WSBS-TV
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Key West, Florida United States |
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| Branding | Mega TV |
| Slogan | La Mega Se Pega |
| Channels |
Digital: 3 (VHF) Virtual: 22 () |
| Translators | WSBS-CD 50 Miami |
| Affiliations | Mega TV |
| Owner |
Spanish Broadcasting System (WSBS Licensing, Inc.) |
| First air date | October 2, 1989 |
| Call letters' meaning | Spanish Broadcasting System |
| Sister station(s) | WRMA, WCMQ-FM, WXDJ, WMFM, WRAZ-FM |
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| Transmitter power | 1 kW (45kW CP) 15kW @ -1° for WSBS-CD |
| Height |
WSBS-TV: 54 m (177 ft) WSBS-CD: 237.3 m (779 ft) |
| Facility ID | 72053 (WSBS-TV) 29547/167208 (WSBS-CD) |
| Transmitter coordinates |
24°33′19.8″N 81°48′4.5″W / 24.555500°N 81.801250°WCoordinates: 24°33′19.8″N 81°48′4.5″W / 24.555500°N 81.801250°W (WSBS-TV) 25°59′9″N 80°11′37″W / 25.98583°N 80.19361°W (WSBS-CD) |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.mega.tv |
WSBS-TV, virtual channel 22 (VHF digital channel 3), is a Mega TV owned-and-operated television station located in Key West, Florida, United States. It serves as the flagship station of owner Spanish Broadcasting System. WSBS maintains studio facilities located on Northwest 77th Avenue in Miami, and its transmitter is located on Bahama and Simonton Streets in Key West. The station's signal is relayed on low-power translator station, WSBS-CD, UHF channel 50 (virtual channel 22.1), in Miami.
The station's Mega TV programming has been available nationally on DirecTV since October 17, 2007, with its high definition feed available on the satellite provider since September 29, 2010.
The station was originally licensed as WYDH on October 2, 1989; the calls were changed to WEYS on October 11, 1989, and the station itself first signed on the air in June 1993. WSBS-TV has had numerous callsign changes over the years. This has caused much confusion, both among viewers and writers. In many places, the station is still referred to as WEYS TeleNoticias, and WDLP Licensing, Inc. remained the licensee for several months after the call change to WSBS-TV. Some of these calls have been reused by low-power repeater stations, themselves often subject to similar callsign shuffles (for instance, the WDLP callsign is currently used by a repeater for rival WGEN-TV). On April 4, 2003, the station changed its call letters to WGEN-TV; it was then changed to WDLP-TV on November 24 of that year. The current WSBS-TV call letters were first adopted on July 1, 2004, before reverting to the WDLP-TV callsign on September 28, 2004. Prior to 2005, the station was co-owned with another Key West station, WGEN-TV, under the ownership of Sonia Broadcasting.
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