View source for WYTV-33, ABC (TV Station)

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'''WYTV-33''' is a Youngstown, Ohio television station and an affiliate of the ABC television network.

==Station Owner==
Chelsey Broadcasting

==Use of Video News Releases and/or Satellite Media Tours==

In the 11.30pm news bulletin on December 19, 2005 the station broadcast an edited and re-voiced [[video news release]] (VNR) produced by [[MultiVu]] for [[Steifel Laboratories]] promoting a new eczema treatment, [[MimyX]] cream. [https://www.prwatch.org/fakenews/vnr10] The station edited out the contra-indication information included in the original VNR which stated that it should not be used by people with "hypersensitivity to any of the components of the formulation." [http://www.prnewswire.com/broadcast/23015/consumer.html]

The station was documented airing a [[video news release]] by the [[Center for Media and Democracy]], in its November 2006 report "[https://www.prwatch.org/fakenews2/execsummary Still Not the News: Stations Overwhelmingly Fail to Disclose VNRs]. [https://www.prwatch.org/fakenews2/vnr62]

==Contact Details==
33 News / WYTV <br>
3800 Shady Run Road<br>
Youngstown, OH 44502<br>
Phone main: 330-783-2930<br>
Phone (Newsroom): 330-788-4046<br>
Main Fax: 330-782-8154<br>
Newsroom Fax: 330-782-6661<br>
Web: http://www.wytv.com/

==SourceWatch Resources==
*[[Audio news releases]]
*[[B-Roll]]
*[[Brand Hype]]
*[[Branded Entertainment]]
*[[Media releases]]
*[[Satellite Media Tours]]
*[[Radio Media Tours]]
*[[Public Service Announcements]]
*[[Video news releases: PR for California's Schwarzenegger administration]]

== External links ==
*Diane Farsetta and Daniel Price, "[https://www.prwatch.org/fakenews/execsummary Fake TV News: Widespread and Undisclosed:] A multimedia report on television newsrooms' use of material provided by PR firms on behalf of paying clients", Center for Media and Democracy, April 6, 2006.

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