SR wrote:
I use a VHF/UHF black and white televion. No cable. (Way to expensive!)

Can someone please give me a list of all of the channels/Stations I
should be able to pick up in the Queens/NY area? Including other near
by states that broadcast to NY?

I turn on the TV this evening and while turning the channels I noticed
channel 25 came in very clear.

I am not familier with this channel 25. As I am watching it while I
type this, I am waiting for station identification. But because they
are broadcasting from live Times Square, I have not heard station ID as
of yet.

Check out the website in my signature.

Channel 25 is WNYE-TV. If I recall properly it belongs to the NYC Board
of Education and normally carries a mix of educational and ethnic
programs.

I don't promise this list is complete but...

2 WCBS CBS
4 WNBC NBC
5 WNYW Fox
6 WNYZ Spanish (from ch. 49)
7 WABC ABC
9 WWOR UPN
11 WPIX WB
13 WNET PBS
25 WNYE PBS
26 W26CE test pattern
WNXY Spanish (to ch. 64)
31 WPXN Pax
32 WNXY Home Shopping (to ch. 43)
34 WPXO Pax (simulcast to ch. 31)
35 WNYX Spanish (to ch. 65)
36 W36AS ethnic (New Brunswick, NJ)
39 WNYN TV Azteca (Mexican) (to ch. 49)
41 WXTV Univision (Spanish)
43 WXNY Home Shopping (from ch. 32)
47 WNJU Telemundo (Spanish)
49 WNYN TV Azteca (from ch. 39)
WNYZ Spanish (to ch. 6)
50 WNJN NJN/PBS (Montclair, NJ)
53 WKOB Korean
58 WNJB NJN/PBS (New Brunswick, NJ)
60 W60AI Home Shopping
63 WMBC ethnic/religious (Newton, NJ)
64 WNXY Spanish (from ch. 26)
65 WNYX Spanish (from ch. 35)
66 WFME ethnic/religious (West Milford, NJ)
68 WFUT Telefutura (Spanish)


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Doug Smith W9WI
Pleasant View (Nashville), TN EM66
http://www.w9wi.com

On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 06:35:35 GMT, Doug Smith W9WI
wrote:

Channel 25 is WNYE-TV. If I recall properly it belongs to the NYC Board
of Education and normally carries a mix of educational and ethnic
programs.

Actually, now it's owned by the City of NY - hizzoner got the state
legislature to put the schools under direct city control and the BOE
no longer exists.

IIRC the station, including the FM & TV transmitter, is at Brooklyn
Tech (High School).

wnye.org

26 and 35 seem to be low power stations with various interview shows,
music video shows supported by premium phone numbers, brokered ethnic
and religious shows, et alia.

One interesting thing about WWOR - it is now owned by News Corp.
(Murdoch who also owns Fox and WNYW) and both stations have studios in
the old Trans Lux Theater (205 E. 67 St.)

Back when RKO/General was having trouble with the FCC, Congress passed
a law requiring the FCC to renew the license of any commercial VHF
station that moved to New Jersey, and RKO/General moved channel 9's
license to Secaucus, NJ, near the Meadowlands. (Eventually, the FCC
made General Tire get rid of ALL its broadcast facilities because it
had lied to the FCC about secret contracts requiring GT dealers to
advertise with RKO/General stations.)

So, after all that noise about NJ getting a commercial VHF TV station,
WWOR may still have a license marked Secaucus but they're on Third
Ave. & 67 St. in Manhattan. (WNET, 13, PBS is licensed to Newark; its
commercial predecessor, WAAT, was. Its facilities are, however, in
NYC. The Spanish stations on 41 and 47 are licensed to NJ.)

However, the WWOR Secaucus facility is now used by...the News
Corp.-owned UPN station in Baltimore. (upn24.tv)