The three stations share studios on Gates Road in Vestal, New York; WSKG-TV's transmitter is located on Ingraham Hill in the town of Binghamton.

WSKG is rebroadcast on a high-power satellite station, WSKA (channel 30), licensed to Corning and serving the western Twin Tiers from a transmitter on Higman Hill.

However, in constructing the facility, the original general management wildly overspent, leaving the station with more than a million dollars in debt and triggering a financial crisis in 1969.

The station came days away from signing off the air but survived thanks to budgetary austerity, state support, and increased local giving.

Between 1968 and 1989, the station operated from five different locations, including space in four different regional elementary schools, before acquiring and moving into its present site in Vestal.

[5] Meanwhile, on March 28, 1961, school administrators in the Triple Cities proposed a plan to begin educational television programming to be broadcast two days a week over commercial station WNBF-TV, which offered the use of its facilities for this purpose.

[9] In December 1964, Governor Nelson Rockefeller proposed to establish an educational TV network, with one of the four stations being at Harpur College (now Binghamton University); however, most of it would be used for closed-circuit telecasting, and no specific mention was made of activating the WQTV permit.

The donor gave in memory of Dr. Stanley K. Gambell, a pastor of the local First Congregational Church who had died in a car crash the year before.

Gambell had hosted the series Stories Retold on WNBF-TV from 1963 until 1966 and previously spent 10 years on the air at Philadelphia's WFIL-TV.

[14] In August, STETA filed to have the 15-year-old WQTV permit transferred to it from the state Department of Education,[15] which the FCC approved in November alongside studios at Vestal Plaza and the Roberson Memorial Center.

By March 1969, the situation was so dire that the New York State Department of Education was reported to be taking over channel 46 and using it to rebroadcast WCNY-TV in Syracuse.

[19] The original general manager, Jerry R. Brown, resigned after just 10 months, and the board of trustees persuaded former local school superintendent William A. Anderson to step in at the troubled station.

[21] The station vacated its original studios in Vestal Plaza in favor of using empty space in the George Washington Elementary School in Binghamton;[22] cut all local productions; and negotiated with its two largest creditors, tower constructor Stainless Inc. and equipment manufacturer RCA.

[27] Even as it was revealed that the station was behind on paying withholding tax to the Internal Revenue Service, Anderson unveiled a plan to resolve WSKG's financial obligations—totaling $1.148 million—to an audience of dozens of creditors in late June.

[28] STETA hired a fundraising firm to arrange a fund drive and auctioned off furnishings from its former Vestal Plaza studios.

[33] The station had paid for an animal mascot, a St. Bernard named Heidi; when they finally tried to use her in a program, she would not follow instructions and had to be sent to an obedience school in Buffalo.

[34] The expenses painted a picture of a station that had overbought on equipment and nearly doubled its budget to go on air; details around the color TV sets led to a state police probe.

[38] Under Fauci, STETA made significant headway at reducing its debt, increased local giving, and began an annual on-air auction to raise funds.

In 1976, the station scrapped its existing current affairs program, Weekday, and began airing 7 and 11 p.m. local newscasts, known as WSKG News Center.

[65] After rejecting a downtown site because it would require significant financial aid, the station bought the former Willow Point School in Vestal.

[68] In the 1990s, under governors Mario Cuomo and George Pataki, the New York state government made repeated deep cuts to its subsidies for public broadcasters.

[86] The Hawley Hill translator was turned off due to cost in 2003;[87] the next year, WSKG received a $1.29 million federal grant that helped allowed it to build a new, high-power digital TV station.

[91] In 2013, WSKG teamed with other public TV stations in upstate New York to build a central master control facility in Syracuse.

[94] He was replaced by Natasha Thompson, previously the president and CEO of the Food Bank of the Southern Tier; from 2018 to 2021, she had hosted a WSKG series on poverty, Chasing the Dream.