five-minute local newscast, inserted into an early evening half-hour feed of CNN Headline News. WLIG improved in the early 1990s, when it gradually began adding newer films and stronger syndicated programming to its lineup. It scored a major victory in early 1991 when it landed Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy! and The Oprah Winfrey Show, which at that time were the top three syndicated programs on television; it was able to broadcast them because the station's Riverhead transmitter was outside of the radius of exclusivity of the major New York TV stations. In 1992, after a much-awaited false start, Cablevision finally brought WLIG to its Long Island systems, adding more than 300,000 subscribers to the station's potential audience; by this time, it was breaking even. The station then relocated its main studios to a site on South Service Road in Melville, and in January 1994—after the reinstatement of must-carry laws put it on all remaining Long Island cable systems—it returned to the news game with a new 10 p.m. newscast. The station was forced off the air when a 1995 wildfire in the Long Island Central Pine Barrens, threatened their transmitting facilities. WLNY (1996–present) The implications of must-carry and the consequent expansion of its reach continued to transform channel 55. In early 1996, the station opened news bureaus in Wayne, New Jersey, and Fairfield, Connecticut, and it obtained press credentials in New York City. The station cemented its broader reach and sought to distinguish itself from the multiple stations using "LI" in their call sign when it changed its call letters to WLNY, representing Long Island and New York, on September 1, 1996. The sale of Pascucci's auto leasing business, Pascucci Oxford Resources, in 1997 brought a cash infusion to the television station as well. Despite its introduction to hundreds of thousands more cable homes as a result of must-carry, its location on the fringes of the New York City television market made cable television coverage of the station an ongoing concern. In 1997, the FCC allowed some cable providers in New Jersey to exclude WLNY from carriage. WLNY, along with WRNN-TV (channel 48) and WPXN-TV (channel 31), appealed, but the courts upheld the FCC decision. When it was purchased by CBS, WLNY's carriage in retransmission consent agreements became tied to that of WCBS-TV and CBS's cable networks (currently with Paramount Global's networks), and it still receives cable coverage from Central