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WKAQ-TV, virtual channel 2 (UHF digital channel 28), is a Telemundo owned-and-operated television station located in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The station is owned by the NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations subsidiary of NBCUniversal. WKAQ-TV maintains studios in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and its transmitter is located near the Bosque Estatal de Carite mountain reserve. WKAQ-TV operates a satellite station: WORA-TV (channel 5) in Mayagüez, which repeats over 95% of WKAQ-TV's programing under an affiliation agreement. The station formerly operated WOLE-TV (channel 12) in Aguadilla as another satellite station. The station also has three low-power translator facilities: W09AT in Fajardo, W28EH-D in Adjuntas and W32AJ in Utuado. ==History== WKAQ-TV first signed on the air on March 28, 1954, as the first television station in Puerto Rico. The station was founded by Ángel Ramos, founder of Puerto Rico's main newspaper at the time, ''El Mundo'' (''The World'') and Puerto Rico's first radio station (and third licensed radio station in the world), WKAQ. Ramos wanted to maintain a consistent branding between its properties using the "mundo" theme, and decided to brand WKAQ-TV as "Telemundo" ("Tele-World"). Ramos had tried to obtain a television station license as early as the mid-1940s, but due to a licensing freeze for all new American television stations imposed by the Federal Communications Commission, Ramos had to wait until 1954 to obtain the license. WKAQ began broadcasting in color in 1968. During the station's history, WKAQ-TV battled fiercely with WAPA-TV to become the highest-rated station in Puerto Rico, thanks, in great part, to none other than Ramón Rivero (better known as Diplo), the most famous and influential actor/comedian in the history of Puerto Rico, who was under an exclusive contract with Angel Ramos, and who, in 1954 produced the first comedy/variety show for WKAQ-TV, ''La Taberna India'', followed by ''La Farándula Corona''. During the 1970s and 1980s, WKAQ-TV (then branded as ''Telemundo Canal 2''), was a major producer of Puerto Rican Spanish soap operas. The station was also known by its "fingers" logo (a bold number 2 with the silhouette of two upright fingers inside the number), calling itself "El canal de los dedos" ("The channel of the fingers"). WKAQ-TV has produced and broadcast recognized local shows such as ''El Show de las 12'', ''La Gente Joven de Menudo'', ''En Casa de Juanma y Wiwi'', ''Los Kakucomicos'', ''Teatrimundo'', ''Musicomedia'', ''El Show de Chucho'', ''Telecine de la Noche con Manolo Urquiza'', ''Noche de Gala'', ''Estudio Alegre'', ''La Pension de Doña Tere'', ''El Show de Nydia Caro'', ''No te Duermas'', ''Marcano El Show'', "Con lo que Cuenta este País", "Videoteces", ''Super Sabados'', ''Fantastico'', ''El Tio Nobel'', ''Telecómicas'', ''Al Grano con Zervigón'', ''Ahora Podemos Hablar'' and ''Dame un Break''. It also produced famous telenovelas such as ''El Hijo de Angela Maria'', ''Tomiko'', ''Cristina Bazán'', ''El Idolo'', ''Viernes Social'', ''La Verdadera Eva'', ''Rojo Verano'', ''Modelos S.A.'', ''Coralito'' and ''Tanairi''. With the creation of the Telemundo network in 1987, the station started branding itself as "Telemundo Puerto Rico" (before, WKAQ-TV had branded itself as either "Telemundo" or just "Canal 2"). Since then, WKAQ-TV has since then become one of Telemundo's flagship stations, as well as the recognized original "Telemundo". It has been highly criticized that because of the station's affiliation to the Telemundo network, locally produced programming has been traded for "enlatados", or foreign Spanish programming such as Mexican and Venezuelan telenovelas. To avoid this criticism, in 2006, WKAQ-TV aired the first Puerto Rican written and produced telenovela in 15 years: ''Dueña y Señora''. To the general population, WKAQ-TV is still known simply as "Telemundo", and it is branded as such to this day. WKAQ-TV's slogans have included ''Y como el dos no hay dos!'' (''There's no two like channel two'') and ''Telemundo: tu canal, siempre'' (''Telemundo: your channel, always''). At the end of 2006, WKAQ's slogan was changed to ''Eres Tú'' (''It's You'') and was changed again in 2008 to ''Telemundo: tu canal'' (''Telemundo: your channel''), a slogan that was also used by the Telemundo network. In 2005, WKAQ-TV became a superstation when NBC Universal reformatted its entertainment-based cable channel Telemundo Internacional into Telemundo Puerto Rico. The channel aired WKAQ-produced programs such as ''No te Duermas'' and ''TVO'', as well as the station's news program, ''Telenoticias''. Telemundo Puerto Rico was aimed at Puerto Ricans and other Caribbean communities living in the mainland United States. The superstation feed, however, was discontinued in early 2008. On October 9, 2007, NBC Universal announced that they had put WKAQ-TV up for sale, following its acquisition of Oxygen Media. However, NBC Universal took the station off the market on December 21. On August 25, 2008, WKAQ-TV, in co-production with the Telemundo network, launched the morning news and lifestyle show ''Levantate'' from its San Juan studios. The station also began to air a local teen drama series, ''Zona Y'', which achieved success in the Puerto Rican teen market. On April 23, 2009, WKAQ-TV became the first commercial station in Puerto Rico to begin broadcasting its programming in high definition with its telecast of the ''Billboard Latin Music Awards''. 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「WKAQ-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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