WYTU-LD
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| Milwaukee/Racine, Wisconsin | |
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| Branding | Telemundo 63, Telemundo Wisconsin (general) Noticiero Telemundo Wisconsin y tú (newscasts) |
| Channels | Analog: 63 (UHF) Digital: 17 (UHF) WBME-DT4 49.4, Racine |
| Affiliations | Telemundo (digital-only) Independent (Me-TV) (DTV transitional on analog signal) |
| Owner | Weigel Broadcasting (Channel 41 and 63 Limited Partnership) |
| Founded | 1990 |
| Call letters' meaning | Y TÚ, Spanish for 'and you' |
| Sister station(s) | WBME-TV, WDJT-TV, WMLW-CA |
| Former affiliations | Univision (as W46AR on ch. 46 before 1999) CBS (DTV transitional, June-December 2009) |
| Transmitter power | 137 kW (analog) 2.1 kW (digital) |
| Height | 314 m (both) |
| Facility ID | 71424 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°6′42.0″N 87°55′50.0″W / 43.11167°N 87.93056°W |
WYTU-LD (Channel 63.1) is a digital television station located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin branded as Telemundo Wisconsin. The station airs on digital channel 17 via a low power digital television signal, along with a full-power simulcast on full power sister station WBME-TV via digital subchannel 49.4, and both signals air currently in 480i standard definition. WYTU-LD is Milwaukee's affiliate for the Spanish-language Telemundo network.
WYTU is owned by Weigel Broadcasting, which also owns WDJT (Channel 58), WBME (Channel 49) and WMLW (Channel 41) in Milwaukee. The station airs all of Telemundo's schedule along with Spanish-language coverage of some Milwaukee Brewers baseball games. The station transmits from Weigel's combined broadcast tower in Milwaukee's Lincoln Park.
The station's analog channel 63, WYTU-LP, has not broadcast the Telemundo Wisconsin schedule since June 12, 2009, when Weigel decided to convert that signal to an enhanced nightlight service instead carrying WDJT's CBS schedule for the benefit of those viewers who had not yet made the full-power digital transition. The special agreement to carry CBS in an analog form ended on January 1, 2010, and since that time WYTU-LD has simulcast WBME's Me-TV lineup, while Telemundo Wisconsin has remained a digital-only offering via WYTU-LD and WBME-DT 49.4 [1].
WYTU is also available on cable in the nearby Madison market.
[edit] History
The station has mostly been a feeder of the entire schedule of the Univision and Telemundo schedules through most of its history with minimal local programming. In 1999, Weigel dropped Univision in a compensation dispute and affiliated with Telemundo, and within the year, the station moved to Channel 63 from Channel 46 in order to accommodate WDJT's digital signal as W63CU. In mid-December 2003, the station took the lettered call sign WYTU-LP, as it began to solicit local advertising from the growing Latino population in the Milwaukee area and Weigel began to push for extended cable coverage by including it in retransmission consent negotiations for WDJT.
The station launched a nightly 10 minute newscast in July 2007 within the 10:00pm national edition of Noticiero Telemundo called Noticiero Telemundo Wisconsin y tú, with production assistance from WDJT.[2] Several on-air reporters and anchors within the WDJT newsroom are bilingual, allowing reporters to file stories for both stations. Currently local content makes up the bulk of the 35 minutes of the program, with parts of the national newscast blended into the show.
The station launched its digital channel 17 on December 10, 2007.[3] Unlike the channel 13 digital signal of WMLW (which receives interference from WZZM of Grand Rapids, WYTU-LD's digital signal reaches the southern portion of the adjacent Green Bay/Appleton DMA, and is somewhat unrestricted as WXMI of Grand Rapids, the former occupant of channel 17 in that market, now broadcasts on digital channel 20, although WXMI's Muskegon translator W17DF-D also broadcasts on channel 17. As a result of carriage agreements by Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications for access to the WDJT signal, WYTU is carried on those cable systems in portions of that market, and also has an additional channel slot within each provider's "Latino tier" of Spanish language programming
In January 2009, WYTU was added to sister station WBME's digital signal on digital subchannel 49.4.[4] Currently a power increase is on hold due to the station's signal conflicts with WHME-TV in South Bend, Indiana, but WBME-DT4 effectively acts as the feed used for cable providers and promoted ahead of 63.1 during station identification sequences.
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