WSYR-TV (channel 9) is a television station in Syracuse, New York, United States, affiliated with ABC.

Owned by Nexstar Media Group, the station maintains studios on Bridge Street (off NY 290) in East Syracuse (a village of DeWitt), and its transmitter is located on Sevier Road in Pompey, New York.

Channel 9's original studios were located in the basement of the Shoppingtown shopping center on Erie Boulevard in DeWitt.

[2] In 1969, then-owner W. R. G. Baker Television Corporation applied for a WNYS-TV translator on channel 7,[3] W07BA; this facility, serving Syracuse and nearby Nedrow, came on the air in 1972.

In 1999, WIXT-TV implemented a digital central-casting control hub for Ackerley's New York State cluster that also included WOKR in Rochester, WWTI in Watertown, WIVT in Binghamton, WETM-TV in Elmira, and WUTR in Utica to help with the upcoming digital television transition.

Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia) bought Ackerley in 2001, putting WIXT-TV under the same ownership as WSYR radio (570 AM).

The change caused a small amount of confusion, as the WSYR-TV call letters had last resided on rival NBC affiliate WSTM-TV from its sign-on in 1950 until its sale to the Times Mirror Company in 1980.

This station once served on cable as the default ABC affiliate in Northern New York State communities such as Ogdensburg, Potsdam, Massena, and Malone.

[11] In 2004, WIXT-TV premiered the area's only locally produced daytime talk/entertainment/lifestyle magazine show known as Bridge Street (named from the address of the studios).

On December 29, Maureen Green (a former WSYR-TV anchor) was featured as a substitute co-host on Bridge Street filling in for Rick Gary.

On March 20, 2009, Keith Kobland (former weekday morning and noon anchor on WTVH until its consolidation with WSTM-TV) joined Carrie Lazarus to co-host Bridge Street filling in for Rick Gary.

Dan Cummings and Keith Kobland joined Carrie Lazarus as temporary replacements until February 1, 2010, when Bridge Street was relaunched with a new look hosted by Chris Brandolino with an occasional guest.

While WSYR-TV remains number one in Nielsen ratings in Central New York for the whole day-part, it has spent much of the new millennium in a spirited battle with WSTM-TV on weekday mornings and weeknights at 11.

Sister station WWTI in Watertown was hit by across the board cuts from Newport Television in June 2009.

Eventually, it began simulcasting WSYR-TV's newscasts every night at 11 and added half-hour reports from the Buffalo Bills training camp produced by fellow ABC affiliate and sister station WHAM-TV in Rochester.

However, unlike the hour-long weeknight and half-hour weekend broadcasts on low-power CW affiliate WSTQ-LP (produced by WSTM-TV), WSYR-DT2's newscast only airs live for the first fifteen minutes and is then repeated four times in the 10 p.m. hour.

WRGB in Albany, in January 2008, became the first station in upstate New York to broadcast their local newscasts in high definition.

On June 27, 2011, WSYR-TV's 25-year-duo Rod Wood and Carrie Lazarus were inducted into the New York State Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame.

On April 3, 2023, sister station WUTR in Utica began simulcasting the 5 and 6 a.m. hours of WSYR-TV's morning newscast.

[18] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, longtime anchor Rod Wood took a leave of absence from WSYR-TV after April 13, 2020's broadcasts.

[21] The station's signal is multiplexed: On June 15, 2016, Nexstar Broadcasting Group, owners of WSYR-TV, announced that it has entered into an affiliation agreement with Katz Broadcasting for the Escape, Laff, Grit, and Bounce TV networks (the last one of which is owned by Bounce Media LLC, whose COO Jonathan Katz is president/CEO of Katz Broadcasting), bringing one or more of the four networks to 81 stations owned and/or operated by Nexstar, including WSYR-TV.