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Call, Click, or text a donation to the Disaster Relief Fund: 1-800-REDCROSS &ndash; www.redcross.org &ndash; or text REDCROSS to 90999 to charge a $10 donation to your cell phone bill and make the &ldquo;Hometown Help for the Heartland&rdquo; campaign great.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWBBZ is seen throughout Western New York over-the-air on digital channel 67.1. Ch. 5 on Verizon FiOS (HD 505); Ch 5 Dish; Ch. 67 DirecTV, and these Time Warner Cable channels: Buffalo &ndash; Niagara Falls Metro area: Channel 5 (HD 710); Batavia &ndash; Genesee, Wyoming, Orleans Counties Channel 71 (HD 1014); Parts of Erie and Niagara Counties Channel 71 (HD 1014); Dunkirk Channel 99 (HD 710); Olean Channel 21 (HD 710); Fredonia &ndash; Jamestown Channel 71 (HD 718); Alfred- Angelica- Avoca- Bath- Bolivar Friendship- Hornell Channel 71 (HD 740)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWBBZ-TV is owned and operated by Phil Arno. Bob Koshinski is Vice President and General Manager. 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