WWHB-CA
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Stuart/West Palm Beach, Florida United States |
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| Branding | Azteca 48 |
| Channels |
Analog: 48 (UHF) Digital: WTVX-DT 34.2 (UHF) Virtual: 34.2 (PSIP) |
| Affiliations | Azteca (?–present) |
| Owner |
Sinclair Broadcast Group (WTVX Licensee, LLC) |
| First air date | 1988 |
| Call letters' meaning | Named for former owner William H. Brothers |
| Former callsigns | W19AQ (1989–1998) WINQ-LP (1998–2002) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1988–?) |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | azteca48 |
WWHB-CA is an Azteca affiliate in West Palm Beach, Florida, that is licensed to Stuart. Owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, WWHB is sister station to CBS affiliate WPEC, CW affiliate WTVX and Class A MyNetworkTV affiliate WTCN-CA. It broadcasts on UHF channel 48 as a class-A (a form of low-power broadcasting) television station. It was Sinclair's first Spanish language station besides KEYE-DT2 in Austin, Texas, which carries Telemundo, before Sinclair began to acquire more stations in 2012. WWHB-CA is also carried on WTVX's second digital subchannel. On May 24, 2012, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted WWHB-CA a construction permit to digitally flash-cut on its current allotment on channel 48.
The original WWHB was licensed to channel 3 in Indianapolis, Indiana to the department store company William H. Block Co. in 1947. It had changed call letters by 1949.
WWHB began as W19AQ (known on-air as WAQ), a station that began broadcasting as channel 19 in West Palm Beach in October, 1988. The original owner was Palm Beach Broadcasting, led by William B. O'Donnell. WAQ had hoped to become an ABC affiliate when WPEC dropped ABC for CBS at the end of 1988, but instead the affiliation went to WPBF According to the Sun-Sentinel, WAQ's initial programming consisted of "morning cartoons (Beverly Hills Teens); old, public domain (and often silent) movies (Bachelor in Paradise, The Pickwick Papers); vintage TV series (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.); sports (Notre Dame football, Florida Marlins baseball); and music (Hit Video USA, which ran from 1 to 6 a.m.)." The station also later carried Howard Stern's original syndicated television program, and taped-delayed races from the Palm Beach Kennel Club.
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