WSVN, channel 7, is the Fox-affiliated television station for South Florida, licensed to Miami. The station is owned by Sunbeam Television. WSVN's studios are located on 79th Street Causeway in North Bay Village, and its transmitter is located in North Miami-Dade County. WSVN operates a Key West repeater, WKIZ-LP, on channel 49.
The station began broadcasting on July 29, 1956. It had the call letters WCKT and was a NBC affiliate owned by Biscayne...
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WSVN, channel 7, is the Fox-affiliated television station for South Florida, licensed to Miami. The station is owned by Sunbeam Television. WSVN's studios are located on 79th Street Causeway in North Bay Village, and its transmitter is located in North Miami-Dade County. WSVN operates a Key West repeater, WKIZ-LP, on channel 49.
The station began broadcasting on July 29, 1956. It had the call letters WCKT and was a NBC affiliate owned by Biscayne Television Corporation. The station was a partnership of the Cox and Knight publishing families who owned Miami's two major newspapers: the Miami News and Miami Herald, respectively. The same partnership also owned WCKR radio (610 AM, now WIOD) and WCKR-FM (97.3, now WFLC). Before WCKT signed on, NBC had been carried on WFTL-TV in Fort Lauderdale (later known as WGBS-TV after it had been acquired by Storer Broadcasting) along with some DuMont programming. However, WFTL struggled because television sets were not required to have UHF tuning...
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