WFTY-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = WFTY-TV
(satellite of WFUT-TV,
Newark, New Jersey/
New York, New York)
city =
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding =
analog = 67 (UHF)
digital = 23 (UHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = TeleFutura
network =
founded =
airdate = November 18, 1973
location = Smithtown, New York
callsign_meaning = TeleFuTura New York
former_callsigns = WSNL-TV (1973-1987)
WHSI (1987-1992)
WHSI-TV (1992-2001)
WFTY (2001-2003)
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Univision Communications, Inc.
licensee = Univision New York, LLC
sister_stations =
former_affiliations = independent (1973-1975)
silent (1975-1979)
independent (1979-1987)
Wometco Home Theater (1977-1985)
HSN (1987-2001)
independent (2001-2002)
effective_radiated_power = 2630 kW (analog)
150 kW (digital)
HAAT = 219 m (analog)
203.7 m (digital)
class =
facility_id = 60553
coordinates = coord|40|53|23|N|72|57|11.3|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.univision.com/content/channel.jhtml?chid=6&schid=1611 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.

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

Trivia

The WFTY call letters were formerly used by Washington, DC CW Affiliate, WDCW while they were an independent station; the calls stood for the station's channel number, Channel 50.

ee also

*WFUT

External links

* [http://www.univision.com/ Univision]
*TVQ|WFTY
*BIA|WFTY|TV|TV