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WSTM-TV (NBC-3) is the NBC affiliate for Syracuse, New York. Through cable coverage, it also serves as the NBC affiliate for Watertown and the Ithaca/Eastern Finger Lakes region. WSTM provides some news coverage of these areas. Interestingly, it also carries substantial news stories from Utica and Herkimer County, even though Utica's WKTV is also an NBC affiliate. The satellite signal reportedly reaches parts of Southeast Ontario. It is owned by Raycom Media, part of a duopoly with UPN affiliate WSTQ. However, Raycom is searching for a buyer for both stations after acquiring Liberty Corporation, which owned television stations primarily in the southeastern United States. Raycom is selling WSTM/WSTQ in order to focus on the southeast.
WSTM-TV began operations on February 15, 1950 as WSYR-TV, owned by Advance Publications, the Newhouse family's company, along with the Syracuse Post-Standard, Syracuse Herald-Journal, WSYR-AM 570 and WSYR-FM 94.5 (now WYYY). It was Syracuse's second television station, signing on three months after WHEN-TV (now WTVH). Originally on channel 5, it moved to its current location a few years later. It originally broadcast from the Kemper Building in downtown Syracuse. In 1958, WSYR-AM-FM-TV moved to a new studio on James Street. It has always been an NBC station, though it shared ABC programming with WHEN until WNYS-TV signed on in 1962.
For many years, WSYR-TV doubled as the NBC affiliate for Binghamton. It also operated a satelite station in Elmira for several years; first known as WSYE-TV and now WETM-TV, it is now a stand-alone station (though still affiliated with NBC).
The Newhouse family largely exited broadcasting in 1980. WSYR-TV was sold to Times Mirror. Since Times Mirror wasn't interested in the radio stations, it changed the TV station's calls to WSTM-TV (for Syracuse Times Mirror) and kept the James Street studio. In later years, Park Communications and Raycom bought the station, as Times Mirror also decided to exit broadcasting (the remainder of the company has since merged with Tribune).
The WSYR calls returned to Syracuse television in 2005 after Clear Channel Communications changed the calls of WIXT (the former WNYS-TV) to WSYR-TV (the ABC affiliate as mentioned above); it had owned WSYR-AM for several years and had acquired WIXT when it bought the Ackerley Group in 2000.
Notable station alumni include Bob Costas, Steve Kroft and Jeanne Meserve.
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