Low-power TV station in Miami
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WFUN-LD
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City
| Miami, Florida
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Channels
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Branding
| America TeVe
(general)
Teveo
(LD2)
America Noticias
(newscasts)
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Affiliations
| 48.1:
Spanish
Independent
48.2:
Teveo
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Owner
| - America-CV Station Group, Inc.
- (Caribevision Holdings, Inc.)
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| WJAN-CD
,
WLMF-LD
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Founded
| 1989
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First air date
| April 27, 1989
(35 years ago)
(
1989-04-27
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Former call signs
| W27AQ (1989?1998)
W48CI (1998?1999)
WFUN-LP (1999?2002)
WFUN-CA (2002?2009)
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Former channel number(s)
| Analog:
27 (UHF, 1989?1998)
48 (UHF, 1998?2009)
Digital:
48 (UHF, 2009?2021)
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| CBS
(via
WCIX
, 1989?1995)
NBC
(via
WTVJ
, 1995?1998)
America-CV Network (2007?2012)
MundoFox
(August?December 2012)
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| Former call sign of
WAXY (790 AM)
[1]
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Licensing authority
| FCC
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Facility ID
| 60542
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Class
| LD
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ERP
| 15
kW
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HAAT
| 54.2 m (178 ft)
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Transmitter coordinates
| 25°59′9″N
80°11′37″W
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25.98583°N 80.19361°W
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25.98583; -80.19361
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Public license information
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WFUN-LD
(channel 48) is a
low-power
Spanish-language
independent
television station
in
Miami, Florida
, United States. It is owned by
America CV Station Group, Inc.
, alongside fellow independent station
WJAN-CD
(channel 41). The two stations share studios in
Hialeah Gardens
; WFUN-LD's transmitter is located on West
Hallandale Beach
Boulevard in the
Carver Ranches
section of
West Park
.
History
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The station's license application was first submitted to the
Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) in 1980, but a
construction permit
was not issued until 1988, with a
license
issued the following year as W27AQ. Owned by Skinner Broadcasting, channel 27 was intended to be a low-power independent TV station branded as "WFUN-TV"
[3]
and aimed at
Broward County
.
[1]
The station, approved to place its transmitter atop the Pompano Beach Club, would have aired sports, financial and other programming.
[4]
When W27AQ signed on April 27, however, it did not air its own programming. Instead, it was leased
[5]
to new
CBS
affiliate
WCIX
to serve areas of Broward County that its Homestead-based analog signal could not.
[6]
In the immediate wake of
Hurricane Andrew
, which collapsed the Homestead tower, W27AQ remained on the air as WCIX's only broadcast signal.
[7]
WCIX's translator network remained with the channel 6 facility after the 1995 swap between it and
WTVJ
.
[8]
In June 1998, the station ceased rebroadcasting WTVJ. It moved to UHF channel 48 and its call letters were changed to W48CI. In early 1999, its calls were changed to WFUN-LP; the station license was later upgraded to
Class A
status and its calls were altered to WFUN-CA in 2002, before reverting to
LPTV
status in 2004. In 2009, WFUN
flash-cut
its digital signal into operation on UHF channel 48.
The station has been through several ownership changes, though some of these transfers in the early 2000s appear to be within the Rodriguez family. On August 13, 2012, WFUN-LD acquired the
America TeVe
programming and format from
WJAN-CD
(channel 41) after the latter station became a charter affiliate of
MundoFox
; most of the America CV-owned stations that joined MundoFox on that date added the America TeVe format on their second digital subchannels, with the exception of
Puerto Rico
?based
WKPV and WIRS
, which broadcast TeVe on their main channels. However, MundoFox's affiliation with WJAN/WFUN would end on December 28, 2012, as the network moved its Miami affiliation to
Key West
?based
WGEN-TV
(channel 8).
[9]
Due to the loss of the MundoFox affiliation, on January 28, 2013, WJAN-CD and WFUN-LD launched a new programming format called
Teveo
, which is stylized as a 24-hour news channel that airs each weekday from 5:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. and weekends from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m. "Teveo" carries all of the station's live newscasts, along with rebroadcasts of its 6:00 and 11:00 p.m. newscasts and its
public affairs
programs including
A Mano Limpia
and
Sevcec a Fondo
. It also added live weekday hour-long 7:00 and 9:00 p.m. newscasts on that date, making it the only station in South Florida with newscasts in those timeslots (the 9:00 p.m. newscast was canceled on April 12, 2013, to make way for a news/talk program that debuted the following Monday). On weekends, "Teveo" carries a "week-in-review" selection of its news programs. Paid programming is shown at other times of the day. The channel is simulcast on WFUN-DT2, and is carried on
Comcast
channel 82,
Atlantic Broadband
channel 3 and
AT&T U-verse
channel 41. Nationally, WFUN-LD1 is available via streaming on channel 1106 on
The Roku Channel
's live TV service.
[10]
News operation
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WFUN-LD presently broadcasts 17½ hours of locally produced news and talk programming each week (with 3½ hours each weekday); WFUN-LD's news department, whose newscasts are titled
America Noticias
, only produces local newscasts on weeknights, with no live news broadcasts on weekends. In addition, the station produces the newsmagazine
Arrebatados
(which airs weekdays at 4:00 p.m.) and two news/talk programs,
Sevcec a Fondo
(which airs weeknights at 8:00 p.m.) and
A Mano Limpia
(which airs weeknights at 9:00 p.m.).
WFUN-LD is the last station in the Miami?Fort Lauderdale market to produce its local newscasts in
4:3
standard definition
?even though, as of April 2013, select programs are broadcast in
high definition
, the station maintains HD camera equipment, and on-air graphics and station promos are presented in the format. All of the station's live newscasts are also shown on
Teveo
, the station's 24-hour news format, each weekday from 5:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. and weekends from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m.
Technical information
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Subchannels
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Channel
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Video
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Aspect
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Short name
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Programming
[11]
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48.1
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720p
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16:9
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WFUN-LD
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Main WFUN-LD programming / America Teve
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48.2
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WJAN-CD
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Teveo (simulcast of WJAN-CD)
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References
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- ^
a
b
Bergman, Rhonda (December 5, 1988).
"Broward to get its very own TV station"
.
Miami Herald
. p. 18B
. Retrieved
March 30,
2020
– via Newspapers.com.
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"Facility Technical Data for WFUN-LD"
.
Licensing and Management System
.
Federal Communications Commission
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- ^
"FORT LAUDERDALE"
(PDF)
.
Broadcasting
. December 19, 1988. p. 80
. Retrieved
March 30,
2020
.
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"TV station can air in April"
.
Sun-Sentinel
. February 17, 1989. p. 3B
. Retrieved
March 30,
2020
– via Newspapers.com.
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Coto, Juan Carlos (April 27, 1989).
"Channel 6 set for broadcasts on Channel 27"
.
The Miami Herald
. p. 1B
. Retrieved
March 30,
2020
– via Newspapers.com.
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Jicha, Tom (April 27, 1989).
"Low-power station to help WCIX boost its TV signal"
.
Sun-Sentinel
. pp. 10B
. Retrieved
March 30,
2020
– via Newspapers.com.
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"Look for WCIX on Channel 27"
.
Sun-Sentinel
. August 26, 1992. p. 4E
. Retrieved
March 30,
2020
– via Newspapers.com.
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Jicha, Tom (September 9, 1995).
"Reprogram the VCRs?channels 4, 6 about to swap"
.
Sun-Sentinel
. pp. 1A,
5A
. Retrieved
March 30,
2020
– via Newspapers.com.
- ^
MundoFox leaves America Teve (WJAN/WFUN) for GENTV (WGEN)
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"Watch AmericaTeve Online for Free | The Roku Channel | Roku"
.
therokuchannel.roku.com
(Press release)
. Retrieved
21 November
2021
.
- ^
RabbitEars TV Query for WFUN
Spanish-language television stations in the state of
Florida
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Miami ? Fort Lauderdale
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- WGEN 8
(
Estrella
, Key West)
- WVFW-LD 8
(
Estrella
, Miami)
- WSBS 22
(
Mega TV
, Key West)
- WLTV 23
(
UNI
, Miami)
- WBEH-CD 38
(
Spanish Ind.
, Miami)
- WJAN-CD 41
(
ATeVe
, Miami)
- WFUN-LD 48
(
Spanish Ind.
, Miami)
- WSCV 51
(
TMD
, Fort Lauderdale)
- WEYS-LD 54
(
ALMA
, Miami)
- WAMI 69
(
UniMas
, Hollywood)
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Tampa ? St. Petersburg
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Sarasota
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Orlando ?
Daytona Beach ? Melbourne
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Fort Myers ? Naples
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Cape Coral
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West Palm Beach ? Fort Pierce
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Jacksonville
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Pensacola
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Gainesville ? Ocala
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Defunct
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O&O
stations
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Affiliates
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SBN
Affiliates
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