WSBS-TV
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| Channels | |
| Branding | Mega TV;Mega News |
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| WRMA,WCMQ-FM,WXDJ,WMFM,WRAZ-FM | |
| History | |
| Founded | October 2, 1989 |
First air date | June 1993 |
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Call signmeaning | Spanish Broadcasting System |
| Technical information[1] | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 72053 |
| ERP | 1kW |
| HAAT | 54 m (177 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 24°33′19.8″N81°48′4.5″W/ 24.555500°N 81.801250°W |
| Translator(s) | WSBS-CD 19 (UHF)Miami |
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Public license information | |
| Website | mega |
WSBS-TV(channel 22) is atelevision stationlicensed toKey West, Florida,United States, serving as theflagship stationof the Spanish-language networkMega TV.Owned and operatedbySpanish Broadcasting System,the station maintains studios on Northwest 77th Avenue inMiami,and its transmitter is located on Bahama and Simonton Streets in Key West.
WSBS-CD(channel 19) in Miami operates as alow-power,Class Atranslatorof WSBS-TV.
History
[edit]The station was originally licensed as WYDH on October 2, 1989; the calls were changed to WEYS on October 11, 1989, and the station itself first signed on the air in June 1993. WSBS-TV has had numerous callsign changes over the years. This has caused much confusion, both among viewers and writers. In many places, the station is still referred to as WEYS TeleNoticias, andWDLP Licensing, Inc.remained the licensee for several months after the call change to WSBS-TV. Some of these calls have been reused by low-power repeater stations, themselves often subject to similar callsign shuffles (for instance, the WDLP callsign is currently used by a repeater for rivalWGEN-TV). On April 4, 2003, the station changed its call letters to WGEN-TV; it was then changed to WDLP-TV on September 24 of that year. The current WSBS-TV call letters were first adopted on July 1, 2004, before reverting to the WDLP-TV callsign on September 28, 2004. Prior to 2005, the station was co-owned with another Key West station, WGEN-TV, under the ownership of Sonia Broadcasting.
On March 1, 2006, the station became a charter station of Mega TV when the network was launched, and changed its callsign back to the previous WSBS-TV letters. Its original slate of programming includes productions aimed at youngHispanicviewers. Mega TV's format follows a very similar pattern traced by rivalTelemundostationWSCV(channel 51) andUnivisionstationWLTV(channel 23) decades earlier: by creating its own television personalities.
Technical information
[edit]Subchannels
[edit]The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 22.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | WSBS | Main WSBS-TV programming /Mega TV |
| 22.2 | 720p | VISLATN | Visión Latina (Spanishreligious) |
Analog-to-digital conversion
[edit]WSBS-TV ended programming on its analog signal, onUHFchannel 22, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United Statestransitioned from analog to digital broadcastsunder federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transitionVHFchannel 3,[3]usingvirtual channel22. WSBS is one of the only television stations in the United States to operate its digital signal on the VHFlow band,which is especially rare on channels 2 to 4 (54–72 MHz), due to interference that the band is subjected to. It chose to keep this channel in the first round of thedigital channel elections.
Translator
[edit]| City of license | Callsign | Channel | ERP | HAAT | Facility ID | Transmitter coordinates |
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| Miami | WSBS-CD | 19 | 15 kW | 285.6 m (937.0 ft) | 29547 | 25°59′10″N80°11′36.3″W/ 25.98611°N 80.193417°W |
WSBS-CA (analog UHF channel 50), which lists "Miami,etc."as itscity of license,flash cutits signal to digital in early 2010, and accordingly changed its callsign to WSBS-CD. This station has aClass Abroadcast license,meaning that although it islow-power,it has protection fromRF interferenceas full-power stations do. Like the main station, it uses virtual channel 22.1, as it is likely just an RF passthrough with nodemodulation.Its transmitter is located in theAndoversection ofMiami Gardens,immediately south of the tower facility that is used by several other Miami area television stations, and has adirectional antennathat aims mostly southeast and southwest, covering far northeasternMiami-Dade County,the city of Miami and far southeasternBroward County,up to just south ofFort Lauderdale.
References
[edit]- ^"Facility Technical Data for WSBS-TV".Licensing and Management System.Federal Communications Commission.
- ^RabbitEars TV Query for WSBS
- ^"DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on August 29, 2013.RetrievedMarch 24,2012.