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New York, New York United States |
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| Branding | Fox 5 (general) |
| Slogan | Experience The Magic We Are Fox 5 (general) |
| Channels |
Digital: 44 (UHF) Virtual: 5 () |
| Subchannels | See Below |
| Affiliations | .1 and .3 Fox (O&O) .2 Movies! .4 Light TV |
| Owner |
Fox Television Stations (Fox Television Stations, Inc.) |
| Founded | 1938 (as experimental station W2XVT) |
| First air date | May 2, 1944 |
| Call letters' meaning | W New York W Disambiguation of WNEW-TV (see article) |
| Sister station(s) |
WWOR-TV YES Network |
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| Transmitter power | 246 kW |
| Height | 367 m (1,204 ft) |
| Facility ID | 22206 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°44′54.4″N 73°59′8.4″W / 40.748444°N 73.985667°WCoordinates: 40°44′54.4″N 73°59′8.4″W / 40.748444°N 73.985667°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WNYW, channel 5, is the flagship station of the Fox Television Network in New York City. WNYW is owned by the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of 21st Century Fox, and operates as part of a duopoly with Secaucus, New Jersey-based MyNetworkTV flagship station WWOR-TV (channel 9). The two stations maintain studio facilities at the Fox Television Center in the Yorkville section of Manhattan, and its transmitter is atop the Empire State Building.
The station is available on satellite to DirecTV subscribers in the few areas of the Eastern United States that do not have an over-the-air Fox affiliate and on Dish Network as part of All American Direct's distant network package; DirecTV also carries WNYW on its Latin American service, and on JetBlue's LiveTV inflight entertainment system. WNYW is also available on cable providers in the Caribbean.
The station traces its history to 1938, when television set and equipment manufacturer Allen B. DuMont founded experimental station W2XVT in Passaic, New Jersey (whose callsign was later 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 – on VHF channel 4 as WABD, its callsign named after DuMont's initials. 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. The station originally broadcast from the DuMont Building at 515 Madison Avenue with a transmission tower atop the building (the original tower, long abandoned by the station, still remains). On December 17, 1945, WABD moved to channel 5. WNBT (now WNBC) took over Channel 4, moving from Channel 1, which the FCC was deallocating from the VHF TV broadcast band.
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