WUTV
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| WUTV (Fox) | ||
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| Slogan: (None) | ||
| Buffalo, New York | ||
| Channel 29 | ||
| Owner | Sinclair Broadcast Group | |
| Founded | 1970 | |
| Signal Radius | Western New York and Southern Ontario | |
| Former Affiliations | Independent | |
| Former Callsigns | none | |
| Address | 951 Whitehaven Road Grand Island, New York 14072 | |
WUTV is a broadcast television station in Buffalo, New York, affiliated with the Fox network. It broadcasts on channel 29. WUTV is owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, which also owns WNYO, the WB affiliate in the Buffalo market.
WUTV's transmitter is located on Grand Island, New York.
Until the 1980s, the station was independent. For many years, it was owned by Norman Lear's Act III Communications.
WUTV does not currently air a newscast (and has not done so for many years), making Buffalo the largest television market in the US whose Fox affiliate does not offer news. WUTV heavily targets its Canadian audience in Toronto and Southern Ontario, whom the station assumes would rather watch syndicated entertainment programming, such as sitcom reruns, than Buffalo news.
Between 1996 and September 1997, WUTV was a secondary affiliate of the UPN affiliate, airing programs at times available to the station rather than on the national UPN schedule. The station's present logo has been in use since late 1997.