WCMB-TV

WABM (Digital and virtual channel 9) is a MyNetworkTV affiliate in Erie, PA, with studios and transmitter in Summit Township. WABM is owned by Mission Broadcasting, making the station a direct sister station to Fox affiliate WFXP, both stations being sister stations to WJET-TV due to a LMA with WJET's owner, Nexstar Broadcasting, who operates the station. The main subchannel on 9.1 serves as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV, while 9.2 carries Tribune Broadcasting's Antenna TV, and 9.3 carries FremantleMedia's game show subchannel network Buzzr. The station signed on in 2016. Virtual channel 9 was once the home of the WLEP-LD subchannels, with their digital channel having been on UHF channel 43. That station went dark in 2015, 13 months before the current WABM signed on the air, after LocustPoint Networks purchased the station with the intention to auction off the channel in the upcoming UHF spectrum auction. Both stations' digital channels are in different locations, and WABM is a full power station, while WLEP was a low power station. Thus, WABM is a new construction permit issued in late 2015. The station simulcasts WFXP's Fox 66 News at 10 every night and airs a repeat of WJET's Jet 24 News 11pm newscast at 1am.