WMNB

WMNB is a CW affiliated station that serves the Corning/Elmira/Ithaca, NY areas. The station broadcasts on Channel 12 and is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, as part of a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliated station WXVH. 
==History==
WMNB signed on the air back on September 16, 1987 as an Independent station, running movies, sitcoms, dramas, cartoons, and religious programming. Its news operations also began on that same day. In 1995, the station changed it's call letters to WBCNG also became the new home for the then-fledging WB network and kept the network until 2006 when The WB and UPN merged to become The CW. The station changed back to their former WMNB call letters in 2006 and immediately became the new CW station and it continues to be the CW affiliate for the market. WMNB's newscasts have been improving in ratings since 1987 and continue to be one of the highest rated newscasts in the area. On November 30, 2016, CBS acquired the station. On November 1, 2017, CBS sold WMNB to Sinclair Broadcast Group.
== Station Slogans ==
*Elmira's Best. (1987-1990)
*Your News Station (1987-1990, news slogan)
*The Revolution of Television (1990-1995)
*You Can Count on Us for News (1990-1995, news slogan)
*WB 12, Elmira's Having Fun With You! (1995-2001; general slogan)
*WB 12, Watch Your News Team Work (1995-2001; news slogan)
*Elmira's WB: Better Every Day (2001-2006; general slogan)
*The Nine O'Clock News Source (2001-2006; news slogan)
*WB 12: Kiss the Frog, Baby! (1995-1996; localized version of The WB ad campaign)
*Dubba Dubba Dubba Dubba WB 12/Elmira's WB! (1996-2005)
*You're on the Dubba Dubba WB 12! (1996-1997)
*Hey Dubba O, Dubba He, Dubba She, Dubba You, Dubba Me, Dubba Dubba WB 12! (1997-1998)
*WB 12, Do the Dubba Dance! (1997-1998)
*What's the Place I Want to Be? Dubba Dubba WB 12! (1998-1999)
*WB 12: I Can't Wait to Crawl! (1999-2000)
*WB 12: The Night is Young. (2000-2001)
*Elmira's WB, Watch What We're Doing Now! (2000-2006)
*Elmira's WB: Watch the Frog. (2001-2005)
*Elmira's WB: Fresh from the Frog (2001-2005)
*Elmira's WB: Home of the Shows That Speak to Our Young Adult Audience from an Empowered Point of View. (2002-2005)
*Elmira's WB: We Speak to a Generation. (2003-2006)
*Elmira's WB: The Network Defining a Generation. (2004-2006)
*The First 17 Years. Elmira's WB. Est 1987. (2004-2005)
*Elmira's WB: The New Generation. (2005-2006)
*Elmira's Choice For Laughs (2006–present; general slogan)
*Bringing News Home To You! (2006-2009; news slogan)
*Coverage You Can Count On (2009–present; news slogan)
Category:CW network affiliates
Category:Channel 12
Category:Corning
Category:Elmira, New York
Category:Ithaca
Category:New York
Category:Former independent stations
Category:Former WB affiliates
Category:Former WB network affiliates
Category:Television channels and stations established in 1984
Category:Sinclair Broadcast Group