WUTV

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WUTV (channel 29) is a television station in Buffalo, New York, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside WNYO-TV (channel 49), an independent station with MyNetworkTV. The two stations share studios on Hertel Avenue near Military Road in Buffalo; WUTV's transmitter is located on Whitehaven Road (near I-190) in Grand Island, New York, behind its former main studio building. After a years-long permit fight, WUTV began broadcasting on December 21, 1970, as Buffalo's first modern independent station. It was built by Ultravision Broadcasting Company, a group of local investors. In addition to its broadcast in the Buffalo area, it was widely available in the adjacent Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario, including the Greater Toronto Area, with its broadcast signal and on cable television systems. Under the ownership of Philip Lombardo's Citadel Communications, WUTV became a Fox affiliate when the network launched in 1986, but it was an underperforming affiliate and struggled with ratings issues stemming from the duplication of Fox programming on Canadian stations. The network agreed to move its affiliation to channel 49, then a competing independent known as WNYB-TV.…

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