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{{Short description|Television station in Pittsfield, Massachusetts}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox television station
| callsign               = WNYA
| city                   = Pittsfield, Massachusetts
| logo                   = WNYA alt.svg
| logo_size              = 180px
| location               = {{ubl|[[Pittsfield, Massachusetts]]|[[Albany, New York|Albany]]–[[Schenectady]]–[[Troy, New York]]}}
| country                = United States
| branding               = My4 Albany
| analog                 =
| digital                = 7 ([[VHF]])
| virtual                = 51
| affiliations           = {{ubl|'''51.1:''' [[MyNetworkTV]] / [[NBC]] ''(alternate)''|''for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| translators            = 
| owner                  = [[Hubbard Broadcasting]]
| licensee               = WNYT-TV, [[LLC]]
| founded                = February 3, 2003
| airdate                = {{start date and age|2003|9|1|p=y}}
| last_airdate           = 
| callsign_meaning       = New York Television Alternate (for sister station WNYT as a [[backronym]]), or Albany
| sister_stations        = [[WNYT]]
| former_callsigns       = 
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 51 ([[UHF]], 2003–2009)|'''Digital:''' 13 (VHF, 2009–2020)}}
| former_affiliations    = [[UPN]] (2003–2006)
| erp                    = 23 kW
| haat                   = {{convert|437.2|m|ft|1|abbr=on}}
| facility_id            = 136751
| coordinates            = {{coord|42|37|31.3|N|74|0|36.7|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| licensing_authority    = [[FCC]]
| website                = {{URL|https://wnyt.com/my4}} 
}}

'''WNYA''' (channel 51, cable channel 4) is a [[television station]] licensed to [[Pittsfield, Massachusetts]], United States, serving [[New York (state)|New York]]'s [[Capital District, New York|Capital District]] as an affiliate of [[MyNetworkTV]]. It is owned by [[Hubbard Broadcasting]] alongside [[Albany, New York|Albany]]-licensed [[NBC]] affiliate [[WNYT]] (channel 13). Both stations share studios on North Pearl Street in [[Menands]] (with an Albany [[United States Postal Service|postal]] address), while WNYA's transmitter is located on the [[Helderberg Escarpment]] west of [[New Salem, New York|New Salem]].

The station uses its main [[cable television|cable]] channel position of 4 on [[Charter Spectrum]] and [[Verizon Fios]] for marketing purposes as '''My 4 Albany''', only mentioning their actual channel number on-air during maintenance [[sign-off]] disclosures. Despite Pittsfield being WNYA's [[city of license]], the station maintains no physical presence there.

==History==
===Establishment of channel 51===
What today is WNYA can indirectly trace its history to WVUW, an un-built station on channel 51 in Pittsfield. WVUW was granted a [[construction permit]] in 1984,<ref name=fcc-wvuwgranted>{{cite web|title=Application Search Details (WVUW, 1)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=37310|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]|access-date=March 12, 2013}}</ref> but was deleted by the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) in 1990.<ref name=fcc-wvuwcanceled>{{cite web|title=Application Search Details (WVUW, 2)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=144182|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=March 12, 2013}}</ref> In October 1996, [[Pappas Telecasting]] applied for a new permit for this allocation;<ref name=nerw-pappasapplication>{{cite news|last=Fybush|first=Scott|title=1150 Gets Nifty, more Maine|url=http://www.bostonradio.org/nerw/nerw-961022.html|access-date=March 12, 2013|newspaper=New England RadioWatch|date=October 22, 1996}}</ref> however, in 2001, the FCC placed the channel up for auction.<ref name=tbj-channel51auction>{{cite news|last=Pinckney|first=Barbara|title=13 companies line up to win bid for Pittsfield television station in auction|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2001/11/26/story7.html?page=all|access-date=March 12, 2013|newspaper=[[The Business Review (Albany)|The Business Review]]|date=November 26, 2001}}</ref> In addition to Pappas, which by then planned to use the station as an [[Azteca América]] affiliate, bidders included Hubbard Broadcasting, [[Equity Broadcasting]], the [[Trinity Broadcasting Network]], and Venture Technologies Group.<ref name=tbj-channel51auction/> When the auction took place in February 2002, Venture Technologies ended up with the winning bid for $1.3 million.<ref name=nerw-venturewins>{{cite news|last=Fybush|first=Scott|title=North East RadioWatch|url=http://www.bostonradio.org/nerw/nerw-020225.html|access-date=March 12, 2013|date=February 25, 2002}}</ref> The FCC granted the construction permit<ref name=fcc-wnyagranted>{{cite web|title=Application Search Details (WNYA)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=598381|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=March 12, 2013}}</ref> and the WNYA call sign to Venture a year later.<ref name=nerw-wnyacallsign>{{cite news|last=Fybush|first=Scott|title=Fire on the Mountain|url=http://www.bostonradio.org/nerw/nerw-030210.html|access-date=March 12, 2013|newspaper=North East RadioWatch|date=February 10, 2003}}</ref> To accommodate the new WNYA, WNYT moved its [[Adams, Massachusetts|Adams]] translator, which had broadcast on channel 51 since 1984,<ref name=fcc-w51aestart>{{cite web|title=Application Search Details (W51AE)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=66421|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=March 12, 2013}}</ref> to channel 38.<ref name=nerw-w51aemoves>{{cite news|last=Fybush|first=Scott|title=North East RadioWatch|url=http://www.bostonradio.org/nerw/nerw-021111.html|access-date=March 12, 2013|date=November 11, 2002}}</ref>

===UPN Capital Region===
In February 2003, Venture Technologies signed a [[joint sales agreement]] (JSA) with [[Freedom Communications]], then-owner of [[CBS]] affiliate [[WRGB]] (channel 6); this allowed WNYA to operate from WRGB's studios in [[Niskayuna]]. Soon afterward, WNYA secured an affiliation with [[UPN]], replacing "[[WEDG-TV]]", a cable-only station operated as a partnership of [[WXXA-TV]] (channel 23) and [[Time Warner Cable]].<ref name=tbr-wnyawrgbupn>{{cite news|last=Pinckney|first=Barbara|title=WRGB to handle ad sales for new channel|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2003/02/17/daily31.html|access-date=March 25, 2013|newspaper=The Business Review|date=February 19, 2003}}</ref>

On May 22, 2003, Venture purchased WVBX-LP (channel 39) in [[Easton, New York|Easton]] from Vision 3 Broadcasting,<ref name=fcc-wvbxpurchase>{{cite web|title=Application Search Details (WEPT-CA)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_det.pl?Application_id=656285|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=March 25, 2013}}</ref> a station that a year earlier had been granted a construction permit to upgrade to [[Class A television service|class A]] service and move to channel 15 from a transmitter in the Helderberg Mountains in New Scotland, in effect moving WVBX to Albany.<ref name=tbr-wvbx15albany>{{cite news|title=WVBX gets FCC OK to move channel; will cover entire Capital Region|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2002/04/29/weekinbiz.html?page=all|access-date=March 25, 2013|newspaper=The Business Review|date=April 29, 2002}}</ref> Venture took channel 39 off-the-air that June,<ref name=cgsb-wvbxclosed>{{cite news|title=CapitalGold Dial Guide SoundBoard|url=http://www.capitalgold.org/archives/jun2003.htm|access-date=March 25, 2013|date=June 20, 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040113050449/http://www.capitalgold.org/archives/jun2003.htm|archive-date=January 13, 2004}}</ref> built the channel 15 facility, gave it the call letters WNYA-CA on June 30, 2003,<ref name=fcc-weptcacallsigns>{{cite web|title=Call Sign History (WEPT-CA)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=30429&Callsign=WEPT-CD|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=March 21, 2013}}</ref> and announced that the station would serve as a WNYA repeater;<ref name=atu-wnyastart>{{cite news|last=McGuire|first=Mark|title=New UPN station to debut Sept. 1|page=D4|url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=6226904|access-date=March 25, 2013|newspaper=[[Albany Times-Union]]|date=August 26, 2003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222061406/http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=6226904|archive-date=February 22, 2014}}</ref> this created the unusual circumstance of a repeater station older than its parent station, as WVBX had signed on in 1997 as part of a network of low-power stations based at [[WVBG-LP]] (channel 25) in Albany,<ref name=atu-w39cestart>{{cite news|last=Owen|first=Rob|title='Daily' takes shot at the whole year|url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=5842392|page=D6|access-date=March 22, 2013|newspaper=Albany Times-Union|date=December 9, 1997}}</ref> which itself served as the Capital District's UPN affiliate from 1998 until the launch of "WEDG-TV" in 2000.<ref name=atu-wvbgupn>{{cite news|last=McGuire|first=Mark|title=Channel 25 is now affiliated with UPN|page=D6|url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=5886521|access-date=March 24, 2013|newspaper=Albany Times-Union|date=September 30, 1998|archive-date=February 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222061404/http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=5886521|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=atu-wvbgnoupn>{{cite news|last=McGuire|first=Mark|title=WVBG hurt by UPN deal|page=D5|url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=5957674|access-date=March 24, 2013|newspaper=Albany Times-Union|date=November 17, 1999|archive-date=February 22, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222061402/http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=5957674|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On September 1, 2003, WNYA launched using the branding "UPN Capital Region."<ref name=atu-wnyastart/> The main signal, WNYA, had an analog transmitter northwest of Pittsfield on [[Berry Mountain]]. It became the first full-powered, over-the-air UPN affiliate in the Capital District. In addition to UPN programming, WNYA occasionally carried CBS programming preempted by WRGB, including [[US Open (tennis)|US Open]] telecasts that conflicted with WRGB's broadcast of the ''[[Jerry Lewis]] [[MDA Labor Day Telethon]]''.<ref name=atu-wnyastart/>

From its sign-on, WNYA took the cable channel position of "WEDG-TV" on Time Warner,<ref name=atu-wnyastart/> [[Charter Communications|Charter]] (in [[Rensselaer County, New York|Rensselaer]] and [[Columbia County, New York|Columbia]] counties), and independent Mid-Hudson Cablevision (in [[Greene County, New York|Greene County]]). [[Adelphia Communications Corporation|Adelphia]] would replace [[WSBK-TV]] from [[Boston]] with WNYA at the start of 2004, with other providers including [[DirecTV]] and [[Dish Network]] adding the station later that year.

===MyNetworkTV===
On January 24, 2006, [[The WB]] and UPN announced that they would end broadcasting and merge to form a new network, [[The CW]]; the new network immediately named WEWB-TV (channel 45, now [[WCWN]]) its Capital District affiliate after then-owner [[Tribune Broadcasting]] signed a ten-year affiliation deal with the new network on most of its WB stations.<ref name=atu-wnyanocw>{{cite news|last=Sutel|first=Seth|title=Failing networks merge to survive|page=A1|url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=6380318|access-date=March 25, 2013|newspaper=Albany Times-Union|date=January 25, 2006}}</ref> On February 22, [[News Corporation]] announced that it would start up another new broadcast television network called MyNetworkTV; on March 9, it was announced that WNYA would join this network.<ref name=tbr-wnyamnt>{{cite news|title=With loss of UPN program, channel 15 to air MyNetworkTV|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2006/03/06/daily48.html|access-date=March 25, 2013|newspaper=The Business Review|date=March 10, 2006}}</ref> After having not branded with a channel number during its UPN affiliation, the station chose to call itself "My TV 4 Albany" after its channel position on Time Warner Cable systems. Ironically, nowhere in [[Berkshire County, Massachusetts]] is WNYA currently on channel 4; in [[North Adams, Massachusetts|North Adams]], that channel is the spot where Boston's CBS affiliate [[WBZ-TV]] is located. After MyNetworkTV's launch on September 5, 2006, WNYA aired the last two weeks of UPN programming from 1 to 3 a.m. from Tuesday to Saturday.

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.<ref name=tbr-wcwnwrgb>{{cite news|last=Pinckney|first=Barbara|title=WRGB promises to put 10 p.m. news slot on Channel 45 schedule|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2006/12/11/story16.html?page=all|access-date=March 27, 2013|newspaper=The Business Review|date=December 11, 2006}}</ref> In February 2007, the joint sales agreement with WRGB was terminated,<ref name=atu-wnyajsaend>{{cite news|last=McGuire|first=Mark|title=With self-reliance, station can transcend networks|page=D1|url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=6444243|access-date=March 27, 2013|newspaper=Albany Times-Union|date=February 16, 2007}}</ref> and WNYA moved to a facility in [[Rotterdam, New York|Rotterdam]] that formerly housed [[WMHT-FM]]-[[WMHT (TV)|TV]].<ref name=atu-studiosandmurphy>{{cite news|last=Churchill|first=Chris|title=WNYA deal a likely home run|page=C1|url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=6541240|access-date=March 27, 2013|newspaper=Albany Times-Union|date=March 14, 2008}}</ref>

In December 2007, WNYA reached an agreement to carry the [[New York Yankees]]' over-the-air television package, which had previously been carried on WXXA-TV.<ref name=atu-wnyayankees>{{cite news|last=Churchill|first=Chris|title=Yankees games expected to lift WNYA station|page=C1|url=http://albarchive.merlinone.net/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=6435612|access-date=March 27, 2013|newspaper=Albany Times-Union|date=December 27, 2007}}</ref> The station hired Dan Murphy, a former [[WTEN]] (channel 10) sports anchor and [[WOFX (AM)|WOFX]] (980 AM) host, to host a local pregame show for Yankee telecasts and other local sports broadcasts.<ref name=atu-studiosandmurphy/> Yankee broadcasts remained on WNYA through the 2012 season, after which they migrated to WCWN and WRGB.<ref name=atu-wnyanoyankees>{{cite news|last=Dougherty|first=Pete|title=Local Yankees telecasts moving to WRGB, WCWN|url=http://blog.timesunion.com/sportsmedia/local-yankees-telecasts-moving-to-wrgb-wcwn/10872/|access-date=March 27, 2013|newspaper=Albany Times-Union|date=October 5, 2012}}</ref>

On April 18, 2008, WNYA launched its high definition channel on Time Warner Cable in Albany, even though it was not able to transmit its digital signal over the air until 2009. This coincided with the first Yankee baseball broadcast it had the rights to. WNYA switched to digital broadcasting as part of the transition on June 12, 2009. The Albany repeater, WNYA-CA, had a construction permit to perform a "[[flash-cut]]" to a low-power digital signal; due to its Class A status, it was not mandated to make the transition until 2015. Around April 20, 2011, WNYA launched its first [[digital subchannel]] in the form of Tribune Broadcasting's [[Antenna TV]] over Channel 51.2. The new subchannel also began to be simulcast on WNYA-CA in place of WNYA's main programming.<ref name=fcc-wnyacaantennatv>{{cite web|title=FCC 398 Children's Television Programming Report (WNYA-CA)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/KidVid/public/report/19/report.faces?id=122601|date=June 30, 2011|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]|access-date=March 8, 2013}}</ref>

=== Acquisition by Hubbard ===
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. As the Capital Region does not have enough full-power stations to legally permit a duopoly, Hubbard sought a failed station waiver to acquire the station;<ref name=hubbard-wnya>{{cite web|title=WNYT Albany to Purchase MyNet WNYA|url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/492006-WNYT_Albany_to_Purchase_MyNet_WNYA.php|publisher=Broadcasting & Cable|access-date=February 25, 2013}}</ref><ref name=fcc-saletohubbard>[https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101542241&formid=314&fac_num=136751 Application For Consent To Assignment Of Broadcast Station Construction Permit Or License] [[Federal Communications Commission]], March 8, 2013</ref> an avenue that rival CBS affiliate WRGB had used in purchasing CW affiliate WCWN in 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-2338A1.pdf |title=Microsoft Word - 61133.doc |access-date=September 10, 2018}}</ref> Venture had put WNYA up for sale in 2009, but no other potential buyers came forward.<ref name=tbe-saletohubbarddetails>{{cite news|last=Dobrowolski|first=Tony|title=Albany NBC-TV affiliate buys station; will sharpen focus on Berkshire news|url=http://www.berkshireeagle.com/business/ci_23152777/albany-nbc-tv-affiliate-buys-station-will-sharpen?source=most_emailed|access-date=May 18, 2013|newspaper=[[The Berkshire Eagle]]|date=May 2, 2013|location=Pittsfield, MA|archive-date=February 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221163910/http://www.berkshireeagle.com/business/ci_23152777/albany-nbc-tv-affiliate-buys-station-will-sharpen?source=most_emailed|url-status=dead}}</ref> The sale did not include class-A station WNYA-CA, which remained with Venture Technologies.<ref name=tvbr-saletohubbard>{{cite news|last=Seyler|first=Dave|title=Hubbard believes failure will allow it to double in Albany|url=http://rbr.com/hubbard-believes-failure-will-allow-it-to-double-in-albany/|access-date=March 27, 2013|newspaper=Television Business Report|date=March 8, 2013}}</ref> 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",<ref name=fcc-saletohubbard/> that station became [[WEPT-CA]] on March 8, 2013.<ref name=fcc-weptcacallsigns/> On May 29, 2013, the FCC approved the sale of WNYA to Hubbard, with Venture retaining ownership of WEPT-CA.<ref name="FCC-approval">{{cite news | url=http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S3049585.shtml?cat=10114 | title=FCC approves sale of WNYA to WNYT | agency=WNYT NewsChannel 13 | date=May 29, 2013 | access-date=May 29, 2013 | author=Rooney, Chris | location=Albany, NY | archive-date=February 22, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222150201/http://wnyt.com/article/stories/S3049585.shtml?cat=10114 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-13-1246A1.pdf |title=Microsoft Word - DA-13-1246A1 |access-date=September 10, 2018}}</ref> The sale was consummated on July 15.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101563276&formid=905&fac_num=136751|title=CDBS Print|website=licensing.fcc.gov}}</ref> WEPT-CA dropped its simulcast of WNYA-DT2 and switched to AMGTV in September 2013, ending its association with WNYA.<ref name=fcc-weptamgtv>{{cite web|title=FCC 398 Children's Television Programming Report (WEPT-CA)|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/KidVid/public/report/19/report.faces?id=146136|date=September 30, 2013|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=February 7, 2014}}</ref> On December 31, 2015, WNYA added [[Decades (TV network)|Decades]] on subchannel 51.3. On November 1, 2017, WNYA replaced Antenna TV with [[TheGrio|Light TV]] on subchannel 51.2.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}

==Newscasts==
{{further|WNYT (TV)#News operation}}
On April 17, 2006, WRGB began producing an hour-long 7 a.m. newscast on WNYA.<ref name=tbr-wrgbnewsonwnya>{{cite news|title=New morning news show to begin April 17|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2006/04/10/daily4.html|access-date=March 27, 2013|newspaper=The Business Review|date=April 10, 2006}}</ref> The newscast moved to WCWN shortly after Freedom's purchase of that station.<ref name=tbr-wcwnwrgb/>

With Hubbard's acquisition of WNYA, the company indicated that it would eventually produce newscasts on the station with an increased emphasis on news for the [[Berkshires]].<ref name=tbe-saletohubbarddetails/> WNYT once operated a Berkshire County bureau in Pittsfield but closed it after the [[Great Recession]].<ref name=tbe-berkshirebureauclosed>{{cite news|last=Dobrowolski|first=Tony|title=Albany NBC-TV affiliate buys station; will sharpen focus on Berkshire news|url=http://www.berkshireeagle.com/business/ci_23152777/albany-nbc-tv-affiliate-buys-station-will-sharpen?source=most_emailed|access-date=May 18, 2013|newspaper=The Berkshire Eagle|date=May 2, 2013|archive-date=February 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221163910/http://www.berkshireeagle.com/business/ci_23152777/albany-nbc-tv-affiliate-buys-station-will-sharpen?source=most_emailed|url-status=dead}}</ref> The newscast premiered September 16, 2013, with the title ''NewsChannel 13 Live at 10 on My 4 Albany''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151810163030318&set=a.10150577761235318.381603.54286155317&type=1|title=WNYT NewsChannel 13|website=www.facebook.com}}</ref> The show airs weeknights for a half hour in a fast-paced format and includes a "Berkshire Moment" segment featuring western [[Massachusetts]]-specific stories with the assistance of ''[[The Berkshire Eagle]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/ci_24110107/wnyt-eagle-partner-tv-berkshire-minute?IADID=Search-www.berkshireeagle.com-www.berkshireeagle.com|title=WNYT, Eagle partner on TV for The Berkshire Minute}}</ref> It competes with the firmly established hour long broadcast seen every night on WXXA (produced by WTEN) and another sixty-minute news show on WCWN (a weeknight-only production by WRGB).

==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
The station's signal is [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of WNYA<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WNYA#station|title=RabbitEars TV Query for WNYA|website=[[RabbitEars]]|accessdate=June 22, 2025}}</ref>
! scope = "col" | [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! scope = "col" | [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! scope = "col" | [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! scope = "col" | Short name
! scope = "col" | Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 51.1 
| [[1080i]] || rowspan=4| [[16:9]] || WNYA-HD || [[MyNetworkTV]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 51.2 
| rowspan=3| [[480i]] || Movies || [[Movies!]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 51.3 
| CatchyC || [[Catchy Comedy]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 51.4 
| H&I || [[Heroes & Icons]]
|}

[[File:Wnya dt2.png|thumb|right|60px|Former DT2 logo, to 2017.]]

===Analog-to-digital conversion===
WNYA shut down its analog signal, over [[UHF]] channel 51, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States [[Digital television transition in the United States|transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts]] under federal mandate. The station "flash-cut" its digital signal into operation on [[VHF]] channel 13, using [[virtual channel]] 51.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds |access-date=March 24, 2012}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Channel 4 branded TV stations in the United States]]
*[[Channel 13 digital TV stations in the United States]]
*[[Channel 51 virtual TV stations in the United States]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[https://wnyt.com/my4 WNYA "My 4 Albany"]

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