WFTY-TV

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WFTY-TV (satellite of WFUT-TV, Newark, New Jersey)

Smithtown / New York, New York
Channels	67 (UHF) analog, 23 (UHF) digital
Affiliations	Telefutura
Owner	Univision
Founded	November 14, 1973
Call letters meaning	TeleFuTura New York
Former callsigns	WSNL-TV (1973-1986) WHSI-TV (1986-2001)
Former affiliations	Independent (general) (1973-1986) Wometco Home Theater (1977-1985) Independent (Music videos) (1985-1986) Home Shopping Network (1986-2001) AIN/UATV (2001-2002)
Website	www.univision.com/

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.

1 History
2 Trivia
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] 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

[edit] Trivia

The WFTY call letters were formerly used by Washington, DC CW Affiliate, WDCW while they were an independent station.

[edit] See also

WFUT

[edit] External links

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Broadcast television in the New York City market (Nielsen DMA #1)

Local television stations WCBS 2 (CBS) - WNBC 4 (NBC, WX+ on DT2) - WNYW 5 (Fox, WWOR-TV on DT2) - WABC 7 (ABC, AccuWeather on DT3) - WWOR 9 (MyNetworkTV, WNYW on DT2) - WPIX 11 (The CW, The Tube on DT2) - WNET 13 (PBS, Kids on DT2) - WEBR-CA 17 (GCN) - WLIW 21 (PBS, Create! on DT3) - WMBQ-CA 22 (MTV2) - WNYE 25 (NYC TV) - WNXY-LP 26 (Ind) - WPXN 31 (ION) - WXNY-LP 32 (AS) - WNYX-LP 35 (Ind) - W36AZ 36 (PBS/NJN) - WDVB-CA 39 (ImaginAsian) - WNYN-LP 39 (Azteca América) - WXTV 41 (UNI) - WKOB-LP 42 (Daystar) - WSAH 43 (S@H/JTV) - WNJU 47 (TMD) - WEDW 49 (PBS/CPTV) - WNJN 50 / WNJB 58 (PBS/NJN) - WVVH-LP 50 (A1/RSN) - WTBY 54 (TBN) - WRNN-LP 57 (Ind/ JTV, FUN on DT3) - W60AI 60 (HSN) - WMBC 63 (Ind) - WFME 66 (Religious) - WFTY 67 (TFR) - WFUT 68 (TFR)
Local digital-only channels WRNN 48 (Ind/JTV, FUN on DT3) - WLNY 57 (Ind) (Both stations also have low-powered analog repeaters.)
Local cable television channels CN8 - FSN New York - MSG Network - News 12 - NY1 - NYCTV - SportsNet New York - YES Network
Past local cable television channels MSG Metro Channels - WWOR EMI Service - KC2XAK (experimental OTA UHF transmitter, Ch. 24)
See also Broadcast television in the Hartford/New Haven, Albany/Schenectady/Troy, and Philadelphia markets