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WNYW, '''''"Fox 5 New York"''''' 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 on JetBlue flights. The station is also 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 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 in Chicago , and ''Good Day L.A.'' on KTTV in Los Angeles (KTTV also produced ''Good Day Live'', a one-hour syndicated version of ''Good Day L.A.'', 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
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