WWSI

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WWSI
Telemundo WWSI 62 2018 vector logo.svg
City Mount Laurel, New Jersey
Channels
BrandingTelemundo 62; Noticiero Telemundo 62
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
FoundedSeptember 9, 1987
First air date
January 17, 2001;23 years ago (2001-01-17)(in Atlantic City, New Jersey; license moved to Mount Laurel in 2018 [1] )
Former call signs
  • WDKZ (1987–1989)
  • WACI (1989–2000)
  • WPHA (2000–2001)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 62 (UHF, 2001–2009)
  • Digital: 49 (UHF, 2002–2018), 34 (UHF, 2018–2019)
Call sign meaning
"Sí" is Spanish for "yes"
Technical information [2]
Licensing authority
 FCC
Facility ID 23142
ERP 745 kW
HAAT 399.8 m (1,311.7 ft)
Transmitter coordinates 40°2′30.1″N75°14′10.1″W / 40.041694°N 75.236139°W / 40.041694; -75.236139
Links
Public license information
Website www.telemundo62.com

WWSI (channel 62) is a television station licensed to Mount Laurel, New Jersey, United States, serving as the Philadelphia-area outlet for the Spanish-language network Telemundo. It is owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group alongside NBC outlet WCAU (channel 10); it is also sister to regional sports network NBC Sports Philadelphia.

Contents

WWSI and WCAU share studios within the Comcast Technology Center on Arch Street in Center City, with some operations remaining at their former main studio at the corner of City Avenue and Monument Road in Bala Cynwyd, along the Philadelphia–Montgomery county line. Through a channel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using WCAU's spectrum from a tower in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia.

History

In 1980, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) proposed assigning channel 62 to Atlantic City, New Jersey, as part of a proposal to improve television service in the state. [3] The proceeding and channel addition were finalized in 1984, [4] and in August 1986, the FCC designated a group of five applications for the channel for comparative hearing. [5] A settlement agreement was registered with the FCC in 1987, though Garden State Communications was not immediately granted the permit on the issue of short-spacing with other stations. [6] The permit remained dormant for the next decade. In 1990, the Securities and Exchange Commission sued a Philadelphia company for illegally raising funds on behalf of Garden State to build the proposed WACI-TV. [7]

Council Tree Communications filed to acquire a majority stake in the construction permit in 1999. [8] Council Tree was a Longmont, Colorado—based firm in which one of the investors was an Alaska Native-owned corporation. [9] During this time, construction on the station started and faced considerable difficulty. In May 2000, work on the tower along County Route 539 in Little Egg Harbor Township briefly came to a halt as opponents objecting on radiation concerns claimed they had an injunction to stop it. [10] Opponents also decried its proximity to homes and claimed it did not receive proper zoning approval. [11] The dispute was in part resolved when Little Egg Harbor Township agreed to assume ownership of the tower when completed. [12] This was key because it allowed for the exemption from planning board approval, though objectors continued to fight construction. [13] Other objections concerned the potential danger to birds posed by the mast. [14] During the construction process, Council Tree had become involved in Spanish-language broadcasting, principally the Telemundo network. In April 2000, it acquired KSBS-TV, the Telemundo affiliate for the Denver market, [9] and the firm moved to acquire a stake in the network four months later. [15]

After approximately six months of preparations, [16] channel 62 signed on as Telemundo affiliate WWSI on January 26, 2001. [17] It restored the Telemundo network to the Philadelphia market after the previous affiliate, WTVE (channel 51), disaffiliated from the network at the start of 2000. [18] It had local offices near Penn Treaty Park in Philadelphia and in Northfield, New Jersey. [19] Council Tree sold its ownership interest to NBC later in 2001 but did not relinquish WWSI. [20]

The WWSI logo used from 2004 to 2012 Telemundo WWSI 62 2001 vector logo.svg
The WWSI logo used from 2004 to 2012

ZGS Communications acquired WWSI for $10 million in 2008. [21] It retained the station until agreeing to sell it to NBCUniversal for $20 million in a sale completed in July 2013. The deal created a duopoly with NBC's Philadelphia station, WCAU. [22] [23] Following the acquisition, NBC announced its intent to expand WCAU's news department to serve WWSI. [24] It hired a total of 15 new employees, [25] including bilingual reporters who filed stories for WCAU; [26] Ramón Luis Zayas, former news anchor of Telemundo's morning program Un Nuevo Día , was named anchor of the evening newscasts. [27] Noticiero Telemundo 62 began airing at 6 and 11 p.m. on January 13, 2014, from WCAU's studios. [26]

After the news launch, WWSI has been included in several group-wide news expansions at Telemundo. In November 2014, the owned-and-operated stations launched news at 5:30 p.m., [28] followed by 6 a.m. and noon newscasts on April 2, 2018. [29]

On October 21, 2018, Telemundo 62 debuted its new studio in the new Comcast Technology Center, the same day that NBC 10 debuted its new studio. [30]

Technical information

Subchannels

Subchannels of WCAU and WWSI [31]
License Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
WCAU10.1 1080i 16:9 WCAU-TV NBC
10.2 480i COZI-TV Cozi TV
10.3NBCLX NBC LX Home
10.4OXYGEN Oxygen
WWSI62.11080iWWSI-DT Telemundo
62.2480iT-Xitos TeleXitos [32]

Analog-to-digital conversion

WWSI discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 62, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 49, [33] using virtual channel 62, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition. Until 2018, 49.3 (virtual 10.3) was utilized as a simulcast of WCAU. The subchannel was signed on in order to keep NBC programming available in areas channel 10's main signal does not reach over the air after the network terminated their affiliation with Wildwood-licensed WMGM-TV.

Spectrum reallocation

On April 13, 2017, it was revealed that WWSI's over-the-air spectrum had been sold in the FCC's spectrum reallocation auction, fetching $125.9 million. WWSI did not sign off, but is sharing broadcast spectrum with sister station WCAU. [34] NBC stated that WCAU had a better signal than that of WWSI. [35] Because WCAU's signal does not sufficiently cover Atlantic City proper, WWSI changed its city of license from Atlantic City to Mount Laurel.

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