W (New York City Subway service)

The W Broadway Local was a rapid transit service of the New York City Subway's B Division that ran from July 21, 2001 to June 25, 2010. Its route emblem, or "bullet", was colored sunflower yellow since it used the BMT Broadway Line in Manhattan. In addition to the Broadway Line, the W served the BMT Astoria Line in Queens and used the 60th Street Tunnel to travel under the East River between Queens and Manhattan during its nine-year history. It also ran in Brooklyn until 2004, serving the BMT Fourth Avenue and West End lines.

Service history

The W was introduced on July 22, 2001 when the Manhattan Bridge north tracks were closed for reconstruction. The B had run full-time from Coney Island – Stillwell Avenue to Manhattan via the BMT West End Line and Manhattan Bridge north tracks onto the IND Sixth Avenue Line, but had to be split as a result of the reconstruction project. A similar split had been made from 1986 to 1988, when a part-time orange diamond B only ran north of 34th Street. Meanwhile, a full-time (though only in Brooklyn at nights) yellow B ran from Coney Island across the south side of the bridge and up the BMT Broadway Line into Queens. This old pattern was effectively restored in 2001, but instead of having two "B" services, the Brooklyn service became the W. This route began at Coney Island and ran up the West End Line (local), BMT Fourth Avenue Line (express), Manhattan Bridge south tracks, Broadway Line (express, switching to local for 49th Street), and BMT Astoria Line (express during rush hours in the peak direction) to Astoria – Ditmars Boulevard. Evening service ended at 57th Street in Manhattan (using the express tracks and bypassing 49th Street), late night service at 36th Street in Brooklyn, and weekend service at Atlantic Avenue – Pacific Street in Brooklyn.

SoHo (Australian TV channel)

SoHo is an Australian cable and satellite channel available on Foxtel, Austar and Optus Television's subscription platforms. Originally a retro channel, it moved into Women's interest programming around the late 1990s. Later on it dropped promoting itself as a women's channel, instead focusing on its drama programming.

After several on-air creative rebrands, and a repositioning to being a full drama channel, dropping much of its talk programming in recent years, W relaunched as SoHo, a brand that launched in New Zealand on August, 2012 as a monthly payment channel. SoHo now specializes in Drama, Thriller and Horror television programming.

History

The channel began life as FX in 1995 and became available on Austar in April 1999. It was relaunched as W. in 2003, shortly before digital broadcasting began. W screened original Australian programming such as Beauty and the Beast, Love My Way, From Here to Maternity and Studio A with Simon Burke. It also had Pay-TV rights to many popular US primetime drama series such as Pushing Dasies and The Wire and repeats of many other series.

WU

WU (as an abbreviation) may stand for:

Universities

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