WTHQ-TV

WTHQ-TV is a commercial-free television station located in Buffalo, New York, and it is affiliated with Canadian cable channel Treehouse TV. It operates on channel 11 and is owned by Sega, which is the first television station to be owned by a video game publisher, the others being KTHQ-TV in Fresno, WADI-TV in Atlanta, KACM-TV in Denver, KKEA-TV in Little Rock, KCAP-TV in Tulsa, WCAP-TV in Nashville, WWEA-TV in Boston, KBNG-TV in Houston, WBAN-TV in Orlando, and KSGA-TV in Dallas. It began broadcasting in late-1979 as a independent station under the call letters of WLJN-TV, and it was owned by LJN until 1990, Acclaim Entertainment until 1994, and THQ until 2013.

WTHQ-TV offers daypart portions of the Treehouse programming schedule, plus classic Treehouse shows like Treetown, Wee 3, Crazy Quilt, and Barney and Friends, complete uninterrupted playthroughs of THQ, Acclaim, and Sega games, and original preschool and video game programming produced exclusively for WTHQ-TV viewers.

1979-1988
On October 1979, WTHQ-TV begins broadcasting as WLJN-TV.

1988-1994
In 1990, Acclaim Entertainment buys LJN, Ltd., making WLJN-TV owned and operated by Acclaim.

1994-1997


Acclaim sold WLJN-TV to THQ, Inc. in 1994, changing its calls to the current WTHQ-TV.

1997-2005


The new logo is launched as WTHQ-TV becomes a Treehouse TV affiliate in 1997, and rebranded as "Treehouse 11" or "WTHQ 11".

2005-2011


WTHQ-TV recieves a on-air makeover in 2005, it rebranded as "THQ11, Treehouse for Buffalo"

2011-2013


This was the last logo for WTHQ-TV under THQ ownership, it rebranded back to "Treehouse 11"

2013-2014


As Sega becomes the new owner of channel 11, WTHQ-TV offers the cable channel's logo with the secondary branding "WTHQ Channel 11".

2014 (tenative)


As of January 1st, 2014, WTHQ-TV will relaunch and revamp as "Sega 11, The Treehouse station for Buffalo", and will offer a revamped schedule of original and Treehouse network programming, along with complete un-cut and commercial-free playthroughs of Sega, THQ, and Acclaim Entertainment games which will continue to broadcast on WTHQ-TV, the classic preschool shows from the Treehouse TV archives, and a new larger always-on LDL (created as WTHQ-TV is devoid of news and sports programming) offering a hybird mix of local news, business and stock reports, traffic information, weather forecasts, sports news and scores, entertainment news headlines, its high score list for the video games telecast by channel 11, telling you what's on the station, and LiveView cams of Buffalo, Rochester, and Tornoto.