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{{Short description|Television station in Secaucus, New Jersey}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign = WWOR-TV
| city = Secaucus, New Jersey{{efn|Originally licensed to New York City, moved to Secaucus in 1983.}}
| logo = WWOR NewJersey.svg
| logo_upright = .6
| branding = My9
| digital = 25 ([[UHF]]), shared with [[WRNN-TV]]<ref name="wrnnwworcsa">{{Cite web|url=https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/draftCopy.html?displayType=html&appKey=25076f91614e98600161728b2dfd2f11&id=25076f91614e98600161728b2dfd2f11&goBack=N|title=Licensing and Management System|website=enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov}}</ref>
| virtual = 9
| affiliations = {{ubl|'''9.1:''' [[MyNetworkTV]]|'''9.3:''' [[Buzzr]]|'''9.4:''' [[Heroes & Icons]]}}
| owner = [[Fox Television Stations, LLC]]
| location = {{ubl|[[Secaucus, New Jersey]]|[[New York, New York]]}}
| country = US
| founded = {{Start date|1947|04}}<ref>[https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1947/1947-04-21-BC.pdf#page=18 "FCC handles its hottest FM-TV case."] ''[[Broadcasting & Cable|Broadcasting – Telecasting]]''. April 21, 1947, pg. 18.</ref>
| airdate = {{Start date|1949|10|11}}
| callsign_meaning = Variation of WOR-TV
| sister_stations = [[WNYW]]<ref name="rei" />
| former_callsigns = WOR-TV (1949–1987)
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 9 ([[VHF]], 1949–2009)|'''Digital:''' 38 (UHF, 2002–2018)|'''Translator:''' 71 W71AK [[Bronx]]}}
| former_affiliations = {{ubl|[[Independent station|Independent]] (1949–1995)|[[UPN]] (1995–2006)}}
| erp = {{ubl|57.8&nbsp;kW|39 kW ([[special temporary authority|STA]])}}
| haat = {{convert|520|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id = 74197
| coordinates = {{coord|40|42|46.8|N|74|0|47.3|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| licensing_authority = [[FCC]]
| website = {{URL|https://www.my9nj.com/}}
}}
'''WWOR-TV''' (channel 9) is a [[television station]] licensed to [[Secaucus, New Jersey]], United States, serving the [[New York metropolitan area]]. It is the [[flagship station]] of the [[MyNetworkTV]] programming service, [[owned and operated]] by the [[Fox Television Stations]] group. Under common ownership with [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] flagship [[WNYW]] (channel 5), the two stations share studios at the Fox Television Center on East 67th Street in [[Manhattan]]'s [[Lenox Hill]] neighborhood; WWOR-TV's transmitter is located at [[One World Trade Center]].

==History==
===WOR-TV (1949–1987)===
====Early history====
Channel 9 signed on the air on October 11, 1949, as WOR-TV. It was owned by the Bamberger Broadcasting Service (a division of [[Macy's|R.{{nbsp}}H. Macy and Company]] and named after the [[Bamberger's]] department store chain), which also operated [[WOR (AM)|WOR]] (710 AM) and WOR-FM (98.7 FM, now [[WEPN-FM]]).<ref>{{cite news |last=Bergman |first=Rudy |title=Looking & Listening |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-looking-listening/181786402/ |access-date=September 25, 2025 |newspaper=Daily News |date=October 11, 1949 |location=New York, New York |page=84 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Exactly ten months earlier, Bamberger launched Washington, D.C.'s fourth television station, WOIC (now [[WUSA (TV)|WUSA]]), also on channel 9. WOR-TV entered the New York market as the last of the city's [[VHF]] stations to sign on, and one of three [[independent station|independents]]—the others being [[WPIX]] (channel 11) and [[Newark, New Jersey]]–based [[WNET|WATV]] (channel 13). On WOR-TV's opening night, a welcome address was read by WOR radio's morning host, [[John B. Gambling]]. However, the audio portion of the speech was not heard because of a technical glitch. The problem was fixed and Gambling repeated the message later that evening, prior to the station's sign-off.

That first broadcast and other early WOR-TV shows emanated from the [[New Amsterdam Theatre]]'s Roof Garden, located west of [[Times Square]]. For a short time, the station's transmitter operated from [[WOR TV Tower]] in [[North Bergen, New Jersey]], and was later moved to the [[Empire State Building]]. At the start of 1950, Bamberger Broadcasting changed its name to General Teleradio.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Bamberger change; name is now General Teleradio |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1950/BC-1950-01-02.pdf#page=26 |access-date=June 22, 2022 |magazine=Broadcasting–Telecasting |date=January 2, 1950 |page=26}}</ref> Later that year, WOIC was sold to a joint venture of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' and [[CBS]], who would change that station's call sign to [[WTOP-TV]].<ref>{{cite magazine |title=WTOP buys WOIC (TV) |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1950/BC-1950-06-26.pdf#page=57 |access-date=June 22, 2022 |magazine=Broadcasting–Telecasting |date=June 26, 1950 |page=57}}</ref> In 1951, the station moved uptown to the newly constructed "9 Television Square" facility at 101 West 67th Street. The West 67th Street studio was built from the ground up as a television facility. Initially built by the Robert Gless Co. for the Bamberger Broadcasting Service, the building itself was owned by the Macy's employee pension fund, and it had been leased prior to completion to Thomas S. Lee Enterprises (a company that was later absorbed into RKO General). Lee, the son of the broadcasting pioneer Don Lee, owned several Mutual Network stations on the West Coast, and held a 25-year lease on the building running January 1952 to January 1977. Soon after the building was completed in 1952, Macy's–Bamberger's merged the WOR stations with the [[General Tire and Rubber Company]], which already had broadcasting interests in three cities through two other subsidiaries: the regional [[Yankee Network|Yankee Radio Network]] and [[WRKO|WNAC AM]]–[[WBZ-FM|FM]]–[[WNAC-TV (defunct)|TV]] in [[Boston]]; and the [[Don Lee (broadcaster)|Don Lee Broadcasting System]], which operated [[KHJ (AM)|KHJ AM]]–[[KRTH|FM]]–[[KCAL-TV|TV]] in Los Angeles and [[KFRC (defunct)|KFRC AM]]–[[KMEL|FM]] in San Francisco. The subsidiaries were then brought together under the General Teleradio name.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Crater |first1=Rufus |title=What happens to MBS? Don Lee, Yankee, WOR merge |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1951/BC-1951-10-15.pdf#page=23 |access-date=June 22, 2022 |magazine=Broadcasting–Telecasting |date=October 15, 1951 |pages=23, 38}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |title=WOR merger; General Tire gets MBS control |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1952/BC-1952-01-21.pdf#page=25 |access-date=June 22, 2022 |magazine=Broadcasting–Telecasting |date=January 21, 1952 |page=25}}</ref> The main impetus for the merger was to give General Tire a controlling share in the [[Mutual Radio Network]], which was affiliated with and partially owned by WOR and other stations. The merger also raised speculation that [[Mutual Broadcasting System#Mutual's involvement in television|Mutual would launch a television network]], plans that were discussed since before WOR-TV went on the air. However, shortly before the merger, in April 1950, plans for the proposed Mutual-branded network advanced far enough that, at the annual meeting of Mutual stockholders, network president Frank White made an official announcement of the planned creation of a limited five-station Mutual network (Boston, New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, & Los Angeles).<ref name="Eugene Register-Guard">{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PR01AAAAIBAJ&pg=6828%2C3171846 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=MBS Television Plans Readied |page=2 |newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard |agency=United Press |date=April 17, 1950 |access-date=October 3, 2024}}</ref> At that same time Mutual radio station [[KQV]] in [[Pittsburgh]], which was engaged in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to get a television license, was reportedly hoping for their station to be a Mutual television affiliate.<ref name="Pittsburgh Press">{{cite news |url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YOUdAAAAIBAJ&pg=2373%2C1487863&q=KQV+lincese+gets+hopes+these+days+join+Mutual's+just+nounced+five-station |author=Si Steinhauser |title=TV Fans Rush to 'Aid' Silent Star on Vedio [sic] |page=43 |newspaper=The Pittsburgh Press |date=April 18, 1950 |access-date=October 3, 2024 }}</ref> "Mutual Television Network" ended up being the decided-on branding for the Mutual-branded network.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Malloy, C.S.C |first1=Edward A. |title=Monk's Tale: The Pilgrimage Begins, 1941–1975 |date=August 24, 2009 |publisher=University of Notre Dame Press |isbn=978-0-268-16201-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tWEFDgAAQBAJ&dq=%22mutual+television+network%22&pg=PT24 |language=en |quote=Television provided my first exposure to Notre Dame when I happened to watch an Irish football game in the 1950s on the Mutual Television Network (Washington [D.C.] being one of the few cities to have an outlet).}}</ref> However, the five-station Mutual network failed in short time. After a transitional period, WOR relocated TV operations to their headquarters at 1440 Broadway closer to its radio station sisters and to a new compact studio for news and special events programming located on the 83rd floor of the Empire State Building.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Empire State Transmitting Begun Officially by WOR-TV |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1953/BC-1953-12-14.pdf#page=70 |access-date=June 22, 2022 |magazine=Broadcasting-Telecasting |date=December 14, 1953 |page=70}}</ref> In early 1954, RKO sublet the 67th Street facility (both building and TV equipment) to [[NBC]] for three years with options for extensions.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=DIX, PHILIPS HEAD WOR, WOR-TV SALES |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1954/1954-01-18-BC.pdf#page=60 |access-date=June 22, 2022 |magazine=Broadcasting-Telecasting |date=January 18, 1954 |page=60}}</ref>

In 1955, General Tire purchased [[RKO Radio Pictures]], giving the company's TV stations access to RKO's film library, and in 1959, General Tire's broadcasting and film divisions were renamed as [[RKO General]]. During the 1950s and early 1960s, all three of New York's independents struggled to find competitive and acceptable programming. The field would increase by one in 1956 when former [[DuMont Television Network|DuMont]] flagship station [[WNYW|WABD]] (channel 5) became an independent. During this era, WOR-TV's programming was comparable to its rivals, with a blend of movies, children's programs, canceled TV series which had previously run on one of the networks, and public affairs shows. In 1962, the field of independent stations was narrowed to three, as WOR-TV and its competition benefited from the sale of WNTA-TV (channel 13), formerly the anchor station of the short-lived [[NTA Film Network]], to the non-profit Educational Broadcasting Corporation, who would convert the station to a [[non-commercial educational station]] and [[National Educational Television]] affiliate/member station.

For much of the 1960s, WOR-TV was a standard independent station with a schedule composed of some local [[public affairs (broadcasting)|public affairs]] shows, off-network programs, children's shows such as ''[[The Friendly Giant]]'' (which later moved to WNDT) and ''[[Romper Room]]'' (which moved to the station from WNEW-TV in 1966), [[broadcasting of sports events|sporting events]], and a large catalog of [[feature film|movies]], some of which came from the RKO Radio Pictures film library. Until 1985, the station had a tradition of showing ''[[King Kong (1933 film)|King Kong]]'', ''[[Son of Kong]]'' and ''[[Mighty Joe Young (1949 film)|Mighty Joe Young]]'' on [[Thanksgiving (United States)|Thanksgiving]] and ''[[Godzilla]]'' films the [[day after Thanksgiving]].

In 1962, nostalgia maven [[Joe Franklin]] moved his daily talk program to WOR-TV, after a 12-year run on [[WABC-TV]]. ''The Joe Franklin Show'' ended on August 6, 1993, which, having run for 42 years, makes it one of the longest-running programs in television history, local or national. The long-running public affairs show ''[[Firing Line (TV series)|Firing Line]]'' began on WOR-TV in 1966 and ran on the station until 1971, after which its host, [[William F. Buckley, Jr.]], moved the program to [[public television]] where the program aired until it ended in 1999. In 1968, the station continued to maintain offices at 1440 Broadway, while the station moved to new studio facilities two blocks north at 1481 Broadway.

====1970s====
[[File:1971 WOR-TV I.D. slide.jpg|thumb|1971 WOR-TV I.D. slide. This 'dotted 9' logo was used from 1970 to 1987.]]
By the early 1970s, WNEW-TV evolved into the leading station for [[animated cartoon|cartoons]] and sitcoms, while WPIX aired a similar format though with more movies. In the early 1970s, WOR-TV had shows such as ''[[The Beverly Hillbillies]]'', ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'', ''[[Gilligan's Island]]'' and ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]''. Beginning in 1971, the station began gradually seeking a different programming strategy—one that was more adult-oriented with a heavy emphasis on films, reruns of hour-long network [[drama (film and television)|dramas]], game shows and sports. The station also gradually phased out most sitcoms and all children's programming with the exception of ''Romper Room.'' It was also the first New York City station to have a 12 p.m. newscast on weekdays, in addition to producing several hours a day of local talk shows (such as ''The Joe Franklin Show'', ''Straight Talk'' and public affairs shows such as ''Meet the Mayors'', titles that were shared by other RKO General television stations). WOR-TV also aired [[Spanish-language]] [[telenovela]]s on weekdays in the early 1970s, such as the Argentinian-Peruvian co-production ''Nino, las cosas simples de la vida''.<ref name="nino-hispanic-telenovela">{{cite news |title=Nino for Veronica in Channel 9 Series |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/09/archives/nino-for-veronica-in-channel-9-series.html |access-date=January 10, 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=July 9, 1971}}</ref><ref name="veronica-hispanic-telenovela">{{cite news |title=WOR-TV TO PRESENT A SERIES IN SPANISH |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/07/archives/wortv-to-present-a-series-in-spanish.html |access-date=January 10, 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=July 7, 1971}}</ref>

Later in the 1970s, WOR-TV looked towards the United Kingdom for alternative offerings. On September 6, 1976, WOR-TV offered a week of programs from [[Thames Television]] during prime time; many of these shows had never before been seen on American television, including the first U.S. telecasts of ''[[The Benny Hill Show]]'', the [[Quentin Crisp]] biographical film ''[[The Naked Civil Servant (film)|The Naked Civil Servant]]'', and an airing of an episode of ''[[Man About the House]]'', which would be adapted by [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] as ''[[Three's Company]]'' the following year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.exit109.com/~hubcity/thames/index.html|title=THAMES On 9|access-date=December 30, 2016}}</ref> WOR-TV also aired episodes of the [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] musical drama ''[[Rock Follies]]''<ref>"U.S. TV Execs Evaluate the 'Thames on 9' Week", ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', September 8, 1976, pg. 54</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.exit109.com/~hubcity/thames/schedulegrid.htm|title=THAMES On 9|access-date=December 30, 2016}}</ref> and the [[BBC]] science-fiction series ''[[Doctor Who]]'' during this period. On April 5, 1980, WOR-TV presented ''Japan Tonight!'', a seven-hour block of programs from Japan's [[Tokyo Broadcasting System Television|Tokyo Broadcasting System]], featuring shows that were either [[dubbing (filmmaking)|dubbed]] or subtitled in English.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=Days%20of%20Wine%20and%20Roses&p=1&item=T81:0568|title=The Paley Center for Media|access-date=December 30, 2016}}</ref> During this period, various sports telecasts aired on most nights in prime time, with feature films running on nights where sports did not air under the ''Million Dollar Movie'' banner.

In 1984, WOR-TV began moving classic sitcoms like ''[[Bewitched]]'', ''[[The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show|Burns & Allen]]'', ''[[I Dream of Jeannie]]'', and others into its weekday lineup, focused slightly less on sports, and added more off network drama shows to the lineup. The station also pulled back [[religious programming]] as well, pushing it earlier in the morning. With the advent of cable and satellite-delivered television, independent stations were being uplinked for regional and national distribution, thus becoming "[[superstation]]s". In April 1979, [[Syracuse, New York]]-based Eastern Microwave, Inc. began distributing WOR-TV to cable and C-band satellite subscribers across the United States, joining WTBS (now [[WPCH-TV]]) in [[Atlanta]] and [[WGN-TV]] in Chicago as national superstations.

====Troubles with the FCC====
While WOR-TV was gaining national exposure, a battle for the station's survival—and that of its owner—was well underway. In 1975, RKO applied for renewal of its license to operate WOR-TV. The [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC) conditioned this renewal on that of its Boston sister station, WNAC-TV. In 1980, the FCC stripped RKO of WNAC-TV's license due to a litany of offenses dating back to the 1960s, but ultimately because RKO had withheld evidence of corporate misconduct by General Tire. The decision meant that RKO lost WOR-TV's license and that of Los Angeles sister station KHJ-TV.<ref>As cited by ''RKO General, Inc. (KHJ-TV)'', 3 FCC Rcd 5057 (1988)".</ref> However, an appeals court ruled that the FCC had erred in tying WOR-TV and KHJ-TV's renewals to WNAC-TV, and ordered new proceedings. RKO soon found itself under renewed pressure from the FCC, which began soliciting applications for all of the company's broadcast licenses in February 1983.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D03EFDF143BF933A25751C0A965948260 | work=The New York Times | title=License Bids Against RKO | date=February 10, 1983}}</ref>

====Move to New Jersey====
[[File:Wor86.jpg|thumb|right|Station closing logo used during final months of RKO ownership before becoming WWOR-TV (1986)]]
To buy itself some time, RKO (with the help of New Jersey senator [[Bill Bradley]]) persuaded the [[U.S. Congress]] to pass a law requiring the FCC to automatically renew the license of any VHF station that moved its license to a state not served by a commercial VHF station. New Jersey and [[Delaware]] were the only states not to be served by a commercial VHF station, and there were complaints for many years that New Jersey in particular had been "underserved" by VHF stations from the New York City and [[Philadelphia]] markets (New Jersey was left without any commercial VHF allocations located within the state due to the 1962 conversion of Newark's channel 13 to a non-commercial outlet). Soon after this law took effect, RKO moved WOR-TV's license to Secaucus, New Jersey, {{convert|7|mi|km|0|spell=in}} west of [[Manhattan]], on April 20, 1983. However, for all intents and purposes, it remained a New York City station. WOR radio had originally been licensed to Newark when it signed on in 1922; while it moved its studios across the [[Hudson River]] in 1926, it remained licensed in Newark until 1941.

One of the FCC's conditions of renewing channel 9's license required RKO to also move the station's main studio to New Jersey. Three years after its city of license was moved to New Jersey, WOR-TV moved its operations to the newly built Nine Broadcast Plaza in Secaucus on January 13, 1986. The FCC also required channel 9 to increase its coverage of events on the New Jersey side of the market. One month later, the New Jersey State Senate petitioned the FCC to approve an extension of the channel 9 signal into southern New Jersey. Because of various other issues, one of which would be the fact that rights to most syndicated programs would interfere with the local broadcast rights to these shows on Philadelphia stations, the request was denied.

The move to New Jersey did little to relieve the regulatory pressure on RKO. Seeing the handwriting on the wall, RKO put channel 9 up for sale in 1985. [[Westinghouse Broadcasting]],<ref>[https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1985/BC-1985-11-11.pdf#page=39 "Group W white knight to RKO's KHJ-TV for $313 million."] ''Broadcasting'', November 11, 1985, pg. 39.</ref> [[Chris-Craft Industries]],<ref>[https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1986/BC-1986-01-06.pdf#page=78 "Independent operators: optimistic over '86."]''Broadcasting'', January 6, 1986, pg. 78.</ref> and a joint venture of [[Cox Enterprises]] and [[MCA Inc.|MCA]]/[[Universal Pictures|Universal]] emerged as the leading suitors for WOR-TV; the station was sold to the Cox/MCA group in late 1986 for $387&nbsp;million.<ref>[https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1986/BC-1986-02-24.pdf#page=41 "MCA pays $387 million for WOR-TV."] ''Broadcasting'', February 24, 1986, pg. 41.</ref> Cox later withdrew the joint venture due to disagreements between the two firms on who would be responsible for running the station, leaving MCA to take sole ownership of WOR-TV on April 21, 1987. The sale came just in the nick of time for RKO: two months after MCA closed on the purchase, an administrative law judge recommended that RKO be forced out of broadcasting altogether due to a litany of misconduct. Eventually, WOR radio would be sold to [[Hartford, Connecticut]]-based [[Buckley Broadcasting]], and WRKS-FM (now WEPN-FM) would go to Summit Broadcasting.

===As WWOR-TV (1987–present)===
====MCA/Pinelands/Chris-Craft/BHC era (1987–1995)====
Upon MCA taking control, channel 9 added an extra "W" to its [[call letters]] becoming WWOR-TV on April 29, 1987. MCA knew it had to change the call letters (due to FCC rules at the time that dictated that TV and radio stations in the same market, but with different ownership, had to use different call signs), but still wanted to trade on the 65-year heritage of the WOR calls in the New York area.<ref>{{cite news |title=WOR-TV now is WWOR-TV |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-jersey-journal-wor-tv-now-is-wwor-tv/175955280/ |access-date=July 5, 2025 |newspaper=The Jersey Journal and Jersey Journal |date=May 1, 1987 |location=Jersey City, New Jersey |page=6 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Initially, the station's programming stayed nearly the same, while the RKO-era "dotted 9" logo was replaced by a new "red 9". MCA relaunched WWOR-TV that fall with a new, all-CGI look. The logo was replaced with a new "Venetian-blinds 9"; movie and special presentations were preceded by a new, more dramatic intro, while a new, three-pointed triangle was used in the main ident and in the first intro for ''The News at Ten'', representing the Tri-State area. However, the RKO-era announcers stayed on, and all but six hours of programming per day remained the same. The station dropped most of its public affairs shows, ''Romper Room'' was cut back to a half-hour and moved to 6&nbsp;am, all religious shows except for the Sunday Mass were dropped, cartoons were added to the station's morning lineup and stronger syndicated shows were added in the early evenings. Late morning timeslots consisted of classic sitcoms and afternoons continued to consist of game shows, drama series and movies. Programs seen in both dayparts were largely those held over from the station's final years under RKO ownership. Later that fall, in prime time, the ''Million Dollar Movie'' was relegated to weekends in favor of [[Morton Downey Jr.]]'s [[The Morton Downey Jr. Show|controversial new talk show]], while the 8&nbsp;p.m. newscast was moved to 10&nbsp;p.m. and expanded to one hour (to emphasize this, it was briefly titled ''The News at Ten''; this did not last long and by 1988, it became ''Channel 9 News'').

The overhaul continued in 1988 and 1989, when it added the locally produced kids' show ''[[Steampipe Alley]]'', and more evening sitcoms, including among others, reruns of top-rated sitcoms ''[[The Cosby Show]]'' and ''[[Who's the Boss?]]'', as well as MCA/Universal-sourced programming including ''[[Kate & Allie]]'', ''[[The Munsters Today]]'', ''[[My Secret Identity]]'', and ''[[The New Lassie]]''. WWOR-TV also borrowed program formats used on the Westinghouse stations: a short-lived version of ''[[PM Magazine|Evening Magazine]]'' aired in prime time, and a locally produced talk show called ''[[Richard Bey#Early years|People Are Talking]]'' ran at 11&nbsp;am. That show would later change its title to ''9 Broadcast Plaza'' (named after the station's Secaucus studio location), and then to ''[[The Richard Bey Show]]'' for syndication. During this time, the studios were a hotbed of production, including the aforementioned local shows, ''The Morton Downey Jr. Show'' (which was nationally syndicated by then-sister firm [[Universal Television|MCA TV]]), and ''[[The Howard Stern Show (TV series)|The Howard Stern Show]]'' hosted by New York radio personality [[Howard Stern]] from 1990 to 1992. Because of this, the station's newscasts had to be moved to the newsroom, and it would not return to having its own set until joining UPN.

In 1989, the FCC passed the "Syndicated Exclusivity Rights" rule (or "[[SyndEx]]") into law—which required cable providers to [[blackout (broadcasting)|black out]] certain syndicated programs on out-of-market stations where local broadcasters claim the rights to air in a particular market. To lighten the burden on cable providers as a result of this law, Eastern Microwave acquired the rights to programs to which no station owned exclusive in-market rights. It then broadcast this programming on WWOR's national feed to replace programs that could not be aired nationally. Most of the programs came from the Universal and [[Quinn Martin]] libraries, along with some shows from ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]''{{'}}s television service, as well as some holdover shows that had aired on the local New York feed before the SyndEx law's passage. Eastern Microwave would eventually launch a separate feed for satellite and cable subscribers on [[New Year's Day|January 1]], 1990, called the "[[WWOR EMI Service]]". By the early 1990s, WWOR and WPIX began to be replaced on many cable systems by the [[NewsNation|superstation feed]] of WGN-TV,{{citation needed|date=July 2021}} which also launched an alternate feed for nationwide viewers in response to SyndEx regulations.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150924165250/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-9267407.html WGN gains 2.2M subs; program appeal cited.], ''[[Multichannel News]]'', July 16, 1990.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121105165631/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-11865391.html Umstead, R. Thomas. "Midwest systems switch out WWOR; cable television operators sign up WGN"], ''Multichannel News'', January 13, 1992.</ref>

During autumn 1990, WWOR-TV began branding itself as ''Universal 9'' on-air, highlighting its association with the MCA/Universal entertainment empire. However, later that same autumn, MCA's ownership of the station ended with the company's purchase by [[Osaka]], Japan–based Matsushita Electric (now [[Panasonic Corporation]]). Since FCC regulations do not allow foreign companies to own more than a 25 percent interest in a television station, MCA spun off the assets of WWOR-TV into a new company called Pinelands, Incorporated on January 1, 1991. Universal would re-enter the New York television market after it merged with NBC to form [[NBCUniversal]] in 2004, acquiring the network's flagship station, [[WNBC]], in the process. WWOR partnered with [[KCOP-TV]] and MCA TV Entertainment on a two night programming block, [[Hollywood Premiere Network]] starting in October 1990, the month before Matsushita's purchase of MCA.<ref name=lat>{{cite news|last1=Cerone|first1=Daniel|title=New Shows on the Block : KCOP Builds Prime-Time Programming in Move Against the Networks|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-10-07-tv-2689-story.html|access-date=April 4, 2017|work=Los Angeles Times|date=October 7, 1990}}</ref> Channel 9 also aired select episodes of the Australian soap opera ''[[Neighbours]]'' from mid-June to mid-September 1991.

On March 30, 1992, [[Disney Studios]] agreed to sell KCAL-TV (the erstwhile KHJ-TV) to Pinelands, Inc. for a 45 percent ownership stake in Pinelands, so as to have interest in TV stations in the two largest markets, New York and Los Angeles, allowing for increased original programming.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Stevenson|first1=Richard W.|title=New York TV Deal For Disney|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/31/business/new-york-tv-deal-for-disney.html|access-date=November 17, 2015|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 31, 1992}}</ref> Instead, Pinelands agreed to an unsolicited bid in May from Chris-Craft Industries' [[BHC Communications]] subsidiary, thus ending the planned business merger with Disney's KCAL,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bryant|first1=Adam|title=COMPANY NEWS; Pinelands, Owner of WWOR-TV, Agrees to Be Acquired|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/09/business/company-news-pinelands-owner-of-wwor-tv-agrees-to-be-acquired.html|access-date=November 17, 2015|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=May 9, 1992}}</ref> making WWOR a sister station to Chris-Craft/BHC's KCOP in the process. Disney later acquired WABC-TV as part of its larger purchase of [[Capital Cities/ABC Inc.]] in 1996.

In 1993, BHC aligned its independent stations with the [[Prime Time Entertainment Network]].<ref>{{cite news  | last = Susan | first = King | title = Space, 2258, in the Year 1994 | pages = 4 | work=Los Angeles Times | date = January 23, 1994 | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-01-23-tv-14354-story.html | access-date = June 25, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.tv/browse_thread/thread/98843822ed20a79c/5dbb63b15ca806e7?lnk=st&q=%22Prime+Time+Entertainment+Network%22+%22station+list%22+95&rnum=1 |title=B5: Babylon 5 TV Station List/Times updated! |access-date=November 27, 2006 |last=Whiteside |first=Lee |date=April 6, 1995 |work=rec.arts.sf.tv |publisher=[[Google Groups]] }}</ref> WWOR carried [[Worldvision Enterprises|Spelling Premiere Network]] at its launch in August 1994.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Meisler|first1=Andy|title=THE MEDIA BUSINESS; From Spelling, a New Programming Adventure|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/11/business/the-media-business-from-spelling-a-new-programming-adventure.html|access-date=April 27, 2015|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 11, 1994}}</ref>

====UPN affiliation (1995–2006)====
[[File:WWOR-TV UPN9 (1995).svg|thumb|upright|WWOR-TV's first logo under UPN affiliation, used from 1995 to 2002.]]
In 1994, Chris-Craft and its broadcasting subsidiary, BHC Communications, and [[Viacom (1952–2005)|Viacom]]'s newly acquired subsidiary [[Paramount Pictures]] partnered to form the United Paramount Network ([[UPN]]), which debuted on January 16, 1995. In 1996, Viacom bought 50 percent of UPN from Chris-Craft. At the network's launch, WWOR-TV was UPN's "flagship" station. However, UPN did not allow WWOR's superstation feed to carry the network's programs nationally (in contrast, [[The WB]] allowed WGN-TV to air network programming on cable feed during that network's first four years on the air). In the 1990s, the station continued with a large amount of younger-skewing talk shows, [[reality television|reality programming]], some sitcoms in evenings, and syndicated cartoons during the morning hours.

On January 1, 1997, with only a month's advance warning, [[Advance Entertainment Corporation]], which had purchased the satellite distribution rights to WWOR from Eastern Microwave a few months earlier, stopped uplinking the national version. The EMI Service's transponder space was sold to [[Discovery Communications]] for the then six-month-old [[Animal Planet]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121105151525/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-19009914.html McConville, Jim. "N.Y.'s WWOR loses super status; satellite distributor discontinues service contract with television station"], ''[[Broadcasting & Cable]]'', January 6, 1997.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20121105151531/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-19193323.html Paikert, Charles. "Discovery dogs WWOR; Animal Planet gets leg up on Open Slots"], ''[[Multichannel News]]'', January 6, 1997.</ref> Amid outcries from satellite dish owners, [[National Programming Service|National Programming Service, LLC]] uplinked the station again exclusively for satellite subscribers. The national feed was once again the same feed as the New York market feed. NPS dropped WWOR in 1999, in favor of [[Ion Television|Pax TV]], but Dish Network still carries the New York feed of WWOR as part of its superstations package except in areas where the local UPN (and later, MyNetworkTV) affiliate invoked SyndEx to block the feed.

In 2000, Chris-Craft announced that it was selling its television stations. It was believed that Viacom, which had purchased Chris-Craft's half of the network that year not long after buying CBS—gaining full control of UPN (and effectively stripping WWOR of its status as an [[owned-and-operated station]] of the network in the process), would buy the stations. However, Viacom lost its bid for the group to the [[Fox Television Stations]] subsidiary of [[News Corporation]] on August 12, 2000, in a $5.5&nbsp;billion deal,<ref>{{cite news|last=Hofmeister|first=Sallie|title=News Corp. to Buy Chris-Craft Parent for $5.5 Billion, Outbidding Viacom|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-aug-12-fi-3272-story.html |access-date=March 23, 2011|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=August 12, 2000}}</ref> making WWOR-TV a sister station to longtime rival WNYW—creating a unique situation in which the largest affiliate station of one network was owned by the operator of another network. While some cast doubt on UPN's future, Fox quickly cut a new affiliation deal with UPN.

On September 11, 2001, the transmitter facilities of WWOR-TV and eight other New York City television stations and several radio stations were [[September 11 attacks|destroyed when two hijacked airplanes crashed]] into and destroyed the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|World Trade Center]] towers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/wsj-paper-09122001.pdf|title=''The Wall Street Journal'' September 12, 2001}}</ref> With its broadcast signal shut down, WWOR fed its signal directly to cable and satellite systems, running wall-to-wall coverage of the attacks from [[CNN]] and later the [[Fox News Channel]]. The station's website received unprecedented traffic but remained available, including streaming video of pre-recorded newscasts. Channel 9 resumed regular programming on September 17, 2001. The station installed a new transmitter at the Empire State Building (where the transmitter had been based prior to 1975)<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/17/archives/north-trade-center-tower-to-get-tv-transmitters.html North Trade Center Tower to Get TV Transmitters] ''The New York Times'' October 17, 1974, Pg. 83</ref> along with most of the other major New York City stations, until moving back to One World Trade Center in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wirelessestimator.com/articles/2017/fox-stations-to-begin-broadcasting-from-world-trade-center-next-year/|title=Fox stations to begin broadcasting from World Trade Center next year|date=August 25, 2017|website=Wireless Estimator}}</ref> The attacks delayed the closing of the Chris-Craft deal for several days.

Fox began integrating the operations of its two stations soon afterwards. Also on September 17, 2001, the [[Fox Kids]] weekday afternoon block moved to WWOR-TV from WNYW, while the station also ran UPN's ''[[Disney's One Too]]'' during the morning hours. Channel 9 was New York City's last remaining commercial station to air children's programming on both weekday mornings and afternoons, an ironic twist from 20 years earlier; however, Fox later discontinued the Fox Kids weekday block in January 2002 while UPN ended its cartoon block in August 2003; WWOR then picked up syndicated cartoons in the fall of 2003 in the 7 to 9 a.m. slot (and later until 8&nbsp;a.m.), before dropping them in 2006. This made WWOR-TV the last commercial station to run any cartoons on weekdays. This was the second time the station phased out cartoons in favor of mandated children's programming which WWOR has aired in its early years. WNYW also placed several of its underperforming syndicated shows on WWOR, and cherry-picked channel 9's stronger programs for broadcast on channel 5's schedule. Currently, WWOR offers several "double-runs" of WNYW's programs, but the two stations' individual schedules (outside of network programming) are much different.

[[File:WWOR UPN9 (2002).svg|thumb|upright=.9|WWOR-TV's second and final logo under UPN affiliation, used from 2002 to 2006.]]
In 2004, Fox Television Stations announced that it would shut down WWOR-TV's Secaucus facilities and move its operations to WNYW's facility at the Fox Television Center in Manhattan.<ref>{{cite news |title=Secaucus is losing Channel 9 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-jersey-journal-secaucus-is-losing-ch/177250628/ |access-date=July 22, 2025 |newspaper=The Jersey Journal |date=February 26, 2004 |location=Jersey City, New Jersey |pages=A1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-jersey-journal-wwor-tv-makes-plans-t/177251407/ A4] |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> WNYW had already been handling some of WWOR's internal operations for some time before then. Fox planned to keep 9 Broadcast Plaza as a satellite relay station for WNYW and WWOR (the facility also performed master control operations for [[Baltimore]]'s MyNetworkTV affiliate [[WUTB]] until locally based [[Sinclair Broadcast Group]] purchased WUTB from Fox in 2013). While some office functions were merged, plans for a full move to Manhattan were scuttled later that year due to pressure from New Jersey Congressman [[Steve Rothman]] (whose congressional district included Secaucus) and Senator [[Frank Lautenberg]]. The two lawmakers contended that if WWOR moved its operations back across the Hudson, it would be violating its conditions of license. According to Rothman, WWOR's license specifically required that its main studio be based in New Jersey.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.house.gov/rothman/news_releases/rel_100804.htm|title=News Release|date=October 9, 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041009235054/http://www.house.gov/rothman/news_releases/rel_100804.htm |archive-date=October 9, 2004 }}</ref> Even without this to consider, a full merger of WNYW and WWOR's operations would have likely resulted in channel 9's news department being downsized to the point that it would not be able to adequately cover news events focused on New Jersey, if not shut down altogether. As mentioned above, WWOR's license requires it to emphasize coverage of events on the New Jersey side of the market.

====MyNetworkTV affiliation (2006–present)====
On February 22, 2006, News Corporation announced the launch of a new "sixth" network called [[MyNetworkTV]], which would be operated by Fox Television Stations and its syndication division [[20th Television]]. MyNetworkTV was created to compete against another upstart network that would launch at the same time that September, [[The CW]] (an amalgamated network that was originally consisted primarily of UPN and The WB's higher-rated programs) as well as to give UPN and WB stations that were not mentioned as becoming CW affiliates another option besides converting to independent stations.<ref>{{cite news|title=News Corp. to launch new mini-network for UPN stations|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2006-02-22-fox-my-network_x.htm|access-date=January 21, 2013|newspaper=[[USA Today]]|date=February 22, 2006}}</ref><ref>[http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/102922-News_Corp_Unveils_My_Network_TV.php News Corp. Unveils MyNetworkTV], ''[[Broadcasting & Cable]]'', February 22, 2006.</ref> WPIX, which had been a WB affiliate since 1995, was announced as The CW's New York City area affiliate as part of a 10-year affiliation deal with channel 11's parent company [[Tribune Broadcasting]]. The network's officials were on record as preferring the "strongest" stations among The WB and UPN's affiliates, none of which included any of Fox's UPN-affiliated stations – locally, WPIX had been well ahead of WWOR-TV in overall viewership for some time.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

The day after the announcement of The CW's formation (January 25, 2006), Fox removed all network references from the on-air branding of its UPN affiliates, and stopped promoting UPN programs altogether. WWOR accordingly changed its branding from "UPN 9" to "WWOR 9" (although the station was referred to on-air as simply "9"), and altered its logo to only feature the boxed "9" with a small red strip on the left side. WWOR had just introduced a new graphics package for its newscasts and a revised logo almost three weeks prior, with UPN branding.

With the impending switch to MyNetworkTV, channel 9's on-air branding was changed to "My9" beginning on April 4, with the new brand being introduced during [[Brooklyn Nets|Nets]] and [[Yankees]] game telecasts; two weeks later on April 17, WWOR incorporated the "My9" name into the station's remaining branding elements, including news. On June 2, WWOR changed its logo again, this time adopting one similar to the MyNetworkTV logo presented at the launch announcement. Despite MyNetworkTV's announcement that its launch date would be September 5, 2006, UPN continued to broadcast on stations across the country until September 15, 2006. While some UPN affiliates that switched to MyNetworkTV aired the final two weeks of UPN programming outside its regular prime time period, WWOR and the rest of the network's Fox-owned affiliates dropped UPN's programming entirely on August 31, 2006.

WWOR-TV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 9, at 11:59&nbsp;p.m. on June 12, 2009, as part of the [[Digital television transition in the United States|federally mandated transition from analog to digital television]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |title=List of Digital Full-Power Stations |access-date=May 10, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-date=August 29, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title = WWOR TV analog signoff|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXvTtB8oiCo|date = June 12, 2009|access-date = February 11, 2016|last = kiotr2009}}</ref> The last program to air on analog was an episode of ''[[Law & Order: Criminal Intent]]''. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition [[UHF]] channel 38,<ref name="FCCForm387">{{cite web|url=http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/cdbsmenu.hts?content=25&appn=101232921&formid=387&fac_num=47535|title=CDBS Account Login|access-date=December 30, 2016}}</ref><ref>[http://media.myfoxny.com/pdf/WWORForm388Update091508.pdf WWOR-DT FCC Form 387] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321131859/http://media.myfoxny.com/pdf/WWORForm388Update091508.pdf |date=March 21, 2012 }}, Exhibit 4, September 15, 2008</ref> using [[virtual channel]] 9.

On October 15, 2010, News Corporation pulled WWOR, WNYW, WTXF ([[South Jersey]] only), [[Fox Business]], [[Fox Deportes]], and [[Nat Geo Wild]] from [[Altice USA|Cablevision]] systems in the New York City Tri-state area, due to a dispute between Fox and Cablevision in which Cablevision claimed that News Corporation [[retransmission consent|demanded $150&nbsp;million a year]] to renew its carriage of 12 Fox-owned channels.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nakashima |first1=Ryan |title=Fox Pulls Channels From Cablevision |url=https://tvnewscheck.com/uncategorized/article/fox-pulls-channels-from-cablevision/ |website=tvnewscheck.com LLC |access-date=August 14, 2022 |date=October 16, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=News Corp wants over $150 million! |url=http://www.cablevision.com/fox/index.jsp?ftrack=cvcfox |website=cablevision.com |publisher=CSC Holdings LLC |access-date=December 30, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101019025803/http://www.cablevision.com/fox/index.jsp?ftrack=cvcfox |archive-date=October 19, 2010}}</ref> News Corporation responded to Cablevision's claims.<ref>{{cite web |title=WHY HAVE CABLEVISION CUSTOMERS LOST FOX? |url=http://keepfoxon.com/fox/story/view/215 |website=keepfoxon.com |publisher=Fox Networks Group, Inc. |access-date=February 18, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101020052426/http://keepfoxon.com/fox/story/view/215 |archive-date=October 20, 2010 |quote=Cablevision has refused to recognize how much you value our programming}}</ref> Cablevision offered to submit to binding arbitration on October 14, 2010, though News Corporation rejected Cablevision's proposal, stating that it would "reward Cablevision for refusing to negotiate fairly". WWOR, WNYW, WTXF and the three cable channels were restored on October 30, 2010, when Cablevision and News Corporation struck a new carriage deal.

On November 3, 2011, Fox Television Stations signed an affiliation agreement with [[Bounce TV]], a subchannel network aimed at African American audiences, to carry the service on the second or third digital subchannels of its MyNetworkTV-affiliated stations.<ref>[http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2011/11/03/55196/bounce-tv-lands-on-fox-mnt-in-nyc-la?ref=search Bounce TV Lands On Fox MNT In NYC, LA], ''TVNewsCheck'', November 3, 2011.</ref>

On January 7, 2014, WWOR applied for a digital fill-in translator on channel 34 from the [[Armstrong Tower]] and licensed to [[Alpine, New Jersey]], that will serve the northern viewing area.<ref>[http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1604623&Service=LD&Form_id=346&Facility_id=74197 Application For Authority To Construct Or Make Changes In A Low Power TV, TV Translator Or TV Booster Station], ''CDBS Public Access'', [[Federal Communications Commission]]. Retrieved January 7, 2014</ref>

=====2007–2014 license renewal and objections=====
Before August 2014, the station awaited renewal of its [[broadcast license]] since 2007,<ref>{{cite web|title = WWOR-TV Secaucus, NJ|work = TV Station Profiles & Public Inspection Files|publisher = Federal Communications Commission|url = https://stations.fcc.gov/station-profile/wwor-tv|access-date = March 10, 2013|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131018043601/https://stations.fcc.gov/station-profile/wwor-tv|archive-date = October 18, 2013|url-status = dead|df = mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.voicenj.com/smVNJHearing.html|title=FCC Holds Public Hearing in Newark to Address WWOR-TV License Renewal|website=VoiceNJ.com|publisher=The DCL Group|access-date=December 30, 2016}}</ref> the same year that two petitions to deny the license's renewal were submitted.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.freepress.net/release/305|title=FCC Seeks Public Input on WWOR-TV License Challenge|first=Free|last=Press|access-date=December 30, 2016}}</ref><ref>[http://lautenberg.senate.gov/assets/WWOR/Voice_%20For_New_%20Jersey_Petition.pdf Petition to Deny Renewal] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110206084211/http://lautenberg.senate.gov/assets/WWOR/Voice_%20For_New_%20Jersey_Petition.pdf |date=February 6, 2011 }} ([[PDF]]) Filed by Voice for New Jersey in the matter of the application for renewal of Station License of WWOR(TV)</ref> According to claims from U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg and media observers, who filed a complaint with the FCC in November 2009, WWOR-TV's performance was "clearly inadequate to meet its public interest obligations" and he questioned the truthfulness of its application.<ref>{{Cite news|last = Donald|first = Terrence|title = FCC investigating 'truthfulness' of WWOR's license renewal application.|newspaper = The Jersey Journal|date = February 18, 2011|url = http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/2011/02/fcc_investigating_truthfulness.html}}</ref> The station was also accused of misrepresenting the number of station employees based in Secaucus, and failing to report a reduction in local news coverage.<ref>{{Citation|last = Rambay|first = Adriana|title = Getting enough local TV?| newspaper = Hudson Reporter|date = August 28, 2011|url = http://www.hudsonreporter.com/pages/full_stories_home/push?article-Getting+enough+local+TV-+-Some+believe+WWOR+shrinking+staff+and+NJ+coverage-%20&id=15231833|access-date = October 6, 2011}}</ref>

On February 17, 2011, the FCC opened an investigation against then-WWOR parent News Corporation to determine whether the company misrepresented information about WWOR-TV's news operations and programming during the station's license review.<ref>{{Citation|last = Stelter|first = Brian|title = New Jersey TV station is accused of failing tts audience.|newspaper = [[The New York Times]]|date = February 20, 2011|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/business/media/21wwor.html|access-date = April 18, 2011}}</ref> News Corporation would have been stripped of its licenses to operate both WWOR-TV and sister station WNYW, as well as facing other penalties if found guilty of any wrongdoing<ref>[http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/entertainmentnewsbuzz/2011/02/fcc-investigating-fox-over-its-operation-of-wwor-tv-.html FCC investigating Fox over its operation of WWOR-TV], ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', February 17, 2011.</ref> (News Corporation spun off both stations and its other U.S. television properties to [[21st Century Fox]] in June 2013). Legal representation hired by WWOR stated that the station had fulfilled its commitments.<ref>{{citation|last = Cook Bush|first = Antoinette (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meaghen, & Flom, LLP)|title = RE: WWOR-TV Renewal Application File No. BRCT-20070201AJT Notice of Ex Parte Presentation MB Docket No. 07-260|date = September 23, 2009|url = http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view;jsessionid=v2hsP2pR5nDG1QFplw3KDK4JrGny0wJvpRFQNgTJw1fnPVmnVWVt!-1969853125!-1221852939?id=7020039271|access-date = November 6, 2012|archive-date = April 8, 2013|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130408133401/http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/document/view;jsessionid=v2hsP2pR5nDG1QFplw3KDK4JrGny0wJvpRFQNgTJw1fnPVmnVWVt!-1969853125!-1221852939?id=7020039271|url-status = dead}}</ref> In December 2012, Lautenberg called for an investigation into the potential relaxing of FCC rules regarding ownership consolidation within media markets stating that News Corporation's co-ownership of WNYW and the ''[[New York Post]]'' "has not served New Jersey well".<ref>{{cite web|last = Seyler|first = Dave|title = NJ senator drags WWOR-TV into ownership proceeding|publisher = RBR.com TVR.com|date = December 12, 2012|url = http://rbr.com/nj-senator-drags-wwor-tv-into-ownership-proceeding/| access-date = March 11, 2013}}</ref> Following Lautenberg's June 3, 2013, death and the subsequent announcement of the WWOR news department's closure one month later, fellow New Jersey senator [[Robert Menendez]] took up the cause, saying it was increasingly critical with WWOR dropping their newscast and going with the outside ''[[Chasing New Jersey]]'' for coverage of state issues for the FCC to make a ruling on WWOR's license and their fulfillment of their obligations.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/business/media/senator-seeks-fcc-review-of-wwor-tvs-license.html|title=Senator Seeks F.C.C. Review of WWOR-TV's License|last=Stelter|first=Brian|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 10, 2013|access-date=July 10, 2013}}</ref> Rep. [[Frank Pallone]] also called for the revocation of WWOR's license.<ref name="courier-chasing">{{cite news|url=http://www.mycentraljersey.com/article/20130709/NJNEWS/307090041/-Chasing-New-Jersey-news-show-fails-win-over-Channel-9-critics?nclick_check=1|title='Chasing New Jersey' news show fails to win over Channel 9 critics|last=Bichao|first=Sergio|date=July 9, 2013|work=[[Courier News]]|access-date=July 10, 2013}}</ref> In November 2013 the [[New Jersey Legislature]] passed a resolution urging the FCC to revoke the station's license.<ref>{{cite web   | title = Assembly Joint Resolution No. 109 State of New Jersey 215th Legislature   | publisher = New Jersey Legislature   | date = November 18, 2013 | url = http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2012/Bills/AJR/109_I1.HTM   | access-date = April 15, 2014}}</ref>

In March 2014, New Jersey's senior United States senator, Bob Menendez, wrote to the FCC asking for swift action to determine if the station had been fulfilling its licensing requirements.<ref>{{cite press release   | title = Sen. Menendez Urges Swift Action on WWOR-TV Operating License   | publisher = menendez.senate.gov   | date = March 21, 2014 | url = http://www.menendez.senate.gov/newsroom/press/sen-menendez-urges-swift-action-on-wwor-tv-operating-license   | access-date = April 27, 2014}}</ref>

<blockquote>New Jersey is one of the most densely populated states in the country, but because of its location between New York City and Philadelphia, does not have a designated market area (DMA)...WWOR is required to fill this gap by operating in the state of New Jersey to the benefit of all residents. Unfortunately, concerns have mounted that the operations of WWOR have not fulfilled these requirements.</blockquote>

On August 8, 2014, the FCC renewed WWOR's license, dismissing all of the objecting petitions, though the permanent waiver allowing Fox Television Stations to run both WNYW and WWOR along with 21st Century Fox's shared ownership with the ''New York Post'' was denied; a temporary waiver was granted.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fcc.gov/document/wwor-tv-secaucus-nj-et-al|title=WWOR-TV, Secaucus, New Jersey et al.|date=August 8, 2014|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]|access-date=August 22, 2014}}</ref>

=====2018 license renewal and full consolidation with WNYW=====
In January 2018, Senators Menendez and [[Cory Booker]] said the station had "failed to live up to its federal mandate" to cover New Jersey news.<ref>{{cite web   |last = Salant|first = Jonathan D.|title = Cory Booker and Robert Menendez go after Channel 9|publisher = NJ Advance Media for NJ.com|date = January 23, 2018|url = http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/01/menendez_booker_say_new_jerseys_channel_9_isnt_ser.html#incart_river_home|access-date = January 23, 2018}}</ref> Despite this, the station's license was renewed by the FCC on July 12, 2018, for a new ten-year cycle without objection; Booker and Menendez have continued to push for revocation of the station's license.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nj.com/politics/2018/08/senators_seek_probe_of_how_channel_9_got_its_licen.html|title=N.J. senators seek probe of how Channel 9 got its license renewed|last=Salant|first=Jonathan|date=August 22, 2018|work=[[The Star-Ledger]]|access-date=June 6, 2019}}</ref>

One month after the license renewal, Fox Television Stations sold 9 Broadcast Plaza back to [[Hartz Mountain Industries]] (which developed the Secaucus office park WWOR-TV's facility was built in) for $4.05&nbsp;million, several months after the repeal of the FCC's Main Studio Rule which mandated continued operation of WWOR from Secaucus.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://hudsoncountyview.com/booker-menendez-want-new-rules-to-ensure-secaucus-based-tv-station-provides-nj-coverage/|title=Booker, Menendez want new rules to ensure Secaucus-based TV station provides NJ coverage|last=Heinis|first=John|date=February 4, 2019|work=Hudson County View|access-date=June 6, 2019}}</ref> Since that point, WWOR's operations have been consolidated with WNYW in Manhattan, and the building, which remains standing as of 2025, has had all WWOR-related television equipment removed.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nj.com/hudson/2019/06/bye-bye-channel-9-demolition-begins-at-secaucus-based-tv-station.html|title=Bye, bye Channel 9: Demolition begins at Secaucus-based TV station|last=Villanova|first=Patrick|date=June 4, 2019|work=The Star-Ledger|access-date=June 6, 2019}}</ref>

==Programming==
===Sports programming===
As an independent station, channel 9's schedule was heavy on sports programming. Early in its history, WOR-TV established itself as the home of [[National League (baseball)|National League]] baseball in New York, carrying [[Brooklyn Dodgers]] (beginning in 1950) and [[New York Giants (NL)|New York Giants]] games (beginning in 1951) until both teams moved to California (Los Angeles and San Francisco, respectively) following the [[1957 in baseball|1957 season]]. From 1958 to 1961, the station aired a limited schedule of [[Philadelphia Phillies]] games, consisting of matchups against the Dodgers and Giants. In 1962, WOR-TV gained broadcast rights to the [[New York Mets]], the National League's new expansion team. The partnership between the station and the team would last through the [[1998 New York Mets season|1998 season]], after which the Mets moved their broadcasts to WPIX, replacing Yankee telecasts on the station.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/26/sports/baseball-new-lead-in-for-seinfeld-as-the-mets-move-to-ch-11.html |title=BASEBALL; New Lead-In for 'Seinfeld' As the Mets Move to Ch. 11 |last=Chass |first=Murray |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 26, 1999 |access-date=June 25, 2018}}</ref>

Channel 9 acquired rights to the [[NHL]]'s [[New York Rangers]] and the [[NBA]]'s [[New York Knicks]] in 1965, holding onto both teams until 1989 (when the two teams' television rights moved exclusively to cable on the [[MSG Network]]). Other sports teams that have been broadcast on the station include the [[New York Islanders]], [[New Jersey Devils]], [[Brooklyn Nets|New York/New Jersey Nets]], local [[college basketball]], and the [[New York Cosmos (1971–85)|New York Cosmos]]. The station also carried syndicated professional wrestling programming from the [[WWE|WWWF/WWF]], and later [[World Championship Wrestling]]. In later years, professional wrestling would return to WWOR by way of WWF (now WWE)'s secondary flagship television program ''[[WWE SmackDown|SmackDown!]]'', which aired on the station from 1999 to 2006 (as a UPN affiliate) and again from 2008 to 2010 (as a MyNetworkTV O&O).

Except for the Mets (for whom [W]WOR did cover a large number of home games), WWOR's pro sports coverage mainly featured away games, although in the mid-1960s, the station taped a handful of Rangers' Saturday afternoon home games for broadcast that evening. One such game, on November 27, 1965, against the [[Chicago Blackhawks]], is said to be the first NHL game to ever be broadcast in [[color television|color]].<ref>New York Times, November 27, 1965</ref>

WWOR-TV also broadcast an infamous interview between [[Mike Tyson]] and the station's then-sports anchor Russ Salzberg in January 1999, whose intent was to discuss Tyson's then comeback fight against [[Francois Botha]]; Tyson shouted several expletives, made threats and told the audience to switch the station off. This prompted Salzberg to abruptly end the interview, giving Tyson a half-hearted wish of luck on his upcoming fight. Tyson responded by telling Salzberg to "fuck off".<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://www.si.com/boxing/2013/12/13/tyson-risefall | magazine=Sports Illustrated | title=The Rise and Fall of Mike Tyson}}</ref>

In late September [[2001 New York Yankees season|2001]], WWOR-TV aired several New York Yankees baseball games that were originally scheduled to air on WNYW. In [[2005 New York Yankees season|2005]], channel 9 picked up Yankees games on a full-time basis, with the broadcasts being produced by the [[YES Network]]. In [[2015 New York Yankees season|2015]], Yankees games moved back to WPIX after ending a ten-year deal.

WWOR has sometimes aired [[New York Giants]] pre-season games due to commitments by WNBC to air [[NBC Olympic broadcasts|network coverage of the Summer Olympics]] as has occurred in [[2012 Summer Olympics|2012]] and [[2016 Summer Olympics|2016]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Doughtery|first=Pete|title=Olympics conflict moves Giants' preseason opener off WNYT|date=July 13, 2012|url=http://blog.timesunion.com/sportsmedia/olympics-conflict-moves-giants-preseason-opener-off-wnyt/10182/|publisher=Times Union}}</ref> WWOR has also simulcast [[ESPN]]-produced ''[[Monday Night Football]]'' games in which the Giants or [[New York Jets|Jets]] were involved (WABC-TV holds right of first refusal on local ''MNF'' broadcasts as a corporate sibling to ESPN, but often exercises that right to air ABC's ''[[Dancing with the Stars (American TV series)|Dancing with the Stars]]''), as well as such games during the early existence of the [[NFL Network]]; WWOR was scheduled to be the local outlet for the [[2007 New England Patriots–New York Giants game|December 30, 2007, Giants/Patriots game]], but with the [[2007 New England Patriots season|Patriots]] on the verge of an undefeated regular season, and NFL Network having minimal cable carriage at the time, the game ended up being simulcast nationally on [[NFL on CBS|CBS]] and [[NFL on NBC|NBC]] in addition to WWOR.

As a sister station to WNYW, WWOR has sometimes aired Fox sports programming while WNYW aired local programming. This was the case on September 11, 2021, when WNYW aired local 9/11 memorial programming while WWOR aired a nationally televised ''[[Fox College Football]]'' game. This was the case again on September 21, 2023, when WNYW aired a ''[[Thursday Night Football]]'' game between the [[2023 New York Giants season|New York Giants]] and the [[2023 San Francisco 49ers season|San Francisco 49ers]], while WWOR aired a locally televised ''[[Baseball Night in America]]'' game between the [[2023 New York Mets season|New York Mets]] and the [[2023 Philadelphia Phillies season|Philadelphia Phillies]] (coincidentally, as previously mentioned, WWOR aired Mets games from 1962 to 1998).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://506sports.com/mlb.php?yr=2023&wk=23 |title=MLB ON FOX: SEPTEMBER 21, 2023 |website=506sports.com |access-date=September 21, 2023|quote=Due to Thursday Night Football simulcasts: New York is moving baseball to WWOR 9, while San Francisco is moving it to [[KICU]] (KTVU Plus, channel 36).}}</ref>

Currently, WWOR airs select [[Brooklyn Nets]] games produced by [[YES Network]] whenever YES broadcasts a Yankees game during the same time period.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.wymt.com/sports/betting/2023/04/22/76ers-vs-nets-nba--betting-trends-stats/ |title=76ers vs. Nets: Betting Trends, Odds, Records Against the Spread, Home/Road Splits |last=Skrive|first=Data|publisher=[[WYMT-TV]] |date=April 22, 2023 |access-date=June 11, 2023}}</ref> In [[2023 New York Liberty season|2023]], two [[New York Liberty]] games also aired on the station, including one broadcast nationally on ABC due to WABC-TV televising the [[NYC Pride March]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.yesnetwork.com/news/yes-and-yes-app-to-televise-21-new-york-liberty-games-this-season |title=YES and YES App to televise 21 New York Liberty games this season |website=yesnetwork.com |date=May 15, 2023 |access-date=June 11, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Liberty Schedule |newspaper=New York Liberty |url=https://liberty.wnba.com/schedule/2023/ |access-date=June 11, 2023 |archive-date=June 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230611175752/https://liberty.wnba.com/schedule/2023/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite tweet |user=NYLiberty |number=1667894848676933633 |title=Libs fam we're back at the house to No. LIGHTITUPFORPRIDE🌈 Don't miss our post-game pride party!}}</ref> On November 18, 2023, WWOR aired a [[2023–24 Seton Hall Pirates men's basketball team|Seton Hall men's basketball]] game produced by ''[[Fox College Hoops]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=2023-24 Men's Basketball Schedule |website=shupirates.com |url=https://shupirates.com/sports/mens-basketball/schedule |access-date=November 8, 2023 |archive-date=November 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231108163348/https://shupirates.com/sports/mens-basketball/schedule |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mattsarzsports.com/Schedule/Weekly/basketball202324/2|title=Week 2 schedule for 2023–24|website=mattsarzsports.com|access-date=November 8, 2023}}</ref>

On March 12, 2024, it was announced that WWOR and WNYW would become the new broadcast partner for the [[New York Liberty]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://liberty.wnba.com/news/wnyw-fox5-new-york-named-official-tv-partner-of-the-new-york-liberty/|title=WNYW FOX5 New York Named Official TV Partner of the New York Liberty|access-date=March 12, 2024}}</ref>

In February 2025, WWOR will air matches from the [[Coachella Valley Invitational]] preseason tournament featuring [[New York City FC]] and the [[New York Red Bulls]] of [[Major League Soccer]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=February 3, 2025|url=https://coachellavalleyinvitational.com/2025/02/03/fox-television-stations-and-gray-media-to-televise-mls-and-nwsl-matches-live-from-the-coachella-valley-invitational/|title=FOX TELEVISION STATIONS AND GRAY MEDIA TO TELEVISE MLS and NWSL MATCHES LIVE FROM THE COACHELLA VALLEY INVITATIONAL|website=Coachella Valley Invitational|access-date=February 3, 2025}}</ref>

===Newscasts===
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As most of New York's independent stations were during the 1960s and 1970s, WOR-TV was a very minor player in the area of local news. Before 1971, the station did not carry any live news programming,{{failed verification|date=August 2020}} but had an early morning audio-only newscast read by the on-duty staff announcer over the station logo. In 1971, WOR-TV launched its first live newscast, the ''News at Noon'', which was also the first midday newscast in the New York City market. [[Tom Dunn (journalist)|Tom Dunn]], previously of WABC, was the lead anchor. In 1983, following the move to New Jersey, channel 9 launched a nightly 8&nbsp;p.m. newscast called ''News 9: Primetime''. After the MCA takeover in 1987, the 8&nbsp;p.m. newscast was moved two hours later to 10&nbsp;pm, and expanded to an hour (placing it in direct competition with newscasts in that timeslot airing on WPIX and eventual sister station WNYW). Dunn opted to leave WWOR that summer, with his last newscast for channel 9 airing on June 19; he was replaced as lead anchor by Van Hackett, formerly of [[KTRK-TV]] in Houston.<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 16, 1987 |title=Van Hackett WWOR, July 16, 1987 |page=164 |newspaper=Daily News|location=New York |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-van-hackett-wwor-july-16-19/41900947/ |access-date=December 6, 2023}}</ref> The noon program, which was later merged into ''9 Broadcast Plaza'', ended in 1993 and was replaced with ''[[Ricki Lake (1993 talk show)|The Ricki Lake Show]]''.

Despite the presence of its sister station WNYW's long-running and successful news program at 10&nbsp;pm, WWOR-TV was able to compete in that same timeslot following Fox's acquisition of channel 9 simply because both stations use separate studios. As opposed to the model of most television station [[Duopoly (broadcasting)|duopolies]], WWOR-TV and sister station WNYW operated news departments that were technically separate from one another: WWOR operated its news department from the station's Secaucus studios, while WNYW runs theirs from the Fox Television Center in Manhattan, allowing the two stations to maintain their own on-air identities and offer individual local news programs simultaneously. However, the two stations shared a fairly significant amount in regards to news coverage, with some staffers having switched from one station to the other. Both stations maintained their own primary on-air personalities (such as news anchors and reporters) that only appeared on one station. WWOR's newscasts also focused a larger proportion of their stories on New Jersey issues, a condition the station had adhered to since its license was transferred from New York City to Secaucus.

On July 13, 2009, the 10&nbsp;p.m. newscast was moved to 11&nbsp;p.m. and was shortened to a half-hour due to budget cuts. In addition, weekend newscasts and a Sunday night sports highlight program were canceled.<ref name="NYDailyNews">{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2009/07/02/2009-07-02_ch_9_trims_weeknight_newscasts_to_half_hour_eliminates_weekends.html |title=Ch. 9 trims weeknight newscasts to half hour, eliminates weekends |access-date=July 3, 2009 |author=Richard Huff |newspaper=[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]]|location=New York |date=July 3, 2009}}</ref> On June 27, 2011, WWOR-TV returned the newscast to its previous 10 p.m. timeslot and retitled it ''The Ten O'Clock News''; it remained a half-hour in length and continued to air on weeknights only.<ref>[http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2011/05/06/2011-05-06_wwor_making_news_again_at_10.html WWOR making news again at 10, station going back to old format], ''[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]]|location=New York'', May 6, 2011.</ref> On September 10, 2012, WWOR-TV began broadcasting its local newscasts in [[High-definition television|high definition]].

Sports director Russ Salzberg, anchor Brenda Blackmon, and reporter Brenda Flanagan were the station's longest-tenured on-air personalities. Flanagan worked for the station starting in 1983, while Salzberg and Blackmon joined WWOR in 1988 and 1992, respectively.<ref name="Meet the Team">[http://www.my9tv.com/category/233062/meet-the-team Meet the Team], WWOR-TV. Retrieved May 6, 2013.</ref> In areas of central New Jersey, where the New York and Philadelphia markets overlap with one another, both WWOR and WNYW shared resources with their Philadelphia sister station [[WTXF-TV]]. The stations shared reporters for stories occurring in New Jersey counties served by both markets.

The 10 p.m. newscast was canceled following its July 2, 2013, broadcast (ending 42 years of newscast production by channel 9 and 30 years of prime time newscasts); in its place, the station introduced ''Chasing New Jersey'' (which was later renamed to ''[[Chasing News]]''), a nightly New Jersey-focused [[news magazine]] with a "fast-paced" format, on July 8. The program, which was produced by Fairfax Productions (a production company led by the vice president and general manager of Philadelphia sister station WTXF-TV) from a studio in [[Trenton, New Jersey|Trenton]] and hosted by [[Bill Spadea]], was also seen on WTXF as a lead-in to its morning newscast. With the end of WWOR's newscast, [[Brenda Blackmon]] was reassigned to produce and host news specials for the station (although she would leave for WPIX in 2016,<ref>{{cite web |title=WPIX Adds 6:30 p.m. Newscast to Schedule |url=http://tunedinnyc.com/2015/12/08/wpix-adds-630-p-m-newscast-to-schedule/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151221132020/http://tunedinnyc.com/2015/12/08/wpix-adds-630-p-m-newscast-to-schedule/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=December 21, 2015 |website=tunedinnyc.com |access-date=March 11, 2021}}</ref> while other members of the on-air staff were offered new roles (including at WNYW). Despite the closure of WWOR's news department, the station's Secaucus facilities remained operational until 2018, when the repeal of the FCC Main Studio Rule allowed the full consolidation of WWOR's operations with WNYW.<ref name="courier-chasing"/><ref name=tvs-wwornewsend>{{cite news|last=Knox|first=Merrill|title=WWOR Replacing Evening Newscast With Show on New Jersey Politics, Issues|url=https://www.adweek.com/tvspy/wwor-replacing-evening-newscast-with-show-on-new-jersey-politics-issues/|access-date=July 3, 2013|newspaper=TVSpy|date=July 3, 2013|archive-date=July 6, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130706211712/http://www.mediabistro.com/tvspy/wwor-replacing-evening-newscast-with-show-on-new-jersey-politics-issues_b96370|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=tsl-wwornewsend>{{cite news|last=Friedman|first=Alexi|title=Fox ends My9 News, will replace it with an interview show|url=http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2013/07/fox_ends_my9_news_will_replace.html|access-date=July 4, 2013|newspaper=[[The Star-Ledger]]|date=July 3, 2013}}</ref><ref name=ledger-chasingnj>{{cite news|title=Criticism continues over WWOR's cancellation of N.J. newscast|url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/07/criticism_continues_over_wwors_cancellation_of_nj_newcast.html|access-date=July 11, 2013|newspaper=The Star-Ledger}}</ref> ''Chasing News'' was canceled in June 2020, leaving WWOR without any news programs.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Friedman |first1=Matt |title=Chasing News runs out of steam |url=https://www.politico.com/newsletters/new-jersey-playbook/2020/06/23/chasing-news-runs-out-of-breath-489605 |website=Politico |date=June 23, 2020 |access-date=March 11, 2021}}</ref>

News programming would return to WWOR on August 12, 2024, when the station began airing weeknight rebroadcasts of WNYW's 6 p.m. newscasts at 8 p.m.

===Former personalities===
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* [[Steve Albert]]
* [[Ernie Anastos]]
* [[Richard Bey]], host of his [[The Richard Bey Show|titular show]]
* [[Brenda Blackmon]]
* [[Mario Cantone]]
* [[Pat Collins (film critic)|Pat Collins]]
* [[Judith Crist]]
* [[Morton Downey Jr.]]
* [[Tom Dunn (journalist)|Tom Dunn]]<ref name="TheT06111987">{{cite news |last=Alexander |first=Randy |title=Channel 9 news anchor announces resignation |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-times-channel-9-news-anchor-announce/176906353/ |access-date=July 18, 2025 |newspaper=The Times |date=June 11, 1987 |location=Trenton, New Jersey |page=B10 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
* [[Carter Evans]]
* [[Dr. Frank Field]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gay |first1=Verne |title=Frank Field, legendary WNBC meteorologist, dies at 100 |url=https://www.newsday.com/long-island/obituaries/frank-field-wnbc-meteorologist-dies-fmznqq2g |access-date=July 2, 2023 |newspaper=[[Newsday]] |date=July 2, 2023}}</ref>
* [[Storm Field]]
* [[Joe Franklin]]
* [[Barry Gray (radio)|Barry Gray]]
* [[Tony Guida]]
* [[Van Hackett]]
* [[Ray Heatherton]]
* [[Larry Kenney]]
* [[Sara Lee Kessler]]<ref name="TheT06111987" />
* [[Walter Kiernan]]
* [[Matt Lauer]]
* [[Otis Livingston]]
* [[Mike Lupica]]
* [[Malachy McCourt]]
* [[Mary Helen McPhillips]]
* [[Cora-Ann Mihalik]]
* [[Sean Mooney]]
* [[Audrey Puente]]
* [[Bill Ryan (journalist)|Bill Ryan]]
* [[Rolland Smith]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rollandgsmith.com/about/|title=About Rolland G. Smith|access-date=March 12, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120730201747/http://rollandgsmith.com/about/|archive-date=July 30, 2012}}</ref>
* [[Howard Stern]]
* [[Phil Tonken]]
* [[Jennifer Valoppi]]
* [[Lisa Willis]]
* [[Kelly Wright]]
* [[Lloyd Lindsay Young]]
* [[John Zacherle]]

==Subchannels==
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|-
! scope = "row" | 9.3
| rowspan=2| [[480i]] || Buzzr || [[Buzzr]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 9.4
| Heroes || [[Heroes & Icons]]
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! scope = "row" | 48.1
| 720p || WRNN-HD || [[Shop LC]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 48.2
| rowspan=4| [[480i]] || ROAR || [[Roar (TV network)|Roar]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 48.3
| The 365 || [[365BLK]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 48.4
| Outlaw || [[Outlaw (TV network)|Outlaw]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 48.5
| QVC2 || [[QVC2]]
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==See also==
* [[WOR (AM)]] (710&nbsp;kHz)
* [[WEPN-FM]], the former WOR-FM (98.7&nbsp;MHz)
* [[RKO General]]
* [[WWOR EMI Service]], the national version of WWOR-TV seen outside the New York market from 1979 to 1997

==Notes==
{{notelist}}

==References==
{{Reflist|33em}}

==External links==
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* [http://www.my9nj.com/ My9NJ.com] – Official website
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20120523131245/http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/International/usa/wwor.html WOR/WWOR-TV Classic and Current Station IDs/Promos]}} from [[TVARK]]
* [http://members.aol.com/jeff560/tv6.html/ Two articles about WOR-TV's premiere night on the air in 1949]
* [http://www.exit109.com/~hubcity/thames/ "Thames on 9" – WOR-TV's prime time schedule from September 6 to 10, 1976, when Thames took over channel 9]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040222214019/http://members.fortunecity.com/tvnetworks/misc/ WWOR-TV logos and screenshots from 1950s to the present day]
* CDBS files for WWOR-TV
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