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Albany News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News | WRGB: WRGB CBS 6 provides local news, weather forecasts, traffic updates, notices of events and items of interest in the community, sports and entertainment programming for Albany, New York and nearby towns and communities in the Capital City area, including Cohoes, Watervliet, Colonie, Bethlehem, Guilderland, New Scotland, Coeymans, Green Island, Knox, Berne, Westerlo, Rensselaerville, Colonie, Menands, Green Island, Ravena, Altamont, Voorheesville.

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My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: WRGB, virtual and VHF digital channel 6, is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Schenectady, new york, United States . the station is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, as the station began with test broadcasts in early 1928 . later that year the first daily programs were broadcast . it became one of a handful of television stations licensed for commercial broadcasting operation before the end of world war II . in 1940, it began sharing programs with W2XBS (forerunner of WNBC) in new york city . the station initially broadcast on 790 kHz from a 380-meter antenna . later, the the station’s call-sign was changed to W2XAD rather quickly in 1928 and moved to 31.4 MHz . Towards December 1928, the station would receive yet another change and upgrade with its call letters becoming W2 the first building in the nation specifically designed for television . on february 26, 1942, W2XB received a commercial license as WRGB . GE could have chosen the call letters WGY-TV to match WRGB moved from channel 4 to channel 6 to alleviate interference from WNBC-TV and WBZ-TV . it increased its radiated power approximately fourfold to 93,000 watts . the longest-running WRGB produced a quiz show called Answers Please and a bowling program entitled TV Tournament Time . after the cancellation of both by the late-1980s, local programming has been variable and erratic . WR the switch made WRGB the third station in the capital district to affiliate with CBS . the network had originally aired on wtri from 1954 to 1955, then moved to WCDA from 1955 to 1977 . WR WRGB changed its on-air name to “CBS 6” in October 2004 after decades of being known as either “TV 6” or “Channel 6” since then, channel 6 has almost never used its call letters on Providence Equity Partners owns a controlling stake in Newport Television . Newport is the owner of local Fox affiliate WXXA (channel 23) this allows broadcasting of syndicated shows in high definition . freedom announced on November 2, 2011 that it would bow out of television and sell its stations, including WRGB, to Sinclair Broadcast Group . the group deal closed on April 2, 2012 after which Sinclair obtained a waiver allowing WRGB’s new transmitter for 87.7 will be vertically polarized . the use of vertical polarization will allow reception of our audio in a car radio or FM radio . “WRGB is the only full-power station to propose such a solution,” says john sutter . he says the station has expressed an interest in the technology, though it is concerned about rights issues. the only two stations licensed by the FCC to use 87.9 are KSFH and K200AA . WITI, another former analog Channel 6 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, restored its radio audio . WRGB boosted WRGB has also filed applications for three digital replacement translators to fill in some of the coverage-loss areas . a third one will be in Schenectady on the station’s pre-transition digital all the Kingston translator became operational in May 2011 . Sinclair added a simulcast of WRGB’s main signal in a reduced 720p form on WCWN-DT3 . since September 5, 2006, Freedom applied for a “failed station” waiver to acquire WCWN . the capital district does not have enough full-powered stations to legally permit duopolies . WRGB had control of three stations in the WNYA took on the responsibility of airing WRGB’s local and network lineup . this role was later shifted to WCWN, which also aired CBS’ coverage of the us open tennis championship . starting WRGB remained on its present VHF channel 6 despite the 2019 digital television repack . WGY radio was a sister station from 1942 to 1983 . it’s newscasts were anchored for over Liz Bishop is the station’s longest tenured personality . she joined WRGB as a weekend sportscaster in 1975 . after Tetrault’s retirement in 1993, the station was quickly eclipsed by WNYT the Capital District has seen a spirited three-way battle for news leadership . WRGB, WTEN, and WNYT regularly trading the number-one spot . from 2003 until mid-2004, WNYA the pickup of a second run of Dr. Phil to air at that hour killed the rumors . in 2007 and 2008, WCWN aired WRGB’s 11 o’clock news during CBS’ coverage of WCWN added a WRGB-produced 10 p.m. broadcast to challenge WXXA’s long time dominance at that hour . this became a reality on September 24 with a weeknight 10- WRGB is the first station in the capital district to put weather forecasts on the world wide web . station started “WeatherNet 6” in 1999 allowing viewers to submit weather observations . a severe weather outbreak in the public is allowed to report anything from current conditions to snowfall totals . the station became the first in the market to offer a station-owned weather radar . in recent times, WTEN and WXXA have updated WRGB’s meteorologist returns to the area airwaves for his third tour of duty . he had worked for the station twice before leaving to pursue new opportunities in Jacksonville, Florida . the station was the last in the Estano left the station on April 25, 2012, taking on a new career in real estate with Keller Williams Realty . estano reappeared on capital region airwaves in the summer of 2013 on weekend evenings