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City | Lake City, Florida |
Channels | |
Branding | My 11 Gainesville |
Programming | |
Affiliations | Defunct |
Ownership | |
Owner |
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Operator | Sinclair Broadcast Group via master service agreement |
WGFL, WNBW-DT, WYME-CD | |
History | |
First air date | July 3, 1985 |
Last air date |
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Former call signs |
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Former channel number(s) | 15 (UHF, 1985–2002) |
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Call sign meaning | MyNetworkTV Gainesville |
Technical information | |
Class | TX |
ERP | 3 kW |
HAAT | 140 m (459 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 30°12′50″N 82°39′0″W / 30.21389°N 82.65000°W |
WMYG-LP (channel 11) is a defunct low-power television station in Lake City, Florida, United States, which operated from 1985 to 2015. Last owned by New Age Media, it was most recently affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It was functionally replaced by a digital subchannel of co-owned, High Springs–licensed CBS affiliate WGFL (channel 28). WMYG-LP was also sister to two Gainesville-licensed stations: low-power, Class A Antenna TV affiliate WYME-CD (channel 45) and full-power NBC affiliate WNBW-DT (channel 9). The latter is actually owned by MPS Media but operated by New Age Media under a local marketing agreement (LMA). All of the stations, in turn, are operated under a master service agreement by Sinclair Broadcast Group. WMYG-LP's operations were based at the shared studios of WGFL and WNBW-DT on Northwest 80th Boulevard (along I-75/SR 93) in Gainesville; its transmitter was located in Lake City's Lacymark section.
WMYG-LP did not operate a digital signal of its own, and there were no plans to convert the station's signal to digital. In addition, the analog signal's broadcast range was limited to the immediate Lake City area. However, WMYG-LP received full-market coverage via WGFL-DT2, which eventually became its permanent over-the-air conduit. Ever since its inception, WGFL-DT2 had broadcast in 480i 4:3 standard definition; however, sometime during spring 2017, it had been upgraded to 1080i 16:9 high definition.[1]
The broadcast license for WMYG-LP was canceled on November 18, 2015;[2][3] its programming continues under WGFL's license as "My 11" (referring to its channel position on most cable systems in the market).
The Gainesville market is located between several other Florida DMAs. In these areas, local cable systems opted instead for the affiliate for their home market instead of WMYG-LP. This includes Cox and Charter Spectrum in Ocala (part of the Orlando market) that both offer WRBW. In Lake City (part of the Jacksonville market), Comcast Xfinity provided WFOX-DT2 in lieu of WMYG, which was technically a station local to Lake City.