WPIX was also famous for the many post-news editorials from to that were delivered by Richard N. Hughes , the station's vice president of news operations. His editorials ended with the legendary tagline, "What's your opinion? We'd like to know. Over the years, channel 11 has won many awards for news, and was the first independent station to win a New York-area Emmy Award for outstanding newscast, first gaining the statuette in and earning it again in It was a significant comeback for a news operation that was accused of falsifying news reports broadcasts in the late s, such as labeling stock footage as "via satellite", and saying a voice report was live from Prague when, in actuality, it was made from a pay telephone in Manhattan.
As a sidenote, WPIX's questionable news gathering practices of the late s became fodder for jokes, and may have been the inspiration for Chevy Chase 's running gag on the Weekend Update segments of Saturday Night Live during that show's first season — in which he would introduce a "file report" from a correspondent in the field, and as the file report some of which used clips of old 's cartoons or comedy one-reelers that were passed off as "File Footage," although the clips had almost nothing to do with the story being reported ends, the "correspondent" is revealed to be Chevy himself, in the studio, using an alias and holding his nose to get the "pinched" effect of voices heard by telephone.
The PIX call letters are pronounced phonetically, similar to the word "picks". With the launch of the WPIX newscast all but one of the major New York area stations now aired a nightly news program before 10 p. On October 11, changes for WPIX's weeknight newscast took effect as Kaity Tong and Jim Watkins were removed from the anchor desk, and were replaced by Jodi Applegate as a solo anchor; Watkins now serves as solo anchor for the weekend 6 and 10 p.
The revamped newscast's first week was not well received by viewers and critics alike; the station fielded numerous complaints via phone calls, emails, and Facebook comments.
In addition to its news-oriented broadcasts, WPIX was a leader in public-affairs and special events programming, inspired by its roots as the television station of the Daily News. Early on, it offered the first in-depth program to look at New York City government, called City Hall. Later on, the station produced Essence, a TV show inspired by Essence magazine and hosted by the publication's chief editor, Susan L. Editor's Desk host Richard Heffner was and still is the host of the longtime interview show The Open Mind , which was produced by channel 11 and was concurrently aired on PBS stations before moving to other New York studios.
The new numerical look eventually became the full-time logo, augmented with the WB logo after the station became a WB affiliate in The station's CW 11 logo was first used for promos and teasers announcing the imminent change to The CW, and then first used as a full-time logo on the station's newscast on September 17, The station began a gradual on-air transition in mid-October by including the new look in program promos.
The station featured the new logo in a half-hour New York Jets football pre-game show special on November 13, The transition was completed on December 1, Annex Explore. Recent blog posts Forum Most visited pages. Import pages Upload image Special pages Recent changes.
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You will receive a verification email shortly. There was a problem. To generations of New York children, channel 11 was also the home of memorable personalities. Patrick's Day parade coverage from to Channel 11 produced the Magic Garden series, which ran on the station from to Beginning in the late s and continuing through Spring , the station aired "TV PIXX", a television video game show played during commercial breaks of afternoon programs.
Kids would call into the station for the chance to control a video game via telephone in hopes of winning prizes. Channel 11 also airs a live broadcast of Midnight Mass from St. Patrick's Cathedral every Christmas Eve. The station's famous "Circle 11" logo — predating the existence of the World Trade Center, which it closely resembled — was first unveiled in an advertising billboard for WPIX with the "Circle 11" logo began appearing that year at Yankee Stadium. WPIX dropped the "Circle 11" when it rebranded as "11 Alive" in September , though it continued to appear during station editorials until around the "Alive" slogan was popularized by such stations as Atlanta's WXIA-TV, which itself has branded as "11 Alive" ever since that point, with the exception of a brief removal in ; the "Circle 11" logo returned as part of the "11 Alive" branding in , before being restored full-time in the fall of Its relaunch featured a series of humorous promos in which a fictional station employee, "Henry Tillman," was searching for a "big idea" for something uniquely New York in nature to serve as the perfect WPIX symbol.
The running gag in these ads was the fact that Tillman was constantly surrounded by — but never noticed — objects resembling a giant "11", most notably the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. In , WPIX was uplinked to satellite and became a superstation that was distributed to cable providers throughout the U. Two years later, WPIX began operating on a hour programming schedule.
Over the next few years the station engineered a slow turnaround that eventually resulted in WPIX becoming the leading independent station in the market. In , the station became the exclusive home of the New York City Marathon, carrying the event for the next five years. It was during the initial broadcast of that event that WPIX unveiled a stylized "11" logo; the new numerical look eventually became the full-time logo, augmented with The WB's logo after the station affiliated with that network in
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