WWNY-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Carthage, New York, United States,[a] serving as the CBS affiliate for the Watertown area.

It is owned by Gray Media alongside low-power, Class A Fox affiliate WNYF-CD (channel 28).

[10] By the mid-1960s, the station benefited from the ratings-dominant CBS programming lineup and established a large viewership base, including much of eastern Ontario, Canada.

WWNY was fortunate to gain that license, and as a result was the only television station based in the Watertown market until the early 1970s.

When the council established its own PBS member station, WNPE-TV (now WPBS-TV) in 1971, WWNY donated its original studios to the new station as it had moved to its current location near the Watertown Daily Times offices on Arcade Street in Downtown Watertown in mid-February 1970.

The Johnson family sold WWNY to United Communications Corporation in 1981 for $8.2 million after an unsuccessful struggle against the FCC and its directive for newspapers to divest themselves of television stations held within the same market.

Until WFYF (now WWTI) signed-on in 1988 replacing a small WUTR repeater on analog UHF channel 50 and taking the ABC affiliation, WWNY was Watertown's only commercial station.

As a primary CBS affiliate, WWNY carried the network's full prime time schedule and news programs while cherry-picking the most popular ABC and NBC shows aired at other hours.

On February 8, 2019, Gray Television announced it was purchasing the United stations, including WWNY-TV, WNYF-CD and WWNY-CD.

In advance of the purchase, Gray assumed control of the stations via a local marketing agreement (LMA) on March 1.

This helps St. Lawrence County viewers who had experienced difficulty receiving WWNY's digital signal after that station transitioned to digital-only broadcasts.

For its entire existence, the station has held the number one spot in area Nielsen ratings by a wide margin.

On April 11, 2001, WWNY began airing a 35-minute weeknight prime time broadcast at 10 on WNYF called 7 News Tonight on Fox.

There is no weekday morning or noon meteorologist; news anchor Beth Hall presents a forecast from AccuWeather during these segments.

[26][27][28][29] WWNY-DT's previous digital facilities on channel 35 were eventually re-employed by sister station WNYF to offer Fox in high definition for the first time.