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Full-power digital · channel 8 · ALBANY, NY
| Facility ID | 11970 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | MISSION BROADCASTING, INC. |
| Community of licence | ALBANY, NY
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 42.62536, -74.01019 |
| Effective radiated power | 22 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 691.8 m above average terrain · non-directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
| Website | http://news10.com/fox23-albany/ |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | 16
|
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | none found |
Checked 2026-09-22 by fetching robots.txt
and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not
evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| W06DU-D | 6 | LPD | |
| W09DZ-D | 9 | LPD | |
| facility 793848 | 9 | LPD | |
| facility 793851 | 12 | LPD | |
| facility 793694 | 12 | LPD | |
| facility 795460 | 12 | LPD | |
| WNYT | 21 | DTV | WNYT-TV, LLC |
| WZPJ-LD | 23 | LPD | NYTV LLC |
| WTEN | 24 | DTV | NEXSTAR MEDIA INC. |
| W30FR-D | 30 | LPD |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/WXXA-TV | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=WXXA-TV | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.