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Revision as of 20:27, 1 October 2006
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WWTI is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Watertown, New York. The station broadcasts on channel 50 from its transmitter in Copenhagen, New York. The coverage area includes Jefferson County, New York, portions of adjacent counties, and the Kingston, Ontario area.
History
The station began broadcasting as WFYF-TV in 1987. It was the second commercial television station in the Watertown market, behind WWNY, which had the market very much to itself since going on the air in late 1954. After the station went bankrupt under its initial investors (a group of Watertown businessmen), the station was sold to Smith Broadcasting in 1990 and the current callsign was adopted. The Ackerley Group purchased the station in 2000, and Clear Channel Communications took control of WWTI with their purchase of Ackerley in 2001.
Programming
WWTI has maintained a minimal local news presence for several years. The nightly "Newswatch 50" broadcasts were cancelled in 2004, but the station continues several daily news updates under that branding. The newscasts have never successfully competed with WWNY's.
WWTI airs the entire ABC network schedule, and syndicated programs airing on the station include The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. Phil, Entertainment Tonight, Inside Edition, Judge Judy and Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.
Until Fox affiliate WNYF (which had formerly been a WWTI translator, but is now owned by WWNY) went on the air in 2000, WWTI had been a secondary Fox station, airing that network's Sunday NFL games.
Beginning in September 2006, WWTI will launch a new digital subchannel to simulcast "WBWT" (currently on cable only), which will become Watertown's CW affiliate at that time.