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Full-power digital · channel 27 · NEW YORK, NY
| Facility ID | 22206 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | FOX TELEVISION STATIONS, LLC |
| Community of licence | NEW YORK, NY
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 40.71300, -74.01314 |
| Effective radiated power | 92.8 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 506 m above average terrain · directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
| Website | https://www.fox5ny.com/ |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | 1
|
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | yes |
Checked 2026-09-11 by fetching robots.txt
and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not
evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| W02CY-D | 2 | LPD | HC2 STATION GROUP, INC. |
| WNWT-LD | 3 | LPD | WJLP-TV LIMITED PARTNERSHIP |
| W05DJ-D | 5 | LPD | VENTURE TECHNOLOGIES GROUP, LLC |
| WNYZ-LD | 6 | LPD | SOUND OF LONG ISLAND, INC. |
| WABC-TV | 7 | DTV | WABC TELEVISION (NEW YORK), LLC |
| W10DH-D | 10 | LPT | VENTURE TECHNOLOGIES GROUP LLC |
| WPIX | 11 | DTV | MISSION BROADCASTING, INC. |
| WKOB-LD | 13 | LPD | HC2 STATION GROUP, INC. |
| facility 796889 | 17 | LPD | |
| WNMF-LD | 20 | LPD | LOCAL MEDIA TV NEW YORK, LLC |
| WCBS-TV | 22 | DRT | CBS BROADCASTING INC. |
| WXNY-LD | 23 | LPD | WORD OF GOD FELLOWSHIP, INC. |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/WNYW | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=WNYW | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.