We Now Pause For Station Identification

Here is a clip of a local television identification from 1948 for WABD TV, Channel 5 in New York City.







WABD was owned by Allen B. DuMont Laboratories and was the flagship station of the DuMont Television Network. The network collapsed in 1955. In the late 1950s the station's call letters were changed to WNEW. In 1996, after News Corporation bought the old Metromedia TV stations including WNEW, the station's call letters were changed to the current WNYW.