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In [[August]] [[1988]], WNYW launched '''Good Day New York''', a program comparable to 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]]''.
In [[August]] [[1988]], WNYW launched '''Good Day New York''', a program comparable to 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, 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]]''.
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]]'', and the consumer reporting segment ''The Problem Solvers'' receiving the same treatment on ''[[The Daily Show]]''.


In [[2002]], WNYW added a 90-minute block of newscasts from 5 to 6:30 PM 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 occured involving the WNYW news department. Longtime anchor [[John Roland]] retired from the station on [[June 4]], after 35 years at channel five. Len Cannon, a former NBC News 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]] signed a multi-year contract with WNYW, despite the fact that he was presently anchoring at [[WCBS-TV]]. Shortly after the Anastos signing was announced, Cannon asked for, and received, a release from the station. Anastos would finally join WNYW in [[July 2005]].
In [[2002]], WNYW added a 90-minute block of newscasts from 5 to 6:30 PM 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 occured involving the WNYW news department. Longtime anchor [[John Roland]] retired from the station on [[June 4]], after 35 years at channel five. Len Cannon, a former NBC News 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]] signed a multi-year contract with WNYW, despite the fact that he was presently anchoring at [[WCBS-TV]]. Shortly after the Anastos signing was announced, Cannon asked for, and received, a release from the station. Anastos would finally join WNYW in [[July 2005]].

Revision as of 20:38, 26 March 2006

For the former shortwave radio station WNYW, see WYFR

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WNYW, "Fox 5" is the flagship television station of the News Corporation-owned Fox Broadcasting Company, located in New York City. As of 2006, the station's analog (channel five) and digital (channel 44) broadcasts originate from the Empire State Building. 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 its corporate cousin, DirecTV, and Echostar's Dish Network. DirecTV also provides coverage of WNYW to Latin American countries, and the station is available on cable in the Caribbean.

History

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 1954, WABD and DuMont moved into the $5 million DuMont Tele-Centre at 205 East 67th Street (in Manhattan's Yorkville neighborhood), inside the shell of the space formerly occupied by Jacob Ruppert'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 now known as the Fox Broadcasting 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 longtime sister station in Washington, D.C., WTTG (also operating on channel five), 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 acquired a large portion of stock in Metropolitan Broadcasting, and became the company's chairman. That same year, the New York station's call letters were changed to WNEW-TV, to match with co-owned WNEW-AM (1130 kHz., now WBBR), a station Kluge brought with him to Metropolitan Broadcasting, which would change its name to Metromedia in 1961.

In the 1960s, WNEW-TV ran on a low budget like the other two major New York independents, WOR-TV (now WWOR, channel five's present sister station) and WPIX. But in the late 1960s and early 1970s, channel five benefited from Metromedia's aggressiveness in acquiring top-rated off-network series and movies, as well as cartoons (such as Looney Tunes, Popeye shorts from the 1960s, Woody Woodpecker and The Flintstones), and first-run syndicated shows (some of which were produced by Metromedia). By the 1970s the station was New York's leading independent, and WNEW-TV was also popular as well in upper New York state, portions of New England, southern New Jersey, and the Philadelphia area, where the station was available on cable until the late 1980s.

In 1986, Rupert Murdoch, after buying 20th Century Fox, purchased the Metromedia television stations, including WNEW-TV. 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, as Fox only programmed a few nights a week for a couple hours, so the rest of the broadcast day was not affected.

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". Originally a local program, it was first anchored by Maury Povich, 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. 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 Thing in the Morning on WFLD-TV in Chicago, and Good Day L.A. on KTTV in Los Angeles (which produced a one-hour syndicated version of its morning show from 2002 to 2005).

As Fox continued to expand its primetime hours to an eventual seven nights by 1993, WNYW's schedule continued to feature children's programs from Fox Kids during afternoons, and sitcoms in early evenings. As the decade progressed, the station added talk shows and court shows during middays. From 1999 until 2001, WNYW was the broadcast home of the New York Yankees, displacing long-time incumbent WPIX. In the fall of 2001, WNYW dropped the Fox Kids weekday block and moved it to new sister station WWOR-TV, which ran for a few more months before being cancelled at the end of the year.

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 towers. Since then, WNYW has been transmitting its signals from the Empire State Building.

Former callsigns

  • 1944–1958: WABD
  • 1958–1986: WNEW-TV
  • 1986–present: WNYW

Logos

  • WABD logo from 1950 to 1956
    WABD logo from 1950 to 1956
  • WNEW logo from 1970 to 1975
    WNEW logo from 1970 to 1975
  • WNEW logo from 1975 to 1977
    WNEW logo from 1975 to 1977
  • WNEW logo from 1977 to 1986
    WNEW logo from 1977 to 1986
  • WNEW 40th Anniversary logo (1984-85)
    WNEW 40th Anniversary logo (1984-85)
  • WNEW logo used from 1985 to 1986
    WNEW logo used from 1985 to 1986
  • WNYW logo from 1986 to 1987
    WNYW logo from 1986 to 1987
  • WNYW logo from 1987 to 1988
    WNYW logo from 1987 to 1988
  • WNYW logo used from 1988 to 1993
    WNYW logo used from 1988 to 1993
  • WNYW logo from 1993 to 1996.
    WNYW logo from 1993 to 1996.
  • WNYW logo from 1996 to 2001
    WNYW logo from 1996 to 2001
  • The Present WNYW logo, used since 2001
    The Present WNYW logo, used since 2001

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. For many years, the broadcast has begun with an announcer asking, "It's 10:00 PM. Do you know where your children are?" Other television stations in the country adopted this practice.

WNYW also aired a 7:00 PM 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 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, 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, and the consumer reporting segment The Problem Solvers receiving the same treatment on The Daily Show.

In 2002, WNYW added a 90-minute block of newscasts from 5 to 6:30 PM 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 occured involving the WNYW news department. Longtime anchor John Roland retired from the station on June 4, after 35 years at channel five. Len Cannon, a former NBC News 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 signed a multi-year contract with WNYW, despite the fact that he was presently anchoring at WCBS-TV. Shortly after the Anastos signing was announced, Cannon asked for, and received, a release from the station. Anastos would finally join WNYW in July 2005.

In December 2005, WNYW and WWOR-TV shared resources when portions of Good Day New York was simulcast on both stations due to the 2005 New York City transit strike. Reporters from WWOR-TV appeared on GDNY during the strike. Since then, brief previews for the following day's edition of GDNY have been aired during WWOR's 10 PM newscast.

Newscasts

Weekdays

  • Good Day New York, First Edition 5:00-7:00AM
  • Good Day New York 7:00-9:00AM
  • Fox 5 Live 11:30AM-12:00 PM
  • Fox 5 News at 5:00 5:00-6:00PM
  • Fox 5 News at 6:00 6:00-6:30PM
  • Fox 5 News at 10:00 10:00-11:00PM

Saturday

  • Fox 5 News at 6:00 6:00-6:30 PM
  • Fox 5 News at 10:00 10:00-11:00 PM

Sunday

  • Fox 5 News at 6:00 6:00-6:30 PM
  • Fox 5 News at 10:00 10:00-10:30 PM
  • Sports Extra 10:30-11:00 PM

Branding

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 "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.

Notable Personalities - Past and Present

References

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