Owned by the United Communications Corporation, WWNY is sister to Fox affiliate WNYF-CD and the two outlets share studios on Arcade Street (along NY 3/ NY 12) in downtown Watertown. WWNY-TV, virtual and VHF digital channel 7, is a CBS-affiliated television station licensed to Carthage, New York, United States, serving Watertown and upstate New York’s North Country. Owned by Gray Television, it is a sister station to Watertown-licensed low-powered, Class A Fox affiliate WNYF-CD .

Local county officials want to see no new cases of COVID when they report their daily numbers. New York state is asking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention if there’s any reason it shouldn’t relax its mask mandate for schools. Saturday, Governor Andrew Cuomo updated New Yorkers on the state’s progress combatting COVID-19.

News, sports, weather, programming information and more from WWNY 7News and WNYF FOX-28, the CBS and FOX affiliates serving Northern New York and Southeast Ontario. This app features daily updated local news from 7News, one of the top leading news sources in the Watertown NY, Jefferson, Lewis and St. Lawrence Counties area for 60 years. This app also features a detailed program guide for both the stations. From 1958 until 1971, WCNY/WWNY also aired educational programming through National Educational Television provided by the St. Lawrence Valley Educational Television Council. After the FCC’s Sixth Report and Order ended the license freeze and opened the UHF band in 1952, it devised a plan for allocating VHF licenses. Under this plan, almost all of the country would be able to receive two commercial VHF channels plus one noncommercial channel.

A worker shortage within Jefferson County Child Protective Services is causing cases to back up. Some CPS employees told county lawmakers Tuesday night that they need help. There was car after car lined up at the Jefferson County Highway garage Saturday as people waiting to dispose of their hazardous household materials. A 21-year-old man was killed and seven other people were injured when a vehicle crashed through a guardrail and plowed into a crowd at a mud racing event in Texas, officials said Monday.

There is no weekday morning or noon meteorologist; news anchor Beth Hall presents a forecast from Accuweather during these segments. During the nightly evening weather forecasts, the station features virtual musical chairs a live National Weather Service weather radar based in Montague’s Parkers section. WNYF-LP’s low-powered analog signal on UHF channel 28 aired from a transmitter on NY 420 in Massena.

[Watertown is located in the northwest section of New York, near the juncture of the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario. The single most significant change within WWNY came in 2001, when United Communications Corp. entered into an agreement with Smith Broadcasting to operate a Fox network affiliate with low power transmitte… WCNY-TV was granted a special temporary authority to begin broadcasting on October 14, 1954. It was locally owned by the Watertown Daily Times, which also owned WWNY radio in Watertown.