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In broadcasting, sister stations or sister channels (or "sibling stations" in gender-neutral form) are radio and/or television stations operated by the same ownership. For the band see Broadcast (band Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or Video signals which transmit This article is about radio broadcasting for other uses see Radio (disambiguation. A television station is a type of broadcast station that broadcasts both audio and Video to Television receivers in a particular area

Radio sister stations will often have different formats, and often one station is on the AM band while another is on the FM band. This article is about Broadcast radio, for other uses see Radio (disambiguation. Amplitude modulation ( AM) is a technique used in electronic communication most commonly for transmitting information via a Radio Carrier wave Conversely, several types of sister-station relationships exist in television. Stations in the same city will usually be affiliated with different networks (often one with a major network and the other with a secondary network), and may occasionally shift programs between each other when local events require one station to interrupt its network feed. Sister stations in separate cities owned by the same company may or may not share a network affiliation; in addition, stations in different cities affiliated with the same network, but not sharing an ownership tie, may refer to each other informally as sister stations. For example, WNYW and WWOR, in New York City and Secaucus, New Jersey. WWOR-TV, channel 9 is a MyNetworkTV -affiliated television station licensed to Secaucus New Jersey, and serving the New York City metropolitan area

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