WNLNB

WNLNB, virtual channel 12 (UHF digital channel 30), is a New Line Network-affiliated television station located in Buffalo, New York. WNLNB's studios are located near the Eastern Hills Mall in suburban Clarence and it's transmitter is located at 951 Whitehaven Road (I-190) in Grand Island, New York.

History
WTTY signed on the air on May 9, 1969 as one of the very first affiliates of the then-new New Line Network. The station was owned by Ultravision Broadcasting Company.

The station was acquired by the original Viacom in 1978.

In late 1986, Viacom agreed to sell WTTY to New Line Stations, in essence, this made channel 12 an owned-and-operated station (the first in western New York). New Line Stations then immediately changed the call letters to WNLNB to match standardization practices among it's stations.

As a result of declining revenue at the entire New Line subsidiary of AOL Time Warner, in 2002, New Line announced a fire sale of 31 of it's O&Os primarily in mid-to-small-size markets, including WNLNB. In 2003, New Line sold WNLNB to Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasting.

Newscasts
From 2003 to 2014, WNLNB did not air news programming, making Buffalo the largest television market in the United States whose New Line affiliate did not offer any newscasts at all (Weigel is believed to have paid a large fee to New Line to avoid the network's mandate that its affiliates carry local news). The station long opted to air syndicated programming instead of carrying news programming, as it is within range of the Toronto market and features advertising targeted at Southern Ontario viewers, along with the large number of stations within the Buffalo market and those receivable in the market from Hamilton and Toronto that already produce local newscasts.

This lack of local news programming ended on December 14, 2014, when WNLNB launched a seven-days-a-week 10:00 PM newscast, titled simply N12 News.