WNJU

WNJU

Linden, New Jersey New York, New York United States
City	Linden, New Jersey
Channels	Digital: 35 (UHF), shared with WNBC Virtual: 47
Branding	Telemundo 47
Programming
Affiliations	47.1: Telemundo 47.2: TeleXitos
Ownership
Owner	Telemundo Station Group (NBC Telemundo License LLC)
Sister stations	WNBC
History
First air date	May 16, 1965 (59 years ago) (1965-05-16)
Former call signs	WNJU-TV (1965–1988)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 47 (UHF, 1965–2009) Digital: 36 (UHF, until 2019) Translator: 62 W62AA
Former affiliations	Independent (1965–1987) NetSpan (secondary, 1984–1987)
Call sign meaning	New Jersey UHF[1]
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	73333
ERP	575 kW
HAAT	496 m (1,627 ft)
Transmitter coordinates	40°42′46.8″N 74°0′47.3″W / 40.713000°N 74.013139°W / 40.713000; -74.013139
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.telemundo47.com

WNJU (channel 47) is a television station licensed to Linden, New Jersey, United States, serving as the Telemundo outlet for the New York City area. It is one of two flagship stations of the Spanish-language network (the other being WSCV in Miami–Fort Lauderdale). WNJU is owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group alongside NBC flagship WNBC (channel 4). WNJU's studios (doubling as WNBC's New Jersey news bureau) are located on Fletcher Avenue in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Through a channel sharing agreement with WNBC, the two stations transmit using WNJU's spectrum from an antenna atop One World Trade Center.

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 bought Telemundo in 2002 and relocated WNJU to its present facility in Fort Lee.