WMYO

WMYO (Channel 20) is a television station in Steelport, Michigan, affiliated with The CW. The station is owned by GloboRB, alongside Freenity owned-and-operated station WLSU (Channel 7). The two stations maintain studios in Loren Square.
== History ==
The station first signed on the air on July 17, 1990 as Independent station WGCS-TV. Its original studio facilities were located in Salander.
=== UPN Era ===
In 1995, WGCS became a charter affiliate of the newly launched United Paramount Network under the ownership of Paramount Stations Group, a division of Viacom.
In 2001, Viacom sold WGCS and KRBI in Waco, Texas to RB Media (predecessor of GloboRB).
=== MyNetworkTV Era ===
On January 24, 2006, the Warner Bros. unit of Time Warner and CBS Corporation announced that UPN and rival The WB would merge their respective programming to create a new "fifth" network called The CW. One month later, on February 22, in response to The CW's launch announcement, News Corporation announced the creation of a new "sixth" network called MyNetworkTV, which would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division Twentieth Television. WGCS was selected as a charter affiliate for MyNetworkTV. Although The CW was founded, UPN and The WB did not fold and continued operations under new ownership. WGCS had already removed all UPN references in June 2006, similar to how Fox removed all UPN references from its stations. 
MyNetworkTV officially launched on September 5th of that year. The station also changed its call sign to the current WMYO. At the end of 2006, the UPN affiliate would return to WMYO on its nightly hours until 2010.
On October 1, 2009, WMYO launched its new website at www.my20steelport.com.
=== Switch to The CW ===
On January 7, 2019, WMYO swapped affiliations with CW station WSCV, following a carriage dispute with its owner Tegna Inc. and The CW's then half-owner CBS Corporation.
In 2024, WMYO rebranded as "Steelport CW", accompanied with the network's new logo.
== Newscasts ==
When RB Media took ownership in 2001, WGCS/WMYO has produced and aired separate newscasts to differentiate from sister station WLSU, although both shared studios and technical facilities. In 2006, with the launch of MyNetworkTV, both stations combined their news rooms into one entity, entitled "My Steelport News", airing both morning and evening segments at the same time. The division was made available to both VHF (WLSU) and UHF (WMYO) antenna viewers.
The division phased out on June 5, 2009, a week before the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television, which WLSU transferred its digital signal from VHF 7 to UHF 35. Because of the upgrade, the newscast became redundant on WMYO and moved back to WLSU.
In September 2018, WLSU began to simulcast its 10PM newscasts on WMYO entitled "Freemont 7 News on My20". After the transition to The CW in 2019 and Freemont's relaunch as Freenity in 2023, the newscasts remain on the same time slot, now branded as "Freenity 7 News on Steelport CW".
== Gallery ==
UPN 20 Steelport 1995 logo.jpg|UPN 20 (1995-2002)
UPN 20 Steelport 2002 logo.jpg|UPN 20 (2002-2006)
WMYO-TV.png|WMYO "My 20" (2006-2019)
File:The CW Steelport.png|WMYO "Steelport CW" (January - June 2019)
File:WMYO June 2019.png|WMYO "CW 20 Steelport" (2019-2024)
== Technical information ==
Subchannels of WMYO (ATSC 1.0)
Channel	Res.	Aspect	Short name	Programming 	ATSC 1.0 host
20.1 	720p	16:9 	WMYO-DT 	Main WMYO programming / The CW	WLSU
20.2 	480i	16:9 	ZEST 	Zest 	WLSU
20.3 	480i	16:9 	DESPD 	Desperado 	WLSU
In 2022, WMYO began broadcasting in ATSC 3.0, carrying the feeds of WSMV, WLSU, and WVLA, instead of its secondary program streams
Subchannels of WMYO (ATSC 3.0)
Channel	Res. 	Aspect	Short name	Programming
4.1 	1080i	16:9 	WSMV 	ATSC 3.0 simulcast of WSMV / Fox
7.1 	1080i	16:9 	WLSU 	ATSC 3.0 simulcast of WLSU / Freenity
9.1 	1080i	16:9 	WVLA 	ATSC 3.0 simulcast of WVLA / NBC
20.1 	1080i	16:9 	WMYO 	Main WMYO programming
Category:Steelport
Category:Michigan
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1990
Category:CW network affiliates
Category:Channel 20
Category:Former independent stations
Category:Former UPN affiliates
Category:Former MyNetworkTV affiliates
Category:GloboRB
Category:ATSC 3.0 stations
Category:ATSC 3.0