WVEN-TV

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Coordinates: 28°35′12.6″N 81°4′57.5″W / 28.586833°N 81.082639°W / 28.586833; -81.082639
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WVEN-TV

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HAAT492 m (1,614 ft)
Transmitter coordinates28°35′12.6″N 81°4′57.5″W / 28.586833°N 81.082639°W / 28.586833; -81.082639
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Websitewww.univision.com/local/orlando-wven

WVEN-TV (channel 43) is a

Altamonte Springs; WVEN-TV's transmitter is located in unincorporated Bithlo, Florida
.

History

The station began operation on July 5, 1982, as an

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 miles (80 km) southeast of Orlando due to

Daytona Beach
. As a result, the station received low ratings despite decent programming.

Soon afterwards, the FCC allocated a commercial license to

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

Escape TV
launched on 43.4.

2017 call sign and channel swap

On December 4, 2017, as part of a multi-market realignment, the programming and call signs of WOTF and sister station WVEN-TV were swapped: WOTF-TV and its UniMás programming moved to the Entravision-owned facility using digital channel 49 and virtual channel 26, while Univision's channel 43 facility became the new home of WVEN-TV.[2]

On October 13, 2021, Univision announced it would take over operation of WVEN, as well as Tampa Bay Univision affiliate WVEA-TV, effective January 1, 2022, coinciding with the end of licensing agreements on December 31, 2021.[3]

News operation

WVEN produces evening newscasts at 6 and 11 p.m. newscast under the Noticias Univision Florida Central (formerly Noticias Univision Orlando until 2010), along with local news updates that are broadcast on weekday mornings during Univision's morning news program

Despierta América under the title Despierta Orlando. WVEN previously partnered with now-former sister radio station WNUE-FM
(which has since been sold to Radio Training Network in mid-2021, now airing a non-commercial Christian AC format), which provided them with news briefs and breaking news events as they warranted.

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's signal is

multiplexed
:

Subchannels of WVEN-TV[4]
Channel Res. Aspect Short name Programming
43.1 720p
16:9
 WVEN-TV Univision
43.2 480i
4:3
 GetTV
getTV
43.3 16:9 Bounce Bounce TV
43.4 Mystery Ion Mystery
43.5 Quest Quest
43.6 NVSN Nuestra Visión (soon)
43.7 720p Unim-HD UniMás (WRCF-CD) MPEG-4 video
  Simulcast of subchannels of another station

MPEG-4 video Subchannel broadcast with MPEG-4 video

Analog-to-digital conversion

WVEN-TV (as WOTF-TV) ended programming on its analog signal, over

UHF channel 43, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[5]
The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 20 to channel 43 for post-transition operations.

References

  1. ^ "Facility Technical Data for WVEN-TV". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission.
  2. ^ "Cambios programación UniMas y Univision". Entravision Communications. November 10, 2017. Retrieved December 6, 2017.
  3. ^ Marcial Ocasio, Jennifer A. (October 13, 2021). "Univision taking over Spanish-language TV stations in Orlando, Tampa". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved October 13, 2021.
  4. ^ "Digital TV Market Listing for WVEN". RabbitEars.Info. Retrieved January 26, 2017.
  5. ^ List of Digital Full-Power Stations