WVNY

WVNY (channel 22) is a television station licensed to Burlington, Vermont, United States, serving the Burlington, Vermont–Plattsburgh, New York market as an affiliate of ABC. It is owned by Mission Broadcasting, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with Nexstar Media Group, owner of Burlington Fox affiliate WFFF-TV (channel 44), for the provision of certain services. The two stations share studios in Colchester, Vermont; WVNY's transmitter is located on Mount Mansfield.

WVNY began broadcasting on August 19, 1968, as the third commercial station in the region. It was built by Vermont New York Television and operated from studios in the former officer's club at Fort Ethan Allen. While it failed to make much of an impression in the area of news, it broadcast local and regional sports. Financing difficulties left the station off the air for five months in mid-1971. Under International Television Corporation, which assumed control of the station in 1971 and bought it outright in 1974, channel 22 made two further, low-rated attempts at local news programming and moved into the former WCAX studios in Burlington. Between 1974 and 1982, the station was WEZF-TV, matching co-owned radio station WEZF. In 1982, it became the first broadcast property of Citadel Communications; WVNY continued to emphasize sports programming, which included Boston Red Sox baseball and at one point an affiliation with the Canadian Football Network, owing to its widespread availability on cable in Montreal across the Canadian border.

After Straightline Communications acquired the station in 1998, the news department was retooled and relaunched in August 1999. Despite being seen as the station's most credible local news offering to date, the newscasts were discontinued in 2003 due to continued low ratings. Lambert Broadcasting bought WVNY in 2005 in partnership with Smith Media, owner of WFFF-TV; the station moved to Colchester. Local news returned after WFFF-TV began a local news department in 2007. Mission acquired WVNY in 2013 after Nexstar purchased WFFF. The WVNY–WFFF news department produces 35 hours of local news programming a week, just over half of it for air on channel 22.