WNJU

WNJU (channel 47) is a television station licensed to Linden, New Jersey, United States, serving the New York metropolitan area. It is one of two flagship stations of the Spanish-language network Telemundo (alongside WSCV in Miami–Fort Lauderdale), and is owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group. Under common ownership with NBC flagship WNBC (channel 4), the two stations share studios at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan and broadcast from the same transmitter at One World Trade Center; WNJU's former studios, located on Fletcher Avenue in Fort Lee, New Jersey, are used as WNJU and WNBC's New Jersey news bureau. Conceived to replace WNTA-TV as northern New Jersey's commercial station and to provide specialty ethnic programming in the tri-state area, WNJU began broadcasting on May 16, 1965. It was the first new commercial TV station for the New York City area in 16 years. Within months, 60 percent of its programming was in Spanish. The station was acquired by Screen Gems in 1970; Screen Gems also owned WAPA-TV in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with which channel 47 shared programming. WNJU's program lineup, which catered to the tastes of the Puerto Ricans and Dominicans in the tri-state area, often outperformed the Spanish International Network and its mostly Mexican shows in the local ratings. The studio sold the station in 1979 to a consortium headlined by Norman Lear and Jerry Perenchio, but plans to convert to subscription television operation were scrapped. In 1984, WNJU became a part of a second Spanish-language television network, NetSpan. After Reliance Capital, which had bought Spanish-language TV stations in Los Angeles and Miami, acquired the station, it became a charter owned-and-operated station of Telemundo upon its launch on January 12, 1987. At the same time, channel 47 began producing local Spanish-language newscasts. NBC acquired Telemundo in...