WCNY-TV

The two stations share studios on West Fayette Street in Syracuse's Near Westside neighborhood and transmitter facilities in Pompey, New York.

WCNY is also seen on translator W22DO-D (channel 22), covering the Mohawk Valley (including Utica and Rome) from a transmitter on Smith Hill Road in Deerfield.

WCNY was established in March 1965 by the Onondaga County School Board Association under a charter by the New York State Education Department.

WCNY initially broadcast in monochrome, using cameras used to tape The Beatles' first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, but switched to color in 1971.

A repeater on UHF analog channel 62 had transmitted from Nedrow to reach over-the-air viewers south of Syracuse in higher elevations until the 2009 digital conversion.

WCNY-TV used a logo patterned after the sugar maple tree , the state tree of New York, from 1965 to 2001; the autumnal color version seen here debuted after the station began broadcasting to color in 1971. Originally, the tree was a stylized version of a hollyhock found on a Japanese family's crest. [ 3 ]