Talk:WNYW

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[edit] Changes to News and History (facts removed?)

Can anyone offer justification for the removal of data in these two changes? Were the facts incorrect? If not, I suggest the ones that were relevant to the article (Including news times and initial broadcasting dates) be replaced.

  • 06:43, 8 August 2005 Blueboy96 (→News)
  • 06:42, 8 August 2005 Blueboy96 (→History)
--Tonsofpcs 05:23, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] "Fox" or "FOX"?

I noticed some revert wars regarding the Fox branding on several articles on Fox-owned stations. The official name of the network is not all uppercase, but that is how the company prefers it.

So, do we call it "Fox" or "FOX"? You decide. CoolKatt number 99999 02:19, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

It is just plain "Fox". The word Fox, which was derived from the 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, is just that -- a word, not an acronym or an initialism (unless they suddenly prefer to be known as FBC, for Fox Broadcasting Company). The network itself can use uppercase letters all they want for their logos, but it has always been plain old Fox.
Of all the things David Levy and I have disagreed over, we are in sync on this one (see my talk page). Rollosmokes 07:14, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Callsign Meaning

Doesn't the callsign mean What New Yorkers Watch? ~ Trisreed my talk my contribs 09:14, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

That's just a slogan. The call letters were derived from the former WNEW-TV call sign, with the "Y" replacing the "E" as Metromedia retained WNEW-AM and WNEW-FM after the sale of their television stations to News Corporation. I don't watch WNYW very much, but I believe the "What New Yorkers Watch" slogan has been placed in the background since they implemented the new Fox News Channel theme. Rollosmokes 18:26, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks ~ Trisreed my talk my contribs 03:36, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Mark Joyella

Does anyone know why Mark Joyella dosen't work with GDNY anymore? MoChan 23:03, 25 February 2007 (UTC)


Yes, they asked him to take a paycut for 2 more years and declined.

[edit] "It's 10 o'clock"

the following is the actual email correspondance between Stuart Elliot the current source and Mel Epstein the creator of the famour public service announcment.

Stuart---here's the true origin of WNEW-TV's (it'll always be those pre-Murdoch call letters to me): In March of 1969, I was On-Air Promotion Director for the station. Our truly gifted General Manager, Robert Bennett, made a rare appearance to the promo department and requested that I create a viewer-related message to air after the then mandatory ten o'clock station identification and before the news came on. His words were "I need you to come up with something warm and community-minded to air just before we go into the news...something about "it's ten o'clock---'." I said "How about it's ten o'clock do you know where your kids are?" Bob said "make it children instead of kids and put it on tonight." Please note that the original copy was "It's ten o'clock, do you know where your children are?" I'm not certain when the change to "It's ten p.m...." occurred. That's the real story. I know....I still have the original sheet of paper it was typed on. And my bank account knows because in order to avoid Writer's Guild compensation, the station called me a "Creative Consultant" for this particular effort. Please feel free to contact me. My best-- Mel Epstein

dear mel thanks so much for the email and the information. the people i talked to at the station -- and i always think of it as WNEW-TV, too -- said that practically all their records were lost after the change to the murdoch ownership. they also had trouble tracking down who the kids are that are appearing in the current version of the promo...i think the new york post finally identified the boy (who is now like 20). all best stuart elliott —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Omegalion (talk • contribs) 17:24, 15 April 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Recent Changes...

...made on June 5 are as follows:

1) The "Former Personalities" section has been renamed "Notable alumni" and, along with the Reporters section, has been reformatted with a no-borders, two-column layout (I couldn't think of another way to describe it). I tried to leave as many **notable** names as possible, and added two more in a subsequent edit. I also added links to outside websites to a few non-Wikilinked names (e.g. Naamua Delaney's bio from iVillage Live's website, and Bill McCreary's bio from his own website). This should eliminate some length from this article. I may try this format in other New York television station articles (and perhaps at WRKS-FM and WFAN as well) in the near future.

2) As per Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, the newscast schedule, though it is a personal favorite of mine, has been removed.

3) Both the "In Popular Culture" (added by MasterA113) and the "Newscast Titles" sections have been removed. These separate sections are redundant.

That's all for now. Rollosmokes 07:14, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use criteria

The use of images not in compliance with our fair-use criteria or our policy on nonfree content is not appropriate, and the images have been removed. Please do not restore them. — Moe ε 21:03, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lists

I am removing the list of alumni, it appears as a second list in its own space. I am ending up correcting mistakes in both lists. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 08:39, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WNYW/WNYW News team merge?

I have sighted a tag at the top saying it has been suggested that the two articles be merged. Why didn't anyone do this? I can, but I don't know how to merge articles, or is this something only the administrators can do? Sean90 01:08, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Someone created those articles, and similar ones for other New York television stations. I tried to have those articles deleted, but the consensus was to keep them. Personally, the information should remain within the main station article and not in a stand-alone article. Believe me, I would have merged them all myself, but I don't want to incur the wrath of any jilted editors or admins, so any merge action should be done by-the-book. Rollosmokes 03:16, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Point-Counterpoint

I thought this was spoofed in Kentucky Fried Movie, not SNL? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Takeshi357 (talk • contribs) 18:54, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 21:29, 26 November 2007 (UTC)