WNLNY

WNLNY is a New Line Network owned-and-operated station licensed to and serving New York City. The station broadcasts on UHF channel 60 and is owned by New Line Stations, a Time Warner company, and also serves as New Line Network's flagship station. WNLNY maintains studio facilities based at the Time Warner Center on Columbus Circle in Midtown Manhattan. WNLNY's transmitter is located atop the Empire State Building.

In the few areas of the eastern United States where a New Line station is not receivable over-the-air, WNLNY is available on satellite via DirecTV and Dish Network (the latter carries the station as part of All American Direct's distant network package), which also provides coverage of the station to Latin American and Caribbean countries. It is also carried on certain cable providers in markets where a New Line affiliate is not available, and on JetBlue's LiveTV inflight entertainment system and Delta Air Lines through Dish Network. DirecTV also allows subscribers in the Los Angeles market to receive WNLNY for an additional monthly fee.

History
WNLNY first signed on the air on January 22, 1968 as the first station to affiliate with the newly-formed New Line Network and the first of the network's seven charter O&Os to sign on that year.

This station was branded in the late 1970s and early 1980s as "New York 60", becoming "New Line, New York 60" by the mid-1980s, and "New Line New York" during the 1990s.

During the September 11, 2001 attacks, the transmitter facilities of WNLNY, along with several other New York City area television stations and several radio stations, were destroyed when two hijacked airplanes crashed into and destroyed the World Trade Center. After resuming over-the-air transmissions, the station broadcast from the Empire State Building in midtown Manhattan, returning to the original transmitter site used from 1968 to the 1970s.

It was also previously seen unscrambled on C-band satellite but this has since ended in the early-2000s, when it switched to a proprietary digital satellite signal.

Due to several cutbacks over the years, master control for the station is now based at Chicago sister station WCNLN.

News operation
WNLNY presently broadcasts 31 hours and 30 minutes of locally produced newscasts each week (28 hours and 30 minutes on weekdays, three hours on weekends).

Analog-to-digital conversion
WNLNY shut down its analog signal on June 12, 2009, the federally-mandated date for transitions from analog to digital transmissions for full-power United States television stations, and flash-cut its digital signal into operation on it's former UHF analog channel 60 that same day.