WNYW - Wikipedia WNYW For this and other stations that previously used the WNEW callsign, see WNEW ( disambiguation ). For the former shortwave radio station WNYW, see WNYW ( shortwave ) and WYFR. WNYW New York, New York United States Branding Fox 5 ( general ) Fox 5 News ( newscasts ) Slogan Experience The Magic We Are Fox 5 ( general ) Channels Digital : 44 ( UHF ) ( to move to 27 ( UHF ) ) Virtual : 5 ( PSIP ) Subchannels See Below Affiliations Fox ( O&O ) Owner Fox Television Stations ( Fox Television Stations, Inc. ) Founded 1938 ( as experimental station W2XVT ) First air date May 2, 1944 ( 73 years ago ) ( 1944 - 05 - 02 ) Call letters ' meaning W New York W Sister station ( s ) WWOR - TV Former callsigns WABD ( 1944 -- 1958 ) WNEW - TV ( 1958 -- 1986 ) Former channel number ( s ) Analog : 4 ( VHF, 1938 -- 1945 ) 5 ( VHF, 1945 -- 2009 ) Former affiliations DuMont ( 1944 -- 1956 ) Independent ( 1956 -- 1986 ) 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 ; - 73.985667 Coordinates : 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 ( UHF digital channel 44 ), is the flagship station of the Fox Television Network, licensed to New York City and serving the New York City metropolitan area. WNYW is owned by the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of 21st Century Fox, and operates as part of a duopoly with WWOR - TV ( channel 9 ). The two stations maintain studio facilities at the Fox Television Center in the Yorkville neighborhood 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 ; 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. Contents 1 History 1.1 DuMont origins ( 1944 - 1956 ) 1.2 The Metromedia era ( 1957 - 1986 ) 1.3 Birth of a new network ( 1986 - present ) 2 Digital television 2.1 Digital channels 2.2 Analog - to - digital conversion 3 Programming 3.1 Locally - produced programming 3.2 Syndicated programming 3.3 Sports programming 4 News operation 4.1 On - air staff 4.1. 1 Notable current on - air staff 4.1. 2 Notable former on - air staff 5 In popular culture 6 References 7 External links History DuMont origins ( 1944 - 1956 ) 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. Soon after channel 5 received its commercial license, DuMont Laboratories began a series of experimental coaxial cable hookups between WABD and W3XWT, a DuMont - owned experimental station in Washington, D.C. ( now WTTG ). These hookups were the beginning of the DuMont Television Network, the world 's first licensed commercial television network ( although NBC was feeding a few programs and special events from their New York station to outlets in Philadelphia and Schenectady as early as 1940 ). DuMont began regular network service in 1946 with WABD as the flagship station. On June 14, 1954, WABD and DuMont moved into the $5 million DuMont Tele - Centre at 205 East 67th Street in Manhattan 's Lenox Hill area, inside the shell of the space formerly occupied by Jacob Ruppert 's Central Opera House ; channel 5 is still headquartered in the same building as of 2018, which was later renamed the Metromedia TeleCenter, and now known as the Fox Television Center. The Fox Television Center, 205 East 67th Street in New York City, was opened by DuMont on June 14, 1954 as the DuMont Tele - Centre and is the station 's current studio. By February 1955, DuMont realized it could not continue in network television, and decided to shut down the network 's operations and operate WABD and its Washington, D.C. station WTTG ( also operating on channel 5 ) as independent stations, having previously sold WDTV in Pittsburgh ( now KDKA - TV ) to the locally - based Westinghouse Electric Corporation ; the Westinghouse sale, arguably, hastened DuMont 's demise. WABD thus became the New York market 's fourth independent station, alongside future sister station WOR - TV ( now WWOR ), WPIX ( channel 11 ) and Newark - licensed WATV ( channel 13, now WNET ). After DuMont wound down network operations in August 1955, DuMont Laboratories spun off WABD and WTTG into a new firm, the DuMont Broadcasting Corporation. Channel 5 gained sister stations on radio in 1957, when DuMont purchased WNEW ( 1130 AM, now WBBR ) in April of that year, and the construction permit for WHFI, which was renamed WNEW - FM ( 102.7 FM ) when it began operations in August 1958. The Metromedia era ( 1957 - 1986 ) In May 1958, DuMont Broadcasting changed its name to the Metropolitan Broadcasting Corporation in an effort to distinguish itself from its former corporate parent. Four months later, on September 7, 1958, WABD 's call letters were changed to WNEW - TV to match its radio sisters. The final major corporate transaction involving the station during 1958 occurred in December, when Washington - based investor John Kluge acquired Paramount Pictures ' controlling interest in Metropolitan Broadcasting and appointed himself as the company 's chairman. Metropolitan Broadcasting began expanding its holdings across the United States, and would change its corporate name to Metromedia in 1961. However, the Metropolitan Broadcasting name was retained for Metromedia 's TV and radio station properties until 1967. In the early 1960s, WNEW - TV produced children 's shows such as Romper Room ( until 1966, when it moved to WOR - TV ), The Sandy Becker Show and The Sonny Fox Show, which was later known as Wonderama. Bob McAllister took over hosting Wonderama in 1967 and by 1970, Wonderama was syndicated to the other Metromedia stations. WNEW - TV also originated the Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon in 1966, and broadcast the program annually until 1986, when it moved to WWOR - TV, where it has aired through 2012. In the 1970s, local programming also included a weekly public affairs show hosted by Gabe Pressman, and Midday Live, a daily talk / information show hosted by Lee Leonard, and later by Bill Boggs. The station also carried movies, cartoons, off - network sitcoms and drama series and a primetime newscast at 10 p.m. By the 1970s, channel 5 was one of the strongest independent stations in the country. Despite WOR - TV 's and WPIX 's eventual statuses as national superstations, WNEW - TV was the highest - rated independent in New York. From the early 1970s to the late 1980s, channel 5 was available as a regional superstation in large portions of the Northeastern United States, including most of upstate New York, and portions of eastern Pennsylvania and southern New England. Birth of a New network ( 1986 - present ) WNYW 's secondary on - air logo since 2012 On May 4, 1985, Rupert Murdoch 's News Corporation, which had recently bought a controlling interest in the 20th Century Fox film studio, announced its purchase of Metromedia 's six independent television stations, including WNEW - TV. Upon taking control in nearly one year later, on March 7, 1986 channel 5 's call sign was slightly changed to the present WNYW. Along with the other former Metromedia independent stations, WNYW formed the cornerstone of the Fox Broadcasting Company when it launched on October 9, 1986. WNYW 's schedule initially changed very little, as Fox aired programming only on late nights and weekends in the network 's first few years. Although it began taking on the look of a network - owned station in the spring of 1987, channel 5 continued to carry decades old syndicated cartoons, sitcoms and films into the late 1980s. As a result, channel 5 was still considered an independent station. Murdoch had one local obstacle to overcome before his purchase of channel 5 could become final, as News Corporation had owned the New York Post since it purchased the newspaper in 1976 ; the Federal Communications Commission 's media ownership rules barred common ownership of newspapers and broadcast licenses in the same media market. The FCC granted Murdoch a temporary waiver to keep the Post and WNYW in order to complete its purchase of the Metromedia television stations. News Corporation would sell the New York Post in 1988, but bought the paper back five years later with a permanent waiver of the cross-ownership rules. In the late summer of 1986, WNYW debuted the nightly newsmagazine A Current Affair, one of the first shows to be labeled as a `` tabloid television '' program. Originally a local program, it was first anchored by Maury Povich, formerly of Washington, D.C. sister station WTTG ( and who would later briefly also anchor WNYW 's evening newscasts ). Within a year of its launch, A Current Affair was syndicated to the other Fox - owned stations ; and, in 1988, the series entered into national syndication, where it remained until the original incarnation of the program was cancelled in 1996. On August 1, 1988, the station dropped its weekday morning cartoons in favor of a local news / information program titled Good Day New York, which continues to this day. In 1994, Fox gained broadcast rights to road games of the National Football Conference ; as a result, since then, WNYW has been the unofficial `` home '' station of the New York Giants. Among the notable Giants games aired on the station is the team 's victory in Super Bowl XLII, when the Giants defeated the New England Patriots, who were 18 - 0 at the time and were one win away from the second perfect season in NFL history. The NFC road game contract also includes occasional New York Jets games ( including any Jets games since 2014 that are passed up by WCBS - TV that involve them playing another AFC team via the ' cross-flex ' broadcast rules ). From 1999 to 2001, WNYW held the broadcast rights to New York Yankees game telecasts, displacing longtime broadcaster WPIX. WNYW continues to show Yankees games through Fox 's national broadcast contract with Major League Baseball. In 2001, Fox bought BHC Communications, a television station group owned by Chris - Craft Industries, which effectively created a duopoly between WNYW and its former rival, WWOR - TV. In the fall of 2001, WNYW dropped Fox Kids ' weekday block and moved it to WWOR - TV, where it ran for a few more months before Fox discontinued the network 's weekday children 's lineup at the end of that year. In 2004, Fox Television Stations announced that it would move WWOR 's operations from Secaucus to WNYW 's facility at the Fox Television Center in Manhattan. While some office functions were merged, plans for a full move to Manhattan were abandoned later that year due to pressure from New Jersey Congressman Steve Rothman ( whose congressional district includes Secaucus ) and Senator Frank Lautenberg on grounds that any move to Manhattan would violate the conditions of WWOR 's broadcast license. The company also considered moving WNYW 's operations to Secaucus, but to date both stations continue to maintain separate studio facilities. On September 11, 2001, the transmitter facilities of WNYW, eight other New York City television stations and several radio stations, were destroyed when two hijacked airplanes crashed into and destroyed the north and south towers of World Trade Center. The station 's transmitter has since been relocated to an antenna located atop the Empire State Building, where its transmitter facilities had been located until they were moved to the World Trade Center in the 1970s. In April 2006, WNYW became the first Fox - owned to launch a website on Fox Interactive Media 's MyFox platform, which featured expanded content, more videos and new community features such as blogs and photo galleries. The MyFox sites were later outsourced to WorldNow, and later Lakana beginning in 2015, after which the MyFox brand was discontinued. On October 15, 2010, News Corporation pulled the signal of WNYW, WWOR, along with co-owned cable channels Fox Business Network, Fox Deportes, and National Geographic Wild from Cablevision systems in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut due to a dispute between Fox and Cablevision in which Cablevision claimed that News Corporation demanded $150 million a year to renew its carriage of 12 Fox - owned channels, including those removed due to the dispute. Cablevision offered to submit to binding arbitration on October 14, 2010, though News Corporation rejected Cablevision 's proposal, stating that it would `` reward Cablevision for refusing to negotiate fairly ''. WWOR, WNYW and the three cable channels were restored on October 30, 2010, when Cablevision and News Corporation struck a new carriage deal. Digital television Digital channels The station 's digital channel is multiplexed : Channel Video Aspect PSIP Short Name Programming 5.1 720p 16 : 9 WNYW Main WNYW programming Fox 5.2 480i Movies ! Movies ! 5.4 Light TV 9.2 4 : 3 WWOR - SD MyNetworkTV ( Simulcast of WWOR - TV ) Additionally, WNYW and WWOR both have their feeds simulcast in standard definition on each other 's channel space, allowing over-the - air viewers a viewable signal of both stations if they can receive one station, but not the other, as shown ; WNYW also has a Mobile DTV feed of subchannel 5.1, via its SD simulcast on WWOR - TV 9.2, broadcasting at 1.83 Mbit / s. Analog - to - digital conversion WNYW discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 5, at 11 : 59 p.m. ET on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television ; the shutdown occurred during the closing credits of a syndicated rerun of The Simpsons. The station 's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 44, using PSIP to display WNYW 's virtual channel as 5 on digital television receivers. It carried WWOR 's programming on digital subchannel 5.2 until 2009, when it changed the PSIP data to identify the virtual channel carrying WWOR 's programming to 9.2. Subchannel 9.2 still remains multiplexed with WNYW 5.1 on RF channel 44. Programming Locally - produced programming WNYW has producing these local programming in the past. In 1966, WNEW is among of the founding members of the `` Love Network '' as part of the Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon and broadcast it on the Sunday before the Labor Day holiday from 1967 until 1986 ; the telethon was transferred to sister station WWOR - TV beginning in 1987, a year after Fox acquired the station and it was last until 2012 as MDA Show of Strength ; the telethon was transferred to ABC as a national broadcast ( by then reduced to a two - hour special ), airing thereafter by association on its owned - and - operated station for that market, WABC - TV until the final telecast of the retitled MDA Show of Strength in August 2014. In 1980, the station began producing the 1 minute vignettes entitled Big Apple Minute featuring the station 's on - air team touring these New York City - area attractions, the vignettes were lasted until 1987, following the station 's acquisition by Fox and the call letter change in 1986. The station also produced the New York City version of PM Magazine from 1980 until 1988, when WWOR - TV transferred the NYC version of PM and eventually renamed as Evening Magazine until they cancelled it in 1989. the station has also broadcast the Puerto Rican Day Parade from 2006 until 2015. The station along with former anchor Maury Povich ( who is also the host of the newsmagazine show A Current Affair, who is originated at the station from 1986 to 1996 and he remained until 1990 and is distributed by Fox through its syndication unit ) and NBC owned - and - operated station WNBC jointly funded the 1998 WNET - produced documentary NY TV : By the People Who Made It which is been distributed to many PBS stations nationwide. currently, the station produces these local programs ; including Chasing New Jersey, a daily program features segments and stories focusing on headlines and issues affecting the New Jersey area, the show is produced by Fairfax Productions and it aired during the overnight slot after it aired on sister station WWOR - TV, and Good Day Street Talk, a weekly community affairs program hosted by Antwan Lewis and it airs on Saturday mornings at 6 : 00 a.m. Syndicated programming WNYW serves as the flagship station of Harry, The Dr. Oz Show, and The Wendy Williams Show. All three of its shows are taped in New York. Sports programming Through its network 's sporting division, WNYW has televised these major sporting championships with the New York teams in the past years ; through the network 's coverage of the National Hockey League in 1995, the station has televised the 1995 Stanley Cup Finals when the New Jersey Devils won the first Stanley Cup. The station also aired the World Series via its network 's MLB package when the New York Yankees won the series in 1996, 2000 and 2009, ending its 17 - year drought, and through the network 's rights to the National Football League, the station has televised the Super Bowl when the New York Giants won Super Bowl XLII in 2008, marking the end of its 17 - year drought. WNYW acquired the rights to broadcast Major League Baseball games from the New York Yankees assuming the contract from WPIX. Under the initial deal, WNYW and actual rights holder the Madison Square Garden Network carrying Yankees games until 2001, when the team moved to the new YES Network through a joint arrangement with WCBS - TV that lasted until the 2004 season and WWOR - TV beginning in 2005. Since the network established its sports division in 1994, most sports events carried on channel 5 have been provided through Fox Sports. Through Fox 's primary rights to the National Football Conference ( NFC ), the station airs select New York Giants telecasts, first becoming the unofficial `` home '' station of the team since the network acquired partial television rights to the National Football League ( NFL ) in 1994. Currently, Giants games are rotated between WCBS - TV ( through the NFL on CBS and Thursday Night Football ), WABC - TV ( Monday Night Football ), WPIX ( Monday Night Football ( if WABC - TV is not airing them ) and select TNF telecasts not carried by WCBS - TV through CBS ' rights or WNBC through NBC 's rights to the package it shares with NFL Network ), and especially WNBC ( through NBC Sunday Night Football and TNF ). News operation Fox 5 News at 10 : 00 p.m. news open, used since November 2012. WNYW broadcasts 431⁄2 hours of locally produced newscasts each week ( with 8 hours on weekdays, 2 hours on Saturdays and 11⁄2 hours on Sundays ) ; this gives the station the largest local news output of any television station in the New York City market and the state of New York in general, surpassing area CW affiliate WPIX 's weekly news total by 343⁄4 hours. As is standard with Fox stations that carry early evening weekend newscasts, WNYW 's Saturday and Sunday 6 p.m. newscasts are subject to delay or preemption due to network sports coverage. WNYW and sister station WWOR - TV share resources with Philadelphia sister station WTXF - TV in areas of New Jersey in which the New York and Philadelphia markets overlap ; the stations share reporters for stories occurring in New Jersey counties served by both markets. In 1944, first newscast for Channel 5 was Late Night News. In 1945, the news department of Channel 5 rebranded its newscast as TV5 Late Report, and rebranded as TV5 24 Hours from 1962 to March 10, 1967. The station is home to one of America 's longest - running primetime local newscasts : WNYW ( as WNEW - TV ) first premiered its 10 p.m. newscast -- the first primetime newscast in the New York market -- on March 13, 1967. Each night, the newscast ( originally known as The 10 O'Clock News until 2001 ) was preceded by the simple, but now - famous announcement : `` It 's 10 p.m., Do you know where your children are ? '', which was coined by Mel Epstein. ( As of November 2017, this announcement is still shown before this newscast. ) Staff announcer Tom Gregory was one of the first to utter this famous line that WNEW pioneered ; other television stations in the country began using the tagline for their own 10 p.m. ( or 11 p.m. ) news slots ( which may depend on the start of the local youth curfew in each market ). Celebrities were often used to read the slogan in the 1980s, and for a time in the late 1970s, the station added a warmer announcement earlier in the day : `` It 's 6 p.m., have you hugged your child today ? '' From 1975 to 1985, the 10 p.m. newscast notably featured nightly op - ed debates which pitted conservative Martin Abend against liberal Professor Sidney Offit. The first time WNYW programmed news outside its established 10 : 00 slot was in 1987, when it premiered a half - hour 7 p.m. newscast ; the program was canceled in 1993. In the late 1970s, the news department launched its 30 - minute program Sports Extra, airing at 10 : 30pm on Sundays, and it continues today. Fox 5 reporter Lisa Evers reporting on a January 2012 fire in Union City, New Jersey. Then on August 1, 1988, WNYW became the first Fox station to run a weekday morning newscast with the debut of the two - hour Good Day New York ; within five years of its launch, the program became the top - rated morning show in the New York City market. In 1991, a new and eventually very popular music package was composed for the show by Edd Kalehoff, a New York - based composer best known for composing the themes and music cues for game shows such as The Price Is Right. Since the Fox takeover, WNYW 's newscasts have become more tabloid in style and have even been fodder for jokes, even to the point of being parodied on Saturday Night Live, as well as the consumer reporting segment The Problem Solvers receiving the same treatment on The Daily Show. WNYW was the first television station to cover the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center that occurred on September 11, 2001. The station interrupted a commercial break at 8 : 48 a.m. ET to deliver the first public report of the attacks on air by anchor Jim Ryan and reporter Dick Oliver. WNYW donated a digitized copy of this coverage to the Internet Archive in July 2012. In 2002, WNYW brought early evening newscasts back to the station with the launch of a 90 - minute weekday news block from 5 to 6 : 30 p.m. In 2004, longtime anchor John Roland, a 35 - year veteran of channel 5, retired from the station on June 4, 2004 ; former NBC News correspondent Len Cannon, who joined WNYW as a reporter and anchor some time earlier, was initially named as Roland 's replacement. Several months later, veteran New York City anchorman Ernie Anastos ( who at the time was anchoring at WCBS - TV ) signed a multi-year contract with WNYW, displacing Cannon as lead anchor ; Cannon asked for, and was granted, a release from his contract with the station shortly after Anastos 's contract deal was announced. Anastos joined WNYW in July 2005, and Cannon joined KHOU - TV in Houston as its lead anchor in the spring of 2006. On April 3, 2006, WNYW debuted a new set, theme music and graphics package, and introduced a new logo based on the on - air look first adopted by Tampa sister station WTVT that became standard for all of Fox 's owned - and - operated stations. On November 9, 2008, WNYW became the fifth New York City television station to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. On July 13, 2009, Good Day New York expanded with the addition of a fifth hour of the program from 9 to 10 a.m. ; the noon newscast was dropped in turn. In the fall of 2009, WNYW entered into a Local News Service agreement with NBC owned - and - operated station WNBC to share helicopter footage with that station ; WNYW 's helicopter SkyFox HD was renamed `` Chopper 5 '' on - air, though the SkyFox name was reinstated in 2010, while the `` Chopper 4 '' name continued to be used by WNBC. The LNS agreement ended in 2012 when WNBC began operating its own helicopter ; WNYW has since entered into a helicopter - sharing agreement with CBS - owned WCBS - TV. During the 10 p.m. newscast on September 16, 2009, anchor Ernie Anastos cursed live on - air while engaging in banter with chief meteorologist Nick Gregory, saying `` I guess it takes a tough man to make a tender forecast '', adding `` keep fucking that chicken '' ; the incident gained some notoriety when it and other videos of the on - air gaffe appeared on YouTube, making Anastos and WNYW the subject of a joke on ABC 's Jimmy Kimmel Live !. Anastos apologized for the incident on the following night 's 10 p.m. newscast. On June 5, 2014, WNYW relaunched its 6 : 00 p.m. newscast as a more topical, interactive program ; on June 6, the station launched the entertainment, lifestyle and music program Friday Night Live ( airing during the timeslot normally occupied by the second half - hour of the 10 : 00 p.m. newscast ). This was followed by the June 7 debut of hourly news updates that air weekend mornings between 9 : 00 a.m. and noon ( WNYW is the only news - producing English language network O&O in the New York City market that does not carry a full - fledged local newscast on Saturday and / or Sunday mornings, and is one of two Fox owned - and - operated stations without a weekend morning newscast, alongside KTTV in Los Angeles. As of November 2016, WNYW is the only news - producing station in the New York City market that continues to present field video in widescreen standard definition ; all of the other stations broadcast all or most of their field video in high definition. On - air staff Notable current on - air staff Ernie Anastos -- Anchor ( 2005 -- present ) Dari Alexander -- Anchor Christina Park -- Anchor Steve Lacy - Anchor Rosanna Scotto -- Anchor ( 1986 -- present ) Lori Stokes - Anchor ( 2017 -- present ) Sukanya Krishnan - Anchor ( 2017 -- present ) Nick Gregory ( AMS Seal of Approval ) -- chief meteorologist ( 1986 -- present ) Audrey Puente ( member, AMS ; member, NWA ) -- meteorologist Duke Castiglione -- Sports anchor Lisa Evers -- General assignment reporter Baruch Shemtov - Entertainment Reporter Notable former on - air staff Jodi Applegate ( later at WPIX ) Tex Antoine ( 1978 ; now deceased ) Vanessa Alfano ( currently runs her own blog ) Andy Adler ( 2007 - 2010 ; now at WPIX ) Julie Banderas ( now at Fox News Channel ) Sandy Becker Bill Boggs ( 1975 - 1986 ; now on PBS ) Dick Brennan ( now at WCBS - TV and WLNY - TV ) Jack Cafferty ( 1989 - 1992 ; now retired ) Julie Chang ( 2008 - 2012 ; now at KTTV / Los Angeles ) Ti - Hua Chang ( now at CBS News ) Ron Claiborne ( 1982 - 1986 ; now at ABC News ) Ron Corning ( now at WFAA - TV / Dallas ) Penny Crone ( retired ) Andrea Day ( 1997 - 2011 ; now at CNBC ) Arnold Diaz ( 2008 - 2014 ; now at WPIX ) Gordon Elliott ( 1987 - 1990s ; now Producer of The Chew ) Carter Evans ( now Los Angeles correspondent for CBS News ) Frank Field ( 1995 - 1997 ; now retired ) Rick Folbaum ( 2006 - 2009 ; now at WFOR - TV in Miami - Fort Lauderdale ) Sonny Fox ( retired from TV ) Chris Gailus ( now at CHAN - TV / Vancouver ) Anna Gilligan ( 2013 - 2016 ) Stacy Ann Gooden ( now at News 12 Networks ) Dr. Max Gomez ( now at WCBS - TV ) Tom Gregory ( deceased ) Pablo Guzman ( now at WCBS - TV / WLNY - TV ) Donna Hanover Tai Hernandez ( now at ABC News ) Andre Hepkins ( now at KMOV / St. Louis ) Juliet Huddy Tracy Humphrey ( formerly at KPIX - KBCW / San Francisco now at WXIA - TV ) Don Imus ( now at WABC - AM ) Dennis James ( first on - air host ) Mike Jerrick ( now at WTXF ) Bill Jorgensen ( retired ) Greg Kelly ( 2008 - 2017 ) Marvin Kitman ( retired from TV ) Matt Lauer ( later became co-host of NBC 's Today ) Lee Leonard ( mid-1970s ; now retired ) Judy Licht ( Retired ) Lynda Lopez ( now at WCBS - AM ) Bill Mazer ( deceased ) Bob McAllister Chuck McCann ( now a voice actor ) Curt Menefee ( now at Fox Sports ) Cora - Ann Mihalik ( Retired ) John Miller ( now deputy commissioner for the NYPD ) Myles Miller ( now at WPIX ) Lisa Murphy ( was with Bloomberg Television ) Heather Nauert ( now Spokesperson for the United States Department of State ) Jill Nicolini - ( now at WPIX ) Gabe Pressman ( deceased ) Dave Price ( now at WNBC ) Maury Povich ( Host of Maury ) Gene Rayburn ( deceased ) Victor Riesel Bobby Rivers Jim Ryan ( retired ) Roxie Roker ( deceased ) John Roland ( 1969 - 2004 ; now retired ) Soupy Sales ( deceased ) Toni Senecal ( now hosting WLNY - TV 's Toni On ! New York ) Rolland Smith ( retired ) Lou Steele Teresa Strasser ( retired from TV ) David Susskind Mike Wallace ( deceased ) Denotes person is deceased. In popular culture WNYW was portrayed in an episode of the Fox animated comedy Futurama, titled `` When Aliens Attack '', in which the station was accidentally knocked off the air by Philip J. 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 - years away ) and demanding to see the end of a program which had been cut off for them. References Jump up ^ `` DuMont station now commercial. '' Broadcasting - Broadcast Advertising, May 15, 1944, pg. 32. ( 1 ) Jump up ^ `` WABD Program Schedule January 1945 '' Jump up ^ `` WABD off the air during transition. '' Broadcasting - Broadcast Advertising, September 24, 1945, pg. 75. ( 2 ) Jump up ^ `` FCC authorizes WTTG commercials. '' Broadcasting - Telecasting, December 2, 1946, pg. 81. 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Jump up ^ Video Snitch ( October 12, 2009 ). `` Ernie Anastos & Keep Fucking That Chicken Viral Video ''. Retrieved December 30, 2016 -- via YouTube. Jump up ^ `` Ernie Anastos apologizes for on - air chicken remark ''. Retrieved December 30, 2016. Jump up ^ WNYW Beefs Up News Lineup For Summer, TVNewsCheck, May 5, 2014. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to WNYW. Official website Official website -- WWOR - TV Official facebook Official twitter Kinescope of a WABD station identification from 1948 ( YouTube ) Query the FCC 's TV station database for WNYW Television in New York City and the Tri-State Region Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with cable television Network O&Os are in bold Full - power stations WCBS - TV ( 2.1 CBS, 2.2 Decades ) WNBC ( 4.1 NBC, 4.2 Cozi ) WNYW ( 5.1 / 9.2 Fox, 5.2 Movies !, 5.4 Light TV ) WABC - TV ( 7.1 ABC, 7.2 Live Well HD, 7.3 Laff ) WWOR - TV ( 9.1 / 5.3 MyNetworkTV, 9.3 Buzzr, 9.4 H&I ) WPIX ( 11.1 The CW, 11.2 Antenna TV, 11.3 This TV, 11.4 TBD TV ) WPXN - TV ( 31.1 Ion, 31.2 Qubo, 31.3 Ion Life, 31.4 Ion Shop, 31.5 QVC Over Air, 31.6 HSN ) WJLP ( 33.1 MeTV, 33.2 Laff, 33.3 Escape, 33.4 Grit, 33.10 Weather, 33.11 WKMK audio, 33.12, WBBO audio, 33.13 WWZY audio, 33.14 WHTG audio ) WXTV - DT ( 41.1 UNI, 41.2 Bounce ) WZME ( 43.1 Sonlife, 43.2 CNC World, 43.3 Comet, 43.4 Charge ! ) WNJU ( 47.1 TMD, 47.2 TeleXitos ) WRNN - TV ( 48.1 Ind, 48.2 Stadium, 48.3 Arirang TV, 48.4 NHK World ) WTBY - TV ( 54.1 TBN, 54.2 Hillsong. 54.3 JUCE TV / Smile ), 54.4 Enlace, 54.5 TBN Salsa ) WLNY - TV ( 55.1 IND ) WMBC - TV ( 63.1 Ind, 63.2 CGTN, 63.3 NTDT, 63.4 Aliento, 63.5 WDNJ audio, 63.6 KCBN audio ) WFTY - DT ( 67.1 Justice, 67.2 UNI via WXTV, 67.3, UniMás via WFUT, 67.4 GetTV, 67.5 Escape ) WFUT - DT ( 68.1 UniMás, 68.2 getTV, 68.3 Justice ) Public television stations WNET ( 13.1 PBS, 13.2 Kids, 13.3 Biz ( shared with WMBQ - CD ) WLIW ( 21.1 PBS, 21.2 Create, 21.3 World ) WNYE - TV ( 25.1 Educ. Ind, 25.2 NYC gov, 25.3 CUNY TV ) WEDW ( 49.1 PBS / CPTV, 49.3 CPTV Spirit ) WNJN / WNJB ( 50.1 / 58.1 PBS / NJTV, 50.2 / 58.2 NHK World ) Low power stations WEPT - CD ( 15.1 AMGTV, Newburgh ) WNDT - CD ( 17.1 Universal affiliates network, 17.3 EICB ) WDVB - CD ( 23.1 ZUUS Country, 23.2 SSN, 23.3 SonLife ) WASA - LD 24.1 / 24.4 ( Estrella TV, 24.2 ICN, 24.3 SinoVision english, 24.4 SinoVision ( in Chinese ) ) W26CE ( 26 ) color bars WXNY - LD / WNXY - LD ( 32.1 / 43.1 CGTN, 32.2 / 43.2 CCTV - 4, 32.3 / 43.3 CGTN Spanish, 32.4 / 43.4 Rev'n, 32.5 / 43.5 Retro TV, 32.6 / 43.6 Infomercials ) WPXO - LD 34.1 ( América Tevé ) WNYN - LD 39.1 ( AZA ) WKOB - LD ( 42.1 IQRA TV, 42.2 ( DS, 42.3 Peace TV, 42.5 Sonlife 42.6 ( Almavision ) WVVH - CD ( 50.1 Yootoo, East Hampton ) WBQM - LD ( 51.1 Spanish Independent, 51.2 LATV 51.3 COR ) W41DO - D ( 60.1 HSN, 60.2 HSN 2 ) Audio stations WNYZ - LP 6 ( Ind / Radio ) Local cable channels BronxNet BCAT Caribbean International Network FiOS1 MNN MSG MSG Plus NET News 12 Networks NY1 NY1 Noticias NY1 Rail and Road nyctv Queens Public Television SportsNet New York Staten Island Community Television Telecare YES Network Defunct MSG Metro Channels New Jersey Network ( PBS ) WMBQ - CD 46 WMUN - CD 45 WNYJ - TV 66 WRNY WWPS - LP 9 WWOR EMI Service KC2XAK ( NBC, Bridgeport, UHF / experimental ) New York State television Albany / Schenectady Binghamton Buffalo Burlington / Plattsburgh Elmira New York City Rochester Syracuse Utica Watertown Pennsylvania broadcast television Binghamton, New York Buffalo, New York Elmira, New York Erie Johnstown / Altoona / State College New York City Philadelphia Pittsburgh Scranton / Wilkes - Barre Susquehanna Valley ( Harrisburg ) Washington, DC Youngstown, Ohio See also Hartford / New Haven Fox Network Affiliates in the state of New York WNYW 5 ( New York City ) WXXA 23 ( Albany ) WNYF - CD 28 ( Watertown ) WUTV 29 ( Buffalo ) WUHF 31 ( Rochester ) WFXV 33 ( Utica ) WICZ 40 ( Binghamton ) WYDC 48 ( Elmira ) WSYT 68 ( Syracuse ) See also ABC CBS CW Fox Ion MyNetworkTV NBC PBS Other stations in New York Fox Entertainment Group 20th Century Fox 20th Century Fox Animation 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Fox Star Studios Blue Sky Studios Fox Searchlight Pictures Fox Studios Australia Fox Music Fox Television Group 20th Century Fox Television 20th Television Fox 21 Television Studios Fox Television Animation Fox Broadcasting Company Endemol Shine Group Endemol USA Authentic Entertainment True Entertainment 51 Minds Entertainment UK Tiger Aspect Productions Zeppotron Australia India Shine Group Bossa Studios ChannelFlip Dragonfly Friday TV Kudos Metronome Princess Productions Shine America Shine TV CORE Media Group 19 Entertainment Sharp Entertainment Fox News Group Fox News Channel Fox Business Network Fox News Radio Fox Nation Fox Television Stations Movies ! 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CBS / Decades ( 14 ) : KCBS KCNC KDKA KOVR KPIX KTVT KYW WBBM WBZ WCBS WCCO WFOR WJZ WWJ The CW ( w / WB ) ( 8 ) : KBCW KMAX KSTW WKBD WPCW WPSG WTOG WUPA 21st Century Fox Fox ( 17 ) : KDFW KMSP KRIV KSAZ KTBC KTTV KTVU WAGA WFLD WJBK WJZY WNYW WOFL / WOGX WTTG WTVT WTXF MyNet ( 10 ) : KCOP KDFI KTXH KUTP WDCA WFTC WMYT WPWR WRBW WWOR NBCU NBC / Cozi ( 11 ) : KNBC KNSD KNTV KXAS WBTS & WYCN WCAU WMAQ WNBC WRC WTVJ WVIT Telemundo / TeleXitos ( 25 ) : KBLR KDEN KEJT - LP KHRR KNSD - DT20 KNSO KSTS KTAZ KTDO KTLM KTMD KVDA KVEA KXTX WKAQ WNEU WNJU WRDM - CD & WDMR - CD WRMD - CD WRIW - CD WSCV WSNS WTMO - CD WWDT - CD WWSI WZTD - LD WZDC - CD Univision Comm. Univision ( 22 ) : KABE - CD KAKW KCEC KDTV KFTV KLUZ KMEX KTVW KUTH KUVE KUVN KUVS KWEX KXLN WFDC WGBO WLII / WSUR WLTV WQHS WUNI WUVC WUVG WUVP WVEA WVEN WXTV UniMás ( 22 ) : KBTF KFPH KFSF KTFF KFTH KTFK KTFO KFTR KFTU KNIC KSTR WAMI WFPA - CD WFTY WFUT WTNC WXFT Univision owns the licenses to these stations but the stations themselves are operated by Entravision Communications under LMA. NBC Universal owns the license but the station is operated by Serestar Communications. Secondary affiliation ; The CW is the station 's primary affiliation. ZGS Communications owns the license but the station is operated by NBC Universal. 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