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WSCV virtual channel 51 (UHF digital channel 30) is the flagship station of the Spanish-language Telemundo network that's licensed to Fort Lauderdale. Serving Miami, Florida, United States, the station's owned by the NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations subsidiary of NBCUniversal as part of a duopoly with NBC owned-and-operated station WTVJ (channel 6). The two stations share studio and office facilities on Southwest 27th Street (off of I-75) in Miramar; WSCV's transmitter is located near Sun Life Stadium in north Miami-Dade County. The station also serves as the de facto Telemundo affiliate for the West Palm Beach market. ==History== The UHF channel 51 allocation in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale market was previously occupied by WSMS-TV, an independent station that debuted on December 6, 1968, under the ownership of Gold Coast Telecasting; the station would cease operations on August 10, 1970, due to financial issues. The current station on channel 51 was developed after another company acquired the channel 51 license in January 1972. WSCV first signed on the air on February 14, 1972, as WKID-TV. Operating as an independent station, it maintained a bilingual format featuring a mix of English and Spanish language programming. The station would later be acquired by an investment group headed by William F. Johns and Alvin Koenig in 1976, after WKID's previous owners went bankrupt. During the late-1970s, WKID aired Spanish language programming during the daytime and a slate of older English-language films and sitcoms during the overnight hours. With all other Miami-area stations having signed off the air during the overnight hours, WKID's late-night programming reached cult status among South Florida residents who stayed up at night. Dubbed ''The All Night Show'', WKID's late-night block consisted of a mix of films, television series, music videos and classic cartoons, along with special guests. The ''All Night Show'' was hosted by Dave Dixon, an icon from that era of South Florida UHF television. ''The All Night Show'' is believed to have served as the inspiration for USA Network's similar late-night block, ''Night Flight''. During this era, cable providers that carried competing independent WCIX (channel 6, now CBS owned-and-operated station WFOR-TV on channel 4) outside of the Miami market (especially in the Tampa and Orlando markets) carried WKID during the overnight hours, after WCIX signed off for the night. WKID-TV was also the first affiliate of sorts for what would become the Christian Television Network, as the network purchased a block of evening airtime every night on channel 51 prior the establishment of its first station, WCLF in Tampa.〔(St. Petersburg Times (Crossroads section): "Nation's Newest Christian TV Station Begins Operations", October 27, 1979. )〕 In 1980, the group sold WKID to Oak Industries, a cable television equipment manufacturer and owner of ONTV, a subscription television service that was carried during the evening hours, which could only be viewed for a monthly fee, and required a set-top decoder box and outdoor antenna for adequate reception. The station's programming during this period included business news programming from the Financial News Network during the daytime hours, a horse racing show hosted by Bob Savage in the early evening, and ON-TV programming at night. With the expansion of cable television in the Miami area, ON-TV proved to be an ill-fated venture and was dropped by WKID-TV in the mid-1980s. Julio Rumbaut, an American Spanish-language media entrepeuneur, led the acquisition and operations of the station by Blair Broadcasting (under its BlairSpan subsidiary), which changed the station's callsign to WSCV (its call letters, when pronounced in Spanish read "Doble-U Ese Se Ve," which is translated into English as "that one is seen"); the station switched to a Spanish-language programming format in the spring of 1985 with WSCV positioning its programming as a local, independent Miami-targeted alternative to Spanish International Network (now Univision) affiliate WLTV (channel 23). Julio Rumbaut, president of Telemundo of Florida, led WSCV as a catalyst and one of the flagship stations of NetSpan in 1986. The Reliance Group, then owners of NetSpan, acquired WSCV and Blair's other Spanish-language stations, as well as WNJU in New York City, KVEA in Los Angeles and WKAQ-TV in San Juan, Puerto Rico and used them to relaunch the network as Telemundo in 1987. 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「WSCV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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