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(channel 9). Both stations share studios at the Fox Television Center on East 67th Street in

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's

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neighborhood, while WNYW's transmitter is located at One World Trade Center.

History

DuMont origins (1944–1956)

The station traces its history to

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founded experimental station W2XVT in

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. That station's

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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. It was one of the few television stations that continued to broadcast during

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, making it the fourth-oldest continuously broadcasting commercial station in the United States. The station originally had its studios in the

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) 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

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hookups between WABD and W3XWT, a DuMont-owned experimental station in

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(now WTTG). These hookups were the beginning of the

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, 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

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as early as 1940.) DuMont began regular network service in 1946 with WABD as the flagship station. On June 14, 1954, WABD and DuMont moved into the $5 million DuMont Tele-Centre at 205 East 67th Street in Manhattan's

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neighborhood, inside the shell of the space formerly occupied by

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'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

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to the locally based

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, arguably hastening DuMont's demise. WABD thus became the New York market's fourth independent station, alongside

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(channel 9),

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(channel 11) and

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-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. Channel 5 gained a

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in 1957, when DuMont purchased WNEW (1130 AM, now WBBR) in April of that year. The deal also included a

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(FCC)

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for an FM radio station, which went on the air as 102.7 WNEW-FM when it began operations in August 1958.

The Metromedia era (1957–1986)

In May 1958, DuMont Broadcasting changed its name to the Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation to distinguish itself from its former corporate parent. Four months later, on September 7, 1958, WABD's call letters were changed to WNEW-TV to match its radio sisters. The final major corporate transaction involving the station during 1958 occurred in December. Washington-based investor

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acquired

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' controlling interest in Metropolitan Broadcasting and appointed himself as the company's chairman. Metropolitan Broadcasting began expanding its holdings across the United States, and changed its corporate name to Metromedia in 1961. However, the Metropolitan Broadcasting name was retained for Metromedia's TV and radio station properties until 1967. 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 ''

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''. Bob McAllister took over hosting ''Wonderama'' in 1967 and by 1970 it was syndicated to the other Metromedia stations. WNEW-TV also originated ''

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'' 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 ''

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'' was shown on early weekday mornings, before Sandy Becker, and was distributed to other Metromedia stations. The station also aired cultural programs such as ''Festival of the Performing Arts''. However, the station's

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schedule during those years was dominated by reruns of recently concluded crime dramas such as '' Peter Gunn'', ''

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'', and the 1950s edition of '' Dragnet'', bringing the station some criticism for overly violent programming. In the 1970s, and early 1980s, local programming also included a weekly public affairs show hosted by

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, the New York edition of '' PM Magazine'', and ''Midday Live'', a daily talk/information show hosted by

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, and later by Bill Boggs. The station also carried movies , cartoons, off-network

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s, drama series and a prime time nightly newscast at 10:00 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

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s, 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

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, including most of

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, and sections of eastern

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and southern

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.

The Fox era (1986–present)

On May 4, 1985,

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's News Corporation, which had recently bought a controlling interest in the

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film studio, announced its purchase of Metromedia's six independent television stations, including WNEW-TV. 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. 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 ''

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'' since 1976 and the FCC's media ownership rules barred common ownership of newspapers and broadcast licenses in the same

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. 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 ''

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'', 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. 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 ''

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'', 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

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area and the New York side of the

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–

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market until the late 1990s, when

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and

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joined the network. In 2001, Fox bought BHC Communications, a television station group owned by

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, which effectively created a duopoly between WNYW and its former rival, WWOR-TV. In autumn 2001, WNYW dropped

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' 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

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Steve Rothman (whose congressional district includes Secaucus) and

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Frank Lautenberg on the grounds that any move to Manhattan would violate the conditions of WWOR's broadcast license. 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

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. The station relocated to an antenna located atop the

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, 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. 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. 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

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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. 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

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, WNYW became part of

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. On December 14, 2017,

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, owner of

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owned-and-operated station

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(channel 7), announced its intent to buy the assets of 21st Century Fox for $66.1 billion, pending regulatory approval. The sale did not include any broadcast assets, including the Fox network, MyNetworkTV, WNYW, WWOR or any other Fox Television Stations, 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. 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), 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.

Programming

Locally-produced programming

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, from 1966 until 1986. 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. ''

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'' 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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when the

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won their first Stanley Cup. From

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to

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, WNYW held the broadcast rights to

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game telecasts, displacing longtime broadcaster WPIX. Under the initial deal, WNYW and actual rights holder the

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carried Yankees games until 2001. Broadcasts of the team's games were moved to the new YES Network through a joint arrangement with

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. 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

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when the Yankees won the title in

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,

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,

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and

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. It also airs any regular-season

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in which they lost out to the

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. 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 and primary rights to the . 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

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, when the Giants ended their 17-year title drought by defeating the

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, 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 ''

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''), WABC-TV (''

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''), WPIX (''Monday Night Football'' (if WABC-TV is not airing them)), and WNBC (through ''

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''). 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. With the relaunch of the

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in 2020, thru Fox's broadcast rights, WNYW assumed the duties as the local broadcast partner of the

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.

News operation

WNYW broadcasts 45½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 8½ 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 6:00 p.m. newscasts are subject to delay or preemption due to network sports coverage. 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

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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 10:00 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 10:00 p.m. (or 11:00 p.m.) news (which may depend on the start of the local youth curfew in each market). 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 10:00 p.m. newscast notably featured nightly

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debates which pitted conservative Martin Abend against liberal Professor

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. 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 10:00 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

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) and Judy Licht, serving as a lead-in to ''Midday Live with Bill Boggs''; not long after the program moved to 12PM with ''Midday'' at 12:30. After the buyout from Murdoch went through, the station began to intensify their news efforts. It first premiered a half-hour 7:00 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 ''

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''; 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

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, 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 ''

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''. The consumer reporting segment ''The Problem Solvers'' has received the same treatment on ''

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''. 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 a.m. 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 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Longtime anchor

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, a 35-year veteran of channel 5, retired from the station on June 4, 2004; former

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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

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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

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. On July 13, 2009, ''Good Day New York'' expanded with the addition of a fifth hour of the program from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.; the noon newscast was dropped in turn. In the fall of 2009, WNYW entered into a

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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.

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, 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

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''. Anastos apologized for the incident on the following night's 10:00 p.m. newscast. On June 5, 2014, WNYW relaunched its 6:00 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 10:00 p.m. newscast). This was followed by the June 7 debut of hourly news updates that air weekend mornings between 9:00 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

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). 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

* Rosanna Scotto – Anchor (1986–present) *

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– Sports anchor

Notable former on-air staff

* Ernie Anastos – Anchor (2005–2020) * Jodi Applegate (later at

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(1967–1979; later at

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In popular culture

WNYW was portrayed in an episode of the Fox animated comedy ''

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'', titled "

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", in which the station was accidentally knocked off the air by

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in 1999. That resulted in angry Omicronians invading Earth in the year 3000 (having received the broadcast signal 1000 years later being 1000

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s away) and demanding to see the end of an '' Ally McBeal''-esque program called ''Single Female Lawyer''.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion

WNYW discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over

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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 ''

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''. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition

UHF Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one tenth of a meter (on ...

channel 44, using PSIP to display WNYW's

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as 5 on digital television receivers. 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.

References

External links

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Kinescope of a WABD station identification from 1948 (YouTube)
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History

DuMont origins (1944–1956)

The Metromedia era (1957–1986)

The Fox era (1986–present)

Programming

Locally-produced programming

Sports programming

News operation

Notable current on-air staff

Notable former on-air staff

In popular culture

Technical information

Subchannels

Analog-to-digital conversion

See also

References

External links