Everything about Wnju totally explained
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
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'd 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.
Digital television
| Channel |
Programming |
| 47.1 / 36.1 |
main WNJU/Telemundo programming |
Post-analog shutdown
After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is tentatively scheduled to take place on February 17, 2009, WNJU will remain on its current pre-transition channel number, 36. However, through the use of
PSIP, digital television receivers will display WNJU's
virtual channel as 47.
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