WPIX, channel 11, is a television station in New York City built, signed on and owned by the Tribune Company. WPIX also serves as the flagship station of the CW Television Network. The station's signal covers the tri-state New York metropolitan area and WPIX is also available as a regional superstation via satellite and cable in the United States and Canada.
WPIX made its on-air debut on June 15, 1948 as New York's fifth television station and se...
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WPIX, channel 11, is a television station in New York City built, signed on and owned by the Tribune Company. WPIX also serves as the flagship station of the CW Television Network. The station's signal covers the tri-state New York metropolitan area and WPIX is also available as a regional superstation via satellite and cable in the United States and Canada.
WPIX made its on-air debut on June 15, 1948 as New York's fifth television station and second independent outlet. It was also the second of three stations to start up in the New York market during 1948, one month after Newark-based independent WATV (channel 13, now WNET) and two months before ABC-owned WJZ-TV (channel 7, now WABC-TV).
Like its longtime sister station WGN-TV in Chicago (which first signed on two months earlier), WPIX's call letters come from the slogan of the newspaper that founded it—in this case, it was the New York Daily News, whose tag was "New York's Picture Newspaper". Both the paper and the station were...
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