WEDG-TV (originally EdgeTV, later UPN4, no relation to the radio station of the same calls in Buffalo) was a cable-only UPN affiliate in New York's Capital District which was a joint venture between Time Warner Cable and Fox affiliate WXXA-TV.
Edge TV, named for and promoted with a sister radio station, signed on at the start of 2000, displacing Boston's WSBK from Time Warner's systems and stripping low-power UPN affiliate WVBG-LP of its affiliation. Outside of UPN programming, the lineup was filled with double runs and castoffs from WXXA, old movies, and an assortment of sporting events including New York Yankees games (from WNYW, then WCBS) and Boston Bruins games from WSBK.
In Fall 2000, EdgeTV became UPN4 after the "Edge" radio stations were divested as a result of the merger between co-partner Clear Channel and AMFM, Inc. Around this time, UPN4 began getting first-run programming of its own as a result of its partnership with WXXA, however even this couldn't get it market-wide cable distribution as the non-Time Warner systems in the market were either slow to add the channel or did not add it at all.
The 2003 announcement of new sign-on WNYA obtaining the UPN affiliation marked the quick end of UPN4's existence. Though the concept of continuing the station as an independent was considered, Time Warner and WXXA shut the station down at Midnight on September 1, 2003 with WNYA taking its cable channel positions six hours later and most programming being absorbed by WXXA.
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