WYBN-TV Albany enters construction phase

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After two years in development, Cable Ad Net New York (CANNY) has begun construction and installation of its newest business unit, independent WYBN-TV 14. It’s a digital UHF LPTV facility licensed to Cobleskill, Greene and Columbia County and the (Albany) Capital District of Upstate NY. WYBN is the Capital District’s first new TV station since WNYA’s (My TV) launch in 2003.


15-kW WYBN will cover 820,000 persons from the Catskill Mountain Range with a unique approach to DTV: Five video streams and five Dolby audio streams.

The lineup:

14.1 – AMERICAN ONE TV NET: GENERAL ENTERTIANMENT / SPORTS
14.2 – MEXI – CANAL: HISPANIC TV FROM MEXICO’S BEST INDEPENDENT TV
14.3 – TUFF TV: A GUYS CHANNEL WITH CLASSIC SHOWS, MMA, TALK
14.4 – AMG TV NET: MOVIES, HOW TO SHOWS, KIDS, SYNDICATED FARE
14.5 – ELECTRONIC PROGRAM GUIDE….WHAT’S ON TV & NEWS CRAWL / WEATHER, ETC
14.6 – HISPANIC DESPORTES FORMAT
14.7 – HISPANIC TROPICAL FORMAT
14.8 – ” MARTINI IN THE MORNING” – CLASSIC AMERICAN SONG BOOK OF MUSIC
14.9 – TBA
14.10 – TOURISM REPORTS & LOCAL INFO

Airtime will be sold on all 10 channels.

RBR-TVBR observation: It’s interesting to note that with DTV, not all multicast channels have to be video. When going with audio you have more bandwidth available for more channels. It should be interesting to see if WYBN’s Hispanic audio formats will fill a need in the market—there are no Hispanic-formatted stations currently there.