WPHY-CD (channel 25) is alow-power,Class A television station licensed toTrenton, New Jersey, United States, serving thePhiladelphia area. It is owned byWRNN-TV Associates alongsidePrinceton, New Jersey–licensedShop LC affiliateWMCN-TV (channel 44) andWillow Grove, Pennsylvania–licensedWTVE (channel 51). WPHY-CD and WTVE share studios on East State Street in Trenton; through achannel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using WPHY-CD's spectrum from an antenna in theRoxborough section ofPhiladelphia (Trenton is part of the Philadelphia television market).

The station first broadcast in May 3, 1993 on analog channel 25, and was originally assigned the call sign W25AW, though for much of its history it branded as "WZBN-TV 25", broadcasting news and local programming.^[5][6] The station's tower was located inHamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey. The station'scall sign became W50DZ-D in January 2012 after converting to digital broadcasting on channel 50; however, digital television receivers display the station'svirtual channel 25.

The station has received several awards from theCommunity Broadcasters Association for local service and programming.^[7][8]

With the creation of a statewide and regional cable news service owned by the cable companies, cable outlets threatened to pull WZBN off their systems in the late 1990s. Protests by viewers ensured the station remained on cable.^{[citation needed]} WZBN has since expanded its reach with additional broadcasts on three competing cable systems (Verizon Fios,Cablevision,Comcast) in the area.

In 2012, the station's longtime owners, the Zanoni family, announced that they would sell W50DZ-D to NRJ TV LLC (a company unrelated to European broadcasterNRJ Radio), which already owned WTVE.^[9] The station's local programming was discontinued on June 8, 2012;^[10] the sale was completed a week later, on June 15, 2012.^[11][12]

On November 1, 2012, NRJ TV changed W50DZ-D's call sign to WPHY-CD.^[3] The WPHY call sign was previously used by two radio stations audible in the market; it was on 560 AM in Philadelphia for ten months in 1993–94, ending when that signal's heritage call signWFIL became available and was reclaimed, and it was on920 AM in Trenton from 2002 to 2008. In January 2014, Cablevision announced that it would drop WPHY from its Trenton-area systems on January 28 to accommodate amust-carry request fromMeTV affiliateKJWP (channel 2); WPHY's former channel 25 slot on Cablevision was taken byWCBS-TV fromNew York City, which lost its previous channel 2 slot on the system to KJWP.^[13] In June 2016, the station began to carry Sonlife Broadcasting Network programming;^[14] it had previously been affiliated withYoutoo America.

On December 9, 2019, it was announced that WRNN-TV Associates, owner of New York City–basedWRNN-TV, secured a deal to purchase seven full-power TV stations and oneClass A station (including WPHY-CD) from NRJ.^[1] The sale was approved by the FCC on January 23,^[2] and was completed on February 4, 2020, and would make WTVE and WPHY-CD sister stations toWMCN-TV.^[15]

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