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15 ( UHF digital channel 28), is a low-power, Class A
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- affiliated
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to
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, United States. The station is owned by
Venture Technologies Group Venture Technologies Group, LLC is an American television broadcasting company that was founded in 1996 and based in Los Angeles, California. The company currently owns 14 television stations. Stations owned Stations owned through Four Season ...
.


History

The station originated on January 24, 1996, as a construction permit for W02CJ, which was to have operated on channel 2 in
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, from a tower at the studios of radio station WJAN (95.1 FM, now WVTQ). However, that facility was never built, and later that year owners Ronald and Jan Morlino, who also owned WJAN, transferred W02CJ to Vision 3 Broadcasting, which on May 9, 1997, modified the permit to instead serve Easton,
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, Hudson Falls, and
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on channel 39 from Willard Mountain, making the station W39CE. The station was designed to be a repeater of WVBG-LP (channel 25) from Albany; however, when channel 39 signed on in December 1997 as an independent station, it was the first of Vision 3's three stations to launch, ahead of W49BU (channel 49, later renamed WVBK-LP; now WHNH-CD channel 2) in Manchester, which signed on in March 1998, and WVBG itself, which debuted in August 1998. Channel 39 became WVBX-LP on April 10, 1998. On October 5, 1998, WVBX, along with parent station WVBG, became a
UPN The United Paramount Network (UPN) was an American broadcast television network that launched on January 16, 1995. It was originally owned by Chris-Craft Industries' United Television. Viacom (through its Paramount Television unit, which pr ...
affiliate; it already carried the UPN Kids block, but the network's primetime programming had previously been seen in the
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through secondary affiliations with
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affiliate
WXXA-TV WXXA-TV (channel 23) is a television station licensed to Albany, New York, United States, serving the Capital District as an affiliate of the Fox network. It is owned by Mission Broadcasting and operated under a shared services agreement (SSA ...
(channel 23) and
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station WYPX (channel 55), as well as cable carriage of
WSBK-TV WSBK-TV (channel 38) is an independent television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is owned by the CBS News and Stations group alongside CBS owned-and-operated station WBZ-TV (channel 4). Both stations share studios on So ...
from
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. However, from its inception, the station could not get carriage on
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, which chose to continue its carriage of WSBK; this was despite acquiring several sports packages, including
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football and basketball, the
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(the telecasts of which were dropped following a territorial complaint by the
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), and the Boston Celtics. Vision 3 did win
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rights in Washington County (in the WVBX coverage area) on December 3, 1999. However, the UPN affiliation ended at the start of 2000 when cable-only "
WEDG-TV WEDG-TV (originally EdgeTV, later UPN4, no relation to the radio station of the same calls in Buffalo or WEDG.TV) was a cable-only UPN affiliate in New York's Capital District which was a joint venture between Time Warner Cable and Fox affilia ...
" (known later as "UPN 4") signed on as a joint operation between Time Warner Cable and WXXA. WVBX would then revert to being an independent station, heavily emphasizing its status as a primarily over-the-air station; that June, Vision 3 put WVBG and WVBX up for sale, and by 2001 much of the station's schedule was taken up by
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and
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programming. In 2002, a year after parent station WVBG was sold to Wireless Access, Vision 3 was granted a construction permit to move WVBX to channel 15 from a transmitter on the
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in New Scotland, near the location of the WVBG transmitter, in effect moving the station to Albany. The new facility was also granted class A status, with the call sign WVBX-CA. On May 22, 2003, Vision 3 sold WVBX to Venture Technologies Group, who took channel 39 off-the-air that June. During this time, Venture built the channel 15 facility, gave it the call letters WNYA-CA on June 30, 2003, and announced that the station would serve as a repeater of
WNYA WNYA (channel 51) is a television station licensed to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States, serving New York's Capital District as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting alongside Albany-licensed NBC affiliate WNYT ...
(channel 51) from
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, which Venture was in the process of launching; this resulted in the unusual circumstance of a repeater station older than its parent station. Together, the two stations came on the air September 1, 2003, as the Capital District's new UPN affiliate (replacing "WEDG-TV"), operated by
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, then-owner of
WRGB WRGB (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Schenectady, New York, United States, serving the Capital District as an affiliate of CBS. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside CW affiliate WCWN (channel 45, also licensed to Sc ...
(channel 6), under a
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. On January 24, 2006,
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and UPN announced that they would end broadcasting and merge to form a new network,
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; the new network immediately named WEWB-TV (channel 45, now
WCWN WCWN (channel 45) is a television station licensed to Schenectady, New York, United States, serving the Capital District as an affiliate of The CW. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside CBS affiliate WRGB (channel 6, also licensed to ...
) its Capital District affiliate after then-owner
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signed a ten-year affiliation deal with the new network on most of its WB stations. On February 22,
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announced that it would start up another new broadcast television network called
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; on March 9, it was announced that WNYA (and in turn WNYA-CA) would join this network, which launched on September 5. A few months after the affiliation change, on December 5, 2006, Freedom Communications purchased WCWN from Tribune, in effect giving it control over three stations in the Capital District; in February 2007, the joint sales agreement with WRGB was terminated, and WNYA moved from WRGB's studios in
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to a facility in
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that formerly housed
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- TV. In April 2011, WNYA-CA replaced WNYA's main programming with
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, simulcast from WNYA's second digital subchannel. On February 25, 2013, Hubbard Broadcasting announced that it would purchase WNYA to form a duopoly with its local NBC affiliate WNYT, for $2.3 million, pending FCC approval.Application For Consent To Assignment Of Broadcast Station Construction Permit Or License
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, March 8, 2013
The sale did not include WNYA-CA, which remained with Venture Technologies. Under a clause of the sale of WNYA that required WNYA-CA to use a new call sign that does not feature the letters "N" or "Y," channel 15 became WEPT-CA on March 8, 2013. On May 29, 2013, the FCC approved the sale of WNYA to Hubbard, which was completed July 15; that September, WEPT-CA dropped its WNYA-DT2 simulcast to join AMGTV, moved its transmitter to New Baltimore, and changed its city of license to Kinderhook. Venture then filed on September 25 to construct a digital companion facility on channel 22 broadcasting from
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in
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; the permit was granted on December 23. On December 18, 2014, the station was issued a license for digital operation, with its city of license moving from Kinderhook to Newburgh and its call sign changing to WEPT-CD. The station, which had remained in the Albany television market while licensed to Kinderhook, became part of the
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market following the move to Newburgh. On January 10, 2018, WEPT-CD went silent due to antenna and line issues. Per an FCC filing on August 14, 2018, the station resumed operations as of August 7, 2018. On October 22, 2018, WEPT went silent in preparation for the FCC's Phase 4 repack. On March 25, 2020, WEPT-CD filed a Suspension of Operations and Request for Silence STA with the FCC due to what the station called in its filing, "reflective power issues" On September 29, 2020, WEPT-CD resumed operations https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/draftCopy.html?displayType=html&appKey=25076ff374c2345f0174db7ac45b2673&id=25076ff374c2345f0174db7ac45b2673&goBack=N September 29, 2020, Retrieved October 6, 2020


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* {{Other New York Stations EPT-CD Mass media in Albany, New York Television channels and stations established in 1997 Low-power television stations in the United States