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WFTY-DT, virtual channel 67 (UHF digital channel 23), is a UniMás owned-and-operated television station serving Long Island, New York, United States that is licensed to Smithtown. The station is owned by Univision Communications, as part of a duopoly with WXTV (channel 41). It operates as a satellite station of Newark, New Jersey-based WFUT-DT (channel 68). WFTY's master control operations are based at WXTV/WFUT's studio facilities on 3rd Avenue in the Murray Hill district of Manhattan, and its transmitter is based at its facility in Middle Island. ==History== The station first signed on the air on November 18, 1973 as WSNL-TV, originally licensed to Patchogue. The station was founded on the premise of there being over three million people living on Long Island who were underserved by local television news coverage; with all the network affiliates based in Manhattan, it was rare to see more than one or two news stories a day focusing on Long Island. WSNL went on the air with two daily newscasts: a half-hour early evening broadcast and an hour-long newscast at 10 p.m., in addition to coverage of high school sports; it also carried some off-network reruns and first-run syndicated programming. One of the more noteworthy series among this batch was ''Phil Donahue'', which had been in national syndication since 1970, but was not available in the crucial New York City market until that point, and after the station's demise, would not find another outlet until WOR-TV (channel 9) acquired the local rights to the program in 1976, followed by WNBC Channel 4 in 1977. The station also carried games from the short-lived New York Stars of the World Football League in 1974. The station also produced several locally produced programs, among these offerings were: ''Chef Nicola'' (a cooking show hosted by Nicola Zanghi); ''Home Handyman'' (a home repair show hosted by future congressman David G. McDonough); ''Captain Ahab'' (a weekday kids' cartoon show hosted by George McCaskey, as the Captain); ''Ahab and Friends'' (a three-and-a-half hour weekend kids' show similar to WNEW-TV's ''Wonderama''; also hosted by McCaskey, which featured cartoons, puppets, games, contests, and other assorted entertainment for its young audience); ''Mary Kelly's Puppet Party'' (another children's program); ''Long Island Tonight with Richard Hall'' (a variety show); and ''The Fairchilds of Long Island'' (a rare locally produced soap opera which featured local actors). The news department of 18 people used the very earliest form of portable videotape equipment, which only ran off AC or inverters in cars, and not off batteries. This greatly restricted local video coverage to the length of a power cord. In that era, before satellites were used for television distribution, the station employed a courier who used a motorcycle nightly to race from Manhattan with a tape of national and international news stories for the late newscasts. After a year of operation, inadequate revenue resulted in the cutback of its news programming to five-minute briefs that aired several times a day and the department shrunk to just a few employees before the station went bankrupt and signed off for the last time on June 13, 1975. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WFTY-DT」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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