11 Facts About WNYW

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

The FCC granted Murdoch a temporary waiver to keep the Post and WNYW to allow News Corporation to complete its purchase of the Metromedia television stations.

In late summer 1986, WNYW debuted the nightly newsmagazine A Current Affair, one of the first shows to be labeled as a "tabloid television" program.

WNYW considered moving WNYW's operations to Secaucus, but ultimately decided to remain in the Fox Television Center.

From 1999 to 2001, WNYW held the broadcast rights to New York Yankees game telecasts, displacing longtime broadcaster WPIX.

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WNYW provided local coverage of Super Bowl XLVIII which was played at MetLife Stadium.

Since the Fox takeover, WNYW's newscasts have become more tabloid in style and have been fodder for jokes, even to the point of being parodied on Saturday Night Live.

WNYW donated a digitized copy of this coverage to the Internet Archive in July 2012.

Several months later, veteran New York City anchorman Ernie Anastos signed a multi-year contract with WNYW, displacing Cannon as lead anchor; Cannon asked for, and was granted, a release from his contract with the station shortly after Anastos's contract deal was announced.

The LNS agreement ended in 2012 when WNBC began operating its own helicopter; WNYW has since entered into a helicopter-sharing agreement with CBS-owned WCBS-TV.

WNYW was portrayed in an episode of the Fox animated comedy Futurama, titled "When Aliens Attack", in which the station was accidentally knocked off the air by Philip J Fry in 1999.