WFTY-DT
WFTY-DT (channel 67) is a television station
WFTY-DT
licensed to Smithtown, New York, United States,
serving Long Island and owned by Smithtown, New York
TelevisaUnivision. Its main channel broadcasts the United States
True Crime Network; it also rebroadcasts the main
Channels Digital: 23 (UHF)
channels of its New York City–area Univision and
UniMás stations, WXTV-DT (channel 41) and WFUT- Virtual: 67
DT (channel 68), from its transmitter in Middle Programming
Island, New York. Affiliations 67.1: True Crime Network
Channel 67 was originally assigned to Patchogue, 67.2: UniMás
New York, where television producer Theodore 67.3: Univision
Granik obtained the construction permit for a new for others, see § Subchannels
TV station in September 1968. Granik envisioned a
Ownership
group of ultra high frequency (UHF) stations
carrying public affairs programming, but he died in Owner TelevisaUnivision
1970 with channel 67 unbuilt. The permit was (Univision New York LLC)
acquired by the Suburban Broadcasting Sister WFUT-DT · WXTV-DT · WADO ·
Corporation, which believed it could fill a void in stations WXNY-FM
providing news, sports, and entertainment
History
programming from and for Long Island. On this
basis, WSNL-TV began broadcasting on November First air date November 18, 1973
18, 1973. As much as 70 percent of its lineup Former call WSNL-TV (1973–1987)
consisted of live, local programming, ranging from signs
WHSI (1987–1998)
local news and sports to children's and cooking
WHSI-TV (1998–2002)
shows and a Long Island–set soap opera. The
WFTY (2002–2003)
station struggled to build a viewer and advertiser
base owing to reception difficulties—lampooned so WFTY–TV (2004–2009)
frequently by Newsday writer Marvin Kitman that Former Analog: 67 (UHF, 1973–2009)
he was sued—and economic troubles. It left the air channel
number(s)
on June 20, 1975, and filed for bankruptcy the next
year. Former Independent (1973–1975;
affiliations 1979–1986)
In 1978, CanWest Capital Corporation, a Canadian
Dark (1975–1979)
company whose U.S. subsidiary Universal
Wometco Home Theater
Subscription Television was in the subscription
(1980–1985)
television (STV) business, paid off all of Suburban's
debts in exchange for the rights to broadcast STV HSN (1986–2001)
programming on channel 67. CanWest then entered AIN (2001–2002)
into a joint venture with Wometco Enterprises,
majority owner of channel 68 and operator of the Telefutura/UniMás (2002–
Wometco Home Theater (WHT) STV service that 2017; now on 67.2)
served the New York City area and northern New Call sign Telefutura New York (former
Jersey. Beginning in June 1980, WSNL-TV began meaning name for UniMás)
providing WHT on Long Island. Wometco
Technical information[1]
terminated the joint venture in 1981 and became
the sole owner of channel 67. At its peak, WHT Licensing FCC
authority
served more than 111,000 subscribers and was the
fourth-largest STV system in the nation. Facility ID 60553
ERP 655 kW
The death of Wometco majority owner Mitchell
HAAT 219 m (719 ft)
Wolfson in 1983 triggered a leveraged buyout by
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR). As subscriptions Transmitter 40°53′23″N 72°57′11″W
declined due to rising cable penetration, Wometco coordinates
sold off the WHT business but kept channels 68 and Links
67, which began broadcasting a music video service Public license Public file (https://publicfiles.fc
known as U68 on June 1, 1985. U68 was a locally information c.gov/tv-profile/WFTY-DT)
programmed competitor to MTV with a more
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eclectic mix of music. The stations were put on the
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market in December 1985 because KKR executed a
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second leveraged buyout, this time of Storer
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Communications, and chose to retain Storer's cable
systems in northern New Jersey and Connecticut
over WWHT and WSNL-TV. The two stations were sold to the Home Shopping Network (HSN)
as part of its foray into broadcasting; renamed WHSE and WHSI, they broadcast home
shopping programming for the next 15 years. While an attempt by company owner Barry
Diller to convert the stations to general-entertainment independents was slated as late as 2000,
Diller ultimately sold WHSE and WHSI and other USA Broadcasting stations to Univision in
2001. Many of these stations formed the backbone of Telefutura (now UniMás), which
launched in January 2002, at which time WHSE and WHSI became WFUT and WFTY.
WSNL-TV
Prehistory
On August 22, 1964, Theodore Granik applied for a construction permit for channel 75 in
Patchogue, New York, with the channel assignment soon changed to 67 after the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) overhauled television allocations nationally.[2] Granik,
who had produced the long-running The American Forum of the Air on radio and television,
envisioned the Patchogue channel as one of seven stations nationwide specializing in public
affairs programming.[3] Long Island Video also filed for channel 67;[4] Medallion Pictures
acquired the company and became the applicant,[5] but it agreed to withdraw in exchange for
the costs it had incurred in seeking channel 67, granting Granik the permit in September
1968.[6][2]
Granik never built channel 67. He died on September 21, 1970.[7] His death scuttled plans for
channel 67 and channel 50 in Washington, D.C.; the estate left no money to start the
Washington station, which declared bankruptcy.[8][9] On March 19, 1971, Granik Broadcasting
Corporation filed to sell the permit to the Suburban Broadcasting Corporation. Suburban was
a consortium of New York–area investors, including some from Long Island as well as Percy
Sutton, the president of Manhattan Borough.[10]
After closing on the purchase of the permit from Granik's estate, Suburban unveiled its plans
for channel 67, which was given the call sign WSNL-TV (for Suffolk County and Nassau County
counties on Long Island). Suburban's principals believed Long Island was underserved by
television, being part of the New York television market. In 1969, an educational station,
WLIW, began broadcasting from Garden City, but there was no commercial outlet. Company
president David H. Polinger noted the presence of two daily newspapers and 20 radio stations
on Long Island but no locally focused TV station.[11] Polinger brought Long Island broadcast
experience, having built radio stations in Lake Success and Babylon.[12]
Channel 67 planned a schedule heavy on live programs, with as much as 70 percent of the
schedule being live, ranging from news and high school sports to a live soap opera.[13][14]
Films and syndicated programming rounded out the lineup.[15] Construction of studios near
the corner of the Long Island Expressway and Veterans Highway in Central Islip, near
Hauppauge, began in April 1973.[14][16] The 18,000 square feet (1,700 m2) building featured
two studios to handle the station's large local program output.[17]
Live and local for Long Island
WSNL-TV began broadcasting to Long Island on November 18, 1973.[18] It represented a
$4 million investment by Suburban Broadcasting.[19] Programming included The Fairchilds, a
soap opera featuring a family that moved from California to Oyster Bay; the amateur variety
show Toast of Long Island; a late-night variety show, Long Island Tonight; Chef Nicola, a live
cooking show; Black Metamorphosis, a public affairs program; exercise program Trim and
Slim; children's programs Captain Ahab and Ahab and Friends; and sports coverage and two
daily editions of 67 Action News.[20][11][21] Syndicated programs included The Phil Donahue
Show.[22]
The principal operating challenge for WSNL-TV was that it was an ultra high frequency (UHF)
station. The quality of the station's local programming and many viewers' trouble tuning it in
became regular fodder for Marvin Kitman, the television critic and satirist for Long Island's
daily Newsday. Over the course of 1974, Kitman published several columns making light of
channel 67's poor signal—hobbled by installation difficulties—and production values. In April,
Kitman wrote,[23]
The morning of March 6, a large crane went to the site of a leading cultural landmark
on Long Island, the Ch. 67 transmitter and antenna off the expressway in Central Islip.
The riggers turned the tower in a new direction. Since then, there have been bitter
complaints from the Russian trawler fleet. ... By twisting the antenna very early that
morning in March, Ch. 67 may have damaged the détente.
Kitman ran a survey asking for readers' comments on WSNL-TV's reception and programming
in February 1974.[24] Based on the survey, Kitman published "ratings" for the station's various
local programs.[25] He also published alleged reader comments as to the station's receivability.
A man from Far Rockaway told Kitman, "Yes, I saw Channel 67. In TV Guide."[26] In response,
Suburban Broadcasting filed a $15 million lawsuit in New York Supreme Court against Kitman
and Newsday in November 1974, claiming a "willful and malicious effort to mortally injure"
WSNL-TV's chances as a "viable advertising medium".[27]
Suburban's lawsuit against Kitman coincided with a retrenchment. Channel 67 had been in
talks for a loan from Franklin National Bank, but the bank became insolvent and was closed in
October 1974.[28][29] The station's first election night coverage was almost affected by strike
action among 12 unionized news employees.[30] In October, WSNL laid off Oren Palenik, host
of a women's program, and other hosts and increased its reliance on syndicated shows and
films.[31] The news programming was reduced to hourly news updates in January 1975, part of
a reduction in local programming from 40 hours a week to just eight or nine hours and
accompanying a layoff of one-fifth of the station's staff.[32] In addition to filing suit against
Kitman, Suburban sued equipment manufacturer RCA and tower fabricator Stainless Inc. for
improper initial installation of the antenna. The company also sought new investors.[33] In one
last miscue, the station gave up its rights to telecast New York Cosmos soccer just two weeks
before Pelé signed with the team.[28]
The reduction in local programming and personnel failed to turn the station's finances
around. The station left the air on June 20, 1975, while signing a deal with a company to use
the Central Islip studios for commercial and film production.[34] The suspension was described
as temporary, lasting just three months.[35] One broadcaster operating other UHF stations told
The New York Times that Suburban failed to take its "VHF thinking" and translate it to the
different economics of running a UHF television station.[28] The station lost an average of
$255,931 for each of the 20 months it was in business.[36]: 361
Suburban Broadcasting Corporation filed for bankruptcy in February 1976, listing assets of
$3.9 million and liabilities of $4.8 million. Creditors were told that the station was about to
become profitable when two of its three largest advertisers went out of business.[37]
Subscription TV broadcasting
On August 24, 1978, Suburban Broadcasting found a Canadian white knight to pay its
$5 million in debts. CanWest Capital Corporation provided the financing in a deal that saw
CanWest's U.S. subscription television (STV) subsidiary, Universal Subscription Television,
enter into a franchise agreement to provide pay broadcasting over WSNL-TV. CanWest, as a
Canadian company, could not own stations outright, but it could provide them with
subscription programming.[38] As part of the deal, channel 67 changed its city of license from
Patchogue to Smithtown, where enough commercial, free TV stations were received to permit
FCC licensing of an STV station.[39] The station began plans for reactivation in late 1979; in
addition to subscription programming from Universal Subscription Television, WSNL-TV
would air some local programming as a condition of its license.[40]
WSNL-TV returned to Long Island screens on December 15, 1979, after nearly 41⁄2 years of
silence, with a limited schedule of prime time programming during the week and daytime
programs on weekends.[41][42] A month later, Suburban filed to sell the station to a new joint
venture led by Wometco Enterprises. This sale meant that, instead of programming from
Universal Subscription Television, WSNL would provide STV programming from Wometco
Home Theater (WHT).[43] WHT had been operating in the New York market on channel 68
from Newark, New Jersey, at this point known as WWHT, since March 1, 1977;[44] CanWest
approached WHT because it was worried about the viability of a standalone STV service from
WSNL.[36]: 361 From January 30 to June 2, 1980, channel 67 was out of service because of an
electrical fire at its Central Islip studios;[36]: 362 the fire gutted the control room and burned so
hot that a brick wall cracked.[45] The station began airing Wometco Home Theater after
returning to the air.[46] It also offered old movies and a nightly newscast.[45][47]
The FCC approved of Wometco acquiring WSNL-TV in November 1980. Because channels 67
and 68 had overlapping signals, Wometco would operate WSNL-TV as a simulcast of WWHT
with up to four and a half hours a week of its own programming.[36] Wometco closed on the
purchase in January 1981,[48] and in June, it bought out CanWest's interest in the joint venture
and became the sole owner of WSNL while sharing ownership of WWHT with Blonder-Tongue
Laboratories.[49]
On November 30, 1981, WWHT–WSNL began airing daytime programming from the new
Financial News Network (FNN) between 10 a.m. and 5 pm.[50] With the extended reach of
WHT, the service boasted 111,200 subscribers in June 1982, making it the fourth-largest STV
operation in the country behind the ON TV operations in Los Angeles and Chicago and the
SelecTV operation in Los Angeles.[51] This year was the peak for subscription operation as the
early 1980s recession deepened and cable systems continued building out in areas served by
STV.[52] In addition, beginning in 1981, Wometco Home Theater was seen on WRBV-TV
(channel 65) in southern New Jersey and the Philadelphia area,[53] where at one point it
claimed to have more than 20,000 subscribers before closing in November 1984.[54]
WWHT and WSNL began broadcasting WHT programming 20 hours a day on March 1, 1983,
and discontinued all ad-supported telecasting, including FNN and Uncle Floyd.[55][56] They
were able to do so because the FCC had abolished the so-called "28-hour rule"—which
required stations to provide a minimum of, on average, four hours a day of non-subscription
programming—in June 1982.[57] The Uncle Floyd Show returned to television on the New
Jersey Network later in 1983.[58]
KKR buyout of Wometco
Mitchell Wolfson, the founder of Wometco, died of a heart attack on January 28, 1983.[59] He
left the company with no clear succession plan,[60] and no one was designated as a succeeding
chairman.[61] In fact, Wolfson was the largest stockholder in Wometco at the time of his
death.[62]
After approving several measures in a shareholders meeting designed to prevent a hostile
takeover,[62] the Wolfson family and Wometco board sold the company to merchant banker
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) on September 21, 1983, in a $1 billion leveraged
buyout,[63] the largest in history at the time.[64] While Wometco still existed after the buyout
was completed on April 13, 1984, the company was taken private and split into two entities:[65]
one based around the television station licenses and Wometco Home Theater and the other
centered around the theater chain, Miami Seaquarium, bottling, and cable divisions.[66][67]
With rapidly advancing cable and declining subscriptions, KKR began the process of ending
the subscription television era of WWHT and WSNL. On November 1, 1984, Wometco ceased
programming the service and instead began passing through movies from SelecTV; at that
time, it still counted some 80,000 subscribers.[68] It sold the WHT service to Pay TV of Greater
New York.[69] That company renamed itself Cooper Wireless Cable and began broadcasting
from the channel 60 translator, though in doing so it lost subscribers who could not receive
the low-power signal from the World Trade Center.[70] Though the stations continued to run
WHT in the interim, KKR contemplated reformatting WWHT–WSNL as general-entertainment
independents with syndicated reruns.[71]
In April 1985, KKR executed another leveraged buyout, this one of Storer Communications,
then facing a shareholder revolt[72] and a hostile takeover attempt by Comcast.[73] The deal
was completed in December 1985; however, approval by the FCC was contingent on KKR
divesting either Storer's cable systems in northern New Jersey and Connecticut, serving
195,000 subscribers, or WWHT–WSNL within 18 months to satisfy cross-ownership rules.
While Storer and Wometco remained nominally separate companies, the FCC recognized KKR
as the primary owner of both and forced it to make a number of station or system divestitures.
Storer already had announced it would keep the cable systems over WWHT and WSNL.[74]
U68
With the end of WHT programming, channels 68 and 67 switched to a music video format
known as U68 on June 1, 1985. The new format came together in just ten days[75] and
originally broadcast for twelve hours a day.[76] In the morning hours, WWHT and WSNL
continued to offer non-video religious and community affairs shows.[75]
U68 touted its format as specifically programmed for the New York market in contrast to the
national cable service of MTV; it carved out time to air videos by local acts. It offered R&B,
pop, and heavy metal music in dayparts, as well as music newsbreaks—which Uncle Floyd
returned to channel 68 to co-host.[77] It had a broader format than MTV with more urban
contemporary and metal music;[78] program director Steve Leeds called it "all over the place
musically".[79] As a music video station and not merely a program, it was subject to the six-
month exclusivity that MTV demanded from some record labels for new titles.[78][80] At the
end of 1985, it extended to begin late-night broadcasting to 1 or 2 a.m. six nights a week.[81]
The service also produced a music video, for "Put That Head Out" by rap artist Funkmaster
Wizard Wiz.[82]
Home shopping and Telefutura/UniMás
On August 4, 1986, the Home Shopping Network (HSN) announced that it would enter the
broadcast television business by buying three stations in two acquisitions: WWHT and WSNL-
TV, as well as the Boston area's WVJV "V-66", a station with a similar format to U68. The three
stations went for $46 million. The stations would carry the newly established Home Shopping
Network 2 service, which offered a more upscale assortment of products than the existing
HSN.[83] News that U68 was likely on its way out to make way for home shopping
programming led Pablo Guzmán in the New York Daily News to praise the "quality service"
that it provided to homes without cable in spite of MTV's restrictions and other challenges[84]
and his colleague Jim Farber to laud its "innovative, genre-busting programming and no
creepy veejays".[85] On October 6, 1986, HSN closed on the WWHT–WSNL deal and began
programming both stations with home shopping.[86] Five production employees lost their jobs
with the transition to home shopping.[87] HSN also changed the stations' call letters from
WWHT and WSNL to WHSE and WHSI, respectively,[88] effective January 23, 1987.[89]
The purchase of the New York and Boston stations started a shopping spree for HSN. By
January 1987, it had acquired stations serving Baltimore and Washington, D.C., Chicago,
Cleveland, Houston, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia.[89] It later added stations in the Dallas–Fort
Worth, Miami, and Tampa Bay markets, giving it 12 stations and making it the fifth-largest
station owner by reach in the country as of 1992, behind the Big Three networks and Tribune
Broadcasting.[90] That year, HSN spun off the twelve stations into a new company, Silver King
Broadcasting.[91]
A joint venture led by Barry Diller bought the Silver King stations in 1996,[92] renaming the
group USA Broadcasting. As late as 2000,[93] the company promised to bring the CityVision
general-entertainment independent format that USA Broadcasting was slowly rolling out in its
portfolio to New York and Los Angeles. CityVision had made it to four cities, but it proved
costly to operate and was a ratings disappointment outside of live sports.[94] USA Station
Group Partnership of New Jersey, the licensee of WHSE, registered a trademark on WORX as a
future call sign in October 2000.[95] After discussions for a joint venture with ABC fell apart,
the USA Broadcasting stations were sold to Univision for $1.1 billion in a deal announced in
December 2000.[94][96] The USA–Univision deal created seven new duopolies, including the
pairing of WHSE and WHSI with Univision's WXTV (channel 41).[94]
In the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks of 2001, channel 68 temporarily
simulcast WABC-TV, which had been broadcasting from the World Trade Center.[97] It was
later joined by channel 67.[98] The station ceased broadcasting HSN on October 1, 2001, and
temporarily switched to the American Independent Network.[99]
Univision used most of the stations it acquired by USA Broadcasting to launch a second
network, Telefutura, which debuted on January 14, 2002.[100] The stations adopted new WFUT
and WFTY call letters, respectively.[101] Telefutura rebranded as UniMás in 2013.[102]
In 2008, Univision experimented with adding 7 a.m. local morning newscasts to four of its
Telefutura stations, including WFUT–WFTY.[103] This continued through at least 2014.[104]
In 2017, Univision reached a deal with the Justice Network, a diginet focusing on true crime
and law enforcement programming, and provided it carriage in 11 markets, including New
York City.[105] Justice Network rebranded as True Crime Network in 2020.[106]
Technical information
Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:
Subchannels of WFTY-DT[107]
Short
Channel Res. Aspect Programming
name
True Crime
67.1 480i CRIME
Network
67.2 WFUT-DT UniMás (WFUT-DT)
720p Wikimedia | © OpenStreetMap
Univision (WXTV-
67.3 WXTV-DT
DT) Coverage areas of WFUT–WXTV (red) and WFTY-
16:9
67.4 GRIT Grit DT (blue). WFUT–WXTV, from the Empire State
Building, serves New York City, the Hudson Valley,
67.5 MYSTERY Ion Mystery
and northern New Jersey. WFTY-DT, from Middle
480i
67.6 ShopLC Shop LC Island, serves much of the southern Connecticut
coast and eastern Long Island. The signals
67.7 NVSN Nuestra Visión
overlap over southwestern Connecticut and west-
central Long Island.
Simulcast of subchannels of another station
Subchannel broadcast with MPEG-4 video
Analog-to-digital conversion
WFTY ended regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 67, on June 12,
2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The
station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 23, using virtual channel
67.[108]
See also
WFUT-DT
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