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{{good article}} {{Short description|Television station in Baltimore}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2024}} {{Use American English|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox television station | callsign = WNUV | atsc3 = yes | city = | logo = WNUV 2024 vector logo.svg | logo_alt = | logo_size = 220px | branding = The CW Baltimore | digital = 25 ([[UHF]]) | virtual = 54 | translators = | subchannels = | affiliations = {{ubl|'''54.1:''' [[The CW]]|''for others, see {{section link||Subchannels}}''}} | airdate = {{start date and age|1982|7|1|p=y}} | last_airdate = | location = [[Baltimore]], Maryland | country = United States | callsign_meaning = Station was founded by New-Vision, Inc. | owner = [[Cunningham Broadcasting]] | licensee = Baltimore (WNUV-TV) Licensee, Inc. | operator = [[Sinclair Broadcast Group]] | sister_stations = [[WBFF]], [[WUTB]] | former_callsigns = WNUV-TV (1982β1998) | former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 54 (UHF, 1982β2009)|'''Digital:''' 40 (UHF, 1998β2018)}} | former_affiliations = {{ubl|[[Financial News Network|FNN]] (1982β1984)|[[Super TV (American TV channel)|Super TV]] (1982β1986)|[[Independent station|Independent]] (1986β1995)|[[UPN]] (1995β1998)|[[The WB]] (1998β2006)}} | erp = 750 [[kW]] | haat = {{convert|372.8|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} | facility_id = 7933 | coordinates = {{coord|39|20|10.4|N|76|38|57.9|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}} | licensing_authority = [[FCC]] | website = {{url|cwbaltimore.com}} }} '''WNUV''' (channel 54) is a [[television station]] in [[Baltimore]], Maryland, United States, affiliated with [[The CW]]. It is owned by [[Cunningham Broadcasting]], which maintains a [[local marketing agreement]] (LMA) with [[Sinclair Broadcast Group]], owner of [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]/[[MyNetworkTV]] affiliate [[WBFF]] (channel 45), for the provision of programming and certain services. However, Sinclair effectively owns WNUV, as the majority of Cunningham's stock is owned by the family of deceased group founder Julian Smith. Sinclair also operates [[Roar (TV network)|Roar]] affiliate [[WUTB]] (channel 24) under a separate [[shared services]] agreement with [[Deerfield Media]]. The stations share studios on 41st Street off the [[Interstate 83#Maryland|Jones Falls Expressway]] on Television Hill in the [[Woodberry, Baltimore|Woodberry]] neighborhood of north Baltimore; WBFF and WNUV are also broadcast from the same tower on the hill.<ref>{{cite web|last=Fybush|first=Scott|title=TV Hill, Baltimore, 2008|url=http://www.fybush.com/sites/2010/site-100115.html|website=Tower Site of the Week|date=January 15, 2010|access-date=September 10, 2018|archive-date=April 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190402174944/https://www.fybush.com/sites/2010/site-100115.html|url-status=live}}</ref> WNUV began broadcasting on July 1, 1982. During the day, it ran specialty programming from the [[Financial News Network]], which was subsidized by its nighttime broadcast of [[Super TV (American TV channel)|Super TV]], a subscription television service that operated in the Washington and Baltimore areas. Super TV peaked at 30,000 Baltimore subscribers in August 1983, but even though the city of Baltimore was late to be wired for cable, the industry suffered a national decline in the mid-1980s, and WNUV ceased airing Super TV on March 31, 1986. In preparation for its closure, the station had begun to recast itself as a general-entertainment [[independent station]] as early as 1984. The founding owner and namesake, New-Vision, Inc., sold the station to ABRY Communications in 1989; ABRY upgraded the transmitter and increased the station's visibility with a campaign allowing residents to vote on programming choices. ABRY attempted to sell WNUV to Glencairn, Ltd.βa forerunner to Cunningham, owned by former Sinclair employee Edwin Edwards and the mother of the Smith children that controlled Sinclairβin 1993. The deal was met with public scrutiny, and though it initially fell apart, ABRY signed an LMA directly with Sinclair in 1994 before transferring the license to Glencairn the next year. WNUV affiliated first with [[UPN]] in 1995 before switching to [[The WB]] in a group deal in 1998 and The CW upon those two networks' merger in 2006. The station aired a WBFF-produced early evening newscast from 1997 to 2005; for most of its history since Sinclair began programming channel 54, it has been used as a test bed for television transmission technologies.
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