WNYB maintained studios on Big Tree Road in Orchard Park until TCT ended local operations in June 2018.
The station's majority shareholder was Lowell W. "Bud" Paxson, who at the time owned Jamestown's WKSN radio and later co-founded the Home Shopping Network (HSN).
Faced with the loss of its primary source of programming, WNYP cut back its local newscasts, laid off staff, and briefly attempted to use a prototype of what would become HSN's on-air product sales strategy to stay afloat.
It briefly started to identify as WJTV, but quickly reverted to WNYP because a station in Jackson, Mississippi, already had those call letters.
(Paxson later started the Pax TV network, now known as Ion, which broadcasts on WPXJ-TV (channel 51) in the market; coincidentally, Pax/Ion has also imported much of its programming from CTV over the course of its history.)
Channel 26 is the last remaining survivor of WNED-TV's once massive translator network that had several repeaters scattered throughout the Southern Tier of Western New York; all of the others were shut down by 2012.
In June 2018, after more than 21 years, TCT announced it had ceased local programming and was placing its former studios on Big Tree Road in Orchard Park up for sale.
The change came with the elimination of the FCC's Main Studio Rule earlier in the year and a decision by TCT to consolidate all programming operations at the network's headquarters in Marion, Illinois.