14 Facts About WNBC

WNBC is a television station in New York City, serving as the flagship of the NBC network.

WNBC holds the distinction as the oldest continuously operating commercial television station in the United States.

WNBC-TV earned a place in broadcasting history as the birthplace of The Tonight Show.

Since 2005, WNBC has broadcast its signal from the Empire State Building in midtown Manhattan, returning to the original transmitter site used from the 1930s to the 1970s.

WNBC has long presented events such as the annual St Patrick's Day Parade, the National Puerto Rican Day Parade, the Columbus Day Parade, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and the Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting.

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WNBC serves as the official flagship carrier of Giants preseason football games and is the New York area station for NBC's national broadcasts of Sunday Night Football featuring either one of the two teams.

Many of WNBC's personalities have been at the station for over 20 years.

Many WNBC personalities have appeared, and have moved up to the NBC network, including: Marv Albert, Len Berman, Contessa Brewer, Chris Cimino, Fran Charles, Darlene Rodriguez, Maurice DuBois, Joelle Garguilo, Michael Gargiulo, Tony Guida, Jim Hartz, Janice Huff, Matt Lauer, Tom Llamas, Dave Price, Al Roker, Shiba Russell, Scarborough and Tom Snyder.

Still, WNBC's ratings struggled: during the March 2009 sweeps period, its newscasts were a distant third in all-time slots, except during the weekday mornings, where it remained in second.

In December 2011, WNBC struck a news partnership with non-profit news-reporting organization ProPublica.

In fall 2016, WNBC entered a content-sharing agreement with WOR to include news and weather content supplied by the station; WNBC's weather content is heard on other iHeartMedia radio stations throughout the New York metropolitan area.

In November 2017, WNBC opened the San Juan news bureau led by bilingual reporter Julio "Gaby" Acevedo; the bureau delivers daily English and Spanish-language news and updates for the station and its sister station WNJU as well as all NBC and Telemundo-owned stations across the country; the new bureau operated through February 2018.

In January 2022, WNBC announced plans to launch a new channel for NBCUniversal's streaming service Peacock, called "NBC New York News"; this announcement follows the simultaneous rollout of streaming news channels from its sister stations in Chicago, Miami, Philadelphia and Boston on January 20.

WNBC's was replaced by Pei-Sze Cheng and Jonathan Vigliotti .