WNUV

WNUV
Brand	CW Baltimore
City of License	Baltimore, Maryland
Market	Baltimore, Maryland
Channel	25.3 digital (ATSC 1.0) 25.5007 (ATSC 3.0) 54 virtual 54.2 subcarrier: (Antenna TV) 54.3 (Comet) 54.4 (Stadium) Formerly: 54 analog (1982-2009) 40 digital (2001-19)
Network Affiliation	Current: The CW Historic: Independent (1982-1993) PTEN (1993-1995) UPN (1995-1998) The WB (1998-2006)
Founded	1982
Company	Cunningham Broadcasting (Under Sinclair management through LMA; virtual triopoly with WBFF and WUTB)
President
Current Popular Non-Network Shows	The People's Court Celebrity Name Game Ring of Honor Wrestling The Bill Cunningham Show Divorce Court

WNUV is a CW affiliate in Baltimore, Maryland. The station broadcasts on digital channel 25.3 displayed to tuners on virtual channel 54 and is owned by Cunningham Broacasting and managed by Sinclair Broadcast Group under a local marketing agreement. Its sister stations are FOX affiliate WBFF and MyNetworkTV affiliate WUTB channel 45.2 (a subchannel of WBFF).

WNUV first began in 1982 as an Independent station. In 1993, the station became a PTEN affiliate, then also became a UPN affiliate in 1995 and was the original UPN affiliate for Baltimore before losing the network to WUTB in 1998 and became a WB affiliate. In 2006, UPN and The WB shut down and merged into The CW and WNUV eventually became an affiliate of The CW.

WNUV is the "lighthouse station" for the NextGen ATSC standard. They will host simulcasts of four other Baltimore stations in ATSC 3.0. The NextGen roster in Baltimore is as follows:

Virtual	ATSC 3.0 Physical	Name	Programming
2.1	25.5004	WMAR	ABC
11.1	25.5003	WBAL	NBC
22.1	25.5006	WMPT	PBS
45.1	25.5002	WBFF	Fox
54.1	25.5007	WNUV	CW

To effect maintaining service for ATSC 1.0 receivers, WNUV has moved the RF transmissions of their subcarriers--Antenna TV, Comet and Stadium--to the subcarrier tiers of WMAR and WBAL while they retain 54.x as their virtuals.

External Links

• Query the FCC's TV station database for WNUV