WWOR-TV
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Secaucus, New Jersey - New York, New York United States |
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| City | Secaucus, New Jersey |
| Branding | My 9 |
| Slogan |
See It Here (primary) C. More My 9! (secondary) |
| Channels |
Digital: 38 (UHF) Virtual: 9 () |
| Subchannels | (see article) |
| Affiliations | MyNetworkTV |
| Owner |
Fox Television Stations (Fox Television Stations, Inc.) |
| Founded | April 1947 |
| First air date | October 11, 1949 |
| Call letters' meaning | disambiguation of former WOR-TV callsign |
| Sister station(s) |
WNYW YES Network |
| Former callsigns | WOR-TV (1949–1987) |
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| Transmitter power | 170 kW |
| Height | 397 m (1,302 ft) |
| Facility ID | 74197 |
| 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 |
WWOR-TV, channel 9, is the flagship station of the MyNetworkTV programming service, licensed to Secaucus, New Jersey, United States, and serving the New York City television market. It is owned by the Fox Television Stations division of 21st Century Fox as a sister station to Fox's flagship station, WNYW (channel 5). Its studios and main offices are located in Secaucus, south of Route 3 east of the Meadowlands Sports Complex, though some internal operations are handled at WNYW's studios at the Fox Television Center in the Yorkville neighborhood of Manhattan. Its transmitter is located atop the Empire State Building.
The station is available to Dish Network subscribers as part of the satellite provider's superstations package (available to grandfathered subscribers that purchased the a la carte tier before Dish halted sales of the package to new customers in September 2013), except in markets where the local MyNetworkTV affiliate invokes syndication exclusivity to block access to WWOR's programming within the market.
Channel 9 signed on the air on October 11, 1949 as WOR-TV. It was owned by the Bamberger Broadcasting Service (a division of R. H. Macy and Company and named after the Bamberger's department store chain), which also operated WOR radio (710 AM) and WOR-FM (98.7, now WEPN-FM). Exactly ten months earlier, Bamberger launched Washington, D.C.'s fourth television station, WOIC, also on channel 9. WOR-TV entered the New York market as the last of the city's VHF stations to sign on, and one of three independents – the others being WPIX (channel 11) and Newark, New Jersey-based WATV (channel 13, later WNTA-TV). On WOR-TV's opening night, a welcome address was read by WOR radio's morning host, John B. Gambling. However, the audio portion of the speech was not heard because of a technical glitch. The problem was fixed and Gambling repeated the message later that evening, prior to the station's sign-off.
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