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WBNG-TV
Binghamton, New York
Branding	WBNG 12; Action News
Slogan	Your News Leader
Channels	Analog: 12 (VHF) Digital: 7 (VHF)
Affiliations	CBS (secondary until 1962) The CW on DT2 (future)
Owner	Granite Broadcasting
Founded	January 10, 1949
Call letters meaning	W BiNGhamton
Former callsigns	WNBF-TV (1949-1973)
Former affiliations	DuMont (1949-1955) NBC (1949-1957) ABC (1949-1962)
Website	www.wbng.com/

WBNG-TV is the CBS television affiliate in Binghamton, New York. The station serves the South Central New York-North Central Pennsylvania area. It broadcasts its analog signal on VHF channel 12, and its digital signal on VHF channel 7. The station also operates WBXI, a cable-only affiliate of The CW network serving Binghamton. WBNG's transmitter is located in Binghamton.

In addition to the Binghamton market, WBNG is the default CBS affiliate for most of the Elmira TV market as well as Otsego County in the Utica TV market.

The station launched on January 10, 1949 as WNBF-TV, and was affiliated with all four American television networks at the time (CBS, DuMont, NBC and ABC). The station subsequently lost its affiliations with DuMont in 1955 (after the network's collapse), NBC in 1957 (to WICZ-TV, now a Fox affiliate) and ABC in 1962 (to WBJA-TV, later WMGC now WIVT). The station adopted its current callsign, WBNG-TV, in 1973 when the station was sold to Gateway Communications.

In 2000, Gateway Communications was purchased by SJL Broadcasting, which reduced staff from 100 to 58 over five years to fit the aggressive SJL automation model.

In 2002 the station's digital signal on channel 7 signed on. WBNG-DT began broadcasting network programming in high definition in late January 2007. Beginning in September 2007, WBXI will be simulcast on WBNG's new digital subchannel.

In April 2006, it was announced that Granite Broadcasting made a deal to acquire WBNG from Television Station Group License Subsidiary, LLC (the successor to SJL and a subsidiary of Alta Communications) for $45 million. The required money will be funded by a new senior credit facility created after the previously announced sales of Detroit's WMYD and San Francisco's KBWB fell apart. Granite closed on its purchase of WBNG on July 26, 2006. [1]

Coincident with the announced Granite deal, General Manager Joe McNamara took over as GM of KHON in Honolulu, recently acquired by SJL. Bob Krummenacker has taken over of GM of WBNG.

WNBF logo

A circle logo used when Gateway Communications owned the station

The logo used in the mid to late 1990s

• Gabe Osterhout

• Julia Sansom (weekday mornings)
• Doug Peters (5, 5:30, 6, 11 weekdays)
• Justin Culligan (6pm and 11pm Weekend and reporter during the week.)

• Brendan O'Reilley
• Justin Horowitz

• WBNG website
• Details history of WBNG under SJL
• Broadcast Localism in Binghamton Market, report filed under FCC's Broadcast Localism NOI.
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WBNG