WMGM-TV (fictional)

WMGM-TV, virtual channel 40 (UHF digital channel 36), branded on-air as NBC New Jersey or NBC NJ, is an NBC owned-and-operated television station licensed to Wildwood, New Jersey, United States. The station is owned by the NBC Owned Television Stations subsidiary of NBCUniversal (itself a subsidiary of Comcast). WMGM-TV's studios are located on McCarter Highway in Newark, the station's transmitter is located along Avalon Boulevard in the Swainton section of Middle Township, east of the Garden State Parkway off Exit 13, with boosters located on the WNJT tower on Arrowhead Drive in Waterford and atop the Empire State Building in midtown Manhattan for the convenience of viewers who have trouble receiving WMGM's main signal transmitted from Middle Township. WMGM-TV and it's boosters technically fall under the New York City and Philadelphia markets but primarily serve the entire state of New Jersey, as a result WMGM's coverage overlaps with sister stations WCAU (channel 10) and WNBC (channel 4).

Averted loss of NBC affiliation; becoming an NBC O&O
Ultimately, in June 2016, LocusPoint Networks made the decision to sell WMGM directly to NBC to ensure continued affiliation with the network. However, the FCC initially denied permission for the sale to go forward, citing WMGM's signal overlap with WCAU and WNBC. NBC and LocusPoint sought a waiver of the rules to allow WMGM to become an NBC owned-and-operated station, citing NBC's ownership of WVIT in New Britain, Connecticut despite signal overlap with it's sister stations WCAU and WNBC. The FCC soon granted the waiver, and the transaction was finalized on August 15, 2016.

On October 2, 2016, WMGM launched two boosters in Waterford, New Jersey (on PBS member station (via NJTV) WNJT's tower) and New York City (atop the Empire State Building) in order to improve reception across the state of New Jersey.

After several weeks of testing, WMGM-TV officially moved from it's longtime facility at Green Broadcast Plaza in Linwood to it's new facility located off McCarter Highway in Newark on July 10, 2017, with the base and staging for the station's live news vehicles and the NBC NJ StormRanger radar truck relocated to the studios of sister station WNJU (channel 47; a Telemundo O&O) on Fletcher Avenue in Fort Lee. However, WMGM's Cape May County news bureau remains at the former Linwood studio facility.