WNYW-TV News

WNYW is the east coast flasghip station of the Fox television network. It is best kinown in the market for its influential and popular “Ten O’Clock News”, the first of that kind in its market (and the second of its kind in the nation behind sister WTTG in Washington). Fox has owned this station since 1986; before that it was Metromedia-owned WNEW-TV and Dumont flagship WABD-TV.

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WNYW’s ratings started slumping a bit in 2002, and new management from Fox’s Detroit station was brought in to spruce things up. The “Ten O’ Clock News” name was changed to “Fox 5 News At Ten”, John Roland was moved to the 5pm newscast and Len Cannon was brought in from NBC. The news got glossier and the anchors don’t even spend much time at the desk.