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Wgrz | align="center" bgcolor="#66FFCC" colspan="3"|WGRZ (NBC) | | lign="center" colspan="3" style="padding:10px;"| | | lign="center" colspan="3" style="border-bottom:3px solid gray; font-size: smaller"|Slogan: "On Your Side" | | lign="center" bgcolor="#66FFCC" colspan="3"|Buffalo, New York | lign="center" colspan="3"|Channel 2
Digital channel 33 | | lign="left" valign="top"|Owner | colspan="2" valign="top"|Gannett | | lign="left" valign="top"|Founded | colspan="2" valign="top"|1954 | | lign="left" valign="top"|Signal Radius | colspan="2" valign="top"|Western New York | | lign="left" valign="top"|Callsign Meaning | colspan="2" valign="top"|WGR (radio station)
Z=2 http://www.oldradio.com/archives/nelson/origins.call-list.html | | lign="left" valign="top"|Former Callsigns | colspan="2" valign="top"|WGR-TV until 1982 | | lign="left" valign="top"|Address | colspam="2" valign="top"|east part?
Buffalo, New York, 142?? | | lign="left" valign="top"|Website: | colspan="2" valign="top"|www.wgrz.com | WGRZ-TV is the callsign of a television station in Buffalo, New York. It first went on the air in 1954 as WGR-TV. Its transmitter is located on Warner Hill Road in South Wales, New York. It served as an ABC, then ? until WKBW-TV was created. The format is Channel 2 News, prior to 1998, it was 2 News. The partner station for the area is WPXJ (PAX 51). Logo The logo represented a yellow triangle over the blue and had the 2 in common Avant Garde? text. The logo in 1998 changed to a bluer with a red heading on the bottom reading WGRZ-TV Boffalo, New York. The NBC logo is on the left and is not pronounced with NBC at all but it is an affiliate. In 2000, the lottery programming are presently broadcasting on Channel 2. Historic slogans News - Daybreak - 5:30 to 7:00 AM ET
- Channel 2 News at Noon - 12:00 PM ET - 5 minute update
- Channel 2 News First at Five - 1 hour, prior to 2002, 30 minutes - 5:00 to 6:00 PM ET
- 2 On Your Side
- Channel 2 Weather
- Channel 2 Sports
- Channel 2 News at Six - 6:00 to 6:30 PM ET
- Channel 2 News First at Ten on its sister station PAX 51.
- Channel 2 News at Eleven - 11:00 to 11:35 PM ET
Local Shows - 2 Your Home - housing show about renovation of homes throughout Western New York
- WNY Metro - real estate channel throughout Western New York
News reporters and journalists (as of 2003) - Stu Boyer, sports
- MaryAlice Demler
- Claudine Ewing, reporter
- Mike Igoe, 2 On Your Side
- Jodi Johnston
- Carol Kaplan, newscaster for the 5, 6 and 11 PM news
- Rich Kellman
- Ed Kilgore, sports
- Kim Martucci, meteorologist, weekends
- Kevin O'Connell, meteorologist
- Eric Wilson, meterologist
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