WFDC-DT
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HAAT | 227 m (745 ft) |
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Transmitter coordinates | 38°56′24″N 77°4′54″W / 38.94000°N 77.08167°W |
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Public license information | |
Website | www |
WFDC-DT (channel 14) is a
History
Prior history of channel 14 in Washington
Channel 14 first signed on as WOOK-TV on March 5, 1963, as the first television station in the country aimed at the
Channel 14 was back on the air in 1976 in the form of translator W14AA, relaying
WFDC station history
In 1985, the channel 14 allocation was awarded to Theodore M. White's Urban Broadcasting Corporation. The plan was to enter the market of general independent stations, dominated by
It was a further seven years before WTMW signed on April 3, 1993, as a Home Shopping Network (
As part of WTMW's plan to emerge from bankruptcy, it agreed to begin broadcasting HSN's secondary network
The lawsuits over the affiliation contract were decided in HSN's favor, and on May 10, 1999, White removed America's Store programming due to non-payment and began broadcasting the Military Channel without warning. Irate viewers flooded local cable companies, who were not aware of the change themselves, with phone calls.
WTMW became an affiliate of the American Independent Network, which primarily broadcast reruns of old sitcoms and infomercials, on December 20 of the same year.[19] Without the fixed income from its HSN affiliation, however, Urban Broadcasting filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy again in August 2000.[11] Concurrently in December, Univision Communications bought all of USA Broadcasting's over-the-air stations including its 45% stake in WTMW.[20]
After two years with AIN, WTMW switched to the locally-based "Renaissance Network" around its launch on January 15, 2001, which provided the same general-entertainment format mixed with current affairs and politics programming with conservative viewpoints.
This arrangement presented the obvious deficiency of Univision's primary network remaining on a low-powered station that was not subject to
News operation
After switching from TeleFutura to Univision, the station continued its news department. It broadcast six hours of news on weekdays and two hours of news on the weekends. On September 30, 2012, Buenos Días DC, the first Spanish morning news show in the Washington market, debuted. The show was produced by Silvana Quiroz, who is also the anchor sharing cameras with co-anchor Nestor Bravo. The morning news magazine ran from 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. On April 19, 2014, a weekend newscast debuted at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. and ran through October 2015 and was similar to the weekday schedule. On March 1, 2014, the Univision Washington team was replaced. Anchor Mario Sol and sports anchor Oscar Burgos were laid off. Maria Rosa Lucchini, the 6 p.m. anchor, was promoted to White House correspondent; months later, she resigned. Claudia Uceda, the 11 p.m. anchor, was switched to reporter, and months later, resigned to work as a freelancer for the Univision network. Tsi-Tsi-Ki Félix replaced the entire team, leaving only Fanny Gutierrez, who at the time was on maternity leave, and months later, resigned from her duties. Edwin Pitti, who was hired as a reporter, was promoted to White House correspondent.
In late December 2015, Entravision canceled the morning newscasts of all of its stations in the United States (including Buenos Días DC). The last show aired December 7, 2015.[25]
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is
Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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14.1 | 720p | 16:9 |
WFDC-DT | Univision |
14.2 | 480i | 4:3 |
getTV | GetTV
|
14.3 | 16:9 | GRIT | Grit TV
| |
14.4 | 720p | UniMas | UniMás |
In 2001, Entravision purchased
Analog-to-digital conversion
WFDC shut down its analog signal, over
References
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- ^ "Facility Technical Data for WFDC-DT". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ a b Richards, K.M. "WOOK-TV/14, Washington, D.C." History of UHF Television. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
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- ^ "In brief" (PDF). Broadcasting. December 27, 1976. p. 20.
- ^ "WMDO-CD Facility Data". FCCData.
- ^ Carmody, John (December 26, 1985). "THE TV COLUMN". Washington Post.
- ^ "[TV studio maintenance engineer]" (PDF). Broadcasting. February 22, 1993. p. 52.
- ^ "WFDC-DT Facility Data". FCCData.
- ^ a b c "In re: Urban Broadcasting Corporation". Findlaw. March 11, 2005.
- ^ McConnell, Chris (June 17, 1996). "Silver King faces more hurdles at the FCC" (PDF). Broadcasting. p. 24.
- ^ a b "In re Urban Broadcasting Corp., Case No. 95-12919-SSM Chapter 11". casetext.com.
- ^ a b "USA Broadcasting, Inc., and Univision Communications, Inc" (PDF). Federal Communications Commission.
- ^ Jackson, David Vail (May 18, 1999). "War Gear's Surprise Attack on Local Cable". Washington Post.
- ^ Redding, Rick (July 26, 1999). "Military Channel shooting for deal with A&E". Louisville Business Journal.
- ^ de Moraes, Lisa (June 17, 1999). "Overstuffing the Magazine Rack". Washington Post.
- ^ Dempsey, John (June 15, 1999). "TVN rings up two buys toward cable commerce". Variety.
- ^ Hughes, Dave (December 20, 1999). "Channel 14 Goes AIN". DCRTV.
- ^ Stern, Christopher (December 8, 2000). "Univision to Buy Diller TV Stations". Washington Post.
- ^ "A Rebirth in Television". Renaissance Network. January 15, 2001. Archived from the original on April 22, 2001.
- ^ Hughes, Dave (August 11, 2001). "Telefutura Coming To Channel 14". DCRTV.
- ^ "Entravision-UCI Joint Sales Agreement, January 1, 2006". FCC LMS.
- ^ Entravision Communications Corporation. "Entravision Communications Corporation Announces New Television Agreements with Univision". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved March 23, 2021.
- ^ "Entravision cancels morning newscasts nationwide - Media Moves". December 5, 2015.
- ^ "Digital TV Market Listing for WFDC-DT". RabbitEars.Info. Retrieved January 26, 2017.
- ^ Schotz, Andrew (October 18, 2011). "WJAL-TV wants to move license from Hagerstown to Silver Spring". The Herald-Mail, Hagerstown, Maryland. Archived from the original on January 15, 2016. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
- ^ "DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 29, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2012.