WFTY-TV
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| WFTY-TV (satellite of WFUT-TV, Newark, New Jersey/ New York, New York) |
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| Smithtown, New York | |
| Channels | Analog: 67 (UHF) |
| Affiliations | TeleFutura |
| Owner | Univision Communications, Inc. (Univision New York, LLC) |
| First air date | November 18, 1973 |
| Call letters’ meaning | TeleFuTura New York |
| Former callsigns | WSNL-TV (1973-1987) WHSI (1987-1992) WHSI-TV (1992-2001) WFTY (2001-2003) |
| Former affiliations | independent (1973-1975) silent (1975-1979) independent (1979-1987) Wometco Home Theater (1977-1985) HSN (1987-2001) independent (2001-2002) |
| Transmitter Power | 2630 kW (analog) 150 kW (digital) |
| Height | 219 m (analog) 203.7 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 60553 |
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| Website | TeleFutura |
WFTY-TV is one of two TeleFutura network-Owned stations for the New York City market, along with WFUT-TV. Owned by the Univision Broadcast Group, the station is licenced to Smithtown, New York and serves Long Island.
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[edit] History
WFTY first signed on November 18, 1973 as WSNL-TV, but this independent station went bankrupt and signed off for the last time on June 13, 1975. It returned to the air on December 4, 1979, simulcasting Newark's WWHT (now WFUT) with a mixed independent / subscription television format. On January 30, 1980, an electrical fire nearly destroyed the station's studios, forcing WSNL to again cease broadcasting, this time until July 1980. In 1985, WSNL and WWHT discontinued the independent and subscription programming in favor of music videos. By the fall of 1986, the stations became WHSI and WHSE when they were sold to the Home Shopping Network. The two stations would run HSN programming for the next fifteen years.
In the late 1990s, HSN's broadcasting arm (Silver King Television) planned to switch their stations to an independent format, with WHSE/WHSI slated to make the change in 2001. Late in 2000, however, USA Broadcasting, who owned HSN by that time, decided to sell their stations to Univision, meaning that WHSI would (instead of returning to an independent format) switch to AIN/UATV, networks generally used by low-powered stations, before becoming a charter Telefutura affiliate on January 14, 2002, re-called as WFTY
[edit] Trivia
The WFTY call letters were formerly used by Washington, DC CW Affiliate, WDCW while they were an independent station.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Univision
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WFTY
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WFTY-TV
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