WCKT-TV
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Miami/Fort Lauderdale, Florida United States |
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| City | Miami, Florida |
| Branding | WSVN 7 7 News |
| Slogan | The News Station |
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Digital: 7 (VHF) Virtual: 7 () |
| Translators | WKIZ-LP 49 Key West, Florida |
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| Owner | Sunbeam Television |
| First air date | July 29, 1956 (current license dates from December 19, 1962) |
| Call letters' meaning | SeVeN |
| Former callsigns | WCKT (1956–1983) |
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| Transmitter power | 158 kW |
| Height | 307.1 m (1,008 ft) |
| Facility ID | 63840 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 25°57′49.9″N 80°12′43.6″W / 25.963861°N 80.212111°WCoordinates: 25°57′49.9″N 80°12′43.6″W / 25.963861°N 80.212111°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
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Profile CDBS |
| Website | wsvn.com |
WSVN, virtual and VHF digital channel 7, is a Fox-affiliated television station located in Miami, Florida, United States. It serves as the flagship station of locally owned Sunbeam Television. WSVN maintains studio facilities located on 79th Street Causeway (SR 934) in North Bay Village (though with a Miami address), and its transmitter is located in north Miami-Dade County. The station's signal is relayed on low-powered translator WKIZ-LP (channel 49) in Key West.
The station first signed on the air on July 29, 1956 as WCKT. Originally operating as an NBC affiliate, it was founded by the Biscayne Television Corporation, a partnership between the Cox and Knight publishing families (from which the original call letters were derived), who respectively owned Miami's two major newspapers: the Miami News and Miami Herald. The same Cox/Knight partnership also owned WCKR radio (610 AM, now WIOD; and 97.3 FM, now WFLC). Niles Trammell, a former NBC president, held a 15 percent ownership interest in WCKT.
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