WYTV (channel 33) is a television station in Youngstown, Ohio, United States, affiliated with ABC and MyNetworkTV.

The three stations share studios on Sunset Boulevard in Youngstown's Pleasant Grove neighborhood, where WYTV's transmitter is also located.

The station originated as WKST-TV (UHF analog channel 45) as the television partner to WKST radio, and was licensed to New Castle, Pennsylvania, on April 4, 1953.

It also served the northern and western portions of the Pittsburgh market with poor signals from WENS (frequency now occupied by WINP-TV).

After being dark for a period of time,[2] WKST-TV moved to the stronger channel 33 in 1959, improving its over-the-air signal in the process.

[3] After moving channels, WYTV was replaced on channel 45 by WXTV, an independent station that signed on in November 1960;[4] WXTV would be forced off the air on February 28, 1962, and never resumed broadcasting,[5] the FCC denied their license application in April 1964 after an extensive investigation into it and co-owned WWIZ in Lorain, Ohio.

[9] In September 1963, WKST-TV moved its city of license and most of its operations to Youngstown under its current call letters, WYTV (it carried the "-TV" suffix from 1983 to 1998).

Although the area finally got a full-time ABC affiliate in 2008 when WTRF-TV launched one on its third digital subchannel, WYTV remains on cable in parts of the market.

Rather, the secondary Fox affiliation was for the NFC's San Francisco 49ers, who were and still are today owned by the locally-based DeBartolo-York family and won Super Bowl XXIX during this time.

For a period as a separate station, WYTV produced a prime time newscast at 10 on this MyNetworkTV second digital subchannel.

It once aired a kids' show during the 1980s entitled 33 Powwww which consisted of a "voice-activated" video game powered by the Mattel Intellivision.

The TV POWWW concept was a syndicated franchise seen on television stations throughout the United States such as WCLQ in Cleveland (now WQHS-TV).

[citation needed] WYTV was not among the ABC affiliates to preempt the Veterans Day airing of the film Saving Private Ryan in 2004 out of fears of being fined by the FCC for indecency in the wake of the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy, feeling that the film aired unedited on terrestrial television in the past without FCC repercussions.

[32] Under the shared services agreement, the senior station partner began producing newscasts on this ABC affiliate from a secondary set at the Sunset Boulevard studios.

A previous plan calling for WYTV to build streetside satellite studios in downtown Youngstown was abandoned due to the consolidation.

The current operational status of its Doppler weather radar based at the old facility on Shady Run Road is unknown.

New logos for the stations and updated websites debuted in January 2009 including combined operations for sports and weather.

Due to the duopoly, WYTV and WKBN maintain separate primary anchors for news, weather, and sports during the week but share most general assignment reporters and video footage.

"33 Live Drive Action Cam" is a Jeep Patriot that can chase storms, show road conditions and respond to breaking news.