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WNYW channel 5 is the flagship television station
Flagship (television)

A flagship television station is the principal television station of a television network in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. The term "flagship station" is also used in radio broadcasting ....
 of the News Corporation
News Corporation

News Corporation , , ) is one of the world's largest Media conglomerate conglomerates. The company's Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder is Rupert Murdoch and the President and Chief Operating Officer is Peter Chernin....
-owned Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company

The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox and stylized as FOX, is an United States television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
, located in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
. The station's transmitter is atop the Empire State Building
Empire State Building

The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. Its name is derived from the List of U.S....
 and its studio facilities are in the Yorkville
Yorkville, Manhattan

Yorkville is a neighborhood within the Upper East Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Yorkville's northern, eastern and western boundaries include: the East River on the east, 96th Street on the north, Third Avenue on the west and 79th Street to the south....
 section of Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
. WNYW is a sister station to Secaucus, New Jersey
Secaucus, New Jersey

Secaucus is a Town in Hudson County, New Jersey, New Jersey. As of the United States 2000 Census, the town population was 15,931. The town's name is pronounced "SEE-kaw-cus", with the accent on the first syllable, not the second as often used by non-natives....
-based WWOR-TV
WWOR-TV

WWOR-TV channel 9 is the flagship station of the MyNetworkTV network. It is licensed in Secaucus, New Jersey and serves New York City and the New York metropolitan area....
 (channel 9), the New York area's MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV

MyNetworkTV is a television network in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation. It is the lowest-rated of the six major US English-language commercial broadcast networks....
 flagship station.

In the few areas of the eastern United States where viewers cannot receive Fox network programs over-the-air, WNYW is available on satellite via DirecTV
DirecTV

DirecTV is a direct broadcast satellite service based in El Segundo, California, California, which transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, the Caribbean, and parts of Latin America....
, which also provides coverage of the station to Latin America
Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages ? particularly Spanish language and Portuguese language, and variably French language ? are primarily spoken....
n countries and on JetBlue's LiveTV
LiveTV

LiveTV is a major provider of airline in-flight entertainment systems. Originally a subsidiary of Thales Group, it is now a wholly owned subsidiary of JetBlue....
 inflight entertainment system.






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WNYW channel 5 is the flagship television station
Flagship (television)

A flagship television station is the principal television station of a television network in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. The term "flagship station" is also used in radio broadcasting ....
 of the News Corporation
News Corporation

News Corporation , , ) is one of the world's largest Media conglomerate conglomerates. The company's Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder is Rupert Murdoch and the President and Chief Operating Officer is Peter Chernin....
-owned Fox Broadcasting Company
Fox Broadcasting Company

The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox and stylized as FOX, is an United States television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
, located in New York City
New York City

The City of New York is the List of United States cities by population in the United States, while the New York metropolitan area ranks among the List of urban areas by population....
. The station's transmitter is atop the Empire State Building
Empire State Building

The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. Its name is derived from the List of U.S....
 and its studio facilities are in the Yorkville
Yorkville, Manhattan

Yorkville is a neighborhood within the Upper East Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Yorkville's northern, eastern and western boundaries include: the East River on the east, 96th Street on the north, Third Avenue on the west and 79th Street to the south....
 section of Manhattan
Manhattan

Manhattan is one of the five borough of New York City, located primarily on Manhattan Island at the mouth of the Hudson River.With a United States Census of 1,620,867 living in a land area of 22.96 square miles , Manhattan, coextensive with New York County, is the most population density county in the United States, w...
. WNYW is a sister station to Secaucus, New Jersey
Secaucus, New Jersey

Secaucus is a Town in Hudson County, New Jersey, New Jersey. As of the United States 2000 Census, the town population was 15,931. The town's name is pronounced "SEE-kaw-cus", with the accent on the first syllable, not the second as often used by non-natives....
-based WWOR-TV
WWOR-TV

WWOR-TV channel 9 is the flagship station of the MyNetworkTV network. It is licensed in Secaucus, New Jersey and serves New York City and the New York metropolitan area....
 (channel 9), the New York area's MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV

MyNetworkTV is a television network in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation. It is the lowest-rated of the six major US English-language commercial broadcast networks....
 flagship station.

In the few areas of the eastern United States where viewers cannot receive Fox network programs over-the-air, WNYW is available on satellite via DirecTV
DirecTV

DirecTV is a direct broadcast satellite service based in El Segundo, California, California, which transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, the Caribbean, and parts of Latin America....
, which also provides coverage of the station to Latin America
Latin America

Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages ? particularly Spanish language and Portuguese language, and variably French language ? are primarily spoken....
n countries and on JetBlue's LiveTV
LiveTV

LiveTV is a major provider of airline in-flight entertainment systems. Originally a subsidiary of Thales Group, it is now a wholly owned subsidiary of JetBlue....
 inflight entertainment system. WNYW is also available on cable in the Caribbean
Caribbean

The Caribbean is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands , and the surrounding coasts. The region is located southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and Northern America, east of Central America, and to the north of South America....
. As of March 4, 2009, WNYW is once again available on Dish Network
Dish Network

Dish Network Corporation is a direct broadcast satellite service provider that offers satellite television, audio programming, and interactive television services to households and businesses in the United States....
 as part of All American Direct's distant network package.

History

The station traces its history to 1938, when television set and equipment manufacturer Allen B. DuMont
Allen B. DuMont

Allen Balcom DuMont was an United States science and invention best known for improvements to the cathode ray tube in 1931 for use in television receivers....
 founded W2XVT (re-named as W2XWV in 1944), an experimental station. On May 2, 1944, the station received its commercial license — the third in New York City — as WABD Channel 4, after DuMont's initials. It was one of the few stations that continued broadcasting during World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, making it the fourth-oldest continuously broadcasting commercial station in the United States. The station broadcast from 515 Madison Avenue
DuMont Building

The DuMont Building is a 532 foot high building at 53rd Street and Madison Avenue in New York City.The building was built in art deco style by John H....
 and on December 15, 1945 WABD changed the channels from Channel 4 to Channel 5.

Soon after channel 5 received its commercial license, DuMont Laboratories began a series of experimental coaxial cable
Coaxial cable

Coaxial cable is a cable consisting of an inner conductor, surrounded by a tubular insulating layer typically made from a flexible material with a high dielectric constant, all of which is then surrounded by another conductive layer , and then finally covered again with a thin insulating layer on the outside....
 hookups between WABD and W3XWT, a DuMont-owned experimental station in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
 (now WTTG
WTTG

WTTG Channel 5 is an owned-and-operated station TV station of the Fox Broadcasting Company. It's located in Washington, D.C. and serves the entire Washington metropolitan area from a studio and transmitter located in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Washington....
). These hookups were the beginning of the DuMont Television Network
DuMont Television Network

The DuMont Television Network, also known as the DuMont Network, DuMont, Du Mont, or Dumont was the world's first commercial television network, beginning operation in the United States in 1946....
, the world's first licensed commercial television network. DuMont began regular network service in 1946 with WABD as the flagship station. In 1954, WABD and DuMont moved into the $5 million DuMont Tele-Centre at 205 East 67th Street, inside the shell of the space formerly occupied by Jacob Ruppert
Jacob Ruppert

Jacob Ruppert, Jr. , sometimes referred to as Jake Ruppert, was a United States National Guard colonel; a United States House of Representatives from New York; and brewery owner, who went on to own the New York Yankees....
's Central Opera House. A half-century later, the station is still headquartered in the same building, which was later renamed the Metromedia Telecenter, and is known today as the Fox Television Center.

By February 1955, DuMont realized it could not continue in network television, and decided to shut down network operations and operate WABD and its Washington sister station, WTTG (also operating on channel 5), as independents. After DuMont aired its last network broadcast in August 1956, DuMont spun off WABD and WTTG as the "DuMont Broadcasting Corporation", which later changed its name to Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation. In 1958, Washington-based investor John W. Kluge
John Kluge

John Werner Kluge is a Germany-United States entrepreneur and a billionaire. He is best known as a television industry mogul in the United States....
 acquired controlling interest in Metropolitan Broadcasting and installed himself as the company's chairman. WABD's operations were merged with Kluge's New York radio stations, WNEW (1130 kHz., now WBBR
WBBR

WBBR is a radio station, broadcasting at 1130 AM broadcasting in New York City. It airs Bloomberg Radio, a service of Bloomberg L.P.. Its transmitters are located in Carlstadt, New Jersey....
) and WNEW-FM (102.7 MHz., now WWFS) and channel 5's call letters were changed on September 7, 1958 to WNEW-TV to match its new radio sisters. Metropolitan Broadcasting would change its name to Metromedia
Metromedia

Metromedia was a media company that owned radio station and television stations in the United States from 1956 to 1986....
 in 1961.

In the 1960s, WNEW-TV ran on a low budget like the other two major New York independents, WOR-TV (now WWOR-TV) and WPIX
WPIX

WPIX, channel 11, is a television station in New York City. It has been owned by the Tribune Company since its inception, and serves as the flagship station of the The CW Television Network....
 and was the home of the pioneering children's shows of early to mid '60s New York, hosted by Soupy Sales
Soupy Sales

Soupy Sales is an United States comedian and actor.Sales got his unusual nickname from his family. His older brothers had been nicknamed "Hambone" and "Chicken Bone"; Milton was dubbed "Soup Bone," which was later shortened to "Soupy." When he became a disc jockey, he began using the stage name "Soupy Hines." After he became established, i...
, Sandy Becker
Sandy Becker

George Sandford Becker went professionally by Sandy Becker , was a television announcer, actor and comedian best known for having hosted several popular children's programs in New York City....
 and Chuck McCann
Chuck McCann

Chuck McCann is a movie actor, TV actor, stage actor, and a voice actor....
. But in the late 1960s and early 1970s, channel 5 benefited from Metromedia's aggressiveness in acquiring movies, cartoons and first-run syndicated shows, some of which (including Wonderama
Wonderama

Wonderama was a long-running children's television program that appeared on the Metromedia-owned stations before changing its title, and to some extent its format, to Kids Are People Too....
) were produced by Metromedia. By the 1970s the station was New York's leading independent, and WNEW-TV was also popular in most of upstate New York and portions of New Jersey
New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, on the east by the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, on the southwest by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania....
, Connecticut
Connecticut

Connecticut is a U.S. state located in the New England region of the northeastern United States. The state borders New York to the west and south , Massachusetts to the north, and Rhode Island to the east....
 and eastern Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA by natives and Northeasterners, is a U.S. state located in the Northeastern United States and Mid-Atlantic States regions of the United States....
, where the station was available on cable until the late 1980s.

In 1986 Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch

Keith Rupert Murdoch, Order of Australia, Order of St. Gregory the Great , usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-born International Mass media business magnate....
's News Corporation
News Corporation

News Corporation , , ) is one of the world's largest Media conglomerate conglomerates. The company's Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Founder is Rupert Murdoch and the President and Chief Operating Officer is Peter Chernin....
, who owned a controlling interest in the 20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation , also known as 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000 Pictures, or simply Fox, is one of the six Worldwide major film studios....
 film studio, purchased the Metromedia television stations including WNEW-TV. The station's call letters were changed on March 7, 1986 to WNYW and it and the other Metromedia stations formed the cornerstone of the Fox network, with WNYW as the flagship station. Initially, WNYW's schedule changed little, as Fox only aired network programming on weekends.

Murdoch had one local obstacle to overcome before his purchase of channel 5 could become final. The News Corporation had been publishing the New York Post
New York Post

The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continually as a daily, although -- like most other papers -- its publication has been interrupted by labor actions....
 since 1976, and Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission is an Independent agencies of the United States government, created, directed, and empowered by United States Congress statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President of the United States....
 rules of the time did not allow common ownership of newspapers and broadcast licenses in the same city. Murdoch was granted a temporary waiver of this prohibition in order to complete the Metromedia television purchase. The News Corporation would sell the Post in 1988, but reacquired the paper five years later
1993

1993 was a common year starting on Friday ....
 with a permanent waiver of the cross-ownership
Concentration of media ownership

Concentration of media ownership is a commonly used term that refers to the majority of the media outlets being owned by a small number of Conglomerate s and corporations — especially by those who view such consolidation as detrimental, dangerous, or otherwise problematic — to characterize ownership structure of mass media indust...
 rules.

Starting in the late summer of 1986, WNYW produced the nightly newsmagazine A Current Affair, one of the first shows to be labeled under the tag "tabloid television
Tabloid television

Tabloid television is similar to tabloid newspapers. Tabloid television newscasts usually incorporate flashy graphics and sensationalized stories, some with little or no local relevance....
". Originally a local program, it was first anchored by Maury Povich
Maury Povich

Maurice Richard "Maury" Povich is an United States television talk show personality, who currently hosts his self-titled talk show Maury . He is married to journalist Connie Chung....
, formerly of WTTG (and who would later do double-duty, albeit briefly on WNYW's newscasts as an anchor). Within months of its launch, A Current Affair was on the other Fox-owned stations and in 1988 the series went into national syndication, where it remained until its cancellation in 1996.

On August 2, 1988, the station abruptly dropped the morning cartoons in favor of a morning newscast called Good Day New York
Good Day New York

Good Day New York is the first morning show to air on a Fox Owned & Operated station, launching on August 1, 1988.The weekday morning news and feature show airs on WNYW , the flagship television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in New York City....
. WNYW became the first Fox-owned station with a weekday morning newscast, and within five years of its launch it became the top-rated morning show in the New York market. Today it remains a viable competitor to the network morning shows, and the success of Good Day New York led to other Fox-owned stations launching morning shows of their own, including: Fox Morning News on WTTG, Fox News in the Morning on WFLD-TV in Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
 and Good Day L.A.
Good Day L.A.

Good Day L.A. is a television talk show aired on KTTV , the Fox Broadcasting Company-owned and operated station in Los Angeles, California. The show airs Monday through Friday mornings from 7:00 AM to 10:00 AM and is simulcast live on myfoxla.com....
 on KTTV
KTTV

KTTV, channel 11, is an owned-and-operated television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in Los Angeles, California....
 in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles

Los ?ngeles is the Capital of the Biob?o Province, in the municipality of the same name, in Regions of Chile VIII , in the center-south of Chile....
.

As Fox continued to expand its primetime hours to an eventual seven nights by 1992, WNYW's schedule continued to feature children's programs from Fox Kids
Fox Kids

Fox Kids was the Fox Broadcasting Company's United States children's programming division and brand name from September 8, 1990 until September 7, 2002....
 during afternoons, and sitcoms in early evenings. As the decade progressed, the station added talk/reality shows and court shows during middays. From 1999 to 2002, WNYW was the broadcast home of the New York Yankees
New York Yankees

The New York Yankees are a professional baseball based in the Borough of the Bronx, in New York City, New York and are a member of the American League East of Major League Baseball's American League....
, displacing long-time incumbent WPIX.

In 2001, Fox bought most of the television interests of Chris-Craft Industries
Chris-Craft Industries

Chris-Craft, Inc. is a private company American manufacturer of civilian powerboats based in Sarasota, Florida. The company was founded in the late 19th century by Christopher Columbus Smith and became famous for its mahogany hulled powerboats of the 1920s through the 1950s....
, including WNYW's former rival, WWOR-TV. In the fall of 2001, WNYW dropped the Fox Kids weekday block and moved it to WWOR-TV, where it ran for a few more months before being cancelled at the end of the year. Some office functions have been merged, but most of the stations' operations remain separate. Fox announced plans to merge the two stations' operations in 2004, with WWOR-TV moving from its studios in Secaucus, New Jersey
Secaucus, New Jersey

Secaucus is a Town in Hudson County, New Jersey, New Jersey. As of the United States 2000 Census, the town population was 15,931. The town's name is pronounced "SEE-kaw-cus", with the accent on the first syllable, not the second as often used by non-natives....
 to the Fox Television Center. However, it backed off later in the year under pressure from New Jersey's congressional delegation.

On September 11, 2001, the transmitter facilities of WNYW as well as eight other local television stations and several radio stations were destroyed when two hijacked airplanes crashed into and destroyed the World Trade Center
World trade center

The World Trade Centers Association founded in 1970, is a not-for-profit, non-political association dedicated to the establishment and effective operation of World Trade Centers as instruments for trade expansion representing 316 members in 91 countries....
 towers. Since then, WNYW has been transmitting its signal from the Empire State Building
Empire State Building

The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in New York City at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. Its name is derived from the List of U.S....
.

Digital television

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

WNYW-DT

WNYW-DT broadcasts a multiplexed signal on digital channel 44. Digital channels>
Channel Name Video Aspect
Aspect ratio

The aspect ratio of a shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension. It may be applied to two characteristic dimensions of a three-dimensional shape, such as the ratio of the longest and shortest axis, or for symmetrical objects that are described by just two measurements, such as the length and diameter of a rod....
 Programming
5.1 WNYW-DT 720p
720p

720p is the shorthand name for a category of High-definition television video modes. The number 720 stands for the 720 horizontal scan lines of display resolution , while the letter p stands for progressive scan or non-interlaced....
 		 16:9 Main WNYW/Fox programming
5.2 WNYW-DT2 480i
480i

480i is the shorthand name for a video mode, namely the United States NTSC television Television system or digital television systems with the same characteristics....
 		 4:3 WWOR-TV
WWOR-TV

WWOR-TV channel 9 is the flagship station of the MyNetworkTV network. It is licensed in Secaucus, New Jersey and serves New York City and the New York metropolitan area....


Analog-to-digital conversion

After the analog television shutdown scheduled for June 12, 2009 , WNYW will continue digital broadcasts on its current pre-transition channel number, 44 using PSIP
Program and System Information Protocol

The Program and System Information Protocol is the communications protocol used in the ATSC standards digital television system for carrying metadata about each channel in the Broadcasting transport stream of a TV station and for publishing information about television programs so that viewers can select what to watch by title and des...
 to display WNYW's virtual channel
Virtual channel

In telecommunications, a logical channel number , also known as virtual channel in North America, is a channel designation which differs from the actual radio channel or frequency on which the Signalling travels....
 as 5.

News

The station is home to one of America's longest-running primetime local newscasts. The 10 O’Clock News (now Fox 5 News at Ten) premiered on March 13, 1967, as New York's first primetime newscast. The 10 O'Clock News each night began with the simple, but now-famous announcement: "It's 10:00 p.m. ... Do you know where your children are?
Do you know where your children are?

Do you know where your children are? is a popular question used as a public service announcement for parents on American television throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, usually at 10:00PM or 11:00PM, depending on the television market and/or the time of the local curfew....
" was used in this program first, and while its exact origins are unknown, staff announcer Tom Gregory
Tom Gregory

Thomas R. Gregory was an United States radio and television announcer and News presenter.Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Gregory served in the United States Navy during World War II....
 was one of the first people to say this famous line. Other television stations in the country have adopted this for their own 10 p.m. (or 11 p.m.) slots (which may depend on the start of the local youth curfew
Curfew

A cogida, or curfew laws can be one of the following:# An order by a government for certain persons to return home daily before a certain time....
 in each market). Celebrities were often used in the 1980s to read the slogan.

Another popular segment on The 10 O'Clock News, starting in 1975 and continuing to 1985, were nightly op-ed
Editorial

Editorial guidelinesEditorials are generally printed either on their own page of a newspaper or in a clearly marked-off column, and are always labeled as editorials ....
 debates which pitted conservative Dr. Martin Abend against liberal Professor Sidney Offit. The debates were often shrill and frequently descended into acrimonious personal invective. In their tone, they were spoofed most famously on Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live is a weekly late-night 90-minute American sketch comedy/variety show filmed in New York City. It made its debut on October 11, 1975....
 in the "Point/Counterpoint" sketches of Weekend Update
Weekend Update

Weekend Update is a Saturday Night Live sketch comedy which comments on and Parody Portal:Current events. It is Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches, having been on since the show's first broadcast, and is typically presented in the middle of the show immediately after the first musical performance....
, with Dan Aykroyd
Dan Aykroyd

Daniel Edward "Dan" Aykroyd, Order of Canada is an Academy Awards-nominated and Emmy Award-winning Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter, musician, winemaker and ufologist....
 in the Dr. Abend-type role and Jane Curtin
Jane Curtin

Jane Therese Curtin is an Emmy Award-winning United States actress and comedienne. She starred in such hits, as The Coneheads, 3rd Rock from the Sun, and more recently The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines....
 as the equivalent of Professor Offit.

WNYW also aired a 7:00 p.m. newscast from 1987 to 1993, known as Fox News at Seven.

In August 1988, WNYW launched Good Day New York, a program comparable to the Today Show, Good Morning America
Good Morning America

Good Morning America is an Daytime Emmy Awards breakfast television talk show that is broadcast on the American Broadcasting Company television network, debuting on November 3, 1975....
 or The Early Show
The Early Show

The Early Show is an United States television morning news talk show broadcast by CBS from New York City, 7 to 9 a.m. Monday through Saturday....
. In 1991 a new and eventually very popular music package was composed for the show by Edd Kalehoff
Edd Kalehoff

Edward Woodley "Edd" Kalehoff is a music composer who specializes in compositions for television....
, a New York composer who is best known for composing the themes and music cues for several game shows, notably The Price is Right
The Price Is Right

The Price Is Right is an United States television game show that is currently owned by the FremantleMedia subsidiary of the RTL Group. It was originally created by Bob Stewart for Mark Goodson-Bill Todman Productions in the United States in 1956, and was significantly revamped by them in 1972....
.

Since the Fox takeover, WNYW's newscasts have become more tabloid in style and has been fodder for jokes, even to the point of being parodied on Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live is a weekly late-night 90-minute American sketch comedy/variety show filmed in New York City. It made its debut on October 11, 1975....
, and the consumer reporting segment The Problem Solvers receiving the same treatment on The Daily Show
The Daily Show

The Daily Show is an United States news satire television program airing each Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central in the United States....
.

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

Futurama is an Animated cartoon United States Situation comedy created by Matt Groening, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
, titled "When Aliens Attack
When Aliens Attack

"When Aliens Attack" is episode twelve in season one of Futurama. It originally aired in North America on November 7, 1999. This episode was written by Ken Keeler and directed by Brian Sheesley....
", in which the station was accidentally knocked off the air by Philip J. Fry
Philip J. Fry

Philip J. Fry is the protagonist of animated television series Futurama, and is voiced by Billy West. He is usually referred to by his family name, "Fry"....
 in 1999. That resulted in angry Omicronians invading Earth in the year 3000 (having received the broadcast signal 1000 years later being 1000 light-year
Light-year

A light-year or light year is a Units of measurement of length, equal to just under ten orders_of_magnitude_%28numbers%29#1012 kilometres....
s away) and demanding to see the end of a program which had been cut off for them.

In 2002, WNYW added a 90-minute block of newscasts from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m on weekdays, giving the station just under 40 hours of local news per week, which is the most of any television station in New York City. In 2004, two events occurred involving the WNYW news department. Longtime anchor John Roland
John Roland

John Roland is a former News presenter and reporter.Roland, who graduated from California State University, Long Beach in 1964, began his broadcasting career in the 1960s....
, a 35-year veteran of channel 5, retired from the station on June 4, 2004. Len Cannon, a former NBC News
NBC News

NBC News is the news division of United States television network NBC, a part of NBC Universal, which is majority-owned by General Electric. Its current president is Steve Capus....
 correspondent who had joined WNYW as a reporter and anchor some time earlier, was initially named as Roland's replacement. Then, several months later, veteran New York City anchorman Ernie Anastos
Ernie Anastos

Ernie Anastos is a Greek-American Emmy-award winning New York City television news presenter. He has worked for several television stations in New York City during his career....
 signed a multi-year contract with WNYW, despite the fact that he was at the time anchoring at WCBS-TV
WCBS-TV

WCBS-TV, channel 2, is the flagship of the CBS television network, located in New York City and owned by CBS Corporation. The station's studios are located within the CBS Broadcast Center in midtown Manhattan and its transmitter is atop the Empire State Building....
. The signing would displace Cannon as lead anchor, and shortly after it was announced, he asked for, and was granted, a release from contractual obligations with the station. Anastos joined WNYW in July 2005, and Cannon joined KHOU-TV
KHOU-TV

KHOU-TV is the local CBS affiliate in Houston, Texas, owned by Belo Corporation. It broadcasts on Channel 11, and its transmitter is located in Missouri City, Texas at an antenna farm, along with all other Houston broadcast stations....
 in Houston as its lead anchor in the spring of 2006.

In areas of New Jersey where the New York and Philadelphia markets overlap, both WNYW and sister station WWOR-TV share resources with Philadelphia sister station WTXF-TV
WTXF-TV

WTXF-TV channel 29 is an O&O station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. From studios in downtown Philadelphia and transmitter located in the Roxborough section of the city, the station's signal covers the Delaware Valley area ....
. The stations share reporters for these stories.

On April 3, 2006, WNYW revamped their entire on-air appearance with a new set, new music
FOX O&O News Theme

The FOX O&O News Theme is a television news music package composed by OSI Music. The package consists of four CDs containing 120 cuts centered around at least five primary themes....
, new graphics, and a new logo. The new graphics and logo package was later standardized for all of News Corp.'s Fox stations. Channel 5 is also one of the first Fox owned-and-operated stations to launch a MyFox powered website, which features video, more detailed news, and new community features such as blogs and picture galleries.

On November 9, 2008, WNYW began broadcasting their newscasts in high-definition
High-definition television

High-definition television is a digital television broadcasting system with higher than traditional television systems . HDTV is digitally broadcast; the earliest implementations used analog broadcasting, but today digital television signals are used, requiring less Bandwidth due to digital video compression....
, becoming the fifth New York City television station to do so.

Unlike the Fox News Channel
Fox News Channel

Fox News Channel is a US Cable News and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation....
 WNYW is not alleged to take a conservative bias while reporting the news.

Notable personalities


Current


  • Ernie Anastos
    Ernie Anastos

    Ernie Anastos is a Greek-American Emmy-award winning New York City television news presenter. He has worked for several television stations in New York City during his career....
     - weeknights 5 & 10 PM
  • Dari Alexander
    Dari Alexander

    Dari Alexander is the co-anchor of WNYW's news team, along with Ernie Anastos. She was the weeknight 6 p.m. newscast, and previously a reporter and part-time anchor for the Fox News Channel....
     - weeknights 5 & 10 PM
  • Reid Lamberty
    Reid Lamberty

    Reid Lamberty is an anchor at WNYW , in New York City. There, he anchors Fox 5 News at 5 AM and Good Day New York First Edition with Karen Hepp....
     - Good Day Wakeup
  • Greg Kelly
    Greg Kelly

    Gregory Raymond Kelly is co-host of Good Day New York. Kelly is also a Lieutenant colonel in the Marine Forces Reserve....
     - Good Day New York
    Good Day New York

    Good Day New York is the first morning show to air on a Fox Owned & Operated station, launching on August 1, 1988.The weekday morning news and feature show airs on WNYW , the flagship television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in New York City....
     & Fox 5 Live
  • Harry Martin
    Harry Martin

    Harry Martin may refer to:*Harry Linn Martin , soldier*Henry Martin , socialist*Harry Martin , My9 News at 10...
     - weeknights 6 PM
  • Heather Nauert
    Heather Nauert

    Heather Nauert is an anchor for Fox News Channel and, as of February 1, 2009, Nauert began co-anchoring "Good Day Wakeup" which airs from 5am-7am on Fox O&O WNYW in New York City....
     - Good Day Wakeup
  • Christina Park
    Christina Park

    Christina Park is News presenter of WNYW's Fox 5 News at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. on weekends. She joined the station in August 2007.Park recently anchored CNN Headline News and CNN.com Live and has also worked for CNN Newsource in Washington D.C....
     - 6 & 10 PM Weekends
  • Rosanna Scotto
    Rosanna Scotto

    Rosanna Scotto is an United States news anchor. Rosanna Scotto currently anchors WNYW's newscasts from 7-9a.m. with Greg Kelly, along with Fox 5 Live....
     - Good Day New York
    Good Day New York

    Good Day New York is the first morning show to air on a Fox Owned & Operated station, launching on August 1, 1988.The weekday morning news and feature show airs on WNYW , the flagship television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in New York City....
     & Fox 5 Live


Weather
  • Nick Gregory
    Nick Gregory

    Nicholas Gregory is the chief meteorologist for WNYW in New York City. Gregory brings viewers the weather on FOX 5 News at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. Gregory has been working for WNYW for over two decades....
     (AMS Seal of Approval) - chief meteorologist/weekday evenings
  • Mike Woods
    Mike Woods

    Mike Woods is a meteorologist for Fox 5 WNYW in New York City. He reports the weather for their morning news program Good Day New York.Woods was born in Sacramento, California, California....
     (AMS Seal of Approval) - Good Day Wakeup & Good Day New York
  • Craig Allen
    Craig Allen

    Craig Allen is a meteorologist whose weather reports can be heard weekdays on WCBS in New York City and internationally at WCBS880.com. He is currently signed with WCBS through 2010....
     (AMS Seal of Approval) - weekend meteorologist
  • Melissa Magee- Fox 5 Live


Sports
  • Duke Castiglione
    Duke Castiglione

    Duke Castiglione is an United States sports journalist working for WNYW Fox 5. He is also the host of Sports Extra on Sunday at 10:30 p.m. He was a sports anchor and reporter with WHDH-TV, the NBC affiliate in Boston....
     - weeknights/sports director
  • Andy Adler - weekends/reporter
  • Adam Zucker - sports reporter


Traffic
  • Carla Quinn 5 PM
  • Ines Rosales Good Day New York


Specialty Reports
  • Dick Brennan
    Dick Brennan

    Dick Brennan is an American journalist. He is a political reporter for Fox 5 News in New York City. Brennan also hosts a radio program on WVOX, AM 1460 and WVOX.com in Westchester, and writes a column for the Queens Courier newspapers...
     (politics)
  • Julie Chang
    Julie Chang

    Julie Chang is the entertainment anchor for Good Day New York, FOX 5 . She joined the show in June, 2008. Previously, she was a feature reporter for CW11 Morning News, WPIX....
     (entertainment on Good Day)
  • Arnold Diaz
    Arnold Díaz

    Arnold Diaz is a reporter and a consumer investigator. He investigates for WNYW in New York City for the Shame Shame Shame segments, which are similar to the Shame On You segments he did during his 20+ years at WCBS-TV....
     (consumer affairs)
  • Brett Larson
    Brett Larson

    Brett Larson is an Emmy Award winning reporter, and is currently the environmental and technology reporter for WNYW-TV in New York City. . Larson also makes appearances on Fox News Channel, as needed, and can be heard regularly on 1010 WINS-AM both with his daily 'TechBytes' segment and occasionally anchoring the news....
     (technology)
  • Toni Senecal
    Toni Senecal

    Antonia "Toni" Senecal was an entertainment reporter for WNYW-TV Fox 5 News at 10. She worked at WPIX-TV New York's WB11 News at Ten for four years, until December 2005....
     (entertainment in Evening)
  • Kai Simonsen
    Kai Simonsen

    Kai Simonsen is a helicopter reporter for WNYW In New York City. Simonsen joined the station in 1999, as the station's first full-time helicopter reporter....
     (SkyFox)
  • Lisa Murphy (Business)
  • Sapna Parikh (Health)
  • Anne Craig
    Anne Craig

    Anne Craig is a reporter for WNYW-TV. On Good Day New York, she goes around town during her Anne About Town segment. She replaced Penny Crone and her morning block in 2006....
     (Good Day Features)
  • Nicole Johnson (Good Day Field Reporter)


General Reporters |valign="top"|
  • Andrea Day
    Andrea Day

    Andrea Day is a reporter at WNYW-FOX 5 New York. Andrea has been a member of the WNYW team since 1997, where she has served as a reporter for both Good Day New York and "FOX 5 News at 10."...
  • Lisa Evers
    Lisa Evers

    Lisa Evers is a general assignment reporter for WNYW News in New York City. She covers a wide variety of stories, but specializes in crime and counter-terrorism....
  • Charles Leaf
    Charles Leaf

    Charles Symonds Leaf was a Great Britain sailor who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 he was a crew member of the British boat Lalage which won the gold medal in the 6 metre class....
  • Rob Malcolm
    Rob Malcolm

    Rob Malcolm is an African-American journalist for WNYW. Joining the station in the beginning of 2007, Malcolm is a former football player. He replaced alum James Ford, currently of WPIX-TV, the The CW Television Network Affiliate in New York....
  • Linda Schmidt
  • Mike Sheean


Photojournalists
  • James Sabastian
    James Sabastian

    James Sabastian is a staff photojournalist working at WNYW http://www.myfoxny.com/ since 2002. He also worked at sister station WWOR http://www.my9tv.com/ for twenty years....


Alumni

  • Jodi Applegate
    Jodi Applegate

    Jodi Applegate is an United States news anchor for News 12 Long Island. She formerly anchored WNYW-TV's Good Day New Yorkfor many years.Jodi Applegate is an American news anchor....
  • Tex Antoine
    Tex Antoine

    Herbert Jon Antoine, Jr. , known professionally as Tex Antoine, was an United States weather forecasting on New York City television for nearly three decades....
  • Vanessa Alfano
    Vanessa Alfano

    Vanessa Alfano is a former US weather presenter for WWOR-TV in New York City. She was also a feature reporter and fill-in weather anchor for WNYW-TV in New York City....
  • Sandy Becker
    Sandy Becker

    George Sandford Becker went professionally by Sandy Becker , was a television announcer, actor and comedian best known for having hosted several popular children's programs in New York City....
  • Bill Boggs
    Bill Boggs

    Bill Boggs is an United States television presenter and journalist.Boggs is currently the celebrity correspondent for the syndicated My Generation television show, featuring interviews inspired by his 2007 HarperCollins book, Got What it Takes?: Successful People Reveal How They Made It to the Top....
  • Lyn Brown
    Lyn Brown (journalist)

    Lyn Brown is a retired African American anchorwoman. She first started her career in 1984 with CNN for four years before joining CBS News. In 1990, she moved to WNYW-TV, where she anchored weekday mornings....
  • Lisa Cabrera
    Lisa Cabrera

    Lisa Muriel Cabrera is an United States news reporter. She is currently a reporter and fill-in anchor for WNYW-TV in New York City.Cabrera attended college at the University of Tampa, where she graduated with a Bachelor's of Arts Degree in English and Writing....
  • Jack Cafferty
    Jack Cafferty

    Jack Cafferty is a CNN commentator and occasional host of specials. In the summer of 2005, Cafferty joined The Situation Room.Career...
  • Reischea Canidate
    Reischea Canidate

    Reischea Canidate is an United States broadcast journalist. She currently works for ESPN and hosts ESPNEWS.Canidate attended college at the University of Southern California....
  • Ron Corning
    Ron Corning

    Ron Corning is an United States television News presenter who most recently worked as an anchor of Good Day New York on WNYW-TV, alongside Jodi Applegate....
  • Cora Ann Mihalik
  • Penny Crone
  • John Discepolo
    John Discepolo

    John Discepolo is an American television reporter. Currently, he is the morning sports reporter for WCBS-TV in New York. Discepolo joins WCBS-TV from WNYW in New York....
  • Gordon Elliott
    Gordon Elliott

    Gordon Elliott is an Australian reporter and TV producer. He was born in Everton, Liverpool, England, in the United Kingdom but grew up in Australia....
  • Dr. Frank Field
    Frank Field (meteorologist)

    Dr. Franklyn Field is a television personality and meteorologist who has been on TV in New York City for five decades. His reporting on Science and health, has proven valuable to the NYC TV broadcasting area....
  • Rick Folbaum
    Rick Folbaum

    Rick Folbaum is an anchor and correspondent for the Fox News Channel and the former co-anchor of WNYW's Fox 5 News at 6.Early life...
  • James Ford
    James Ford (journalist)

    James Ford is a general assignment reporter for WPIX. He currently works for the station's morning newscast.Ford had been a reporter at WNYW since June 2001, covering a wide variety of stories throughout the Tri-State Region and beyond, from breaking news to features....
  • Sonny Fox
    Sonny Fox

    Sonny Fox is an American television host, executive and broadcasting consultant, remembered best as the fourth full-time host of the children's television program, Wonderama....
  • Chris Gailus
    Chris Gailus

    Chris Gailus is a Canada television news anchor.Gailus graduated from the Broadcast Journalism Program at Mount Royal College in Calgary in 1989, where he made the Dean's List and played basketball....
  • Linda Gialanella
    Linda Gialanella

    Gialanella held the Miss New Jersey 1972 title and competed in the Miss America 1973 pageant, but did not place. The pageant was won by Terry Anne Meeuwsen of Miss Wisconsin....
  • Stacy Ann Gooden
  • Dr. Max Gomez
  • Tom Gregory
    Tom Gregory

    Thomas R. Gregory was an United States radio and television announcer and News presenter.Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Gregory served in the United States Navy during World War II....
  • Donna Hanover
    Donna Hanover

    Donna Hanover is an United States journalist, radio personality and television personality, television producer, and actress, who appears on WOR radio in New York City and who also appears on the Food Network....
  • Karen Hepp
    Karen Hepp

    Karen Hepp is a former reporter and anchor on WNYW-TV Fox 5 News in New York City.Karen Hepp has been an Anchor/Reporter with Fox 5 since January 2005 anchoring weekends....
  • Magee Hickey
    Magee Hickey

    Magee Hickey is currently a morning reporter for WCBS-TV in New York City. Prior to joining WCBS in January 2003, she worked at WNBC-TV in New York City, where she worked as a correspondent from 2002-2003....
  • Andre Hepkins
    Andre Hepkins

    Andre Hepkins is a reporter for WNYW in New York City. Hepkins joined the station in September, 2005, after reporter Steffan Tubbs left the station....
  • Tracy Humphrey
    Tracy Humphrey

    Tracy Humphrey is a weather anchor for KPIX-TV in San Francisco, CA. She reports the weather for the weekday edition of CBS 5 Eyewitness News from 5-7 and Noon....
  • Don Imus
    Don Imus

    John Donald Imus, Jr. is an United States radio personality, humorist, writer, and philanthropist. His radio syndication talk radio, Imus in the Morning, airs throughout the United States on ABC Radio Networks and is simulcast on RFD-TV....
  • Mike Jerrick
    Mike Jerrick

    Michael Eugene Joseph Jerrick is the co-host with Juliet Huddy of the morning program The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet, which began in January 2007 and is syndicated widely throughout the country, mostly on Fox owned networks....
  • Bill Jorgensen
    Bill Jorgensen

    Bill Jorgensen was the founding and longtime anchor of New York City's WNEW-TV's Ten O'Clock News from its inception on March 13, 1967 until he left in the spring of 1979 Jorgensen moved to WPIX, also in New York City, where he anchored the news until his retirement in 1987....
  • Mark Joyella
    Mark Joyella

    Mark Joyella is an American journalist working for WPLG-TV in Miami, Florida. Most recently, Joyella was a reporter for WNYW-TV in New York City....
  • Matt Lauer
    Matt Lauer

    Matthew Todd Lauer . is an United States television journalist best known as the host of National Broadcasting Company's Today since 1994....
  • Lee Leonard
    Lee Leonard

    Lee Leonard is an Television in the United States television host who was involved in the launch of two of the most influential television network in TV history....
  • Bill Mazer
    Bill Mazer

    Bill Mazer is an United States TV/radio personality....
  • Bob McAllister
    Bob McAllister

    Bob McAllister was an American television personality, magician and children's entertainer and the host of Wonderama. ...
  • Chuck McCann
    Chuck McCann

    Chuck McCann is a movie actor, TV actor, stage actor, and a voice actor....
  • Tom McDonald
    Tom McDonald

    Thomas Bayne McDonald was a pioneering New Zealand wine-maker.McDonald's name lives on through Montana Wines' flagship red wine Tom, and through the McDonald Cellar at the Montana Wines#Church Road Winery....
  • Curt Menefee
    Curt Menefee

    Curt Menefee , is an United States of America sportscaster who is the host of the Fox Broadcasting Company's National Football League show FOX NFL Sunday....
  • John Miller
    John Miller (journalist)

    John Miller is an Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He is the Bureau's national spokesman. Miller is a former ABC News reporter and news presenter....
  • Lucy Noland
    Lucy Noland

    Lucy Noland is an American news anchor. Noland is currently a news anchor on KHOU-TV in Houston, Texas. Prior to that, Noland anchored for the Fox affiliate WNYW in New York City....
  • Gabe Pressman
    Gabe Pressman

    Gabe Pressman is the senior correspondent for WNBC-TV. Pressman has been a journalist in the New York City area for over 60 years. He is considered one of the pioneers of United States television news....
  • Maury Povich
    Maury Povich

    Maurice Richard "Maury" Povich is an United States television talk show personality, who currently hosts his self-titled talk show Maury . He is married to journalist Connie Chung....
  • Dave Price
    Dave Price

    Dave Price is a reporter and weather forecasting for the CBS' The Early Show.Before his broadcasting career, Price spent eight years as a corporate human resources executive; his broadcasting career began at WSEE-TV in Erie, Pennsylvania as a morning and noon weathercaster....
  • Bobby Rivers
    Bobby Rivers

    Bobby Rivers was the host of the now-defunct Top 5 show on the Food Network. Rivers' television career began in 1985 as an entertainment reporter for New York television station WPIX....
  • Roxie Roker
    Roxie Roker

    Roxie Roker was an United States actress, best known for her groundbreaking role as List of The Jeffersons supporting characters#Helen Willis on the sitcom The Jeffersons, half of one of the first interracial couples to be shown on regular prime time television....
  • John Roland
    John Roland

    John Roland is a former News presenter and reporter.Roland, who graduated from California State University, Long Beach in 1964, began his broadcasting career in the 1960s....
  • Jim Ryan
    Jim Ryan (reporter)

    Jim Ryan is a veteran television reporter and anchorman in New York City. He is a graduate of Manhattan College in the Riverdale section of the Bronx....
  • Soupy Sales
    Soupy Sales

    Soupy Sales is an United States comedian and actor.Sales got his unusual nickname from his family. His older brothers had been nicknamed "Hambone" and "Chicken Bone"; Milton was dubbed "Soup Bone," which was later shortened to "Soupy." When he became a disc jockey, he began using the stage name "Soupy Hines." After he became established, i...
  • Rolland Smith
    Rolland Smith

    Rolland G. Smith was most recently the anchor of the weekend edition of WWOR-TV's "My 9 News at 10" alongside Cathleen Trigg. On the July 23, 2006 edition of the broadcast, he announced that it would be his last night in the anchor's chair....
  • Lou Steele
    Lou Steele

    Louis J. Steele was an United States actor, radio, and television announcer.Born Louis Ferraioli on 7 March 1928, he is well known for working in a supportive role with such actors as Judith Anderson, Joseph Cotten, Fortunio Bonanova, John Bromfield, Carleton Carpenter, Wendell Corey, and Albert Dekker....
  • Teresa Strasser
    Teresa Strasser

    Teresa Strasser is a writer and TV personality known for hosting the first season of the home makeover show While You Were Out on The Learning Channel....
  • David Susskind
    David Susskind

    David Susskind was a producer of TV, movies, and stage plays and also a pioneer TV talk show host....
  • Mike Wallace
    Mike Wallace (journalist)

    Mike Wallace is an United States journalism. Wallace has been a correspondent for CBS' 60 Minutes since its debut in 1968. During his career at 60 Minutes, he has interviewed a wide range of prominent newsmakers, including Deng Xiaoping, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Kurt Waldheim, Yasser Arafat, Menachem Begin, Anw...


    • Branding and station identity

    The station is also known for starting the trend of stations using their network and channel number (or cable channel number) as their on-air name in the United States. After Fox bought the station, it began calling itself Fox Television Channel 5 New York. Soon after the Fox network premiered, the station shortened its on-air name to Fox Channel 5 and later shortened that to the current Fox 5. However, this practice dated in another form to its days as WNEW. For much of the time from at least the 1970s until the Fox takeover, its main ID was "WNEW-TV, channel 5, Metromedia New York."

    In the early days after Fox took control, WNYW reporters would end their reports by saying "I'm (name) Fox News, Channel 5". This sign off would later be shortened to Fox News, then later it became Fox 5 News, as to avoid confusion with the Fox News Channel
    Fox News Channel

    Fox News Channel is a US Cable News and satellite television news channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of News Corporation....
    . Ironically, recent changes made to WNYW's logo and newscasts (effective April 2006) bear a close stylistic resemblance to the Fox News Channel.

    Successful branding campaigns for WNEW-TV include the long-running "Choice" campaign. Well-known station jingles in the late 1970s and early 1980s included "Take Five!", "The Choice is Channel 5, Metromedia New York 5" and later, "Your Choice is 5."

    Channel 5's public service announcements were also a key part of its image for decades. The phrase, It's 10:00 PM...Do you know where your children are?
    Do you know where your children are?

    Do you know where your children are? is a popular question used as a public service announcement for parents on American television throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, usually at 10:00PM or 11:00PM, depending on the television market and/or the time of the local curfew....
     was coined in 1969 (though another source mentioned that it was Buffalo, New York
    Buffalo, New York

    Buffalo , is the second largest city in the state of New York. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River, Buffalo is the principal city of the Buffalo-Niagara Falls metropolitan area and the county seat of Erie County, New York....
    's ABC affiliate WKBW
    WKBW-TV

    WKBW-TV, Channel 7, is a television station in Buffalo, New York. It is the American Broadcasting Company affiliate for the Buffalo television market, and is one of many local Buffalo TV stations seen over-the-air and on cable in Canada....
     that coined that phrase), and variations of the phrase would spread to television stations nationwide. In addition, WNEW-TV, used PSAs during the 1970s and 1980s that aired during different day parts, such as "Have you done your homework yet?"; "Have you hugged your child today?"; and "It's 6 PM. Do you know where your children are?", using a simple slide and staff voiceover.

    In 2001, the slogan was "What New Yorkers Watch" derived from the call letters and was used until the logo was changed in early 2006.

    Newscast titles

    • Late Night News (1944-1945)
    • TV5 Late Report (1945-1962)
    • TV5 24 Hours (1962-1967)
    • The 10 O'Clock News (March 13, 1967-2001)
    • Channel 5 News (1980s)
    • Fox Channel 5 News (1987-1996)
    • Fox 5 News (1996-Present)


    News Music Packages

    • WNEW 1967 News
    • WNEW 1977 News
    • Black News
    • Metromedia News Theme
    • FOX O&O News Theme
    • Good Day
    • WNYW 1992 News
    • KRIV 1991 News
    • WNYW 1994 News
    • Top 10
    • Ten O'Clock News
    • WNYW News
    • FOX 5 News
    • FOX Affiliate News Theme


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    See also

    • DuMont Television Network
      DuMont Television Network

      The DuMont Television Network, also known as the DuMont Network, DuMont, Du Mont, or Dumont was the world's first commercial television network, beginning operation in the United States in 1946....
    • Metromedia
      Metromedia

      Metromedia was a media company that owned radio station and television stations in the United States from 1956 to 1986....
    • WBBR
      WBBR

      WBBR is a radio station, broadcasting at 1130 AM broadcasting in New York City. It airs Bloomberg Radio, a service of Bloomberg L.P.. Its transmitters are located in Carlstadt, New Jersey....
       (1130 AM), the former WNEW radio
    • WTTG
      WTTG

      WTTG Channel 5 is an owned-and-operated station TV station of the Fox Broadcasting Company. It's located in Washington, D.C. and serves the entire Washington metropolitan area from a studio and transmitter located in the Tenleytown neighborhood of Washington....
      , WABD/WNEW-TV/WNYW's longtime sister station in Washington, D.C.
      Washington, D.C.

      Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
    • WWFS (102.7 FM; formerly WNEW-FM)


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