WAMI-DT is the TeleFutura Network-owned station for the Miami / Fort Lauderdale market. This station is currently owned by Univision and transmits Spanish language programming on channel 69.
From sign-on in 1968 until 1988, channel 69 was a translator for WCIX channel 6. (Channel 6 in Miami had to keep its analog transmitter in Florida City, Florida due to the presence of WKMG-TV prior to the DTV conversion.)
On August 10, 1988, WYHS-TV signed on...
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WAMI-DT is the TeleFutura Network-owned station for the Miami / Fort Lauderdale market. This station is currently owned by Univision and transmits Spanish language programming on channel 69.
From sign-on in 1968 until 1988, channel 69 was a translator for WCIX channel 6. (Channel 6 in Miami had to keep its analog transmitter in Florida City, Florida due to the presence of WKMG-TV prior to the DTV conversion.)
On August 10, 1988, WYHS-TV signed onto the air waves, airing Home Shopping Network programming. When it launched, WYHS-TV was owned by HSN's broadcasting arm, Silver King Communications. The primary purpose of these stations was to force HSN on the cable companies in each Designated Market Area through the FCC's Must-carry provisions as QVC was taking away a large slice of HSN's audience as several cable comapanies owned interest in QVC, but not HSN. Eventually, Silver King Communications came to own interest in the USA Network and, as a result, later became USA Broadcasting,...
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