Wsvn:Channel 7 News

Wsvn:Channel 7 News:WSVN, channel 7, television station, located in Miami, Florida. WSVN owned by Sunbeam Television, and a branch of Fox Broadcasting Company. The station has its studios located in North Bay Village, and a transmitter in northern Miami-Dade County. WSVN is one of the three stations are based in Miami-Dade County along WFOR-TV and WBFS .
WSVN works Key West Relay, WKIZ-LP, on channel 49. Calls WKIZ are playing the Florida Keys with an interpreter is Key West.
The station started broadcasting in July 29, 1956. He WCKT callsigns and NBC affiliate owned by Biscayne Television Corporation. The station was partnership Cox and Knight Publications family, which owned the Miami two main newspapers: Miami News and the Miami Herald, respectively. The same partnership also owns WCKR radio (610 AM, now WIOD) and WCKR-FM (97,3, currently WFLC). Before WCKT signed, NBC was held on WFTL-TV (Channel 23) in Fort Lauderdale (later known as WGBS-TV after it was acquired by Storer Broadcasting), along with some programming Dumont. However, WFTL struggled because televisions do not have to be able to configure UHF. When the Cox / Knight partnership has won a building permit and a license for Channel 7, NBC quickly agreed to move its affiliation to the channel with WCKR long branch of NBC Radio in Miami. Channel 23 became independent and eventually went dark, then returned to the air in 1963 as a potential flagship Univision station WLTV.
In 1962, the Cox / Knight partnership was deprived of both its broadcasting license because it violated the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) licensing regulations and because of ethics violations. At the hearings, which began in June 1960, it was discovered that some of the principles Biscayne television, as well as some of the James M. Cox of personal friends, took a wrong contact with FCC Commissioner Richard Mack in order to influence award a construction permit and license. Biscayne was competing for a license from the East Coast Television and South Florida Television. Mack was also convicted in the payments and was forced to resign, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, as well as other members of the Commission FCC.
Biscayne television initially planned to appeal the revocation of his license, but said that it will be rejected due to seriousness of the situation. Mack was also found guilty of payments in the process of licensing another Miami station, WPST-TV (Channel 10, now WPLG), for broadcasting subsidiary of national airlines. WPST had its license revoked and then decided to put Biscayne WCKT on the market. WPST owners were forced to sell the station only once to stop broadcasting.
Shortly thereafter, a new company Sunbeam Television Corporation bought the station for 3.4 million dollars and assumed ownership of 19 December 1962. After changes in ownership, Sunbeam has kept letters WCKT call and say the history of Cox / Knight of the station as his own. Sunbeam Television partnership between Sidney Ansin, Miami Beach-based developer and his son, Edmund (“Ed”) Ansin. Ansin Jr. succeeded his father as president of Sunbeam Television in 1971. WSVN used its own version of the circle 7 logo since 1970. June 7, 1983, the call letters of the station have been replaced by the current WSVN.
Sunbeam Television ownership
As the station NBC, WCKT / WSVN broadcast newscast in place of any NBC broadcast on weekdays at noon. He also, at certain times of the year, displacing the shows for 10 or 11 hours in the morning (but escaped at least one of those hours) and eliminated the random prime-time show. While NBC, traditionally much less tolerant of pre-emptions, than other networks, he did not mind this at first, provided that NBC managed to connect with alternative independent stations in the Miami area in the air all the programs that WSVN not air. In addition, NBC programs that WSVN not air had been cleared of WPTV (Channel 5) in West Palm Beach. WPTV signal provides city-grade coverage of Fort Lauderdale and was available on virtually all cable systems in the area. However, in the early 1980′s, WPTV fell several Miami cable system, to make room for new channels. Although independent stations contacted NBC continued air program does not appear on WSVN, NBC is preferable that all of its broadcast schedule on one station and ultimately to the conclusion that they needed to own its release in a growing Miami / Ft. Lauderdale market.
Network affiliation switch
NBC got his chance in the late 1980′s when the CBS affiliate WTVJ (Channel 4, currently on channel 6), the oldest television station in Florida, went to the market. NBC acquired the station in 1987, but being WTVJ contract with CBS will not end until the end of 1988. CBS was ready to WTVJ from its affiliation contract a year early. On the contrary, Ed Ansin was not interested in letting out of his NBC contract with WSVN, which also expired at the same time. He wanted to channel 7 in the air is NBC’s fall 1988 lineup, which included Major League Baseball World Series and Olympic Games. As a result, NBC was forced to flee WTVJ as an affiliate of CBS for more than a year, with all the NBC shows airing preempted WSVN WTVJ (a situation that is not suited to any network). When Ansin made a proposal to membership CBS, CBS refused the offer. Instead, CBS bought the original Miami Fox affiliate, WCIX (Channel 6, now WFOR-TV, Channel 4), despite the fact that the station was insufficient signal in Broward County.
Finally, from 1 January 1989, the first supplies a network of South Florida have been switching to NBC WTVJ moving to full-time and get supplies WSVN Fox, who previously held by WCIX. WSVN was much smaller than pre-empt programming as a result, both Fox only programmed output at a time, thus, WSVN initially considered themselves independent stations and to expand the network weeknights at the beginning of 1990, a film was shown in prime time every weekday evenings at 8 pm, the station also picked up on the news-intensive format, after the affiliation switch, is expanding its production up to eight hours on weekdays. affiliation with Fox WSVN can also be seen as a major coup for the young network, WSVN has been a longtime partner of NBC and Fox was happy to get affiliation stations that had been the “Big Three” networks for many years (Miami-Fort Lauderdale is only market, where the Fox affiliation moved from one station to another VHF).