WNYI (fictional)

WNYI, virtual channel 52 (VHF digital channel 13), is a Univision-affiliated television station licensed to Ithaca, New York, United States and serving the Syracuse, Buffalo, Rochester, Elmira, and Binghamton television markets. The station is owned by. WNYI's studios are located on State Route 298 in East Syracuse; it's transmitter is located in Geneseo.

History
The original construction permit was issued to "Ithaca 52 Inc." in December 1999, valid for three years, with the first program tests run in late 2002 to meet a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) deadline. The initial broadcast consisted of 26 kW of color bars from a tower location near Ithaca College.

The station was sold to Caroline Pawley in June 2003 and to Equity Broadcasting in 2004; it had been fed remotely via satellite from Equity's central automated satellite hub in Little Rock, Arkansas during Equity's ownership. WNYI, licensed as a full service station despite its low signal power terrestrially, had applied for must-carry access to Time Warner Cable in Syracuse in May 2005. While Ithaca is nominally in the Syracuse market area, the terrestrial WNYI signal had always been inadequate to reach Syracuse or other communities outside of Ithaca itself. The station had made various applications for an increase in licensed power but no decisions had been made by the FCC on these requests.

At auction on April 16, 2009, Entravision Communications bought WNYI, pending approval by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. A move to a new transmitter site in Geneseo that covered the Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse markets (along with the Elmira market as a rimshot) steadied the Upstate New York area's access to the network.

News operation
From 2005 until May 2008, Equity Broadcasting produced Spanish-language newscasts for WNYI, titled Noticias Univision NY Norte. The twice-nightly newscasts – which aired at 5:00 and 10:00 p.m. each weeknight – consisted of a single broadcast that was repeated later in the evening. While WNYI maintained its own locally based full-time reporters and photographers in the Upstate New York region, most of the newscast segments were produced out of studios located at Equity's headquarters in Little Rock, which served as a production hub for local newscasts aired by the group's Univision-affiliated stations. As with Equity's Univision newscasts elsewhere, the program consisted of nine minutes of local news and weather segments, accompanied by pre-recorded national and international news and sports segments produced for inclusion in all of the broadcasts. As a result of corporate cutbacks spurred by the company's financial issues, Equity discontinued the newscasts it produced for all six of its Univision affiliates (including WNYI) on June 6, 2008.

After the Entravision purchase, WNYI restored full-scale news programming to its schedule in September 2009. The station assumed production responsibilities for its newscasts, produced at a studio in East Syracuse. Currently, the newscasts are anchored by Pablo Amat.