WNYW, channel 5, is a television station in New York City, New York that serves as the flagship station of the Fox Broadcasting Company. The station is owned by the Fox Television Stations division of 21st Century Fox, and is a sister station to Secaucus, New Jersey-based MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated station WWOR-TV (channel 9). The station's studio facilities are located at Fox Television Center in the Yorkville section of Manhattan, and its transmitter is located atop the Empire State Building.
The station is available to DirecTV subscribers in the few areas of the Eastern United States that do not have an over-the-air Fox affiliate and on Dish Network as part of All American Direct's distant network package; 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.
The station traces its history to 1938, when television set and equipment manufacturer Allen B. DuMont founded experimental station W2XVT (whose callsign was later changed to W2XWV in 1944). 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 on Madison Avenue. On December 17, 1945, WABD moved to channel 5.
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 WNBT (now WNBC) to WPTZ Philadelphia (now KYW-TV) and WRGB Schenectady, NY 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 the Yorkville section of Manhattan's Upper East Side, inside the shell of the space formerly occupied by Jacob Ruppert's Central Opera House; channel 5 is still headquartered in that same building as of 2013, which was later renamed the Metromedia Telecenter, and is presently known as the Fox Television Center.
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FOX 5 (WNYW) New York City, New York
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