WFTY-TV

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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 14, 1973 as WSNL-TV, but this independent station went bankrupt and had to leave the air in 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 to broadcast, this time until the summer of 1980. It returned to the air in January 1981.

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. WHSE/WHSI were slated to switch to the format 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

See also

• WFUT

External links

• [Univision]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for WFTY]

Terrestrial television>Broadcast television in the New York City market  [(Nielsen DMA #1)]
WCBS 2 (CBS)  -  WNBC 4 (NBC)  -  WNYW 5 (Fox)  -  WABC 7 (ABC)  -  WWOR 9 (UPN-to be MNTV in 09/06)  -  WPIX 11 (The WB-to be The CW in 09/06) (The Tube on DT2)  -  WNET 13 (PBS)  -  WEBR-CA 17 (GCN)  -  WLIW 21 (PBS)  -  WMBQ-CA 22 (MTV2)  -  WNYE 25 (NYC)  -  WPXN 31 (i)  -  W36AZ 36 (Ind)  -  WDVB-CA 39 (ImaginAsian)  -  WNYN-LP 39 (Azteca América)  -  WXTV 41 (UNI)  -  WSAH 43 (S@H/JTV)  -  WNJU 47 (TMD)  -  WEDW 49 (PBS/CPTV)  -  WNJN 50 / WNJB 58 (PBS/NJN)  -  WVVH-LP 50 (A1) - WKOB-LP 53 (Ind)  -  WTBY 54 (TBN)  -  WRNN-LP 57 (Ind)  -  W60AI 60 (HSN)  -  WMBC 63 (Ind)  -  WFME 66 (Religious)  -  WFTY 67 (TFR)  -  WFUT 68 (TFR)
Local digital-only channels
WRNN 48 (Ind) - WLNY 57 (Ind) (Both stations also have low-powered repeaters in analog.)
Local cable television channels
MSG Network  -  News 12  -  NY1  -  NYCTV  -  SportsNet New York  -  YES Network

 

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