With syndicated news and tabloid programming becoming more the norm in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Live on 4, like Evening Magazine, was starting to become of lesser importance to Group W. In 1991, after a 12-year-run, Live on 4 was dropped after WBZ-TV acquired A Current Affair for the 5:30 p.m. time slot (the program previously aired on WFXT). In late May 2010, WNGS finally began transmitting its digital signal on channel 7. Here is some background on WBBZ-TV and it’s owner, WNY native Phil Arno. Steve Burton is now the new sports director, while the position that Kulhawik held was eliminated. The station later returned for a longer stay at the Theatre, beginning with a broadcast at 7:00 p.m. on January 30, 1928.[1]. Lobel left channel 4 on May 16, 2008, while Kulhawik and Wahle left on May 29, 2008 and May 30, 2008 respectively. First, it premiered the two-hour live talk/magazine show Look in the fall of 1982 (renamed New England Afternoon in its second and final year), it failed in the Nielsen ratings and was canceled in 1984. Time Warner Cable ended its hold on WNGS' channel 11 cable slot; WNLO was moved into that position and TWC's regional cable news channel YNN Buffalo was placed on channel 9, the former location of WNLO.

Oprah moved to a 5:00 p.m. weekday time slot on WCVB-TV, where it became an institution (later moving to 4 p.m. in 1994) for the balance of its run, ending in 2011. In 1957, WBZ-TV began broadcasting from a 1,200-foot (366 m) tower in Needham, along with WBZ-FM at 106.7 FM (now WMJX). [9] Also around this time, WNGS's agreement with WKBW-TV ended. In 2004, WBZ began using CBS's standardized branding, becoming "CBS 4". Besides the Braves (from 1948 until the team moved to Milwaukee before the 1953 season) and the Red Sox (1948–1957, 1972–1974, and a handful of games in 2003 and 2004, along with certain games aired nationally on NBC from 1948 to 1989), WBZ-TV also broadcast the Boston Celtics from 1972 to 1985 (and again from 1990 to 1994 through NBC's broadcast contract with the NBA). Since then, the majority of Patriots regular season games have aired on WBZ, and in 2009, the station became the Patriots' "official" station, gaining rights to preseason games and airing the weekly program Patriots All-Access. In April 1977, Evening Magazine premiered on the station. As an NBC affiliate, the station was known to preempt several hours of network programming per day—a common practice among Group W television stations affiliated with NBC and CBS. In response, NBC threatened to pull its programming from both WBZ-TV and WPTZ unless Westinghouse agreed to the trade. Although the station tends to rank #1 in daytime and primetime ratings, Channel 4's local news ratings have suffered since the switch in network affiliations. WBBZ-TV's business office and studios are located at the Eastern Hills Mall in the Town of Clarence, in a census-designated place called Harris Hill, and its transmitter is located near Springville in the hills of southern Erie County.

The Numbers Game also aired Saturdays at 7:55 p.m. Beginning on May 1, 1987 (a few months before Lottery Live ended its original WBZ run), a new state sweepstakes, Mass Millions, was introduced, and was televised on Lottery Live each Friday. The station began with an infomercial/home shopping format, but added general-entertainment barter talk shows, cartoons and low-budget sitcoms in 1997. In the mid-1960s, it adopted the Eyewitness News format that had been pioneered at Philadelphia sister station KYW-TV. The This TV affiliation moved to a digital subchannel, while it began carrying MeTV on its main channel. As the only television station that was built from the ground up by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, WBZ-TV began operations on June 9, 1948, at 6:15 p.m. with a news broadcast hosted by Arch MacDonald. In 1948, it began live broadcasts of Boston's two Major League Baseball teams, the Red Sox and the Braves, broadcasts that at first were split with WNAC-TV.

The station also dropped some Saturday morning cartoons in 1990 (which also aired on WHLL), even though NBC abandoned such programming in 1992 in favor of a Saturday edition of the morning news show Today and live-action series aimed at teenagers such as Saved by the Bell. Taken as a whole, its local newscasts are the lowest rated of Boston's "Big 3" affiliates, having dipped behind a resurgent WHDH-TV as well. Station management elected to keep the newscast going, but now as a newsmagazine that specialized in investigative reports. WBZ-TV, virtual channel 4 (UHF digital channel 20), is a CBS-owned-and-operated television station licensed to Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Hosted by Evening Magazine contributor and 4 Today host Tom Bergeron, Lottery Live aired the daily Numbers Game following the last main segment of Evening at 7:55 p.m. weeknights. Daystar's last-minute proposal to transmit from a broadcast tower used by WNYO-TV (channel 49) in Folsomdale, New York instead of using WKBW-TV's Colden tower was rejected due to WNYO-TV owner Sinclair Broadcast Group's last-minute decision to broadcast WNYO-TV on its lower power digital channel 34 from Grand Island, and receiving FCC approval to transfer its digital signal to a full-power channel 49 transmission from Folsomdale on June 12. For part of that time, Boomtown originated from an outdoor "western town" set built next to WBZ-TV's studios.

The station originally operated from inside the Hotel Bradford alongside its radio sister; its current home was not completed at the time, although master control and its self-supporting tower over the building were in use at sign-on. WNGS 1996–1998 . WNGS was sold to Daystar Television Network for a total of US$7.4 million They already owned WDTB-LP in nearby Hamburg, along with six other full-service stations and nine LPTV and Class A stations . The rebranding was completed on February 4, 2007, during the station's coverage of the Super Bowl. He was replaced by meteorologist Todd Gutner. As the Buffalo market stretches west to near Erie, Pennsylvania, east towards Rochester, New York, north towards Toronto, Canada, and several counties in northern Pennsylvania in an area with several varieties of terrain, pay television service is almost a requirement for optimum viewing in outlying areas. These stations were generally hired out for a few weeks at a time to theaters, mostly located in small midwestern towns that didn't have their own radio stations, to be used for special programs broadcast to the local community. [4] Nobel ceased operating the station in May 1925, and the Department of Commerce, regulators of radio at the time, reported that the station had been deleted. However, the "squares" logo is still used as a secondary logo including certain promotions and on monitors in the station's news set. In the early 1960s, WBZ unveiled a new stylized "4" logo, using a distinctive font that had been designed especially for Group W. The logo became italicized in 1987, but remained the same font. Now with Randy Price as the principal anchor, the title was shortened to The 7:30 Report. On April 16, 2009, as a result of its bankruptcy, Equity Media Holdings auctioned off 60 of its television stations. The Easter… – Bot generated title – >", "Strike took viewers from late local news", "WFXT, WBZ to Share in Boston: Fox and CBS do a deal in No. WNGS went off the air on June 12, 2009, after not being able to complete its transition to digital-only broadcasts on time, and remained silent for almost a year. By early 2012, the studio at the Eastern Hills Mall began construction; the first program was taped from there in June. In the spring of 1984, WBZ introduced local live lottery drawings. Further complicating matters was that Kitchener, Ontario's, CTV owned-and-operated station CKCO-TV, a station serving portions of southern Ontario with a signal that penetrates Western New York, was assigned the same channel 7 allocation by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) for its own digital signal. By this time, in addition to The Numbers Game still airing six nights a week at 7:53 p.m., late-night airings (during the 11:00 p.m. newscast) drew Megabuck$, Mass Million$, Mass Ca$h (1991) and The Big Game (1996) on individual nights. Although licensed as a full-power station, it transmitted its analog signal at low power with a northward directional pattern covering much of the Southtowns, but not reaching the city of Buffalo proper.

On February 29, 2008, it was reported that the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike caused a significant loss in viewers during the late news. The 4:00 p.m. newscast was discontinued later in 2006. WBBZ reportedly made its first Ponca City appearance sometime in 1927, when Carrell associate Harry Kyler brought the station to town for a week-long run at the Poncan Theatre. ET hour of the show was broadcast nationally by CBS – featuring the Pops' signature performances of the 1812 Overture and "Stars and Stripes Forever," as well as the fireworks over the Charles River.