WUTF-DT is a television station in the Boston market. Owned by the Univision Broadcast Group and managed locally by Entravision, the station is an affiliate of the Telefutura network. As such, they have an advertising relationship with Univision affiliate WUNI.
WUTF-DT signed on for the first time on February 12, 1985 as WVJV-TV ("V-66, the Beat of Boston"), playing music videos at a time when they were a major part of the American culture (this ...
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WUTF-DT is a television station in the Boston market. Owned by the Univision Broadcast Group and managed locally by Entravision, the station is an affiliate of the Telefutura network. As such, they have an advertising relationship with Univision affiliate WUNI.
WUTF-DT signed on for the first time on February 12, 1985 as WVJV-TV ("V-66, the Beat of Boston"), playing music videos at a time when they were a major part of the American culture (this was just four years after MTV signed on). At that time, the owners were long-time New England radio men John Garabedian (current host of the nationally syndicated radio show Open House Party) and Arnie "Woo-Woo" Ginsburg. Garabedian also owned WGTR (now WBIX); both WVJV and WGTR operated from studios in Natick. The music format combined progressive rock (WBCN) and pop contemporary (Kiss 108). Irrespective of the must-carry rule requiring cable systems to carry the station, many cable systems freely chose to carry WVJV as opposed to VH1. WVJV...
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