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Site of the Week 5/11/18: Univision New York, Teaneck NJ

Scott Fybush by Scott Fybush
May 11, 2018
in Free Content, New Jersey, New York, Tower Site of the Week
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Text and photos by SCOTT FYBUSH

Millions of Spanish-speaking viewers and listeners tune in to Univision’s TV and radio stations in the New York market every day – and yet almost none of them, I’d bet, have any idea where those stations are coming from.

Univision lobby
Univision lobby
Showcase studio
Showcase studio

When we went to pay a call on Univision’s radio stations last fall on the way into New York City for the AES and NAB New York shows, we had to consult a map, too. “500 Frank W. Burr Boulevard” is one of a group of decidedly anonymous office-park boxes in Teaneck, New Jersey, off I-95 near its split to I-80 a couple of miles west of the George Washington Bridge. There’s no signage anywhere on the building indicating that it’s home to one of the market’s top-rated TV stations – and when you head inside, the atrium could easily be a Marriott somewhere in anonymous suburbia.

And yet for 20 years or so now, this building has been home to Univision’s WXTV (Channel 41), which moved here from a similarly anonymous building on Meadowlands Parkway in Secaucus (just down the road from WWOR-TV and, for a time, Z100) in the late 1990s. (Before that? WXTV’s original home was on Main Street in its city of license, Paterson, and its original transmitter location was the Cities Service Building at 70 Pine Street in lower Manhattan!)

Showcase studio
Showcase studio
Control room
Control room

As Univision has dealt with financial crises in the last few years, it’s moved most of its radio stations in with their sister TV outlets to save on lease expenses. For the New York stations, it meant leaving 485 Madison Avenue in Manhattan a few years ago, vacating historic space that started out as CBS radio headquarters in the 1930s and was later used by Bonneville’s WRFM. Over here on the Jersey side, Univision carved out space for radio wherever it could, including the lobby. Where a receptionist once greeted visitors, there’s now a video phone – and the reception desk part of the lobby has been glassed in and turned into a showcase studio for the radio cluster.

This is one of several radio studios here equipped for video as well, with a control room that can produce content for both radio and TV – and a vintage 1940s console radio in the back of the studio, just because.

Rack room
Rack room
TV control
TV control

Moving down the hall past the lobby, there’s a spacious rack room looking out into the atrium from Univision’s sixth-floor space. It’s mostly for TV (including master control space for WXTV and its sister UniMas stations, WFUT 68 Newark and satellite WFTY 67 Smithtown, Long Island), but radio gets a row of rack space here as well.

(WXTV, incidentally, left the airwaves a few months after our visit, at least as a separate chunk of spectrum; Univision sold WXTV’s RF channel 40 and is now channel-sharing WXTV with WFUT on RF 30 from the Empire State Building, soon to move to 26 in the repack.)

WXTV studio
WXTV studio
WXTV studio
WXTV studio

Continuing down the hall, there’s a surprisingly compact studio here for WXTV’s top-rated local newscasts, with a morning talk set at one end and a news desk at the other. The backdrop of the news set opens into what had at one time been the WXTV newsroom, and while the space still looks newsroom-ish, the actual news operation has moved to another part of the building and this is now general office space.

Former newsroom
Former newsroom
WXTV control room
WXTV control room

The control room for the local newscasts sits just across the hall from the studio, and it’s the last bit of TV that we see here as we round the corner to the rest of the radio studio space.

WADO control room
WADO control room
WADO studio
WADO studio

The oldest Spanish-language station in the market, WADO (1280 New York), has a studio/control room pair here, again outfitted with cameras for streaming and TV simulcasts, though most of what airs on WADO these days is network programming.

WQBU studio
WQBU studio
WXNY studio
WXNY studio

At the end of a hallway are studios for the two FMs in the cluster: WQBU (92.7 Garden City) is the regional Mexican outlet here, “Que Buena 92.7,” with a main transmitter out on the Queens/Nassau line (where this signal began, years ago, as the original WLIR) and several on-channel boosters in the city. And in a nice corner space with a view out to the woods behind the building is WXNY (96.3 New York), “X 96.3,” with a Spanish hits format.

Thanks to Richard Ross and Nomar Vizcarrondo for the tours!

WE’RE FIRMLY IN 2023

And if you don’t have your 2023 Tower Site Calendar yet, now is the perfect time to get it. Because we have lowered the price to just $14.

The calendar has great photos of broadcast sites near and far (everywhere from Navajo Nation on the cover to Boston to Toronto to Texas, and beyond), plus a lovely “centerfold” you can keep on your wall for 2024.

It’s still shipping regularly, and you can have yours in just a couple of days!

Order your copy and you’ll see what we mean.

If you have already ordered your calendar, make sure you check out the other items in the store, too!

And don’t miss a big batch of Tri-state IDs next Wednesday, over at our sister site, TopHour.com!

Next week: NYC, 2017

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