WBGT-CD (channel 46) is a low-power, Class A television station in

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, United States, affiliated with

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. Owned by Vision Communications, the station has studios on Buffalo Road (

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) in the town of Gates (with a Rochester postal address), and its

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is located on Pinnacle Hill. It can also be seen on

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channel 18 (hence the My 18 branding). WBGT-CD was formerly also seen over-the-air on analog

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W26BZ (channel 26) in Victor, which is no longer licensed. This broadcast from a transmitter south of Perinton's Egypt hamlet along the Monroe and

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County line. This translator was replaced with another, WGCE-CD, some time before 2018; WGCE was spun off to

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in August 2018.

History

WBGT-CD began operations as WBGT-LP on February 2, 1998. For its first ten months on-air, it was an

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under the Big TV branding, before it became an UPN affiliate in November of that year. Despite the affiliation, the station used the branding throughout the later years of the network. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1oAN6wuPNI The Victor translator was added in 1999, and in 2001,

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(predecessor of Charter Spectrum) added WBGT-LP to its lineup. On January 24, 2006,

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and UPN announced that the networks would end broadcasting and merge to form

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, which signed with cable-only WB affiliate WRWB (the forerunner of

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). Several weeks later,

was announced by Fox as an alternative for UPN or WB affiliates not chosen by the CW. WBGT-LP quickly signed an affiliation deal with MyNetworkTV, and joined the network at its launch on September 5, 2006. Around this time, the suffix was changed from -LP to -CA. The station has never been added to

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; the station has no

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rights as a low-power operation. Eventually, when it signed on its digital facilities, the station's calls were changed to WBGT-CD.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is

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References

External links

WBGT-CD "My 18"
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History

Technical information

Subchannels

See also

References

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