Fox flagship station in New York City
This article is about the Fox flagship station in New York City. For other stations that previously used the WNEW callsign, see
WNEW (disambiguation)
. For the former shortwave radio station, see
WNYW (shortwave)
and
WYFR
.
WNYW
(channel 5) is a television station in
New York City
, serving as the
flagship
of the
Fox
network. It is
owned and operated
by the network's
Fox Television Stations
division alongside
Secaucus, New Jersey
?licensed
MyNetworkTV
flagship
WWOR-TV
(channel 9). The two stations share studios at the Fox Television Center on East 67th Street in
Manhattan
's
Lenox Hill
neighborhood; WNYW's transmitter is located at
One World Trade Center
.
History
[
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]
DuMont origins (1944?1956)
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]
The station traces its history to
1938
, when television set and equipment manufacturer
Allen B. DuMont
founded experimental station W2XVT in
Passaic, New Jersey
.
[2]
That station's
call sign
was changed to W2XWV when it moved to Manhattan in 1940. On May 2, 1944, the station received its commercial license, the third in New York City. It began broadcasting on VHF channel 4 as WABD with its call sign made up of DuMont's initials.
[3]
It was one of the few television stations that continued to broadcast during
World War II
, making it the fourth-oldest continuously broadcasting commercial station in the United States.
[4]
The station originally had its studios in the
DuMont Building
at 515 Madison Avenue, with its transmitter tower atop the same building. (The original tower, long abandoned by the station, still remains.) On December 17, 1945, WABD moved to channel 5.
[5]
WNBT (now
WNBC
) took over channel 4 the following spring, moving from channel 1, which the FCC was de-allocating from the VHF TV broadcast band.
Soon after channel 5 received its commercial license, DuMont Laboratories began a series of experimental
coaxial cable
hookups between WABD and W3XWT, a DuMont-owned experimental station in Washington, D.C. (now
WTTG
). These hookups were the beginning of the
DuMont Television Network
, the world's first licensed commercial television network. (However,
NBC
was feeding a few programs and special events from its New York station WNBT to outlets in
Philadelphia
and
Schenectady
as early as 1940.) DuMont began regular network service in 1946 with WABD as the flagship station.
[6]
On June 14, 1954, WABD and DuMont moved into the $5 million DuMont Tele-Centre at 205 East 67th Street in Manhattan's
Lenox Hill
neighborhood, inside the shell of the space formerly occupied by
Jacob Ruppert
's Central Opera House. Channel 5 is still headquartered in the same building, which was later renamed the Metromedia TeleCenter, and is now known as the Fox Television Center.
By February 1955, DuMont realized it could not continue in network television. In most cities around the U.S., NBC and
CBS
had secured affiliations with the top TV stations, making it difficult for DuMont shows to develop an audience and attract advertising dollars. DuMont decided to shut down the network's operations and run WABD and Washington station WTTG as
independent stations
. DuMont had previously sold
WDTV
in
Pittsburgh
to the locally based
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
, arguably hastening DuMont's demise.
[7]
WABD thus became the New York market's fourth independent station, alongside
WOR-TV
(channel 9),
WPIX
(channel 11) and
Newark
-licensed
WATV
(channel 13).
After DuMont wound down network operations in August 1955, DuMont Laboratories spun off WABD and WTTG into a new firm, the DuMont Broadcasting Corporation.
[8]
[9]
Channel 5 gained a
sister station
in 1957, when DuMont purchased
WNEW
(1130 AM, now WBBR) in April of that year.
[10]
[11]
The deal also included a
Federal Communications Commission
(FCC)
construction permit
for an FM radio station, which went on the air as 102.7
WNEW-FM
when it began operations in August 1958.
[12]
[13]
The Metromedia era (1957?1986)
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In May 1958, DuMont Broadcasting changed its name to the Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation to distinguish itself from its former corporate parent.
[14]
[15]
Four months later, on September 7, 1958, WABD's
call letters
were changed to WNEW-TV to match its radio sisters.
[16]
[17]
The final major corporate transaction involving the station during 1958 occurred in December. Washington-based investor
John Kluge
acquired
Paramount Pictures
' controlling interest in Metropolitan Broadcasting and appointed himself as the company's chairman.
[18]
Metropolitan Broadcasting began expanding its holdings across the United States, and changed its corporate name to
Metromedia
in 1961.
[19]
However, the Metropolitan Broadcasting name was retained for Metromedia's TV and radio station properties until 1967.
[20]
In the early 1960s, WNEW-TV was a leader in producing local children's shows. They included
Romper Room
(until 1966, when it moved to WOR-TV),
The Sandy Becker Show
and
The Sonny Fox Show
, which was later known as
Wonderama
.
Bob McAllister
took over hosting
Wonderama
in 1967 and by 1970 it was
syndicated
to the other Metromedia stations. WNEW-TV also originated
The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon
in 1966, and broadcast the program annually until 1986 when it moved to future sister station WWOR-TV, where it aired through 2012. In the early 1960s, the educational series
Columbia Lectures in International Studies
was shown on early weekday mornings, before Sandy Becker, and was distributed to other Metromedia stations.
[21]
The station also aired cultural programs such as
Festival of the Performing Arts
.
[22]
However, the station's prime time schedule during those years was dominated by reruns of recently concluded crime dramas such as
Peter Gunn
,
Outlaws
, and the 1950s edition of
Dragnet
, bringing the station some criticism for overly violent programming.
[22]
In the 1970s, and early 1980s, local programming also included a weekly public affairs show hosted by
Gabe Pressman
, the New York edition of
PM Magazine
, and
Midday Live
, a daily talk/information show hosted by
Lee Leonard
, and later by
Bill Boggs
. The station also carried movies , cartoons, off-network sitcoms, drama series and a prime time nightly newscast at 10 p.m.
By the 1970s, channel 5 was one of the strongest independent stations in the country. Despite WOR-TV's and WPIX's eventual status as national
superstations
, WNEW-TV was the highest-rated independent in New York. From the early 1970s to the late 1980s, channel 5 was available as a regional superstation in large portions of the Northeastern United States, including most of
Upstate New York
, and sections of eastern
Pennsylvania
and southern
New England
.
The Fox era (1986?present)
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On May 4, 1985,
Rupert Murdoch
's
News Corporation
, which had recently bought a controlling interest in the
20th Century Fox
film studio, announced its purchase of Metromedia's six independent television stations, including WNEW-TV.
[23]
[24]
[25]
In the interim between the announcement and the buyout, Metromedia references were largely phased out of channel 5's branding. Upon taking control nearly one year later, on March 7, 1986, channel 5's call sign was changed slightly to the present WNYW. The change was made due to an FCC rule in place (no longer in effect) that prohibited TV and radio stations with different ownership from sharing the same call sign.
[26]
Along with the other former Metromedia independent stations, WNYW formed the cornerstone of the Fox Broadcasting Company when it launched on October 9, 1986.
WNYW's schedule initially changed very little, as Fox aired programming only on late nights and weekends on two nights of the week in the network's first few years. It was not until 1993 that Fox began broadcasting a full seven nights' worth of programming. Although it began taking on the look of a network-owned station in the fall of 1986, channel 5 continued to carry decades-old syndicated cartoons, sitcoms and films into the late 1980s. As a result, channel 5 was still considered by many to be an independent station.
Murdoch had one local obstacle to overcome before his purchase of channel 5 could become final. News Corporation had owned the
New York Post
since 1976 and the FCC's media ownership rules barred common ownership of newspapers and broadcast licenses in the same
media market
. The FCC granted Murdoch a temporary waiver to keep the
Post
and WNYW to allow News Corporation to complete its purchase of the Metromedia television stations. News Corporation sold the
New York Post
in 1988, but bought the paper back five years later with a permanent waiver of the
cross-ownership
rules.
In late summer 1986, WNYW debuted the nightly newsmagazine
A Current Affair
, one of the first shows to be labeled as a "
tabloid television
" program. Originally a local program, it was first anchored by
Maury Povich
, formerly of Washington sister station WTTG. (He also briefly anchored WNYW's evening newscasts.) Within a year of its launch,
A Current Affair
was syndicated to the other Fox-owned stations.
[27]
In 1988, the series entered into national syndication, where it remained until the original incarnation of the program was cancelled in 1996. On August 1, 1988, the station dropped its weekday morning cartoons in favor of a local news and information program titled
Good Day New York
, which continues to this day.
Following the launch of the Fox network, WNYW lost much of its out-of-market superstation reach, as most markets in the northeast had their own Fox affiliates. WNYW continued to be seen on cable in the
Binghamton
area and the New York side of the
Plattsburgh
?
Burlington
market until the late 1990s, when
WICZ-TV
and
WFFF-TV
joined the network.
In 2001, Fox bought
BHC Communications
, a television station group owned by
Chris-Craft Industries
, which effectively created a duopoly between WNYW and its former rival, WWOR-TV. In autumn 2001, WNYW dropped
Fox Kids
' weekday block and moved it to WWOR-TV, where it ran for a few more months before Fox discontinued the network's weekday children's lineup at the end of that year. In 2004, Fox Television Stations announced that it would move WWOR's operations from Secaucus to WNYW's facility at the Fox Television Center in Manhattan. While some office functions were merged, plans for a full move to Manhattan were abandoned later that year due to pressure from New Jersey
Congressman
Steve Rothman
(whose congressional district includes Secaucus) and Senator
Frank Lautenberg
on the grounds that any move to Manhattan would violate the conditions of WWOR's broadcast license.
[28]
[29]
The company also considered moving WNYW's operations to Secaucus, but ultimately decided to remain in the Fox Television Center.
On September 11, 2001, the transmitter facilities of WNYW, eight other New York City television stations, and several radio stations, were destroyed when two hijacked airplanes crashed into and destroyed the north and south towers of the
World Trade Center
. The station relocated to an antenna located atop the
Empire State Building
, where its transmitter facilities had been located until they were moved to the World Trade Center in the 1970s. By the late 2010s, the transmitter returned to the newly built
One World Trade Center
.
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In April 2006, WNYW became the first Fox-owned to launch a website on
Fox Interactive Media
's "MyFox" platform, which featured expanded content, more videos and new community features such as blogs and photo galleries. The MyFox sites were later outsourced to
WorldNow
, and later
Lakana
beginning in 2015, after which the "MyFox" brand was discontinued.
[33]
[34]
On October 15, 2010, News Corporation pulled the signals of WNYW, WWOR, along with co-owned cable channels
Fox Business Network
,
Fox Deportes
, and
National Geographic Wild
from
Cablevision
systems in the New York
television market area
, due to a dispute between Fox and Cablevision. Cablevision claimed News Corporation had demanded $150 million a year to
renew its carriage
of 12 Fox-owned channels, including those removed due to the dispute.
[35]
Cablevision offered to submit to binding arbitration on October 14, 2010. News Corporation rejected Cablevision's proposal, stating that it would "reward Cablevision for refusing to negotiate fairly". WWOR, WNYW and the three cable channels were restored on October 30, 2010, when Cablevision and News Corporation struck a new carriage deal.
After News Corporation split into two companies on June 28, 2013, spinning off its publishing assets (including the
New York Post
) into a new
News Corp
, WNYW became part of
21st Century Fox
.
[36]
On December 14, 2017,
The Walt Disney Company
, owner of
ABC
owned-and-operated station
WABC-TV
(channel 7), announced its intent to buy the assets of 21st Century Fox for $66.1 billion, pending regulatory approval.
[37]
[38]
The sale did not include the Fox network, MyNetworkTV, WNYW, WWOR, the Fox Television Stations unit or any other broadcast assets, since that would be illegal under FCC rules prohibiting a merger between any of the four major networks. Ownership was transferred to a new company called
Fox Corporation
, a split officially completed on March 18, 2019.
[39]
In the fall of 2018, after WWOR's license was renewed, and several months after the repeal of the FCC's main studio rule (which required WWOR to operate from New Jersey as a license condition),
[40]
Fox Television Stations sold its former Secaucus studios to
Hartz Mountain Industries
for $4.05 million, and consolidated WWOR's operations with WNYW at the Fox Television Center.
[41]
Programming
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Locally-produced programming
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In 1966, WNEW produced the first edition of
The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon
, initially as a charity event seen exclusively on WNEW. In 1968, the telethon expanded to a network of six stations in the Northeastern United States, which was dubbed the
Love Network
, with WNEW serving as flagship. The station produced local segments for the program, which were broadcast on the Sunday night before through the evening of Labor Day, from 1966 until 1986.
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The telethon moved to future sister station WWOR-TV in 1987 where it aired until 2012 when it became a reduced-length special known as the
MDA Show of Strength
. The telethon moved to ABC as a national broadcast in 2013 until its final telecast in 2014.
In 1980, the station began producing one minute vignettes entitled
Big Apple Minute
featuring the station's on-air team touring New York City-area attractions. These lasted until 1987, following the station's acquisition by Fox and the call letter change in 1986. The station also produced the New York City version of
PM Magazine
from 1980 until 1988 when it was transferred to WWOR where it was called
PM
. It was renamed
Evening Magazine
(a name generally reserved for
Group W
-owned stations) and aired until its cancellation in 1989.
The station also broadcast the
Puerto Rican Day Parade
from 2006 until 2015.
Currently, the station produces several local programs.
Chasing New Jersey
is a daily program featuring segments and stories focusing on headlines and issues affecting the New Jersey area. The show is produced by Fairfax Productions and airs in the overnight slot after it airs on sister station WWOR-TV.
Good Day Street Talk
is a weekly community affairs program hosted by Antwan Lewis.
Sports programming
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Through its
network's sporting division
, WNYW has televised major sporting championships featuring New York teams in the past years. As part of the
network's coverage of the National Hockey League
in 1995, the station televised games one and four of the
Stanley Cup Finals
when the
New Jersey Devils
won their first Stanley Cup.
[
citation needed
]
From
1999
to
2001
, WNYW held the broadcast rights to
New York Yankees
game telecasts, displacing longtime broadcaster WPIX. Under the initial deal, WNYW and actual rights holder the
Madison Square Garden Network
carried Yankees games until 2001. Broadcasts of the team's games were moved to the new
YES Network
through a joint arrangement with
WCBS-TV
. This lasted until the 2004 season; WWOR-TV took over the broadcasts beginning in 2005. WNYW continues to show Yankees games through
Fox's national broadcast contract
with Major League Baseball; through this package, the station aired the
World Series
when the Yankees won the title in
1996
,
1998
,
2000
and
2009
. As of 2022, they are the only broadcast station to carry Yankees games, as rights for games formerly shown by WPIX were sold to Amazon. It also airs any regular-season
Mets
games that are featured on Fox's MLB coverage, in that capacity broadcasting the aforementioned 2000 World Series in which they lost to the cross-town Yankees, and
2015 World Series
in which they lost out to the
Kansas City Royals
.
Since the network established its sports division in 1994, most sporting events carried on channel 5 have been provided through Fox Sports. At that time, the network acquired partial television rights to the
NFL
and primary rights to the
NFC
. As a result of this, the station became the unofficial "home" station of the New York Giants airing select telecasts. Among the notable Giants games aired on the station is the team's victory in
Super Bowl XLII
, when the
Giants
ended their 17-year title drought by defeating the
New England Patriots
, who were 18?0 at the time and were one win away from the second perfect season in NFL history. In addition, beginning with the
2018 season
, the station aired the team's Thursday night games as part of its newly acquired
Thursday Night Football
package that it shares with
NFL Network
(along with Thursday night Jets games) until the
2021 season
. Currently, Giants games are rotated between WCBS-TV (through the
NFL on CBS
), WABC-TV (
Monday Night Football
), WPIX (
Monday Night Football
(if WABC-TV is not airing them)), and WNBC (through
NBC Sunday Night Football
). The station also airs at least two games involving the Jets each year?usually whenever they play an NFC opponent at home. Since 2014, more Jets' games can be shown on WNYW as part of the NFL's new "
cross-flex
" broadcast rules. WNYW also provided local coverage of
Super Bowl XLVIII
which was played at
MetLife Stadium
.
On March 12, 2024, it was announced that WNYW and WWOR would become the new broadcast partner for the
New York Liberty
.
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News operation
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WNYW broadcasts
45
+
1
⁄
2
hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with
8
+
1
⁄
2
hours each weekday, two hours on Saturdays and one hour on Sundays). As is standard with Fox stations that carry early evening weekend newscasts, WNYW's Saturday and Sunday 6 p.m. newscasts are subject to delay or preemption due to network sports coverage.
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WNYW and sister station WWOR-TV share resources with Philadelphia sister station
WTXF-TV
in areas of New Jersey in which the New York and
Philadelphia
markets overlap; the stations share reporters for stories occurring in New Jersey counties served by both markets.
In 1944, the first newscast for Channel 5 was
Late Night News
. In 1945, the news department of Channel 5 rebranded its newscast as
TV5 Late Report
, and rebranded it again as
TV5 24 Hours
from 1962 to March 10, 1967.
The station is home to one of America's longest-running primetime local newscasts: WNYW (as WNEW-TV) first premiered its 10 p.m. newscast?the first primetime newscast in the New York market?on March 13, 1967. Each night, the newscast (originally known as
The 10 O'Clock News
until 2001 and currently in use since 2021) is preceded by the simple, but now well-known announcement: "It's 10 p.m.,
Do you know where your children are?
", which was originally spoken by Mel Epstein, WNEW-TV's director of on-air promotions, and later by staff announcer
Tom Gregory
(this announcement continues to be shown before the newscast); other television stations in the country began using the tagline for their own 10 p.m. (or 11 pm) news (which may depend on the start of the local
youth curfew
in each market).
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Celebrities were often used to read the slogan in the 1980s, and for a time in the late 1970s, the station added a warmer announcement earlier in the day: "It's 6 p.m., have you hugged your child today?" From 1975 to 1985, the 10 p.m. newscast notably featured nightly
op-ed
debates which pitted conservative Martin Abend against liberal Professor
Sidney Offit
.
In the early 1970s, the news department launched its 30-minute program
Sports Extra
, airing at 10:30 p.m. on Sundays; where it continues to air. The first time WNEW programmed news outside its established 10 p.m. slot was in 1985, when it premiered the short-lived
First Edition News
, a half-hour midday newscast anchored by
Jim Ryan
(formerly of
WNBC
) and Judy Licht, serving as a lead-in to
Midday Live with Bill Boggs
; not long after the program moved to noon with
Midday
at 12:30 pm.
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After the buyout from Murdoch went through, the station began to intensify their news efforts. It first premiered a half-hour 7 p.m. newscast, simply known as
Fox News at Seven
, in 1988; the program was canceled in 1993. On August 1, 1988, WNYW became the first Fox station to run a weekday morning newscast with the debut of the two-hour
Good Day New York
; within five years of its launch, the program became the top-rated morning show in the New York City market. In 1991, a new and eventually very popular music package was composed for the show by
Edd Kalehoff
, a New York-based composer best known for composing the themes and music cues for game shows such as
The Price Is Right
. Since the Fox takeover, WNYW's newscasts have become more tabloid in style and have been fodder for jokes, even to the point of being parodied on
Saturday Night Live
. The consumer reporting segment
The Problem Solvers
has received the same treatment on
The Daily Show
.
WNYW was the first television station to cover the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center that occurred on September 11, 2001. The station interrupted a commercial break at 8:48 am. ET to deliver the first public report of the attacks on air by anchor
Jim Ryan
and reporter
Dick Oliver
. WNYW donated a digitized copy of this coverage to the Internet Archive in July 2012. In 2002, WNYW brought early evening newscasts back to the station with the launch of a 90-minute weekday news block from 5 p.m. to 6:30 pm. Longtime anchor
John Roland
, a 35-year veteran of channel 5, retired from the station on June 4, 2004; former
NBC News
correspondent Len Cannon, who joined WNYW as a reporter and anchor some time earlier, was initially named as Roland's replacement. Several months later, veteran New York City anchorman
Ernie Anastos
(who at the time was anchoring at WCBS-TV) signed a multi-year contract with WNYW, displacing Cannon as lead anchor; Cannon asked for, and was granted, a release from his contract with the station shortly after Anastos's contract deal was announced. Anastos joined WNYW in July 2005, and Cannon joined
KHOU-TV
in
Houston
as its lead anchor in the spring of 2006. On April 3, 2006, WNYW debuted a new set, theme music and graphics package, and introduced a new logo based on the on-air look first adopted by Tampa sister station
WTVT
that became standard for all of Fox's owned-and-operated stations.
On November 9, 2008, WNYW became the fifth New York City television station to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in
high definition
. On July 13, 2009,
Good Day New York
expanded with the addition of a fifth hour of the program from 9 a.m. to 10 am; the noon newscast was dropped in turn. In the fall of 2009, WNYW entered into a
Local News Service
agreement with NBC owned-and-operated station WNBC to share helicopter footage with that station; WNYW's helicopter SkyFox HD was renamed "Chopper 5" on-air, though the SkyFox name was reinstated in 2010, while the name "Chopper 4" continued to be used by WNBC. The LNS agreement ended in 2012 when WNBC began operating its own helicopter; WNYW has since entered into a helicopter-sharing agreement with CBS-owned WCBS-TV.
During the 10 p.m. newscast on September 16, 2009, anchor Ernie Anastos cursed live on-air while engaging in banter with chief meteorologist
Nick Gregory
,
[48]
saying "I guess
it takes a tough man to make a tender
forecast", adding "keep fucking that chicken"; the incident gained some notoriety when it and other videos of the on-air gaffe appeared on YouTube,
[49]
making Anastos and WNYW the subject of a joke on ABC's
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Anastos apologized for the incident on the following night's 10 p.m. newscast.
[50]
On June 5, 2014, WNYW relaunched its 6 p.m. newscast as a more topical, interactive program; on June 6, the station launched the entertainment, lifestyle and music program
Friday Night Live
(airing during the timeslot normally occupied by the second half-hour of the 10 p.m. newscast). This was followed by the June 7 debut of hourly news updates that air weekend mornings between 9 a.m. and noon (WNYW is the only news-producing English language network O&O in the New York City market that does not carry a full-fledged local newscast on Saturday and/or Sunday mornings, and is one of two Fox owned-and-operated stations without a weekend morning newscast, alongside
KTTV
in Los Angeles).
[51]
As of January 2021, WNYW is the only news-producing station in the New York City market that continues to present field video in widescreen
standard definition
; all of the other stations broadcast all or most of their field video in high definition.
Notable current on-air staff
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Notable former on-air staff
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]
D
Denotes person is deceased.
In popular culture
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WNYW was portrayed in an episode of the Fox animated comedy
Futurama
, titled "
When Aliens Attack
", in which the station was accidentally knocked off the air by
Philip J. Fry
in 1999. That resulted in angry Omicronians invading Earth in the year 3000 (having received the broadcast signal 1000 years later being 1000
light-years
away) and demanding to see the end of an
Ally McBeal
-esque program called
Single Female Lawyer
.
Technical information
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Subchannels
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The station's signal is
multiplexed
:
Analog-to-digital conversion
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WNYW discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over
VHF
channel 5, at 11:59 p.m.
ET
on June 12, 2009, as part of the
federally mandated transition from analog to digital television
; the shutdown occurred during the closing credits of a syndicated rerun of
The Simpsons
.
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The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition
UHF
channel 44,
[60]
using
virtual channel
5. It carried WWOR's programming on digital subchannel 5.2 until 2009, when it changed the PSIP data to identify the virtual channel carrying WWOR's programming to 9.2. As of 2019, a channel of WWOR's programming is no longer multiplexed with WNYW.
See also
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References
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]
- ^
"Facility Technical Data for WNYW"
.
Licensing and Management System
.
Federal Communications Commission
.
- ^
"DuMont Plans to Build New Television Stations In New York, Washington"
(PDF)
.
Broadcasting
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- ^
"DuMont station now commercial."
Broadcasting ? Broadcast Advertising
, May 15, 1944, pg. 32.
- ^
"DuMont Television Station WABD listings week of January 28, 1945"
.
tvhistory.tv
. Archived from
the original
on January 4, 2006.
- ^
"WABD off the air during transition."
Broadcasting ? Broadcast Advertising
, September 24, 1945, pg. 75.
- ^
"FCC authorizes WTTG commercials."
Broadcasting ? Telecasting
, December 2, 1946, pg. 81.
- ^
Togyer, Jason.
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. Pbrtv.com. Archived from
the original
on December 23, 2010
. Retrieved
March 29,
2011
.
- ^
"DuMont network to quit in telecasting 'spin-off.'"
Broadcasting ? Telecasting
, August 15, 1955, pg. 64.
- ^
"DuMont completes spin-off, separates broadcasting, labs.'"
Broadcasting ? Telecasting
, December 5, 1955, pg. 7.
- ^
"DuMont pays $7.5 million for WNEW."
Broadcasting
, March 25, 1957, pp. 31?32.
- ^
"FCC okays record buy: $7.5 million for WNEW."
Broadcasting ? Telecasting
, April 29, 1957, pg. 76.
- ^
"Changing Hands."
Broadcasting
, November 18, 1957, pg. 96
- ^
"For the Record."
Broadcasting ? Telecasting
, January 6, 1958, pg. 91.
- ^
"DuMont revenue grows, name change approved."
Broadcasting
, May 19, 1958, pg. 84.
- ^
"For the record."
Broadcasting
, June 23, 1958, pg. 99
- ^
WNEW-TV/Metropolitan Broadcasting advertisement.
Broadcasting
, September 8, 1958, pg. 17.
- ^
"Name change."
Broadcasting
, September 8, 1958, pg. 84
- ^
"Kluge buying Paramount's 21% of Metropolitan Broadcasting."
Broadcasting
, December 1, 1958, pg. 11.
- ^
"It's Metromedia."
Broadcasting ? Telecasting
, April 3, 1961, pg. 56.
- ^
"Metromedia gets its TV team in uniform."
Broadcasting
, March 25, 1968, pp. 56?57.
- ^
"Columbia to Present TV Series By Faculty on Foreign Affairs"
.
The New York Times
. March 7, 1962. p. 71
. Retrieved
August 27,
2022
.
- ^
a
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