WEGE-TV

WEGE-TV, also known as EdgeTV, is the UPN affiliated station serving New York's Capitol District including Albany, New York. It broadcasts on channel 5 and is owned by Berfield/Willis Broadcast Corporation.

History
WEGE signed on the air on January 24, 2000. Prior to WEGE signing on, UPN programming was seen only on cable from Boston's WSLT. The initial lineup, aside from UPN programs, were double runs and failed syndicated programs from Fox affiliate, WCTW, older films, sports programs including the New York Yankees telecasts (from WFXN, then WCBW) and Boston Bruins telecasts from WSLT, as well as children's programs and some older sitcoms. Within the next 5 years, most of the older sitcoms, and eventually children's programs, were stripped from the schedule and replaced with more recent sitcoms, talk shows, reality and court shows. Children's programs aired for roughly 3 years until August 2003, when UPN discontinued it's children's programming block, Disney's One Too. Despite many former UPN affiliates switching over to The CW and MyNetworkTV, Willis Communications decided to continue to operate WEGE as a UPN affiliate. In 2006, children's programs returned to WEGE's schedule, after a 3 year hiatus, under the name UPN Kids. WEGE, to this day, is still operating as a UPN affiliate and was unaffected by the 2015 fictional tv station realignment.