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WSTQ-LP is the low-powered, CW-affiliated television station for Central Upstate New York. Licensed to Syracuse, it broadcasts an analog signal on UHF channel 14 from a transmitter in the city's Lakefront section. Owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, the station is sister to NBC affiliate WSTM-TV and CBS affiliate WTVH. The latter, however, is actually owned by the Granite Broadcasting Corporation but operated by Sinclair through joint sales and shared services agreements. All three outlets share studios together on James Street/NY 290 in the Near Northeast section of Syracuse. Due to its low-powered status, its off-air signal is only attainable in the immediate Syracuse area (northern and eastern boundary is roughly NY 481/Interstate 481; southwestern reach is NY 173). Therefore, in order to expand the station's broadcasting radius, it is simulcasted in 720p high definition on WSTM-TV's second digital subchannel. This can be seen on UHF channel 24.2 (or virtual channel 3.2 via PSIP) from a transmitter in Onondaga. WSTQ-LP is branded as ''CW 6'' in reference to its universal channel position on area cable systems (not over-the-air channel 6 which is held in the market by WVOA-LP). ==History== The station signed-on June 19, 2000 as WAWA-LP and was owned by Venture Technologies Group, LLC. It was technically an Independent outlet although very few syndicated programming was shown since the majority of the lineup consisted of home shopping and other paid shows. On October 20, 2001 ten months after WNYS-TV dropped its UPN affiliation, WAWA-LP picked it up.〔http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Venture+Technologies+Group+Launches+New+Syracuse+UPN+Station%3B+Company...-a079393069〕 For two years, it fought to get carriage on Time Warner Cable. Due to the lack of programming on the station, the cable company refused to carry it. It can be argued Time Warner's control of UPN's rival network at the time, The WB, played some role as well. By federal law, it was not obligated to carry WAWA-LP due to its status as a low-powered station which has no "must-carry" protection. Time Warner Cable had already added WSBK-TV from Boston to its line-up on channel 6 in July 2001. This was done even though there was a cost of nearly $1 million a year in out-of-market licensing fees. At one point, WAWA-LP even offered to pay Time Warner Cable to carry the station. Low-powered outlets buying channel space on cable is commonplace due to the lack of "must-carry" protection. WAWA-LP took the case to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and asked them to adopt a rule that would require the provider to black out WSBK's prime time UPN line up whether it carried WAWA-LP or not. In the end, the FCC ruled against the station. In 2003, Raycom Media (then the owner of WSTM-TV) purchased WAWA-LP from Venture Technologies for an undisclosed amount of money. The station had its call letters changed to the current WSTQ-LP (a disambiguation from WSTM-TV) and was given the on-air branding "UPN 6, The Q". Raycom used "6" to reflect its pending cable channel slot on Time Warner which was obtained July 1, 2003 following WSTQ-LP's acquisition by the company. Ironically, the same "must-carry" laws that kept WAWA-LP off Time Warner eventually got the station on the system. The law gives full-powered stations the option of "retransmission consent" or requesting compensation from cable systems to carry them. In this case, full-powered WSTM-TV can require cable systems like Time Warner to offer low-powered WSTQ-LP on the system as part of the compensation for carrying the full-power station. As a result of the ownership change, this station was consolidated into WSTM-TV's facility. Until 2005, WSTQ-LP carried the ''Bill Keeler Show'' (a daily and later weekly local comedy series that was based in Utica and aired on Fox affiliate WFXV). When the show did not register in the ratings and was losing money, Keeler yanked the show from the Syracuse market in 2005. Keeler also cited FCC requirements that would require his show to be captioned in Syracuse which was an additional infrastructural expense. On March 27, 2006, Raycom Media announced the sale of WSTQ-LP and WSTM-TV to Barrington Broadcasting. As a result of the January 2006 announcement of UPN and The WB networks merging to create The CW, WSTQ-LP revealed in March that it would become Syracuse's affiliate with the new network. The station became a CW affiliate on September 18 and changed its branding to "CW 6". Also in 2006, Ion Television affiliate WSPX-TV filed an application with the FCC to broadcast its digital signal on channel 14 where WSTQ-LP's analog signal is located. This was eventually abandoned in favor of channel 15 on December 3, 2008. WSTQ-LP was largely unaffected by the consolidation of WSTM-TV with rival WTVH on March 2, 2009. On February 28, 2013, Barrington Broadcasting announced the sale of its entire group, including WSTQ-LP, to the Sinclair Broadcast Group. The sale was completed on November 25.〔http://www.sbgi.net/site_mgr/temp/Barrington%20Closes.pdf〕 The station has an application to "flash-cut" its analog signal to digital on UHF channel 14. Using the WSTQ-LD call sign (referring to low-powered digital), it will drastically increase the station's coverage area and will originate a signal from WSTM-TV's tower in Onondaga. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WSTQ-LP」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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