seeing a chance to use more signal at less cost, anscombe sought and won a new construction permit for analog channel 34. the new station signed on november 24, 1962 from studios at its transmitter site on ingraham hill south of binghamton; it was the third station to sign on in the binghamton area, after wbng and wicz-tv. it has always been an abc affiliate. the northeastern pennsylvania-area station now known as wolf-tv signed on in 1985 on analog channel 38; it would eventually move to channel 56 thirteen years later.