ABC/CBS/CW affiliate in Elmira, New york city Tv station in New york city, United StatesWENY-TVElmiraCorningIthaca, New YorkUnited StatesElmira, New YorkDigital: 35 (UHF)Virtual: 36 (PSIP) BrandingWENY ABC (basic) WENY CBS (DT2) Twin Tiers CW 2 (DT3) ProgrammingAffiliations OwnershipOwnerLilly Broadcasting, L.L.C.WSEE-TV, WICU-TV HistoryFirstair dateNovember 19, 1969( 51 years ago )( 1969-11-19 )Former channel number (s) 36( UHF, 19692009) 55 (UHF, 20002009) 36 (UHF, 20092019) We remain in Elmira, New YorkTechnical informationLicensing authority7150875 kW 145 kW( CP) 342 m( 1,122 ft) 311 m (1,020 ft) (CP) Transmitter coordinatesLinksPublic license info Website (DT3) WENY-TV, virtual channel 36 (UHF digital channel 35), is an ABC/CBS/CW+-affiliated licensed to Elmira, New York City, United States, serving the Western Twin Tiers of Southern Upstate New York and Northern Pennsylvania.
WENY-TV's studios are located on Old Ithaca Roadway in Horseheads, and its transmitter is located on Higman Hill in Corning. The station was formerly aired through an analog W06AR on VHF channel 6. The station signed on November 19, 1969, after Howard Green, owner of WENY radio (1230 AM and 92.
Another area broadcaster, Frank Saia, had actually surrendered the building and construction authorization to develop what would have been WEHH-TV on the same channel. Green bought the initial devices from defunct station WNYP-TV, working with Larry Taylor (previously the Assistant Chief Engineer of WNYP-TV) to move and install the broadcast equipment. Green and Taylor brought the devices into an area on the ground floor of the Mark Twain Hotel in Downtown Elmira which had actually been a restaurant.
A more addition was constructed to the building that housed WSYE to enable the setup of the WENY analog transmitter. The station's digital transmitter was relocated to Corning. WENY started operations out of a blended color/ black-and-white facility. Its broadcasts of ABC network programs were in fact retransmissions of either WABC-TV in New York City or WNYS-TV (now WSYR-TV) in Syracuse, New York City.
The station aired a little amount of in your area produced programming including an Elmira edition of Claster Television's long-running kids's program and a late-Saturday night horror motion picture hosted by video jockey Paul Leigh as the ghoulish "Undertaker". During the devastating flooding brought on by Cyclone Agnes in 1972, WENY was deserted due to increasing waters.
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