The Oprah Winfrey Show from WKBW-TV in 1995. By 2000, after the retirement of WKBW-TV's longtime anchorman Irv Weinstein and weather anchor Tom Jolls – the last of the traditional "Irv, Rick and Tom" team at channel 7 – and Nielsen's adoption of market metering in Buffalo at

1425-456: A station with roots in a newspaper, WIVB-TV has a strong news tradition. WBEN-TV was the early news leader in Buffalo until approximately 1972, when (briefly) WGR-TV and then (more long-term) WKBW-TV overtook it. Channel 4 then spent most of the next 30 years as a solid, if usually distant, runner-up to WKBW-TV, well ahead of market laggard WGR-TV (later WGRZ). However, it was a major beneficiary of various changes (including WKBW-TV changing hands to

1520-481: A statistical tie with WGRZ, and as of May 2009, is now solidly back in first place. All three stations in the Buffalo market have been, at various times in their history, among the highest-rated stations in the country and they continue to be fiercely competitive. The cable carriage disputes in October 2008 threatened WIVB-TV's high standing, pushing the station to a distant third, but with the official November sweeps out and

1615-519: A stint at WKBW, Nexstar reversed its decision and invited Paul back in a part-time position. The station's current chief meteorologist is Todd Santos, a former personality on The Weather Channel and NBC Weather Plus ; another prominent meteorologist on the staff is Mike Cejka, who has been with WIVB since 1983. The station has also typically differed in its approach to hiring meteorologists in that none of them are Western New York natives (whereas WKBW and WGRZ hired mostly local personalities); Kaylee Wendt,

1710-425: A variety of ways to generate revenue from television commercials . They may be an independent station or part of a broadcasting network , or some other structure. They can produce some or all of their programs or buy some broadcast syndication programming for or all of it from other stations or independent production companies. Many stations have some sort of television studio , which on major-network stations

1805-509: A weekday morning newscast on September 19, 1994, known as Wake Up! . It was the second local broadcast in the market after WKBW-TV's Good Morning Western New York , which launched in 1987. Unlike the WKBW-TV broadcast, which was (and remains) a weekday-only program, Wake Up! has aired seven days a week from its inception, with a two-hour version (originally only one hour from 1994 to January 2013) airing on Saturdays and Sundays. (The weekend edition

1900-496: Is non-commercial educational (NCE) and considered public broadcasting . To avoid concentration of media ownership of television stations, government regulations in most countries generally limit the ownership of television stations by television networks or other media operators, but these regulations vary considerably. Some countries have set up nationwide television networks, in which individual television stations act as mere repeaters of nationwide programs . In those countries,

1995-399: Is Victor Roy. The current city clerk is Zeb Navarro. The City of Oceanside is a full-service city. It provides police and fire safety, water and sewer services. The city has a municipal airport , a small craft harbor, one of the longest wooden piers in the west, golf courses, swimming pools, numerous parks, community centers, and extensive palm-lined beaches. Oceanside Public Library is

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2090-467: Is a major railway interchange for long distance and commuter rail services. Amtrak 's Pacific Surfliner provides service to San Luis Obispo via Los Angeles and San Diego . Metrolink 's commuter rail service connects Oceanside to many parts of Greater Los Angeles , while Coaster commuter rail serves northern and central San Diego County . The Sprinter hybrid rail service connects Oceanside to Escondido . Oceanside Municipal Airport (OCN)

2185-470: Is broadcast via terrestrial radio waves. A group of television stations with common ownership or affiliation are known as a TV network and an individual station within the network is referred to as O&O or affiliate , respectively. Because television station signals use the electromagnetic spectrum, which in the past has been a common, scarce resource, governments often claim authority to regulate them. Broadcast television systems standards vary around

2280-424: Is built on 12.6 acres (5.1 ha) of land with 35 classrooms totaling 54,490 square feet (5,062 m ) and can accommodate 800 students. A free, independent public charter school, Scholarship Prep, is a new TK-8th grade school which was authorized to open in August 2017 and is sited at the historic San Luis Rey Mission. It offers a full educational experience for Oceanside students. The Oceanside Transit Center

2375-792: Is often used for newscasts or other local programming . There is usually a news department , where journalists gather information. There is also a section where electronic news-gathering (ENG) operations are based, receiving remote broadcasts via remote pickup unit or satellite TV . Outside broadcasting vans, production trucks , or SUVs with electronic field production (EFP) equipment are sent out with reporters , who may also bring back news stories on video tape rather than sending them back live . To keep pace with technology United States television stations have been replacing operators with broadcast automation systems to increase profits in recent years. Some stations (known as repeaters or translators ) only simulcast another, usually

2470-580: Is one of several Buffalo area stations seen in the southern portion of the Canadian province of Ontario , including Toronto , which is the station's largest target audience. On April 30, 2009, Shaw Broadcast Services and Shaw Direct stopped transmitting the WIVB-TV signal, replacing it with CBS-owned WWJ-TV in Detroit. WIVB-TV also served as the default CBS station for portions of Steuben County, New York , due to

2565-500: Is to downtown San Diego . Together with Carlsbad and Vista , it forms a tri-city area. Oceanside experiences a mild semi-arid climate ( Köppen climate classification : BSk ) that is significantly tempered by maritime winds and the cool currents off the shoreline. The average high temperatures range from 64 to 77 °F (18 to 25 °C), while the average low temperatures range from 45 to 64 °F (7 to 18 °C). The 2010 United States Census reported that Oceanside had

2660-571: The Evening News . With the loss of the WBEN stations' grandfathered protection, Berkshire Hathaway opted to keep the newspaper and sell off the broadcasting properties. WBEN-TV was sold to newspaper publisher Robert Howard of Oceanside, California , for $ 25.5 million. The new owner, whose company was called Howard Publications, Inc., changed channel 4's callsign to WIVB-TV, which stands for "We're Channel IV ( Roman numeral 4) Buffalo", on November 1, 1977,

2755-756: The Oceanside Unified School District , Vista Unified School District , Bonsall Union School District , Carlsbad Unified School District , Fallbrook Union High School District, or Fallbrook Union Elementary School District, depending on their address. The Oceanside Unified School District provides instrumental music programs in grades 4–12. The Oceanside Unified School District has two comprehensive high schools, El Camino High School off Rancho Del Oro and Oceanside High School off Mission Avenue. High school students are also served by Ocean Shores Continuation High School and Clair Burgener Academy . OUSD has 24 schools plus three charter schools, including

2850-563: The School of Business and Technology , and two brand new schools, Louise Foussat Elementary School and Cesar Chavez Middle School , that opened in the Fall of 2007. Cesar Chavez Middle School, which is on the corner of Frazee and Oleander, will be built on 14 acres (5.7 ha), house 11 buildings totaling 84,000 square feet (7,800 m ), and will serve 1,000 6th–8th grade students. The other school, Louise Foussat Elementary School, located on Pala Road,

2945-576: The United States through the Section of Painting and Sculpture , later called the Section of Fine Arts , of the Treasury Department . Oceanside continues to be known as a vacation home market. In the 2010s, several mid-rise and high-rise housing and lodging projects were completed in the downtown area, with more to come. In 2021, two large Hyatt resorts were completed, bringing more tourists to

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3040-405: The broadcast range , or geographic area, that the station is limited to, allocates the broadcast frequency of the radio spectrum for that station's transmissions, sets limits on what types of television programs can be programmed for broadcast and requires a station to broadcast a minimum amount of certain programs types, such as public affairs messages . Another form of television station

3135-534: The electricity bill and emergency backup generators . In North America , full-power stations on band I (channels 2 to 6) are generally limited to 100 kW analog video ( VSB ) and 10 kW analog audio ( FM ), or 45 kW digital ( 8VSB ) ERP. Stations on band III (channels 7 to 13) can go up by 5 dB to 316 kW video, 31.6 kW audio, or 160 kW digital. Low-VHF stations are often subject to long-distance reception just as with FM. There are no stations on Channel 1 . UHF , by comparison, has

3230-570: The poverty line , including 16.2% of those under age 18 and 5.7% of those age 65 or over. According to the city's 2017 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city are: The city operates under the council-manager form of government. The city council consists of four members elected from districts and one mayor elected at large. The current council is composed of: Esther Sanchez (mayor), Ryan Keim (deputy mayor)(District 3), Peter Weiss(District 4), Eric Joyce(District 1), and Rick Robinson(District 2). The current city treasurer

3325-576: The public affairs program By the People , which has been a staple of its programming on Sundays at 6 a.m. for many decades. Under LIN ownership, WIVB (and LIN's other CBS affiliates in markets where the company owned a station duopoly) did not broadcast CBS Saturday Morning nor (in most cases) the weekend editions of the CBS Evening News , broadcasting extended hour-long local evening newscasts on Saturdays and Sundays instead. Sister station WNLO aired

3420-638: The 18th floor of the Statler Hotel until 1960, when it moved to its current facilities on Elmwood Avenue. That studio—expanded by the WBEN stations—had originally been built for WBUF-TV, which had gone dark in 1958, two months before the sign-on of present-day ABC affiliate WKBW-TV (channel 7). One early show running from the late 1940s until 1970 was Meet the Millers , a weekday afternoon series featuring Bill and Mildred Miller providing cooking and household tips. Two educational local shows aimed toward children were

3515-458: The Southern Tier. The realignment took effect on the day of the repack, August 1, 2019. WIVB-TV has had significant contract disputes with both of the major cable television providers in the station's coverage area, Time Warner Cable (now Spectrum ) which covers most of Western New York and Atlantic Broadband (now Breezeline ) which covers much of its Northern Pennsylvania area as well as

3610-600: The Spanish founded the village of San Luis Rey with the establishment of Mission San Luis Rey de Francia by Fermín de Lasuén . During the Spanish period, Mission San Luis Rey grew to be the largest of all the Californian missions , but following the Mexican secularization act of 1833 the mission and its community declined. Following the U.S. conquest of California , the former mission lands were developed into an oceanfront resort and

3705-635: The Time Warner Cable dispute) due to the expiration of the existing retransmission consent agreement; the blackout lasted nine days. WIVB was pulled from DirecTV as part of a broader dispute between DirecTV and Nexstar on July 4, 2019, a dispute that was resolved on August 29. WIVB was again pulled from DirecTV as part of another dispute between DirecTV and Nexstar at 7 p.m. (ET) on July 2, 2023. Television station The Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow ( TV Station Paul Nipkow ) in Berlin , Germany ,

3800-627: The U.S., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is taking another large portion of this band (channels 52 to 69) away, in contrast to the rest of the world, which has been taking VHF instead. This means that some stations left on VHF are harder to receive after the analog shutdown . Since at least 1974, there are no stations on channel 37 in North America for radio astronomy purposes. Most television stations are commercial broadcasting enterprises which are structured in

3895-567: The absence of a local affiliate in the Elmira market; this lasted until 2009 when Elmira ABC affiliate WENY-TV launched a third digital subchannel (on DT2) that is affiliated with CBS. On April 14, 2017, WIVB announced that it had sold its spectrum in the FCC's broadcast incentive auction and that it would no longer broadcast on UHF channel 39. The station's programming would be unaffected, as WIVB shares UHF channel 32 with sister station WNLO while holding

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3990-782: The air on May 14, 1948, as WBEN-TV. It was Buffalo's first television station, and the fifth-oldest station in New York state. The station was originally owned by the Butler family, along with the Buffalo Evening News and WBEN radio ( 930 AM and 106.5 FM, now WBKV at 102.5); the holding company for the WBEN stations was WBEN, Inc. Its radio sister had been one of CBS Radio 's first 16 affiliates when that network premiered in 1928, but by that point had switched networks to NBC Blue . Accordingly, channel 4 originally signed on as an NBC television affiliate, and with it aired The Howdy Doody Show ,

4085-536: The audio of the games on cable channel 4. Buffalo Bills games and some CBS programs were restored in Niagara County through Toronto-based CTV station CFTO-TV (and in other parts of the region through WROC-TV and WSEE-TV ). In Erie , Cattaraugus , Allegany , and western Steuben counties, WIVB-TV continues to (in addition to block its signal) enforce its syndication exclusivity on Bills games preventing them from being brought in from another market. An agreement

4180-409: The city was 66.4% White , 6.3% African American , 5.5% Asian , 1.2% Pacific Islander , 0.4% Native American or Alaskan Native , 0.1% from another race alone, and 3.2% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 30.2%. In 2000, there were 56,488 households, out of which 35.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.1% were married couples living together, 11.0% had

4275-698: The city's public library system, with the main branch located in the civic center. In the California State Legislature , Oceanside is in the 38th Senate District , represented by Democrat Catherine Blakespear , and in the 74th Assembly District , represented by Republican Laurie Davies . In the United States House of Representatives , Oceanside is in California's 49th congressional district , represented by Democrat Mike Levin . Residents of Oceanside may attend schools in

4370-471: The city. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 42.2 square miles (109 km ), of which 41.2 square miles (107 km ) is land and 0.9 square miles (2.3 km ), comprising 2.23%, is water. Traveling north on Interstate 5 , Oceanside is the last city before Orange County . As the crow flies, it is roughly the same distance from Aliso Viejo as it

4465-680: The community's name gradually changed to Oceanside. Originally inhabited by Native Americans, Oceanside was first settled by the Luiseño peoples, or the Payomkawichum . The city of Oceanside sits on the locality on the San Luis Rey River that the Luiseño called Tacayme, which contained the villages of Qée'ish (Keish) and 'ikáymay (Ikamal), in the San Luis Rey Mission area, Wiyóoya (Wiawio) at

4560-482: The day after he purchased the station. The call-letter change was triggered due to an FCC regulation at the time prohibiting TV and radio stations in the same city, but with different owners, from sharing the same call letters. The WBEN callsign remains on 930 AM, which along with its FM sister station had been sold to Larry Levite's Algonquin Broadcasting (both of those stations are currently owned by Audacy ). Channel 4

4655-430: The disputes resolved, WIVB-TV regained the lead. The end of The Oprah Winfrey Show in 2010, which traditionally has given a strong lead-in to WIVB-TV's newscasts, were expected to mark the end of WIVB-TV's lead in the ratings. Ratings for its replacement for the 2011–12 and 2012–13 seasons, Anderson , had initially been very poor, to the point where despite being placed in an earlier time slot, it had caused harm to both

4750-550: The early 1970s, the combination of the Buffalo Evening News and WBEN-AM-FM-TV was grandfathered under the new rule. However, the 1974 death of Katherine Butler (longtime owner and publisher of the Evening News ) led to the placement of the Evening News ' properties in a blind trust (since Butler left no heirs). This trust company then sold the newspaper to its current owner, Berkshire Hathaway in 1977. This sale brought an end to 101 years of Butler family ownership of

4845-420: The highest point available in the transmission area, such as on a summit , the top of a high skyscraper , or on a tall radio tower . To get a signal from the master control room to the transmitter, a studio/transmitter link (STL) is used. The link can be either by radio or T1 / E1 . A transmitter/studio link (TSL) may also send telemetry back to the station, but this may be embedded in subcarriers of

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4940-565: The hour-long Fun to Learn consisting of 15-minute segments which taught various subjects including the language of Spanish at 5 p.m. weekdays and the half-hour Your Museum of Science , which featured the curator of the Buffalo Museum of Science on Saturday mornings. Another staple throughout the 1950s and early 1960s was a short visit to the North Pole with Santa Claus and Forgetful the Elf . This

5035-530: The households 14,117 (23.8%) were made up of individuals, and 6,161 (10.4%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.80. There were 40,259 families (68.0% of all households); the average family size was 3.32. The population was spread out, with 39,817 people (23.8%) under the age of 18, 19,028 people (11.4%) aged 18 to 24, 45,797 people (27.4%) aged 25 to 44, 40,943 people (24.5%) aged 45 to 64, and 21,501 people (12.9%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age

5130-588: The introduction of farming and grazing changed the landscape of what would become Oceanside. Following the Mexican secularization act of 1833 , the Californian missions were nationalized, transferring their ownership from the Franciscan Order of the Catholic Church to the Mexican Government. A mission administrator was appointed to each mission to oversee the process of secularization, the removal of

5225-419: The last meteorologist to have lived in western New York before arriving at WIVB, left the station in February 2019. The news operation at WIVB-TV has historically favored a straight newscast, as opposed to the more activist approach of WGRZ (WIVB-TV highlighted this in an advertising campaign in the mid-2000s, when it used the slogan "today's news and tomorrow's weather" and asserted that it "doesn't take sides,"

5320-703: The late 1850s, Andrew Jackson Myers, an emigrant from Illinois, lived in San Joaquin County , but he returned in the late 1880s and lived in San Luis Rey . In 1882 Myers moved on the land that was the original townsite for Oceanside. A patent for the land was issued in 1883 by the federal government. It was incorporated on July 3, 1888. The city hall as of the early 21st century stands on the former Myers homestead. The town post office contains an oil-on-canvas mural, Air Mail , painted in 1937 by Elsie Seeds. Federally commissioned murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in

5415-605: The lead in news viewership following several years in which WGRZ had the highest viewership. The station and its staff have won several Emmy Awards including one in 1999. WIVB-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 4, at 9 a.m. on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 39, using virtual channel 4. It

5510-589: The local ratings, while NBC's existing affiliate WGRZ-TV was in third place, although not as distant as it had been throughout much of the 1980s and early 1990s. Both stations have since passed then-first-place WKBW-TV. WIVB-TV gained the local rights to the Buffalo Bills from WGRZ-TV in 1998 , when the American Football Conference package moved to CBS . WGRZ-TV had aired most Bills games since 1965. Van Miller , channel 4's longtime sports director,

5605-400: The local television station has no station identification and, from a consumer's point of view, there is no practical distinction between a network and a station, with only small regional changes in programming, such as local television news . To broadcast its programs, a television station requires operators to operate equipment, a transmitter or radio antenna , which is often located at

5700-488: The longest continuous run of any news anchor in the history of Buffalo television. Walker announced her retirement from the anchor desk in April 2024 as she moves into a senior correspondent role previously held by her former co-anchor Rich Newberg. The station frequently places significant emphasis on its weather operation. Don Paul spent nearly 30 years as WIVB's chief meteorologist before he was pushed into retirement in 2016; after

5795-419: The main broadcast. Stations which retransmit or simulcast another may simply pick-up that station over-the-air , or via STL or satellite. The license usually specifies which other station it is allowed to carry. VHF stations often have very tall antennas due to their long wavelength , but require much less effective radiated power (ERP), and therefore use much less transmitter power output , also saving on

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5890-403: The merger also brought WIVB back under co-ownership with The Buffalo News , as Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway owns that newspaper, and the newspaper-broadcast cross-ownership ban has since been lifted. The two entities remain operated separately. Media General later merged with Nexstar Broadcasting Group to form Nexstar Media Group . WIVB-TV currently airs no local non-news programming, except for

5985-412: The most hours of news content, had the smallest news staff of any of the three stations in the market, after WKBW-TV went on a hiring spree to boost its staff. WIVB has long been considered to favor older viewers, even dating back to the 1970s when its rivals were promoting flashier, more sensational approaches to the news. Jacquie Walker, the station's lead co-anchor, has been with the station since 1984,

6080-468: The mouth of the river, and Wi'áasamay (Wiasamai) and Waxáwmay (Wahaumai) at Guajome. The first European explorers arrived in 1769. Spanish missionaries under Father Junípero Serra founded Mission San Luis Rey de Francia on a former site of a Luiseño Indian village on the banks of the San Luis Rey River called Keish according to the Portolà expedition who visited in the 1769. In the early 19th century,

6175-460: The population 97,645 people (58.4%) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 68,505 people (41.0%) lived in rental housing units. As of the census of 2000, there were 161,029 people, 56,488 households, and 39,259 families residing in the city. The population density was 3,967.2 inhabitants per square mile (1,531.7/km ). There were 59,581 housing units at an average density of 1,467.9 units per square mile (566.8 units/km ). The racial makeup of

6270-557: The population) lived in households, 802 (0.5%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 134 (0.1%) were institutionalized. There were 59,238 households, out of which 20,486 (34.6%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 30,201 (51.0%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 6,947 (11.7%) had a female householder with no husband present, 3,111 (5.3%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 3,504 (5.9%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships , and 472 (0.8%) same-sex married couples or partnerships . Of

6365-651: The priests, and the selling or granting of the mission lands to private citizens. At Mission San Luis Rey, Padre Antonio Peyrí had presided over the mission for 34 years when soldiers forced his removal in late 1833. Captain Pablo de la Portillà was appointed as administrator of San Luis Rey. Following the departure of Padre Peyrí, relations between the Luiseños and the new civilian administration hugely deteriorated, resulting in their famed refusal to work for Captain Portillà in 1835. In

6460-476: The programmes seen on its owner's flagship station, and have no television studio or production facilities of their own. This is common in developing countries . Low-power stations typically also fall into this category worldwide. Most stations which are not simulcast produce their own station identifications . TV stations may also advertise on or provide weather (or news) services to local radio stations , particularly co-owned sister stations . This may be

6555-457: The ratings race at 10 p.m. ever since the program's debut. Starting on February 2, 2009, WNLO began airing a two-hour extension of WIVB-TV's weekday morning newscast. It has since cut the extended morning show by an hour to make room for a partially brokered local talk show. It also rebroadcasts WIVB-TV's weekend morning newscast and may air the hour-long weekend 6 p.m. newscasts which normally air on WIVB-TV, if CBS Sports programming runs over into

6650-564: The rest of the Western New York region. In both cases, WIVB-TV demanded a rights fee of 25 cents per month per subscriber (in addition to another 25 cents for sister station WNLO) and refused to allow the carriers the right to carry the signal. The agreement with Time Warner Cable expired on October 2, 2008. WIVB-TV and WNLO were taken off Time Warner Cable at 12:30 a.m. on October 3 and were replaced with CBS College Sports Network and HBO Family respectively when an agreement between LIN TV and Time Warner Cable could not be reached. According to

6745-713: The same time improving the station's coverage along the Golden Horseshoe in Ontario, including a city-grade signal in Toronto. To restore its Southern Tier coverage area, Nexstar reached an agreement to transfer channel 32 to WUTV, which has historically put a greater emphasis on its Canadian viewership than WIVB has; WIVB and WNLO would in turn receive the channel 36 allocation (being vacated by adjacent-market channels WENY-TV and CITS-DT ) that WUTV had originally purchased, which will allow it to reposition its signal so that it again serves

6840-454: The same time, WIVB-TV had taken over the number-one spot for the first time in over a quarter century. It remained number one for the next decade until a series of budget cuts, a retransmission consent dispute with Time Warner Cable, and the slow response to replace departing news anchors pushed most of its newscasts to second, behind WGRZ, who has since also come under ownership of a major national media company. By 2013, WIVB-TV, despite producing

6935-458: The show airing immediately after it ( The Dr. Oz Show ), and the evening newscasts, which are currently firmly in second place, halfway between new market leader WGRZ (which has The Ellen DeGeneres Show as a lead-in to its evening newscast) and third-place WKBW-TV (which had The Doctors as its lead-in). By the start of the 2012 season, the ratings for both Anderson and the WIVB-TV newscasts had recovered. By November 2018, WIVB had reclaimed

7030-643: The station a Fox affiliate), Tribune Broadcasting (to make a station a WB affiliate), Paramount Stations Group (to make a station a UPN affiliate), and E. W. Scripps Company (to make the station an ABC affiliate), to purchase the station fell through, WIVB-TV was sold to LIN TV Corporation (which would later take the name LIN Media ) in 1995; King World was acquired by CBS in 2000 and has since been absorbed into Paramount Global 's CBS Media Ventures unit, while E. W. Scripps would later acquire rival WKBW in 2014 and, ironically, WIVB's current parent Nexstar would later acquire Tribune in 2019. The new owner renewed

7125-421: The station's CBS affiliation through a long-term contract; it was renewed in 2014, along with most of the rest of the contracts for LIN's CBS affiliates, and will expire at an unknown date. As a result of the cancellation of the deal, Buffalo was one of the few NFL markets that was not affected by the affiliation switches. At the time of the aborted NBC purchase, WIVB-TV's viewership was in a strong second place in

7220-482: The station, LIN TV and Time Warner Cable were still trying to work on a deal even after the channels were dropped. Time Warner Cable stated negotiations broke off at the time of the shutoff. After that, WIVB-TV openly advocated for Time Warner Cable customers to switch to Dish Network . Time Warner Cable, in turn, gave away free antennas and struck a deal with the Buffalo Bills Radio Network to simulcast

7315-428: The timeslot. WIVB-TV began broadcasting its newscasts in true high definition on February 1, 2012. It was the last of the television stations in the Buffalo market to upgrade its news programming to HD; WKBW-TV had done so in 2011, and WGRZ aired some HD content as early as February 2010. The 10 p.m. newscast on WNLO was included in the upgrade. From approximately 1995 until the end of 2009, WIVB-TV built and operated

7410-457: The usual CBS Evening News timeslot and took over coverage fully once WNLO began airing CW programming at 8 pm. The station did carry the final in full in 2013 , when it was scheduled for Monday instead of Sunday from the outset. This arrangement ended in 2015 when ESPN became the exclusive carrier of the tournament. As part of the team's new regional media deal with Nexstar, Buffalo Bills preseason broadcasts moved to WIVB in 2021 (the move

7505-541: The weekend editions of the CBS Evening News . On the numerous occasions that CBS' coverage of the men's final of the US Open tennis tournament was pushed back from Sunday to Monday afternoon (and occasionally other sports coverage held over to weekdays), WIVB-TV delegated this coverage to WNLO to air its regular local and syndicated programming. If necessary due to the length of the match, WIVB-TV simulcasted coverage during

7600-568: The weekend editions of the CBS Evening News, but, unlike most LIN duopoly stations in this scenario, did not carry CBS This Morning Saturday as it is committed to The CW's Saturday morning block (currently One Magnificent Morning ). As an exception, if CBS Sports programming ran into the 6:30 p.m. half-hour on weekends, local news would air from 6 to 7 on WNLO, and the abbreviated network newscast, if any, might air on WIVB-TV. In fall 2015, WIVB, now under Media General ownership, began to consistently carry both CBS This Morning Saturday and

7695-399: The world. Television stations broadcasting over an analog system were typically limited to one television channel , but digital television enables broadcasting via subchannels as well. Television stations usually require a broadcast license from a government agency which sets the requirements and limitations on the station. In the United States, for example, a television license defines

7790-407: Was 33 years. For every 100 females, there were 98.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.1 males. The median income for a household in the city was $ 46,301, and the median income for a family was $ 52,232. Males had a median income of $ 34,772 versus $ 27,962 for females. The per capita income for the city was $ 20,329. About 8.2% of families and 11.6% of the population were below

7885-400: Was 35.2 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.0 males. There were 64,435 housing units at an average density of 1,527.8 units per square mile (589.9 units/km ), of which 34,986 (59.1%) were owner-occupied, and 24,252 (40.9%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 2.2%; the rental vacancy rate was 6.2%. Of

7980-495: Was a daily show that aired only during December and was sponsored by Hengerer's Department Store. On September 23, 1977, the then-newly-renamed WIVB took over production of the public-access cable television program Disco Step by Step . In April 1976, the station signed a sister station agreement with Hokuriku Broadcasting from Kanazawa in central Japan. When the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) disallowed same market co-ownership of newspapers and broadcast licenses in

8075-428: Was added in the 4 p.m. weekday time slot in early 2016. 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 from morning to night. It has become so dominant in the market that it at one time garnered the highest television ratings for

8170-479: Was exploring strategic alternatives that could have resulted in the sale of the company; such a sale would not materialize until March 21, 2014, when it announced a merger with Media General . The merger was completed on December 19, bringing WIVB-TV and WNLO under common ownership with ABC affiliate WTEN and the same management as Fox affiliate WXXA-TV in Albany ; because Media General is part-owned by Warren Buffett ,

8265-524: Was originally co-anchored by Chuck Gurney, the first openly gay television personality in the Buffalo market.) During the mid-1990s, WIVB-TV used the 24 Hour News Source format, which had previously been used earlier in the decade on WGRZ-TV. In March 2001, WIVB-TV began airing a nightly 10 p.m. newscast on WNLO known as The 10 O'Clock News . During the week, this program competes with WGRZ-TV's prime time newscast that currently airs on Fox affiliate WUTV (and previously ran on WPXJ-TV and WNYO-TV ); WNLO has led

8360-615: Was originally scheduled for 2020 before the NFL canceled its 2020 preseason due to COVID-19 concerns ). The contract took effect across Nexstar's other stations in the Bills' market in 2018. WIVB-TV presently broadcasts 37 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with six hours each weekday and 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours each on Saturdays and Sundays). In addition, the station produces an additional 18 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours of newscasts weekly for WNLO (with 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 hours on weekdays, and

8455-529: Was reached between LIN TV and Time Warner Cable on October 29 allowing WIVB-TV and WNLO to return to Time Warner channel lineups. The deal, the financial terms of which were not made available, was to expire on May 31, 2013. There was no agreement or negotiation with Atlantic Broadband, but that company continued to retransmit WIVB-TV without permission through 2008. Atlantic Broadband announced it would discontinue carrying WIVB-TV in favor of WSEE-TV on January 1, 2009, and were apparently making no effort to negotiate

8550-594: Was relaunched as independent station WNLO; that station became a UPN affiliate in 2002. The previous UPN stations, WNGS/WONS, later switched to the Retro Television Network and were eventually sold to the Daystar Television Network (Daystar has since sold WNGS, which today serves as Buffalo's MeTV and This TV affiliate under new call letters WBBZ-TV ). In September 2006, WNLO became Buffalo's CW affiliate. On May 18, 2007, LIN announced that it

8645-431: Was the Bills' play-by-play announcer from 1960 to 2003, except for a brief time in the 1970s when WKBW radio was the flagship. However, beginning in 2014 with the introduction of "cross-flex" scheduling, the NFL started arbitrarily moving select Bills games to WUTV , the local Fox affiliate. In 2000, LIN bought the station then known as WNEQ-TV, the market's secondary PBS member station . On January 23, 2001, WNEQ-TV

8740-674: Was the first regular television service in the world. It was on the air from 22 March 1935, until it was shut down in 1944. The station was named after Paul Gottlieb Nipkow , the inventor of the Nipkow disk . Most often the term "television station" refers to a station which broadcasts structured content to an audience or it refers to the organization that operates the station. A terrestrial television transmission can occur via analog television signals or, more recently, via digital television signals. Television stations are differentiated from cable television or other video providers as their content

8835-415: Was then sold to King World Productions (at that time a separate entity from both Viacom and CBS; the two would later split and remerge) for $ 100 million in 1988. In the late 1970s, WBEN/WIVB ended up playing an early role in the emerging cable television industry. Their satellite uplink facility, initiated by general manager Les Arries in 1976, uplinked sporting events for worldwide distribution, and

8930-525: Was unable to reach a deal with WIVB's ownership over a planned expansion of the facility to handle uplinking and studio programming for their new music video channel MTV . WIVB-TV nearly dropped its CBS affiliation and became an NBC affiliate in 1994 , when King World put itself up for sale (NBC parent company General Electric 's announced purchase of the company never materialized). After attempts by Westinghouse Broadcasting (whose parent company would later purchase CBS), New World Communications (to make

9025-477: Was used to transmit American TV programming into Canada until Canadian authorities put an end to this practice. Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment then began leasing the uplink facility to transmit the signals of their then-new cable networks Nickelodeon and The Movie Channel (originally known as Star Channel). Both networks moved to an uplink facility in Hauppauge, New York , by the end of 1981, after Warner-Amex

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