Eastern Microwave would eventually launch a separate feed for satellite and cable subscribers on January 1, 1990, called the "WWOR EMI Service". Despite MyNetworkTV's announcement that its launch date would be September 5, 2006, UPN continued to broadcast on stations across the country until September 15, 2006. While some UPN affiliates who switched to MyNetworkTV aired the final two weeks of UPN programming outside its regular primetime period, the Fox-owned stations, including WWOR, dropped UPN entirely on August 31, 2006.

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Hollywood Premiere was a test two night programming block on KCOP and WWOR before syndicating the programming to other markets.

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WOR-TV aired episodes of the BBC's science-fiction series Doctor Who during this period as well. Soon after the building was completed in 1952, Macy's/Bamberger's merged the WOR stations with the General Tire and Rubber Company, which already had broadcasting interests in three cities through two other subsidiaries: the regional Yankee Radio Network and WNAC AM–FM–TV in Boston; and the Don Lee Broadcasting System, which operated KHJ AM–FM–TV in Los Angeles and KFRC AM–FM in San Francisco. TitanTV Programming Guide is the most accurate source for local TV program listings and includes last-minute updates from your local broadcaster The problem was fixed and Gambling repeated the message later that evening, prior to the station's sign-off. 9 trims weeknight newscasts to half hour, eliminates weekends", WWOR making news again at 10, station going back to old format. A magazine program featuring current events as seen from a Christian perspective, as well as testimonies of changed lives. In 1962 the independent field was narrowed to three, as WOR-TV and its competition benefited from the sale of WNTA-TV to the non-profit Educational Broadcasting Corporation, who would convert channel 13 into a non-commercial educational station (it is now WNET). Because of various other issues, one of which would be the fact that rights to most syndicated programs would interfere with the local broadcast rights to these shows on Philadelphia stations, the request was denied. Don Lee, Yankee, WOR merge.

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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005). The partnership between the station and the team would last through the 1998 season, after which the Mets moved their broadcasts to WPIX, replacing Yankee telecasts on the station.

[24] Disney later acquired WABC-TV as part of its larger purchase of Capital Cities/ABC Inc. in 1996. The EMI Service's transponder space was sold to Discovery Communications for the then six-month-old Animal Planet. [11] WOR-TV also aired episodes of the ITV musical drama Rock Follies[12][13] and the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who during this period. [9] In early 1954, RKO sublet the 67th Street facility (both building and TV equipment) to NBC for three years with options for extensions.[10]. The outlets in the latter two cities were operated by General Tire subsidiary Don Lee Broadcasting, and the WOR stations were assigned to this subsidiary. That fall, WWOR-TV relaunched as a station perceived as different from a year prior.

In late September 2001, WWOR-TV aired a number of New York Yankees baseball games that were originally scheduled to air on WNYW.

Early in its history WOR-TV established itself as the home of National League baseball in New York, carrying games of the Brooklyn Dodgers (beginning in 1950) and the New York Giants (beginning in 1951) until both teams moved to California following the 1957 season. Currently, WWOR offers several "double-runs" of WNYW programming, but the two stations' individual schedules (outside of network programming) are much different. [75] WWOR has also simulcast ESPN-produced Monday Night Football games in which the Giants or Jets were involved (WABC-TV holds right of first refusal on local MNF broadcasts as a corporate sibling to ESPN, but often exercises that right to air ABC's Dancing with the Stars), as well as such games during the early existence of the NFL Network; WWOR was scheduled to be the local outlet for the December 30, 2007 Giants/Patriots game, but with the Patriots on the verge of an undefeated regular season, and NFL Network having minimal cable carriage at the time, the game ended up being simulcast nationally on CBS and NBC in addition to WWOR.

Channel 9 signed on the air on October 11, 1949, as WOR-TV. [25][26] WWOR carried Spelling Premiere Network at its launch in August 1994.

The overhaul continued in 1988, when it added evening sitcoms, including reruns of NBC's top-rated sitcom The Cosby Show.