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City | Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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First air date | December 6, 1968 |
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Call sign meaning | Similar sound in Spanish to "ese se ve", "that one is seen" |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
Facility ID | 64971 |
ERP | 1,000 kW |
HAAT | 304 m (997 ft) |
Transmitter coordinates | 25°59′10.0″N 80°11′36.3″W / 25.986111°N 80.193417°W |
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Website | www |
WSCV (channel 51) is a television station licensed to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States, serving as the Telemundo outlet for the Miami area. It is one of two flagship stations of the Spanish-language network (the other being WNJU in the New York City market). WSCV is owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group alongside NBC station WTVJ (channel 6). The two stations share studios on Southwest 27th Street in Miramar; WSCV's transmitter is located in Pembroke Park, Florida. The station also serves as the de facto Telemundo outlet for the West Palm Beach market, as that area does not have a Telemundo station of its own.
Channel 51 in Fort Lauderdale first went on the air in 1968. It operated as a primarily English-language independent station as WSMS-TV from 1968 to 1970 and as WKID from 1972 to 1980. From 1980 to 1984, the station primarily broadcast the ON TV subscription service until its owner, Oak Communications, sold it to John Blair & Co., which relaunched it the next year as Spanish-language WSCV. It was one of Telemundo's charter stations in 1987 and has since experienced ratings increases and expanded its local news offerings.