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Short description: Television station in Syracuse, New York

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WTVH and WKOF

This is a bit of an explainer of what I plan to do on December 1.

Sinclair has announced on December 1 that it is moving the CBS programming from WTVH to WKOF. WKOF, which Sinclair won at an FCC auction, went on the air in July. The real purpose of this is similar to changes done in other markets where Sinclair provides services to a station like WTVH. Essentially, Sinclair wants to put major affiliations on subchannels it owns as much as possible. Normally, this results in subchannel changes, e.g. KGAN absorbing Fox from KFXA. WKOF is 3.0, so technically there won't be much of a change except 5.1 to 15.1 for CBS programming (WTVH is the "host" for WKOF already). In this case, this is what I intend to do:

This article will move to WKOF. Now that the station is the network affiliate, it is probably the primary topic.
It will be this article, covering the history of WTVH and WKOF together. It will cover them almost as one unit, except for information about the license win.
It will contain two infoboxes (not a child infobox situation) and the subchannel information for both stations.

It will have a lead that reads something like so (more detail likely as I write more):

WKOF (channel 15), known as "CBS 5", is a television station in Syracuse, New York, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside WSTM-TV (channel 3), an affiliate of NBC and The CW. The two stations share studios on James Street/NY 290 in the Near Northeast section of Syracuse; WTVH's transmitter is located in the town of Onondaga. Prior to December 1, 2025, CBS programming in Syracuse was supplied by WTVH (channel 5), which is owned by Granite Broadcasting and managed by local marketing agreement (LMA).
WTVH began broadcasting as WHEN-TV on December 1, 1948. It was Syracuse's first television station, owned by the Meredith Corporation; it broadcast on channel 8 from 1948 to 1961. Meredith owned WHEN alongside WHEN radio; when it sold the radio station in 1976, channel 5 changed its call sign to WTVH. While WTVH was initially the dominant station in Syracuse television news ratings, the market became more competitive in the 1980s.
Granite Broadcasting acquired WTVH in 1993 and grew to own three network affiliates in Upstate New York. WTVH's news ratings continued to decline under Granite ownership. In 2009, amid the Great Recession, Granite entered into a multi-city agreement with Barrington Broadcasting, then-owner of WSTM-TV, to combine operations. Sinclair acquired Barrington in 2013, while Granite retained the WTVH license, among its last assets. After winning the authority to build a new Syracuse TV station at federal auction, Sinclair built WKOF in 2025 and moved WTVH's CBS programming to that station.

Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 02:01, 29 November 2025 (UTC)

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