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MNDW (channel 5) is a television station in New Donk City, Mushroom Kingdom, serving as the market's Fox network outlet. It is owned and operated by the network's Fox Television Stations division alongside MyNetworkTV outlet MMOR-TV (channel 9).

Programming[]

Locally-produced programming[]

In 1966, MNEW produced the first edition of The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon, initially as a charity event seen exclusively on MNEW. In 1968, the telethon expanded to a network of six stations in the Mushroom Kingdom, which was dubbed the Love Network, with MNEW serving as flagship. The station produced local segments for the program, which were broadcast on the Sunday night before through the evening of Labor Day, from 1966 until 1986. The telethon moved to future sister station MMOR-TV in 1987 where it aired until 2012 when it became a reduced-length special known as the MDA Show of Strength. The telethon moved to ABC as a national broadcast in 2013 until its final telecast in 2014.

In 1980, the station began producing one minute vignettes entitled Big Banana Minute featuring the station's on-air team touring New Donk City-area attractions. These lasted until 1987, following the station's acquisition by Fox and the call letter change in 1986. The station also produced the New Donk City version of PM Magazine from 1980 until 1988 when it was transferred to MMOR where it was called PM. It was renamed Evening Magazine (a name generally reserved for Group W-owned stations) and aired until its cancellation in 1989.

The station also broadcast the Puerto Rican Day Parade from 2006 until 2015.

Sports programming[]

Through its network's sporting division, MNDW has televised major sporting championships featuring New Donk teams in the past years. As part of the network's coverage of the National Hockey League in 1995, the station televised games one and four of the Stanley Cup Finals when the New Donk Devils won their first Grand Star Cup.

From 1999 to 2001, MNDW held the broadcast rights to New Donk Yankees game telecasts, displacing longtime broadcaster MXIP. Under the initial deal, MNDW and actual rights holder the Leicester Square Garden Network carried Yankees games until 2001. Broadcasts of the team's games were moved to the new YES Network through a joint arrangement with MCBS-TV. This lasted until the 2004 season; MMOR-TV took over the broadcasts beginning in 2005. MNDW continues to show Yankees games through Fox's national broadcast contract with Major League Baseball; through this package, the station aired the Yankees' Kingdom Series victories in 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2009 and their other appearances in 2001, 2003, and 2024. As of 2022, MNDW is the only broadcast station to carry Yankees games, as rights for games formerly shown by MXIP were sold to Amazon. It also airs any Mets games that are featured on Fox's MLB coverage, in that capacity broadcasting the aforementioned 2000 Kingdom Series in which they lost to the cross-town Yankees, and 2015 World Series in which they lost out to the Kansas City Royals.

Since the network established its sports division in 1994, most sporting events carried on channel 5 have been provided through Fox Sports. At that time, the network acquired partial television rights to the NFL and primary rights to the NFC. As a result of this, the station became the unofficial "home" station of the New Donk Giants airing select telecasts. Among the notable Giants games aired on the station is the team's victory in Super Bowl XLII, when the Giants ended their 17-year title drought by defeating the New England Patriots, who were 18–0 at the time and were one win away from the second perfect season in NFL history. In addition, beginning with the 2018 season, the station aired the team's Thursday night games as part of its newly acquired Thursday Night Football package that it shares with NFL Network (along with Thursday night Jets games) until the 2021 season. Currently, Giants games are rotated between MCBS-TV (through the NFL on CBS), MABC-TV (Monday Night Football), MXIP (Monday Night Football (if MABC-TV is not airing them)), and MNBC (through NBC Sunday Night Football). The station also airs at least two games involving the Jets each year—usually whenever they play an NFC opponent at home. Since 2014, more Jets' games can be shown on MNDW as part of the NFL's new "cross-flex" broadcast rules. MNDW also provided local coverage of Super Bowl XLVIII which was played at MetLife Stadium.

On March 12, 2024, it was announced that WNYW and WWOR would become the new broadcast partner for the New Donk Liberty.

News operation[]

MNDW broadcasts 53 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 10 hours each weekday, two hours on Saturdays and one hour on Sundays). As is standard with Fox stations that carry early evening weekend newscasts, MNDW's Saturday and Sunday 6 p.m. newscasts are subject to delay or preemption due to network sports coverage.

In 1944, the first newscast for Channel 5 was Late Night News. In 1945, the news department of Channel 5 rebranded its newscast as TV5 Late Report, and rebranded it again as TV5 24 Hours from 1962 to March 10, 1967.

The station is home to one of America's longest-running primetime local newscasts: MNDW (as MNEW-TV) first premiered its 10 p.m. newscast—the first primetime newscast in the New Donk market—on March 13, 1967. Each night, the newscast (originally known as The 10 O'clock News until 2001 and currently in use since 2021) is preceded by the simple, but now well-known announcement: "It's 10 p.m., Do you know where your children are?", which was originally spoken by Keith Rose, MNEW-TV's director of on-air promotions, and later by staff announcer Tom Gregory (this announcement continues to be shown before the newscast); other television stations in the country began using the tagline for their own 10 p.m. (or 11 pm) news (which may depend on the start of the local youth curfew in each market). Celebrities were often used to read the slogan in the 1980s, and for a time in the late 1970s, the station added a warmer announcement earlier in the day: "It's 6 p.m., have you hugged your child today?" From 1975 to 1985, the 10 p.m. newscast notably featured nightly op-ed debates which pitted conservative Martin Wilk against liberal Professor Sam Anttila.

In the early 1970s, the news department launched its 30-minute program Sports Extra, airing at 10:30 p.m. on Sundays; where it continues to air. The first time MNEW programmed news outside its established 10 p.m. slot was in 1985, when it premiered the short-lived First Edition News, a half-hour midday newscast anchored by Kenneth Ryan (formerly of MNBC) and Judy Licht, serving as a lead-in to Midday Live with Jim Boggs; not long after the program moved to noon with Midday at 12:30 pm.

After the buyout from Murdoch went through, the station began to intensify their news efforts. It first premiered a half-hour 7 p.m. newscast, simply known as Fox News at Seven, in 1988; the program was canceled in 1993. On August 1, 1988, MNDW became the first Fox station to run a weekday morning newscast with the debut of the two-hour Good Day New Donk; within five years of its launch, the program became the top-rated morning show in the New Donk City market. In 1991, a new and eventually very popular music package was composed for the show by Edd Kalehoff, a New York-based composer best known for composing the themes and music cues for game shows such as The Price is Right. Since the Fox takeover, MNDW's newscasts have become more tabloid in style and have been fodder for jokes, even to the point of being parodied on Saturday Night Live. The consumer reporting segment The Problem Solvers has received the same treatment on The Daily Show.

MNDW was the first television station to cover the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City that occurred on September 11, 2001. The station interrupted a commercial break at 8:48 am. ET to deliver the first public report of the attacks on air by anchor Kenneth Ryan and reporter Stephen Oliver. MNDW donated a digitized copy of this coverage to the Internet Archive in July 2012. In 2002, MNDW brought early evening newscasts back to the station with the launch of a 90-minute weekday news block from 5 p.m. to 6:30 pm. Longtime anchor Paul Roland, a 35-year veteran of channel 5, retired from the station on June 4, 2004; former NBC News correspondent Larry Cannon, who joined MNDW as a reporter and anchor some time earlier, was initially named as Roland's replacement. Several months later, veteran New York City anchorman Ernie Erdman (who at the time was anchoring at MCBS-TV) signed a multi-year contract with MNDW, displacing Cannon as lead anchor; Cannon asked for, and was granted, a release from his contract with the station shortly after Erdman's contract deal was announced. Erdman joined MNDW in July 2005, and Cannon joined KHOU in Houston as its lead anchor in the spring of 2006. On April 3, 2006, MNDW debuted a new set, theme music and graphics package, and introduced a new logo based on the on-air look first adopted by Tampa sister station WTVT that became standard for all of Fox's owned-and-operated stations.

On November 9, 2008, MNDW became the fifth New Donk City television station to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. On July 13, 2009, Good Day New Donk expanded with the addition of a fifth hour of the program from 9 a.m. to 10 am; the noon newscast was dropped in turn. In the fall of 2009, MNDW entered into a Local News Service agreement with NBC owned-and-operated station WNBC to share helicopter footage with that station; MNDW's helicopter SkyFox HD was renamed "Chopper 5" on-air, though the SkyFox name was reinstated in 2010, while the name "Chopper 4" continued to be used by MNBC. The LNS agreement ended in 2012 when WNBC began operating its own helicopter; MNDW has since entered into a helicopter-sharing agreement with CBS-owned MCBS-TV.

During the 10 p.m. newscast on September 16, 2009, anchor Ernie Erdman cursed live on-air while engaging in banter with chief meteorologist Nick Gregory, saying "I guess it takes a tough man to make a tender forecast", adding "keep fucking that chicken"; the incident gained some notoriety when it and other videos of the on-air gaffe appeared on YouTube, making Erdman and MNDW the subject of a joke on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! Anastos apologized for the incident on the following night's 10 p.m. newscast.

On June 5, 2014, MNDW relaunched its 6 p.m. newscast as a more topical, interactive program; on June 6, the station launched the entertainment, lifestyle and music program Friday Night Live (airing during the timeslot normally occupied by the second half-hour of the 10 p.m. newscast). This was followed by the June 7 debut of hourly news updates that air weekend mornings between 9 a.m. and noon (MNDW is the only news-producing English language network O&O in the New Donk City market that does not carry a full-fledged local newscast on Saturday and/or Sunday mornings, and is one of two Fox owned-and-operated stations without a weekend morning newscast, alongside KVTT in Los Angeles).

Titles[]

  • Late Night News (1944–1945)
  • TV 5 Late Report (1945–1962)
  • TV 5 24-Hours (1962–1967)
  • The Ten O'clock News (1967–present)
  • Good Day New Donk (1988–present)
  • Fox News (1987–1997)
  • Fox 5 News (1997–present)

Theme history[]

  • Production Music: Panic E – Berry Music Co., Ltd. (1967–1977)
  • 10 O'clock News Theme – David Amram (1977–1984)
  • Metromedia News Theme (1984–1986)
  • Fox O&O News Package – VTS Productions (1986–1992)
  • Investigating – Edd Kalehoff Productions (1990)
  • Good Day – Edd Kalehoff Productions (1991–1996)
  • Production Music: Shapes of Hamsa – de Wolfe Music (1992–1994)
  • Top 10 – Edd Kalehoff Productions (1996–1997)
  • Good Day New York – Andy Zulla (1996–2001)
  • Ten O'clock News – Andy Zulla (1998–1999)
  • WNYW News – Andy Zulla (1999–2001)
  • Fox 5 News – Andy Zulla (2001–2006)
  • Fox Affiliate News Theme – OSI Music (2006–2020)
  • Beyond – Stephen Arnold Music (2019–present)

In popular culture[]

MNDW was portrayed in an episode of the Fox animated comedy Futurama, titled "When Aliens Attack", in which the station was accidentally knocked off the air by Philip J. Fry in 1999. That resulted in angry Omicronians invading Earth in the year 3000 (having received the broadcast signal 1000 years later being 1000 light-years away) and demanding to see the end of an Ally McBeal-esque program called Single Female Lawyer.

Technical information[]

Subchannels[]

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of MNDW
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
5.1 720p 16:9 MNDW Fox
5.2 480i Movies! Movies!
5.3 Weather Fox Weather
5.4 theGrio TheGrio
5.5 Catchy Catchy Comedy

Analog-to-digital conversion[]

MNDW discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 5, at 11:59 p.m. ET on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television; the shutdown occurred during the closing credits of a syndicated rerun of The Simpsons. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 44, using PSIP to display MNDW's virtual channel as 5 on digital television receivers. It carried MMOR's programming on digital subchannel 5.2 until 2009, when it changed the PSIP data to identify the virtual channel carrying MMOR's programming to 9.2. As of 2019, a channel of MMOR's programming is no longer multiplexed with MNDW.

Gallery[]

Template:New Donk City TV

V • T • E Broadcast television stations by affiliation in the Mushroom Kingdom
Stations listed in bold are O&Os

affiliates
MABC-TV 7 (New Donk City) • MAKE-TV 15 (Wakeport) • MCI 6 (Seaside Town) • MCVB-TV 5 (Bonneton) • MCVM-TV 27 (Acorn Plains) • MDBJ 7 (Decalburg) • MDCN 5 (Toad Town) • MGT-TV (Toad Town) • MGUN-TV 9 (Shy Guy Bazaar) • MHAS-TV 11 (Baskania) • MICS 20 (Prism Island) • MJLA-TV 12 (Yoshi's Island) • MKIV 4 (Neo Bowser City) • MLOS 13 (Pastadena) • MNXV-TV 15 (Tostarena) • MOLO-TV 8 (Outlook Point) • MPQT 11 (Lavalava Island) • MROL 9 (Diamond City) • MRTV 6 Rogueport • MSOC-TV 9 Crown City • MTID-TV 13 Isle Delfino • MTVM 36 (Mushroom City) • MTVQ 36 (Faire Town) • MTWO 2 (Windmillville) • MXEX-TV 8 Mushridge • MZVN-TV 38 Plack Beach • WIWD 12 Wuhu Island

affiliates
MABH 22 (Toad Harbor) • MABN-TV 31 (New Donk City) • MABT 40 (Toad Town) • MAPT 33 (Acorn Plains) • MCEE-LD 16 (Crown City) • MDFO 9 (Isle Delfino) • MDJA 15 (Windmillville) • MDKT-LD 31 (Shiver City) • MIRT 30 (Neo Bowser City) • MKAO-TV 23 (Rogueport) • MMDP 16 (Diamond City) • MPLY 12 (Outlook Point) • MSLS-TV 10 (Decalburg) • MZAL-TV 17 (Yoshi's Island) • WATS-DT 62 (Wuhu Island)

affiliates
MAEL 10 (Rogueport) • MBBH-TV 40 (Plack Beach) • MBUP 24 (Prism Island) • MCBS-TV 2 2 (New Donk City) • MDYE 4 (Yoshi's Island) • MELE 11 (Toad Town) • MFAS 27 (Mushroom City) • MFSB-TV 3 (Bonneton) • MHBS 17 (Faire Town) • MHLD 13 (Shy Guy Bazaar) • MISL-TV 11 (Isle Delfino) • MJKP 24 (Lavalava Island) • MJOX-TV 47 (Acorn Plains) • MLGB-TV 42 (Wakeport) • MLMS-TV 2 (Lonesome Mushroom) • MLVD-TV 2 (Daisy Hills) • MPIX-TV 5 (Toad Harbor) • MRSE-TV 13 (Diamond City) • MSET-TV 13 Decalburg • MSPA-TV 7 (Star Hill) • MTOP-TV 2 (Tycoon Town) • MTOS-TV 5 (Tostarena) • MTTV 4 (Baskania) • MVUE-DT 8 (Toad City) • MWBT-TV 3 (Crown City) • WDGI 5 Wuhu Island

affiliates
MCEN 13 (New Donk City) • MCIA 3 (Prism Island) • MFMY-TV 2 (Decalburg) • MFTA-TV 14 (Toad Town) • MINK-TV 11 (Plack Beach) • MISC-TV 7 (Isle Delfino) • MIVD-TV 4 (Diamond City) • MIXT 9 (Toad Harbor) • MRNC-TV 34 (Rogueport) • MSCS 16 (Pastadena) • MSDK 4 (Faire Town) • MSNB-TV 9 (Neo Bowser City) • MSYX-TV 6 (Dry Dry Outpost) • MTBN 9 (Bonneton) • MTOG 7 (Outlook Point) • MTVK 3 (Tostarena) • MTVY 42 (Mushroom City) • MTWS 2 (Acorn Plains) • MUSA 7 (Yoshi's Island) • MWKT-TV 5 (Wakeport) • MWWL-TV 4 (Windmillville) • WBBK 16 (Wuhu Island)

affiliates
MCCB 18 (Crown City) • MDCW 33 (Isle Delfino) • MDWB 56 (Lonesome Mushroom) • MESH-TV 8 (Baskania) • MGHH 47 (Lavalava Island) • MHDF-TV 7 (Tostarena) • MICW 62 (Pastadena) • MMCW 51 (Decalburg) • MMDK 24 (Diamond City) • MONO-TV 29 (Mushroom City) • MRCW 17 (Rogueport) • MTHC-TV 4 (Toad Harbor) • MTOA 49 (Toad Town) • MXCW 46 (Plack Beach) • MXIP 11 (New Donk City) • MYCW 50 (Yoshi's Island) • WGNW-TV 47 (Wuhu Island)

affiliates
MAZA-TV 23 (Wakeport) • MFOX-TV 30 (Acorn Plains) • MFTP-TV 24 (Plack Beach) • MFTX-TV 24 (Diamond City) • MFXD 58 (Decalburg) • MFXT 25 (Bonneton) • MHNS-TV 21 (Shiver City) • MITI 6 (Faire Town) • MJZY 46 (Crown City) • MLJQ 49 (Mushroom City) • MNDW 5 (New Donk City) • MOPM 28 (Outlook Point) • MPFM 8 (Prism Island) • MRDT 11 (Shy Guy Bazaar) • MRPM-TV 39 (Rogueport) • MSAF 20 (Yoshi's Island) • MSDV-TV 12 (Dry Dry Outpost) • MSTA-TV 10 (Tostarena) • MTAT-TV 24 (Neo Bowser City) • MTJM 23 (Bob-omb Battlefield) • MTOC-TV 25 (Toad City) • MTTN-TV 9 (Toad Town) • MTVU 2 (Toad Harbor) • MVVU-TV 5 (Isle Delfino) • MXBA 59 (Baskania) • MYHG 35 (Lavalava Island) • WUHU-TV 9 (Wuhu Island)

affiliates
MACY-TV 15 (Toad Town) MCIA-DT2 3.2 (Prism Island) • MGCT 30 (Yoshi's Island) • MICU-TV 36 (Toad Harbor) • MMMP 36 (Neo Bowser City) • MMOR-TV 9 (New Donk City) • MMYD 21 (Isle Delfino) • MMYT 55 (Crown City) MTVZ 33 (Decalburg) • MUAB 43 (Rogueport) • MUTS 45 (Tostarena) • MVAU 23 (Mushroom City) • MXLV-TV 45 (Mushridge) • WSLN 27 (Starry Beach)

affiliates
MAND 13 (Prism Island) • MBSR 20 (Acorn Plains) • MCNC-TV 36 (Crown City) • MDAL-TV 5 (Decalburg) • MDMK-DT 11 (Diamond City) • MDSU 6 (Windmillville) • MFTJ-TV 44 (Faire Town) • MGTP 12 (Daisy Hills) • MHSE 8 (Bob-omb Battlefield) • MIDL 3 (Isle Delfino) • MKLW 19 (Mushroom City) • MLMD 10 (Lonesome Mushroom) • MNBC 4 (New Donk City) • MNVH 4 (Lavalava Island) • MPBK 32 (Plack Beach) • MRBE 28 (Wakeport) • MRC-TV 9 (Yoshi's Island) • MRTM-TV 2 (Rogueport) • MSDL 3 (Shy Guy Bazaar) • MTAR 12 (Tostarena) • MTHR 13 (Baskania) • MTMK-TV 7 (Toad Town) • MTTM-DT 4 (Tycoon Town) • MTVN 11 (Toad Harbor) • MVIT 30 (Bonneton) • MYFF 4 (Shiver City) • WWNB 3 (Wuhu Island)

member stations
MDEC 25 (Decalburg) • MDMV 10 (Windmillville) • MFIP 35 (Mushroom City) • MFLO 50 (Tycoon Town) • MFRE-DT 43 (Faire Town) • MIDX 42 (Isle Delfino) • MNBE 5 (Neo Bowser City) • MNET 25 (New Donk City) • MOCY 23 (Yoshi's Island) • MPIC 50 (Prism Island) • MPLK 30 (Plack Beach) • MQED 54 (Toad Harbor) • MRGP-TV 12 (Rogueport) • MSCM 27 (Shiver City) • MTVI 42 (Crown City) • MWKR-TV 4 (Dry Dry Outpost)

affiliates
MBTV 39 (Neo Bowser City) • MLNM-TV 20 (Lonesome Mushroom) • MNDU 47 (New Donk City) • MSQY-LD 51 (Shiver City) • MSTS 48 (Toad Harbor) • MTLS 27 (Toad Harbor) • MTTA 39 (Tostarena) • WTWI-CD 51 (Wedge Island)

affiliates
MALV 17 (Baskania) • MBGM-LD 28 (Shiveria Town) • MBJR 24 (Neo Bowser City) • MKSS 21 (Toad Town) • MLAY 44 (Decalburg) • MSTR 64 (Windmillville) • MTSN 33 (New Donk City) • MUSH-TV 56 (Toad Harbor) • MWRO-TV 46 (Diamond City)

affiliates
MFTH-DT 66 (Toad Harbor) • MFUT-DT 68 (New Donk City) • MGTV-DT 55 (Toad Town) • WSFT 40 (Wedge Island)

affiliates
MDTV-DT 14 (Toad Harbor) • MTVW-DT 33 (Tostarena) • MUTT-DT 45 (Toad Town) • MXTV-DT 41 (New Donk City) • WUWI 14 (Wedge Island)

affiliates
MGTP-DT2 12.2 (Daisy Hills) • MLJQ-DT2 49.2 (Mushroom City) • MMUH-CD 25 (Isle Delfino) • MTTT (Toad Town) • MTVZ-DT2 33.2 Decalburg

Other stations
MAXN-TV 64 (Ind., Crown City) • MHDH 7 (Ind., Bonneton) • MLND-TV 55 (Ind., New Donk City) • MNDM-TV 43 (Ind., New Donk City) • MOFY-TV 20 (Ind., Toad Harbor) • MPOD 26 (Ind., Toad Harbor) • MPYX 44 (Ind., Toad Harbor) • MTSW 61 (Ind., Tostarena) • MTTG 23 (Ind., Toad Town) • MXTR-TV 64 (Ind., Neo Bowser City)

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