WYME-CD (channel 45) is a low-power, Class A television station in

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, United States, as an affiliate of

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. Owned by New Age Media, it is

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to two full-power stations: dual

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affiliate

WGFL WGFL (channel 28) is a television station licensed to High Springs, Florida, United States, serving the Gainesville, Florida, Gainesville area as an affiliate of CBS and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by New Age Media alongside low-power broadcasting ...

(channel 28) and

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affiliate

WNBW-DT WNBW-DT (channel 9) is a television station in Gainesville, Florida, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by MPS Media, which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with New Age Media, owner of High Springs–licensed dual CB ...

(channel 9). The latter is actually owned by MPS Media but operated by New Age Media under a

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(LMA). All three stations, in turn, are operated under a master service agreement by the

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. The stations share studios on Northwest 80th Boulevard (along

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/ SR 93) in Gainesville and transmitter facilities on Southwest 30th Avenue near

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. Even though WYME-CD broadcasts a digital signal of its own, its

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is limited to the immediate Gainesville area. However, it receives full-market over-the-air coverage via WNBW's fourth

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(9.4).

History

WYME began operations in 1994 as W14CB, broadcasting on UHF channel 14. In early 1997, the station increased its power and changed its call letters to WJXE-LP. During this period, the station was known on-air as "TV-14" and mainly aired programming from the

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television network. WJXE changed its callsign to WYPN-CA in 2001, when the station upgraded to Class A service and started broadcasting on UHF channel 43 (moving to channel 45 in 2003). About a year later, the America One programming was dropped and WYPN became a satellite of sister station

on July 15, 2002, the same day the latter station became a CBS affiliate. This arrangement lasted until December 1, 2004, when WYPN gained the

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affiliation and became a separate station. WYPN then positioned itself as "UPN 11", choosing to identify by its cable channel number despite broadcasting over-the-air on channel 45. When the UPN and WB networks merged to form

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in 2006, WYPN was made a satellite of Lake City sister station

WMYG-LP WMYG-LP (channel 11) was a low-power television station in Lake City, Florida, United States, which operated from 1985 to 2015. Last owned by New Age Media, it was most recently affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It was functionally replaced by a dig ...

, which became an affiliate of the new

programming service on September 5, 2006. This arrangement was done primarily due to WMYG's over-the-air signal being channel 11 (the same as WYPN's cable number). In the months prior to the switch, WYPN omitted "UPN" from their logo and on-screen graphics and re-branded itself as "WYPN 11". Five years later, on May 3, 2011, WYPN became an affiliate of the MeTV network. To reflect the new affiliation, the station changed its call letters to WYME-CA. This time, the station didn't go by its channel number, instead simply identifying itself as "MeTV Gainesville". On September 25, 2013, New Age Media announced that it would sell most of its stations, including the then WYME-CA, WGFL, and WMYG-LP, to the

. Concurrently, MPS Media planned to sell WNBW-DT to

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, though Sinclair would still operate that station. On October 31, 2014, New Age Media requested the dismissal of its application to sell WYME-CA; the next day, Sinclair purchased the non-license assets of the stations it planned to buy from New Age Media and began operating them through a master service agreement.

Subchannel

References

External links

AntennaTV.tv
– official Antenna TV website
MyCBS4.com
– official WGFL website {{SBGI Antenna TV affiliates Television channels and stations established in 1994 YME-CD Sinclair Broadcast Group YME