WNYJ
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West Milford-Newark, New Jersey-New York, New York United States |
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| Branding | WNYJ Worldview |
| Channels |
Digital: 29 (UHF) Virtual: 66 () |
| Subchannels | see article |
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| Owner |
Family Stations (FSINJ License Co, LLC) |
| Founded | 1970 |
| First air date | As W66AA 1970 As WFME-TV March 1, 1996 |
| Call letters' meaning | New York/NewJersey |
| Sister station(s) | WFME, WFME-FM |
| Former callsigns | W66AA (1970-1977) WFME-TV (1996–2013) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 66 (UHF, 1996–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Noncommercial Religious Independent (1996–2013) Noncommercial independent (2013–2014) |
| Transmitter power | 200 kW |
| Height | 167 m |
| Facility ID | 20818 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°47′17.5″N 74°15′18.2″W / 40.788194°N 74.255056°WCoordinates: 40°47′17.5″N 74°15′18.2″W / 40.788194°N 74.255056°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | http://www.wnyj.org/ |
WNYJ-TV is a non-commercial educational, independent television station licensed to West Milford, New Jersey, USA. The station's transmitting facilities are located in West Orange, New Jersey. The station's broadcast license is owned by the Oakland, California-based Christian broadcast ministry Family Stations, who from 1996 through 2013 operated it as WFME-TV, a religious television station.
WNYJ-TV carries programming from CNC World, an English-language news channel based in Beijing, on its main channel, 66.1. On WNYJ's digital subchannel 66.2 it airs MHz WorldView, a non-commercial television network owned by Virginia-based Commonwealth Public Broadcasting Corporation. An additional subchannel carries the audio from WFME-FM, Mount Kisco, New York, which broadcasts the Family Radio religious network. One WNYJ subchannel had carried France 24, an English-language news channel from Paris, although that service has been discontinued.
In April, 2017, it was announced that WNYJ had sold its spectrum in the FCC's "Incentive Auction" and would be going off the air.
The channel 66 allocation in the New York City area originally began operation in 1970 as W66AA, which served as a repeater for WABC-TV (channel 7). Originally, most of the upper UHF band stations were used as a compromise to work around the "reflection" problem brought about by the then-new World Trade Center. The issue was that TV signals transmitted from the Empire State Building (about three miles north of the WTC) would bounce off the WTC skins, leading to viewers on that north/south direction getting excessive ghosting.
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