WNYJ-TV

WNYJ-TV
CityWest Milford, New Jersey
Channels
BrandingWNYJ Worldview
Programming
Affiliationssee § Subchannels
Ownership
Owner
WFME, WFME-FM
History
FoundedMarch 30, 1987 (1987-03-30)
First air date
March 1, 1996 (1996-03-01)[1]
Last air date
October 25, 2017 (2017-10-25) (21 years, 238 days)
Former call signs
WFME-TV (1996–2013)
Former channel number(s)
Analog: 66 (UHF, 1996–2009)
Call sign meaning
New York/New Jersey
Technical information[2]
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID20818
ERP200 kW
HAAT167 m (548 ft)
Transmitter coordinates40°47′17.5″N 74°15′18.2″W / 40.788194°N 74.255056°W / 40.788194; -74.255056
Links
Public license information

WNYJ-TV (channel 66) was an independent non-commercial television station licensed to West Milford, New Jersey, United States. The station's transmitter was located in West Orange, New Jersey. Its broadcast license was owned by the Oakland, California–based Christian broadcast ministry Family Stations, who from 1996 through 2013 operated it as WFME-TV, a religious television station.

WNYJ-TV carried programming from CNC World, an English-language news channel based in Beijing, on its main channel, 66.1. On WNYJ's digital subchannel 66.2 it aired MHz WorldView, a non-commercial television network owned by Virginia-based Commonwealth Public Broadcasting Corporation.[3] An additional subchannel carried the audio from WFME-FM in Mount Kisco, New York, which broadcasts the Family Radio religious network. One WNYJ subchannel had carried France 24, an English-language news channel from Paris, although that service was discontinued by the station.

In April 2017, it was announced that WNYJ had sold its spectrum in the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) incentive auction and would be going off the air.[4] WNYJ-TV ceased operations October 25, 2017.

  1. ^ "About WFME-TV." wfme.net. Retrieved November 2, 2013
  2. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WNYJ-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  3. ^ "Home - WNYJ". Archived from the original on October 30, 2013.
  4. ^ Dampier, Phillip (April 13, 2017). "Spectrum Auction Over: 175 TV Stations Take Money to Vacate Their Channels". Stop the Cap!.