WNEW TV First Day As WNYW

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WNEW TV First Day As WNYW - March 7, 1986

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Ай бұрын

Presented for Historical Purposes Only - A quick clip of Channel 5 in NYC (formerly WNEW-TV) from the first day they changed call letters and signed on as WNYW-TV. As you can see, their older production that was still featuring the OLD call letters would still be used for a while. Pardon the bad reception, I was actually using good old rabbit ears at the time!

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@notnok5595 28 күн бұрын

"Good morning. This is television station WNYW-TV Channel 5 New York, owned and operated by Fox Television Stations, Inc., with transmitter atop the World Trade Center, and executive offices and studios located at 205 East 67th Street in New York City. WNYW-TV operates on an assigned frequency of 76-82 megahertz, as assigned by the Federal Communications Commission. Some programs and portions of programs presented by this station are recorded. WNYW-TV’s entire broadcast schedule is a copyrighted, original compilation work. No recording, retransmission or other use may be made of WNYW-TV's programming without the expressed, prior, written consent of Fox Television Stations, Inc. Have a good day!"

@wmbrown6 Ай бұрын

Also - it was exactly 27 years and 6 months to the day after what until then was WABD changed calls to WNEW-TV on Sept. 7, 1958.

@jehobden Ай бұрын

Fox grew out of the ashes of the old DuMont tv network from the 1950s.

@wmbrown6 29 күн бұрын

Before that insert (in Gill Sans Medium) was put on with the new calls and owner, it said 'WNEW-TV' on the top, and 'MMI 5 NYC' at the bottom, of this NTSC version of the Philips PM5544 pattern.

@rosaxdicho Ай бұрын

I missed those days of TV signoffs and afternoon and Saturday morning cartoons...

@alfonsogreen2722 23 күн бұрын

Me 2

@ScoopNemeth Ай бұрын

FOX 5 WNYW - What New Yorkers Watch!!!

@wmbrown6 Ай бұрын

While, to tech crew, the prior call letters of WNEW-TV stood for "Where Nothing Ever Works."

@a.b.s_productions 20 күн бұрын

Pam Potillo, was on a handful of episodes of “The Cosby Show” as Vanessa Huxtable best friend.

@jopat87 14 күн бұрын

They needed a young onscreen personality to tell everyone about the new call sign. This kid did a good job of it.

@a.b.s_productions 14 күн бұрын

@@jopat87 Yeah I had a crush on her from seeing her on The Cosby Show and a few others things.

@spwash1000 Ай бұрын

Although NY's Channel 5 changed their call letters to the current WNYW but I don't think that they were a FOX station yet, still an Independent. But that wouldn't happen until October of 1986 when the FOX network was launched

@Spi-AU Ай бұрын

This effectively marked the start of the Fox Television Stations division before (as you say) the network started, so the Fox logo isn't really in error, though at this point it would merely have been a replacement for the Metromedia corporate branding (which wasn't exactly unusual, as the likes of Gannett, Taft etc, or indeed Metromedia did themselves, did the same to unify their stations) and still operating as an independent until October.

@americangiant1003 2 күн бұрын

Sorry to sound dumb but I thought Fox officially started in March/April 1987 with the Sunday Evening lineup anchored by “21 Jump Street” and “Married With Children” starring previously unknown Actors such as Ed O’Neil, Katy Segal, Johnny Deep and Holly Robinson.

@johnnysama 29 күн бұрын

Say - was there any announcement by John Roland on the previous day's 10 O'Clock News and/or any acknowldgement from the previous night of the callsign modification? We may never know, unless a recording surfaces. That said, this is an awesome video of a historic day for NYC TV.

@PeteRFNY 29 күн бұрын

@johnnysama I don't recall but I wouldn't be surprised if they said something about the change.

@wmbrown6 Ай бұрын

The sign-on V/O was Chuck Caron on that very first day.

@henryhanson3750 Ай бұрын

I hope you realize the magnitude of this recording, having the actual birth of Fox before its official start on October 9th of that year.

@PeteRFNY 29 күн бұрын

@henryhanson3750 I do now, but I had no idea then! I just wanted to document the call letters change, I was fascinated with things like that. I just wish I'd had better reception and had just let the tape run but I was more focused on the new branding.