12 Facts About WNJU

WNJU is a television station licensed to Linden, New Jersey, United States, broadcasting Telemundo programming to the New York City area.

WNJU is owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group alongside NBC flagship WNBC .

WNJU's studios are located on Fletcher Avenue in Fort Lee, New Jersey.

However, within a month of obtaining the permit, the new WNJU-TV decided on an Empire State Building site for its transmitter, which was approved by the FCC in April 1964.

In 1967, WNJU-TV went all-color and became the first New York-area television station to automate its transmitter; it opted not to move to the World Trade Center when it was built for financial reasons.

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WNJU-TV was sold in the fall of 1970 for $8 million to Screen Gems Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Columbia Pictures.

In 1968, WNJU originated a program for WAPA-TV, which represented the first live satellite connection from New York to San Juan.

In 1975, WNJU-TV received a short-term license renewal for only one year for failure to abide by a previous pledge to limit commercials to 16 minutes per hour, which the station exceeded more than 16 percent of the time.

In 2002, General Electric purchased Telemundo and WNJU, which led to a major overhaul of the on-air product at the network and the stations, and they combined with WNBC, creating New York's second television duopoly after News Corporation's WNYW and WWOR-TV.

In 2004, WNJU relocated from Teterboro to the sixth floor at 2200 Fletcher Avenue in Fort Lee, occupying the former studios and offices of the NBC-owned CNBC cable network, which had moved to a state-of-the-art new studio complex in Englewood Cliffs; the space was more than twice the size of the Teterboro facility.

WNJU launched its news operation in the mid-1980s, with 6 p m newscasts anchored by Jorge L Ramos; an 11 p m edition followed in 1996.

However, due to company-wide cutbacks, WNJU pulled the plug on its morning, midday, and weekend newscasts in 2009.