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WNYW (FOX5) is the flagship TV station of the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is located in New York City and serves the Tri-state Area. As of 2005, the station's analog and digital broadcasts originate from the Empire State Building. The station is seen via satellite in the U. S. through Dish Network and DirecTV, with DirecTV providing coverage to Latin America.

The station traces its history to 1938, when Allen B. DuMont founded W2XWV, an experimental station. On May 2, 1944, the station received its commercial license—the third in New York—as WABD (after Dumont's initials), and became the flagship of the DuMont Television Network. In 1956, after DuMont shut down its network, the station was sold to Metromedia and renamed WNEW-TV after WNEW-AM, which Metromedia also owned.

In the 1960's WNEW-TV run rather cheaply like the the other two major New York independents (now WWOR-TV and WPIX). But in the late 1960's and early 1970's WNEW-TV acquired some of the best off network sitcoms, cartoons, and first run syndicated shows. By the 1970's, WNEW was New York's leading independent station, even though its rivals had become superstations. WNEW-TV was far more popular in New York itself, as well as the Philadelphia area, where the station was picked up on cable until the late 1980s.

In 1986, Rupert Murdoch, after buying 20th Century Fox, purchased the Metromedia television stations, including WNEW. Fox changed the call letters 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 didn't change that much. Fox only programmed a few nights a week for a couple hours, so the rest of the broadcast day was not affected. In August 1988 though Fox 5 abruptly dropped the morning cartoons in favor of a morning Newscast called Good Day New York. Fox 5 WNYW was the first Fox station (affiliate or O & O) with a weekday morning newscast (even WSVN in Miami would not count because in 1988 it were still an NBC affiliate and would not switch to Fox until January 1989).

In the 1990's Fox 5 continued to air off network sitcoms in the evenings and children's programs from Fox Kids in the 2-5 PM slot. but in the mid mornings and early afternoons they began running mostly syndicated talk shows, court shows, and other reality programs as well as a midday newscast. In 1994 Fox affiliated with alot of former network affiliates that are news intensive operations. They would eventually buy most of these stations. Fox now owned alot of stations with 5 and 6 PM newscasts. Still for a while Fox 5 kept with its sitcoms in evenings. But the former New World stations became the model Fox would move its original O & O's including WNYW Fox 5.

In the Fall of 2001 Fox 5 dropped the Fox Kids weekday block and moved it to WWOR, which was coowned by then. Fox Kids would discontinue its weekday block in January 2002. Fox Kids would revamp with all new Saturday morning programs in the Fall of 2002 and was known as Fox Box and now known as "For Kids TV" Fox 5 runs this Saturday morning block though a few of the O & O stations do not.

Its sister station WWOR is closer to being more of a traditional "independent" though they are the UPN station.

Ernie Anastos now anchors at FOX 5.

• 1944–1956: WABD
• 1956–1986: WNEW-TV
• 1986–present: WNYW

The station is home to one of America's longest-running primetime local newscasts. The 10 O'Clock News (now FOX5 News at 10) debuted on the station on March 13, 1967, as New York's first primetime newscast. For many years, the broadcast has begun with an announcer asking, "It's 10pm—do you know where your children are?" Other TV stations in the country adopted this practice.

In 1988 WNYW started a local morning news program called "Good Day New York," a sort of local version of the Today Show or Good Morning America. In 1991 a new and eventually very popular music package was composed for the show by Edd Kalehoff, a New York composer who is best known for composing the themes and music cues for several game shows, notably The Price is Right.

Since the Fox takeover, the news has been becoming more tabloid in style and has been fodder for jokes, even to the point of being parodied on Saturday Night Live.

In 2002 Fox 5 added a 5-6:30 pm newscast on weekdays. Today Fox 5 offers a format of about 42 hours a week of local news. They run the largest amount of local news in the New York City market. They also run a large amount of court shows, talk shows, reality shows and a few off network sitcoms.

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. 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 "Fox5." However, this practice dated in another form to its days as WNEW. At that time, its main ID was "WNEW-TV, channel 5, Metromedia New York."

• Ernie Anastos
• Jodi Applegate
• Dick Brennan
• Lyn Brown
• Lisa Cabrera
• Reischea Canidate
• Jim Castillo
• Anne Craig
• Katherine Creag
• Penny Crone
• Andrea Day
• Naamua Delaney
• John Deutzman
• John Discepolo
• Lisa Evers
• James Ford
• Chris Gailus
• Mary Garofalo
• Nick Gregory
• Karen Hepp
• Tracy Humphrey
• Mark Joyella
• Lucy Noland
• Dr. Steve Salvatore
• Linda Schmidt
• John Schwada
• Phil Shuman
• Rosanna Scotto
• Mike Sheehan
• Steffan Tubbs
• Mike Woods

• Official WNYW Website
• History of WNYW FOX 5. Fox5NY.com

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