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WNYW-TV

WNYW
WNYW5.png
New York, New York
United States
Branding Fox 5 (general)
Slogan Experience The Magic
We Are Fox 5 (general)
Channels Digital: 44 (UHF)
Virtual: 5 ()
Subchannels See Below
Affiliations Fox
Owner Fox Television Stations
(Fox Television Stations, Inc.)
Founded 1938
(as experimental station W2XVT)
First air date May 2, 1944; 72 years ago (1944-05-02)
Call letters' meaning disambiguation of WNEW-TV (see article)
Sister station(s) WWOR-TV
YES Network
Former callsigns
  • W2XVT (1938-1944)
  • W2XWV (mid-1940s)
  • WABD (1944–1958)
  • WNEW-TV (1958–1986)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:
  • 4 (VHF, 1938–1945)
  • 5 (VHF, 1945–2009)
Former affiliations
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°W / 40.748444; -73.985667Coordinates: 40°44′54.4″N 73°59′8.4″W / 40.748444°N 73.985667°W / 40.748444; -73.985667
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.fox5ny.com

WNYW, channel 5, is the East Coast and main flagship station of the Fox Broadcasting Company 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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