WWSI is the Telemundo-affiliated television station for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that is licensed to Atlantic City, New Jersey. Broadcasting its digital signal on UHF channel 49 (virtual channel 62.1 via PSIP) from a transmitter in Tuckerton, New Jersey (which has the distinction of being the tallest structure in New Jersey, WWSI's studios are located on North Delaware Avenue in Philadelphia.
The station is unique in that, while its transmitter site is located in Ocean County, New Jersey, which is part of the New York City market, the station is not available on cable television systems in Ocean County, since it is licensed to a city located in the Philadelphia television market. The station does not maintain its own news department, and runs minimal local programming.
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Former WWSI logo, used from 2004 to 2012.
WWSI did not begin operations until 2001. Prior to this sign-on, its construction permit carried the call letters of WDKZ in 1989, which subsequently changed that same year to WACI. In 2000, WACI changed its callsign to WPHA. The station then went on the air as WWSI on January 17, 2001,[1] and acquired the Telemundo affiliation (originally seen on WTGI until 1998, then WTVE in Reading, Pennsylvania from 1998 to 2000). WWSI launched its website in 2007.
In January 2008, Hispanic Broadcasters Corporation agreed to sell WWSI to ZGS Communications for $10 million.[2] The station officially became owned by ZGS on March 11 of that year.
On March 21, 2013, NBCUniversal entered into an agreement to acquire WWSI from ZGS Communications for $20 million. Prior to the sale agreement, WWSI had been the largest station (in terms of market size) aligned with Telemundo that was not an owned-and-operated station of the network. Pending approval by the Federal Communications Commission, the deal will create a duopoly with NBC-owned Philadelphia station WCAU.[3]
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- KYW-TV (3.1 CBS, 3.2 CBS Philly Plus)
- WPVI-TV (6.1 ABC, 6.2 LWN HD, 6.3 LWN SD)
- WWJT-LP 7 (Ind)
- WELL-LD (8.1 Daystar)
- WCAU-TV (10.1 NBC, 10.2 Cozi TV)
- WHYY (12.1 PBS, 12.2 Create, 12.3 World)
- WPHL-TV (17.1 MNTV, 17.2 Antenna TV, 17.3 This TV, 17.4 Tango Traffic)
- WNJS (23.1 PBS / NJTV)
- WFPA-CA 28 (UniMás)
- WTXF (29.1 Fox)
- WZPA-LD 33 (AZA)
- WQAV-LP 34 (AV/Ind)
- WYBE (35.1 Public Ind, 35.2 NHK World, 35.3 MHz WorldView, 35.66 WFME-DT1 simulcast)
- WPHA-CD 38 (Ind)
- WWDD-LP 40 (DS)
- WNAI-LP 41 (HSN)
- WGTW (48.1 TBN, 48.2 Church, 48.3 JCTV, 48.4 Enlace, 48.5 Smile)
- WPSG (57.1 CW)
- WPPX-TV (61.1 ION, 61.2 Qubo, 61.3 ION Life)
- WUVP-TV (65.1 UNI, 65.2 WFPA-CA)
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