Введение
WVEN TV (канал 43) – телеканал, лицензированный в Мельбурне, штат Флорида, США, и являющийся региональным телеканалом для испаноязычной сети Univision. Он принадлежит и управляется TelevisaUnivision совместно с низкомощной станцией UniMás класса A WRCF CD (канал 29). Обе станции совместно используют студии на улице Дуглас в Алтамонте-Спрингс; передатчик WVEN TV расположен в неинкорпорированном поселении Битло, штат Флорида.
WVEN TV (channel 43) is a television station licensed to Melbourne, Florida, United States, serving as the Orlando area outlet for the Spanish language network Univision. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside low power, Class A UniMás station WRCF CD (channel 29). The two stations share studios on Douglas Avenue in Altamonte Springs; WVEN TV's transmitter is located in unincorporated Bithlo, Florida. History
The station began operation on July 5, 1982, as an independent station under the call sign WMOD. It was owned by Press Broadcasting, and programmed a general entertainment format with an emphasis on movies and drama series, along with some game shows. The station's original studio facilities were located on Enterprise Court in Melbourne. Shows broadcast by the station in its early years included among others Ironside, Bonanza, Soap, One Day at a Time, The Joker's Wild and Tic Tac Dough. In 1984, WMOD became a more traditional independent station, and added sitcoms (such as The Brady Bunch, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, The Lucy Show, All in the Family, The Odd Couple and The Honeymooners) and cartoons (such as Inspector Gadget, Super Friends and He Man''). Being licensed to Melbourne placed the station at a disadvantage, as its transmitter was located 50 mile (80 km) southeast of Orlando due to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules at the time that required a station's transmitter to be located within 15 mile (24 km) of its city of license; the signal reached Orlando with only grade B coverage and no signal at all was receivable in Daytona Beach. As a result, the station received low ratings despite decent programming. Soon afterwards, the FCC allocated a commercial license to Clermont, a western suburb of Orlando in Lake County, on UHF channel 68. Press applied for the license in 1985, and received it in March 1986. The plan was for Press Broadcasting to sell off WMOD to the Home Shopping Network at the same time as the company's new station on channel 68 was built and signed on the air. In the meantime, WMOD agreed to affiliate with HSN on a part time basis. Initially in October 1986, WMOD began carrying HSN programming during the overnight hours. In January 1987, HSN programming was expanded to the midday hours and by the summer of 1987, the network occupied 18 hours of WMOD's daily schedule. General entertainment programming continued to run on the station evenings from 5 to 11 p. m.
The station still was unable to move its programming unit of general entertainment shows to channel 68 by the fall. Financial constraints also prevented them from moving forward. In order to finish building the new station, in January 1988, WMOD's channel 43 signal was sold to HSN affiliate company, Blackstar Broadcasting. That February, it began to run HSN full time (except for a few hours of religious and public affairs shows on Sunday mornings), and changed its call letters to WBSF. Its cartoons and other barter shows moved to WAYK (channel 56, now WOPX TV), another Melbourne station with an even weaker signal than channel 43 had. Other existing programming was dropped and moved in November 1988 to the newly built WKCF (channel 68, which relocated to channel 18 in 1992). When the FCC relaxed ownership restrictions for television stations in 1996, Blackstar sold its stations, including WBSF, to Silver King Broadcasting. Barry Diller later bought the Home Shopping Network soon afterwards. After HSN bought USA Networks, a new plan for WBSF emerged. Channel 43 was to become a general entertainment independent station once again by 2002, along with other stations that were owned by USA Broadcasting. That plan, however, did not materialize, as WBSF and the other USA Broadcasting stations were sold to Univision Communications in 2001. The sale was finalized in January 2002, and the station became an affiliate of TeleFutura under the new call sign of WOTF (the WBSF calls have since been reassigned to a CW affiliate in Bay City, Michigan). In May 2010, the station began broadcasting its network programming in 1080i high definition. In January 2014, the station added subchannel network GetTV. In August 2014, Escape TV launched on 43.4.
История
WVEN TV (channel 43) is a television station licensed to Melbourne, Florida, United States, serving as the Orlando area outlet for the Spanish language network Univision. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside low power, Class A UniMás station WRCF CD (channel 29). The two stations share studios on Douglas Avenue in Altamonte Springs; WVEN TV's transmitter is located in unincorporated Bithlo, Florida. History
The station began operation on July 5, 1982, as an independent station under the call sign WMOD. It was owned by Press Broadcasting, and programmed a general entertainment format with an emphasis on movies and drama series, along with some game shows. The station's original studio facilities were located on Enterprise Court in Melbourne. Shows broadcast by the station in its early years included among others Ironside, Bonanza, Soap, One Day at a Time, The Joker's Wild and Tic Tac Dough. In 1984, WMOD became a more traditional independent station, and added sitcoms (such as The Brady Bunch, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, The Lucy Show, All in the Family, The Odd Couple and The Honeymooners) and cartoons (such as Inspector Gadget, Super Friends and He Man''). Being licensed to Melbourne placed the station at a disadvantage, as its transmitter was located 50 mile (80 km) southeast of Orlando due to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules at the time that required a station's transmitter to be located within 15 mile (24 km) of its city of license; the signal reached Orlando with only grade B coverage and no signal at all was receivable in Daytona Beach. As a result, the station received low ratings despite decent programming. Soon afterwards, the FCC allocated a commercial license to Clermont, a western suburb of Orlando in Lake County, on UHF channel 68. Press applied for the license in 1985, and received it in March 1986. The plan was for Press Broadcasting to sell off WMOD to the Home Shopping Network at the same time as the company's new station on channel 68 was built and signed on the air. In the meantime, WMOD agreed to affiliate with HSN on a part time basis. Initially in October 1986, WMOD began carrying HSN programming during the overnight hours. In January 1987, HSN programming was expanded to the midday hours and by the summer of 1987, the network occupied 18 hours of WMOD's daily schedule. General entertainment programming continued to run on the station evenings from 5 to 11 p. m.
The station still was unable to move its programming unit of general entertainment shows to channel 68 by the fall. Financial constraints also prevented them from moving forward. In order to finish building the new station, in January 1988, WMOD's channel 43 signal was sold to HSN affiliate company, Blackstar Broadcasting. That February, it began to run HSN full time (except for a few hours of religious and public affairs shows on Sunday mornings), and changed its call letters to WBSF. Its cartoons and other barter shows moved to WAYK (channel 56, now WOPX TV), another Melbourne station with an even weaker signal than channel 43 had. Other existing programming was dropped and moved in November 1988 to the newly built WKCF (channel 68, which relocated to channel 18 in 1992). When the FCC relaxed ownership restrictions for television stations in 1996, Blackstar sold its stations, including WBSF, to Silver King Broadcasting. Barry Diller later bought the Home Shopping Network soon afterwards. After HSN bought USA Networks, a new plan for WBSF emerged. Channel 43 was to become a general entertainment independent station once again by 2002, along with other stations that were owned by USA Broadcasting. That plan, however, did not materialize, as WBSF and the other USA Broadcasting stations were sold to Univision Communications in 2001. The sale was finalized in January 2002, and the station became an affiliate of TeleFutura under the new call sign of WOTF (the WBSF calls have since been reassigned to a CW affiliate in Bay City, Michigan). In May 2010, the station began broadcasting its network programming in 1080i high definition. In January 2014, the station added subchannel network GetTV. In August 2014, Escape TV launched on 43.4.
Станция начала вещание 5 июля 1982 года как независимый телеканал под позывным WMOD. Владельцем была компания Press Broadcasting, которая транслировала развлекательный формат с упором на фильмы и драматические сериалы, а также некоторые игровые шоу. Первоначальные студии станции располагались на улице Энтерпрайз-Корт в Мельбурне. В первые годы вещания станция транслировала такие программы, как Ironside, Bonanza, Soap, One Day at a Time, The Joker's Wild и Tic Tac Dough. В 1984 году WMOD стал более традиционным независимым каналом и добавил в сетку ситкомы (такие как The Brady Bunch, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, The Lucy Show, All in the Family, The Odd Couple и The Honeymooners) и мультфильмы (такие как Inspector Gadget, Super Friends и He-Man). Лицензия, выданная в Мельбурне, ставила станцию в невыгодное положение, поскольку её передатчик находился в 80 километрах к юго-востоку от Орландо из-за правил Федеральной комиссии по связи (FCC), действовавших в то время и требовавших, чтобы передатчик станции располагался в пределах 24 километров от города, указанного в лицензии; сигнал достигал Орландо только с покрытием класса B, а в Дэйтона-Бич сигнал не принимался вовсе. В результате станция имела низкие рейтинги, несмотря на достойную программу. Вскоре после этого FCC выделила коммерческую лицензию Клермонту, западному пригороду Орландо в округе Лейк, на УВЧ-канале 68. Press подала заявку на получение лицензии в 1985 году и получила её в марте 1986 года. Планировалось, что Press Broadcasting продаст WMOD сети Home Shopping Network одновременно со строительством и запуском новой станции на канале 68. В то же время WMOD согласилась сотрудничать с HSN на неполный рабочий день. В октябре 1986 года WMOD начала транслировать программы HSN в ночное время. В январе 1987 года программирование HSN было расширено до дневных часов, а к лету 1987 года сеть занимала 18 часов ежедневного эфирного времени WMOD. Общеразвлекательные программы продолжали транслироваться на станции по вечерам с 17:00 до 23:00.
WVEN TV (channel 43) is a television station licensed to Melbourne, Florida, United States, serving as the Orlando area outlet for the Spanish language network Univision. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside low power, Class A UniMás station WRCF CD (channel 29). The two stations share studios on Douglas Avenue in Altamonte Springs; WVEN TV's transmitter is located in unincorporated Bithlo, Florida. History
The station began operation on July 5, 1982, as an independent station under the call sign WMOD. It was owned by Press Broadcasting, and programmed a general entertainment format with an emphasis on movies and drama series, along with some game shows. The station's original studio facilities were located on Enterprise Court in Melbourne. Shows broadcast by the station in its early years included among others Ironside, Bonanza, Soap, One Day at a Time, The Joker's Wild and Tic Tac Dough. In 1984, WMOD became a more traditional independent station, and added sitcoms (such as The Brady Bunch, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, The Lucy Show, All in the Family, The Odd Couple and The Honeymooners) and cartoons (such as Inspector Gadget, Super Friends and He Man''). Being licensed to Melbourne placed the station at a disadvantage, as its transmitter was located 50 mile (80 km) southeast of Orlando due to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules at the time that required a station's transmitter to be located within 15 mile (24 km) of its city of license; the signal reached Orlando with only grade B coverage and no signal at all was receivable in Daytona Beach. As a result, the station received low ratings despite decent programming. Soon afterwards, the FCC allocated a commercial license to Clermont, a western suburb of Orlando in Lake County, on UHF channel 68. Press applied for the license in 1985, and received it in March 1986. The plan was for Press Broadcasting to sell off WMOD to the Home Shopping Network at the same time as the company's new station on channel 68 was built and signed on the air. In the meantime, WMOD agreed to affiliate with HSN on a part time basis. Initially in October 1986, WMOD began carrying HSN programming during the overnight hours. In January 1987, HSN programming was expanded to the midday hours and by the summer of 1987, the network occupied 18 hours of WMOD's daily schedule. General entertainment programming continued to run on the station evenings from 5 to 11 p. m.
The station still was unable to move its programming unit of general entertainment shows to channel 68 by the fall. Financial constraints also prevented them from moving forward. In order to finish building the new station, in January 1988, WMOD's channel 43 signal was sold to HSN affiliate company, Blackstar Broadcasting. That February, it began to run HSN full time (except for a few hours of religious and public affairs shows on Sunday mornings), and changed its call letters to WBSF. Its cartoons and other barter shows moved to WAYK (channel 56, now WOPX TV), another Melbourne station with an even weaker signal than channel 43 had. Other existing programming was dropped and moved in November 1988 to the newly built WKCF (channel 68, which relocated to channel 18 in 1992). When the FCC relaxed ownership restrictions for television stations in 1996, Blackstar sold its stations, including WBSF, to Silver King Broadcasting. Barry Diller later bought the Home Shopping Network soon afterwards. After HSN bought USA Networks, a new plan for WBSF emerged. Channel 43 was to become a general entertainment independent station once again by 2002, along with other stations that were owned by USA Broadcasting. That plan, however, did not materialize, as WBSF and the other USA Broadcasting stations were sold to Univision Communications in 2001. The sale was finalized in January 2002, and the station became an affiliate of TeleFutura under the new call sign of WOTF (the WBSF calls have since been reassigned to a CW affiliate in Bay City, Michigan). In May 2010, the station began broadcasting its network programming in 1080i high definition. In January 2014, the station added subchannel network GetTV. In August 2014, Escape TV launched on 43.4.
Станции по-прежнему не удавалось перенести блок общеразвлекательных программ на канал 68 к осени. Финансовые ограничения также не позволили им продвинуться вперед. Чтобы завершить строительство новой станции, в январе 1988 года сигнал канала 43 WMOD был продан дочерней компании HSN, Blackstar Broadcasting. В феврале того же года станция начала транслировать HSN в течение всего дня (за исключением нескольких часов религиозных и общественно-политических программ по воскресеньям утром) и изменила свой позывной на WBSF. Мультфильмы и другие программы, полученные в обмен на рекламу, перешли на WAYK (канал 56, ныне WOPX TV), другой телеканал в Мельбурне с ещё более слабым сигналом, чем у канала 43. Другие существующие программы были закрыты и перенесены в ноябре 1988 года на недавно построенный WKCF (канал 68, который в 1992 году перешел на канал 18). Когда в 1996 году FCC ослабила ограничения на владение телевизионными станциями, Blackstar продала свои станции, включая WBSF, компании Silver King Broadcasting. Вскоре после этого Барри Диллер купил сеть Home Shopping Network. После того, как HSN приобрела USA Networks, появился новый план для WBSF. К 2002 году канал 43 должен был снова стать независимым общеразвлекательным каналом, наряду с другими станциями, принадлежащими USA Broadcasting. Однако этот план не был реализован, поскольку WBSF и другие станции USA Broadcasting были проданы Univision Communications в 2001 году. Продажа была завершена в январе 2002 года, и станция стала филиалом TeleFutura под новым позывным WOTF (позывные WBSF с тех пор были переназначены филиалу CW в Бей-Сити, штат Мичиган). В мае 2010 года станция начала транслировать сетевые программы в высоком разрешении 1080i. В январе 2014 года станция добавила подканал GetTV. В августе 2014 года телеканал Escape TV был запущен на 43.4.
WVEN TV (channel 43) is a television station licensed to Melbourne, Florida, United States, serving as the Orlando area outlet for the Spanish language network Univision. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision alongside low power, Class A UniMás station WRCF CD (channel 29). The two stations share studios on Douglas Avenue in Altamonte Springs; WVEN TV's transmitter is located in unincorporated Bithlo, Florida. History
The station began operation on July 5, 1982, as an independent station under the call sign WMOD. It was owned by Press Broadcasting, and programmed a general entertainment format with an emphasis on movies and drama series, along with some game shows. The station's original studio facilities were located on Enterprise Court in Melbourne. Shows broadcast by the station in its early years included among others Ironside, Bonanza, Soap, One Day at a Time, The Joker's Wild and Tic Tac Dough. In 1984, WMOD became a more traditional independent station, and added sitcoms (such as The Brady Bunch, Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, The Lucy Show, All in the Family, The Odd Couple and The Honeymooners) and cartoons (such as Inspector Gadget, Super Friends and He Man''). Being licensed to Melbourne placed the station at a disadvantage, as its transmitter was located 50 mile (80 km) southeast of Orlando due to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules at the time that required a station's transmitter to be located within 15 mile (24 km) of its city of license; the signal reached Orlando with only grade B coverage and no signal at all was receivable in Daytona Beach. As a result, the station received low ratings despite decent programming. Soon afterwards, the FCC allocated a commercial license to Clermont, a western suburb of Orlando in Lake County, on UHF channel 68. Press applied for the license in 1985, and received it in March 1986. The plan was for Press Broadcasting to sell off WMOD to the Home Shopping Network at the same time as the company's new station on channel 68 was built and signed on the air. In the meantime, WMOD agreed to affiliate with HSN on a part time basis. Initially in October 1986, WMOD began carrying HSN programming during the overnight hours. In January 1987, HSN programming was expanded to the midday hours and by the summer of 1987, the network occupied 18 hours of WMOD's daily schedule. General entertainment programming continued to run on the station evenings from 5 to 11 p. m.
The station still was unable to move its programming unit of general entertainment shows to channel 68 by the fall. Financial constraints also prevented them from moving forward. In order to finish building the new station, in January 1988, WMOD's channel 43 signal was sold to HSN affiliate company, Blackstar Broadcasting. That February, it began to run HSN full time (except for a few hours of religious and public affairs shows on Sunday mornings), and changed its call letters to WBSF. Its cartoons and other barter shows moved to WAYK (channel 56, now WOPX TV), another Melbourne station with an even weaker signal than channel 43 had. Other existing programming was dropped and moved in November 1988 to the newly built WKCF (channel 68, which relocated to channel 18 in 1992). When the FCC relaxed ownership restrictions for television stations in 1996, Blackstar sold its stations, including WBSF, to Silver King Broadcasting. Barry Diller later bought the Home Shopping Network soon afterwards. After HSN bought USA Networks, a new plan for WBSF emerged. Channel 43 was to become a general entertainment independent station once again by 2002, along with other stations that were owned by USA Broadcasting. That plan, however, did not materialize, as WBSF and the other USA Broadcasting stations were sold to Univision Communications in 2001. The sale was finalized in January 2002, and the station became an affiliate of TeleFutura under the new call sign of WOTF (the WBSF calls have since been reassigned to a CW affiliate in Bay City, Michigan). In May 2010, the station began broadcasting its network programming in 1080i high definition. In January 2014, the station added subchannel network GetTV. In August 2014, Escape TV launched on 43.4.
2017 Call Sign и канал swap
4 декабря 2017 года в рамках реструктуризации на нескольких рынках было произведено переключение программ и позывных WOTF и его сестринской станции WVEN TV: WOTF TV и его вещание UniMás перешли на телецентр, принадлежащий Entravision, используя цифровой канал 49 и виртуальный канал 26, а телеканал 43 Univision стал новой площадкой для WVEN TV. 13 октября 2021 года Univision объявила о принятии на себя операционного управления WVEN, а также филиалом Univision в районе Тампа-Бэй, WVEA TV, начиная с 1 января 2022 года, что совпало с окончанием срока действия лицензионных соглашений 31 декабря 2021 года.
Новостная операция
WVEN производит вечерние выпуски новостей в 6 и 11 вечера под брендом Noticias Univision Florida Central (ранее Noticias Univision Orlando до 2010 года), а также местные новости, которые транслируются по будним утрам во время утренней новостной программы Univision Despierta América под названием Despierta Orlando. Ранее WVEN сотрудничала с бывшей партнерской радиостанцией WNUE FM (которая с тех пор была продана Radio Training Network в середине 2021 года и теперь вещает в некоммерческом формате Christian AC), которая предоставляла им краткие сводки новостей и информацию о важных событиях по мере необходимости.
Аналого-цифровое преобразование
WVEN TV (как и WOTF TV) прекратила вещание в аналоговом формате на 43-м УКВ-канале (UHF) 12 июня 2009 года в связи с общенациональным переходом от аналогового к цифровому телевидению. Цифровой сигнал станции был перенесен с 20-го УКВ-канала (UHF), использовавшегося до перехода, на 43-й канал для дальнейшей работы.