WNJU

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = WNJU
station_
station_slogan = Mejorando Su Vida
station_branding = Telemundo 47
analog = 47 (UHF)
digital = 36 (UHF)
affiliations = Telemundo
founded = May 16, 1965
location = Linden, New Jersey -
New York, New York
callsign_meaning = New Jersey UHF
owner = NBC Universal
licensee = NBC Telemundo License Company
sister_stations = WNBC
former_affiliations = Independent (1965-1987)
NetSpan (1984-1987)
effective_radiated_power = 1500 kW (analog)
832 kW (digital)
HAAT = 348 m (analog)
407.5 m (digital)
facility_id = 73333
coordinates = coord|40|44|54.4|N|73|59|8.4|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.telemundo47.com/ www.telemundo47.com]

WNJU, channel 47, is the flagship station of the Spanish-language Telemundo television network, licensed to Linden, New Jersey and serving the New York City television market. WNJU is owned by NBC Universal, and is one-half of a duopoly with NBC network flagship WNBC-TV (channel 4). WNJU's studios and offices are located in Fort Lee, New Jersey, and its transmitter is atop the Empire State Building.

History

On May 16, 1965, WNJU-TV signed on as the first commercial UHF station in the New York City television market. Its initial schedule was a mix of English, Asian, Spanish and Italian shows. During the middle 1960s, the station broadcast a live teenage dance show in the New York market called [http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/Discoteen/ Discoteen] , hosted by John Zacherle.

WNJU was involved in some controversy when it aired bullfights, which some critics believed was too violent. It maintained an English-speaking audience a few hours a week during the 1970s when it was the only New York broadcast outlet for the World Wide Wrestling Federation.

By the late 1970s WNJU had mostly Spanish programming along with some weekend ethnic brokered programming. During the week WNJU ran English-speaking religious programming until noon. From 12:00 on they ran Spanish programming. On Sundays they also ran English-speaking religious shows in the mornings. In the 1980s the other foreign language programs disappeared, and WNJU ran English programming in the morning and Spanish programming the rest of the day.

In 1984, WNJU joined with several Spanish television stations not affiliated with Spanish International Network (now Univision) and formed NetSpan, the United States' second Spanish-language television network. NetSpan's original group of affiliates included KVEA in Corona, California, KSTS in San Jose, California, and WSCV in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and WSNS-TV in Chicago.

In 1987 Net Span added more affiliates, and changed its name to Telemundo. As time went on, the station dropped its English-language religious shows; they had all disappeared by the early 1990s.

Originally its offices and studios were located at Symphony Hall (also known as the Mosque Theatre) at 1020 Broad Street in Newark, but they moved out to their current location sometime in the late 1980s. For a time in the mid-1980s, their studios were located in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey.

In 2001, NBC Universal purchased Telemundo. WNJU witnessed major overhauls, adopting similar opening graphics to those used at New York City's WNBC, and adopting a tweaked version of its opening music sequence. In 2007,WNJU launched the slogan Tu Canal.

Digital television

Post-analog shutdown

After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf] , WNJU will remain on its current pre-transition channel number, 36. [http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?context=25&appn=101233230&formid=387&fac_num=73333 CDBS Print ] ] However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display WNJU's virtual channel as 47.

References

External links

* [http://www.telemundo47.com/ WNJU Website]
* [http://www.wnjutv47.com/ The Channel 47 "Crew Reunion" Web-Site]
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