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WIVB-TV (channel 4) is a television station in Buffalo, New York, United States, affiliated with CBS. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside CW owned-and-operated station WNLO (channel 23).

Watch WIVB-TV (Channel 4) live from Buffalo, New York. 7-Day Forecast, 4 Warn Weather, local news, TV listings and more of the viewer interest is presented by the Buffalo-based channel. WIVB-TV (Channel 4) is news and general channel, established in 1948 by Butler family.

It was Buffalo's first television station, the fifth-oldest station in New York state, and the 24th in the United States. The station was originally owned by the Butler family, along with the Buffalo Evening News and WBEN radio (930 AM and 106.5 FM, now WTSS at 102.5); the holding company for the WBEN stations was WBEN, Inc.

WBEN-TV became WIVB-TV in 1977 after the death of Buffalo News owner Katherine Butler forces the newspaper to divest of its broadcast holdings. The station was sold for $25.5 million dollars to newspaper publisher Robert Howard, of Oceanside, California.

Uncle Mike and pal Buttons, WBEN-TV, 1956 Starting in 1954, one of the most popular shows on Channel 4 was Mike Mearian’s “Children’s Theater,” which featured the host as either Uncle Mike or Captain Mike when they played Popeye cartoons.

On February 27, 1948, WBEN-TV started telecasting daily—but only a test pattern for several hours a day. Eleven weeks later, on May 14, 1948, Buffalo entered the television era with the sign-on of Ch.4, WBEN-TV. The station was among the first 25 to sign on in the country.

For five years, WBEN-TV Ch.4 was Buffalo’s only television station. Then in 1953, two more stations came to the market—but most Buffalonians needed special equipment to watch them. Buffalo’s WBUF-TV Ch.17 and WBES-TV Ch.59 took advantage of the federal government opening up a much wider spectrum of television broadcasting frequencies.