{{Short description|Television station in Paterson, New Jersey}} {{for|the former TV station in Youngstown, Ohio|WXTV (Ohio)}} {{good article}} {{Use American English|date=October 2022}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2024}} {{Infobox television station | callsign = WXTV-DT | logo = WXTV Univision 41 2026.svg | logo_size = 220px | logo_alt = | branding = {{ubl|{{lang|es|italic=no|Univision 41 Nueva York}}|{{lang|es|Noticias N+ Univision Nueva York}} (newscasts)}} | digital = 26 (UHF), shared with WFUT-DT | virtual = 41 | translators = WFTY-DT 67.3 Smithtown, New York | affiliations = {{ubl|'''41.1:''' Univision|''for others, see {{Section link||Subchannels}}''}} | owner = TelevisaUnivision | licensee = WXTV License Partnership, G.P. | location = {{ubl|Paterson, New Jersey|New York, New York}} | country = US | city = Paterson, New Jersey | airdate = {{Start date|1968|08|04}} | sister_stations = {{hlist|WFUT-DT|WFTY-DT|WADO|WXNY-FM}} | former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 41 (UHF, 1968–2009)|'''Digital:''' 40 (UHF, until 2018), 30 (UHF, 2018–2019)|'''Translators:'''|W35AB Philadelphia|W61AH Hartford, CT}} | former_callsigns = WXTV (1968–2009) | erp = 215 kW | haat = {{convert|397|m|ft|0|abbr=on}} | facility_id = 74215 | coordinates = {{coord|40|44|54|N|73|59|9|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}} | licensing_authority = FCC | website = {{URL|https://www.univision.com/local/nueva-york-wxtv}} }} '''WXTV-DT''' (channel 41) is a television station licensed to Paterson, New Jersey, United States, serving the New York metropolitan area. It is one of two flagship stations of the Spanish-language network Univision (alongside WLTV-DT in Miami–Fort Lauderdale), and is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision. Under common ownership with Newark-licensed UniMás outlet WFUT-DT (channel 68) and Smithtown, New York–licensed True Crime Network affiliate WFTY-DT (channel 67), the three stations share studio facilities on Frank W. Burr Boulevard in Teaneck, New Jersey; WXTV-DT and WFUT-DT share transmitter facilities at the Empire State Building in Midtown Manhattan.
WXTV's programming is simulcast to Long Island on WFTY's third digital subchannel (67.3) from its transmitter in Middle Island, New York.
==History== ===Channel... 37?=== In 1962, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) received two applications for the channel 37 allocation belonging to Paterson, New Jersey—one from the Spanish International Broadcasting Corporation, which at the time only owned two stations, and another from Progress Broadcasting, owner of WHOM (1480 AM).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/08/18/archives/2-seek-to-start-spanish-tv-here-bids-for-uhf-channel-in-paterson.html|page=43|title=2 Seek to Start Spanish TV Here|first=Richard F.|last=Shepard|accessdate=September 5, 2021|date=August 18, 1962|work=The New York Times|archive-date=September 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906005236/https://www.nytimes.com/1962/08/18/archives/2-seek-to-start-spanish-tv-here-bids-for-uhf-channel-in-paterson.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Additionally, use of channel 37 in Paterson had been contemplated for a potential educational station for northern New Jersey.<ref>{{cite news|title=Group Seeks F.C.C. Approval For Educational T.V. Channel|work=The Record|page=2|first=Charles H.|last=Harrison|accessdate=September 5, 2021|date=January 5, 1962|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84793136/|archive-date=March 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310011645/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84793136/group-seeks-fcc-approval-for/|url-status=live}}</ref> However, even as the channel had picked up a further two interested parties by April 1963, it was not a broadcaster at all that drove the proceedings. The Vermilion River Observatory in Danville, Illinois, a radio astronomy facility, objected to any channel 37 facility being built—the channel having been allocated to 19 communities across the country<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84792848/commercial-tv-given-astronomers-channel/|work=Los Angeles Times|date=June 3, 1963|accessdate=September 5, 2021|page=III:12|title=Commercial TV Given Astronomers Channel|first=George|last=Getze|archive-date=September 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906005237/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84792848/commercial-tv-given-astronomers-channel/|url-status=live}}</ref>—because their observatory was designed to detect signals in the 608–614 MHz range, coinciding with channel 37; using these frequencies, the observatory could detect specific types of radiation that existed at no other wavelength. The FCC, arguing that there was no other available channel for a station in Paterson, proposed initially to award no channel 37 station within {{convert|600|mi|km}} of Danville and that all stations would have overnight broadcasts curtailed.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1963/04/14/archives/scientists-fight-tv-group-for-channel-controversy-building-up.html|title=Scientists Fight TV Group for Channel|pages=1, 48|work=The New York Times|date=April 14, 1963|first=John W.|last=Finney|accessdate=September 5, 2021|archive-date=September 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906005235/https://www.nytimes.com/1963/04/14/archives/scientists-fight-tv-group-for-channel-controversy-building-up.html|url-status=live}}</ref> An editorial in ''The New York Times'' called on the FCC to reserve the channel on a national basis for radio astronomy.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1963/04/22/archives/to-the-stars-via-channel-37.html|date=April 22, 1963|page=26|title=To the Stars via Channel 37|accessdate=September 5, 2021|work=The New York Times|archive-date=September 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906005238/https://www.nytimes.com/1963/04/22/archives/to-the-stars-via-channel-37.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
In October 1963, the FCC opted to devote channel 37 entirely to radio astronomy uses until at least 1974 and announced it would allocate another channel to Paterson.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84793297/fcc-gives-astronomers-channel-37/|work=The Morning Call|pages=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84793339/channel-37/ 22]|title=FCC Gives Astronomers Channel 37|date=October 5, 1963|accessdate=September 5, 2021|archive-date=September 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906005246/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84793297/fcc-gives-astronomers-channel-37/|url-status=live}}</ref> The four channel 37 applicants—Spanish International Broadcasting Corporation, Progress Broadcasting, Bartell Broadcasters, and Trans-Tel<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84793407/|date=October 7, 1963|work=Paterson Evening News|page=5|title=FCC Rules Against TV Channel Here|accessdate=September 5, 2021}}</ref>—would have to wait until the FCC assigned another channel to Paterson. Originally, 66 was proposed,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1964/1964-05-11-BC.pdf|work=Broadcasting|date=May 11, 1964|accessdate=September 5, 2021|page=75|id={{ProQuest|1014478343}}|title=Paterson applicant wants ch. 66 finalized|archive-date=September 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906005237/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1964/1964-05-11-BC.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> but by 1965, channel 41 had instead been assigned.{{r|threeuhf}}
===WXTV signs on the air=== Trans-Tel, which proposed a station airing programming for the tri-state area's Spanish-speaking and Black communities,<ref>{{cite news|pages=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84793567/fcc-asked-to-assign-uhf-video/ 19]|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84793547/fcc-asked-to-assign-uhf-video-channel/|title=FCC Asked to Assign UHF Video Channel to City|work=Paterson Evening News|date=July 19, 1963|accessdate=September 5, 2021|archive-date=September 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906005238/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84793547/fcc-asked-to-assign-uhf-video-channel/|url-status=live}}</ref> came out the winner in a settlement that also saw Bartell drop out and Spanish International get the option to acquire 50 percent of the permit.<ref name="threeuhf">{{Cite news|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1965/1965-05-24-BC.pdf|accessdate=September 5, 2021|date=May 24, 1965|work=Broadcasting|title=Three UHF agreements approved by FCC|id={{ProQuest|1014504033}}|page=51|archive-date=September 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906005234/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1965/1965-05-24-BC.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> This option was exercised in 1967.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1967/1967-07-03-BC.pdf|work=Broadcasting|page=41|date=July 3, 1967|title=Spanish, CATV owners, buy into UHF station|id={{ProQuest|1014503150}}|accessdate=September 5, 2021|archive-date=September 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906044659/https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1967/1967-07-03-BC.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
Initially planned to broadcast from the Empire State Building, construction was sped up when the FCC allowed the station—taking the call letters WXTV—to move its transmitter to the Cities Service Building until the World Trade Center was completed, becoming the first television station to use the mast and first broadcast station since 1950.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84794951/new-paterson-tv-station-to-air-spanish-p/|accessdate=September 5, 2021|date=February 7, 1968|work=The Herald-News|title=New Paterson TV Station To Air Spanish Programs|page=26|archive-date=March 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310011649/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84794951/new-paterson-tv-station-to-air-spanish/|url-status=live}}</ref>{{efn|An article in ''The Record'' claims it will be the "first located on this building";<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84794888/|accessdate=September 5, 2021|date=February 7, 1968|title=New TV Station Due In Summer|page=A-15|work=The Record|archive-date=March 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310011650/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84794888/new-tv-station-due-in-summer/|url-status=live}}</ref> it had last been used by WGYN, an FM station that closed in 1950.<ref name="quits">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1950/05/12/archives/radio-and-television-wgyn-fm-station-quits-broadcasting-as-result.html|title=Radio and Television; WGYN, FM Station, Quits Broadcasting as Result of Unprofitable Operations|work=The New York Times|date=May 12, 1950|access-date=August 20, 2018|archive-date=July 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200720120703/https://www.nytimes.com/1950/05/12/archives/radio-and-television-wgyn-fm-station-quits-broadcasting-as-result.html|url-status=live}}</ref>}} The station went on the air August 4, 1968, from studios at 641 Main Street in Paterson, a property it leased from former mayor Frank X. Graves, Jr.<ref name="on">{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84795636/|accessdate=September 5, 2021|date=August 5, 1968|title=Paterson's WXTV On The Air; Expansion Already Under Way|first=Michael|last=Batelli|page=9|work=The Morning Call|archive-date=March 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310011651/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84795636/patersons-wxtv-on-the-air-expansion/|url-status=live}}</ref> The station focused on filmed programs from Mexico and Puerto Rico at the outset, though it also aired local news, and some English-language programming, primarily public affairs material for North Jersey, including a news wrap-up and election debates.<ref name="gap">{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84796928/spanish-speaking-media-gap-decried/|accessdate=September 5, 2021|work=The Sunday Record Call|first=Louise|last=Esteven|title=Spanish-Speaking Media Gap Decried|page=20-D|date=October 20, 1968|archive-date=September 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906015045/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84796928/spanish-speaking-media-gap-decried/|url-status=live}}</ref> Additionally, because the electricity supply to the Cities Service Building meant the transmitter could only be powered when the air conditioning and elevator systems were off, channel 41 could only broadcast at first in the evenings.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1968/07/30/archives/wxtv-telecasts-to-start-sunday-uhf-station-will-present-programs-in.html|title=WXTV Telecasts To Start Sunday|date=July 30, 1968|first=Robert E.|last=Dallos|work=The New York Times|accessdate=September 5, 2021|archive-date=September 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906044659/https://www.nytimes.com/1968/07/30/archives/wxtv-telecasts-to-start-sunday-uhf-station-will-present-programs-in.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
===Tower woes=== For several years, the location of the transmitter was a hot-button issue. Rene Anselmo, one of the founders of the Spanish International Network, claimed that when WXTV initially inquired as to space at the Empire State Building, it was told it would have to sign a 20-year lease. Because all of the other stations were scheduled to move to the World Trade Center, it opted to wait at the Cities Service Building. However, when the center neared completion, it began causing reception issues for WXTV, particularly because the Cities Service transmitter was closer to the towers than the other stations at the Empire State Building.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84798657/maverick-wxtv-chief-is-jousting-with-the/|title=Maverick WXTV Chief Is Jousting With the PA|work=Daily News|location=New York|first=Val|last=Adams|date=October 6, 1973|pages=10, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84798776/whats-on/ 11]|accessdate=September 5, 2021}}</ref> The station blamed the Port of New York Authority for poor reception and implored viewers to complain to Austin Tobin; the Port Authority complained that the intention of channel 41's actions was to try and move its transmitter to the WTC.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84797723/wxtv-wants-antenna-atop-trade-center/|accessdate=September 5, 2021|title=WXTV Wants Antenna Atop Trade Center|date=September 30, 1971|work=Daily News|location=New York|page=115|first=Christopher|last=Cubbison|archive-date=September 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906015047/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84797723/wxtv-wants-antenna-atop-trade-center/|url-status=live}}</ref> Claiming that the Port Authority was stalling on prior agreements to move the stations to the WTC, WXTV ran a full-page advertisement in the ''Daily News'' imploring viewers to "Wake Up!" and declaring that "The Port Authority is killing your TV reception...and doesn't give a damn!".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84798054/|accessdate=September 5, 2021|date=October 5, 1973|page=51|work=Daily News|location=New York|title=Television Viewers...WAKE UP!|archive-date=March 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310011645/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84798054/television-viewerswake-up/|url-status=live}}</ref> It also threatened to sue the Port Authority;<ref>{{cite news|title=STATION MAY SUE ON TV ANTENNAS: Spanish Outlet Wants Them Moved to Trade Center|page=91|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1973/10/03/90994564.html?pageNumber=91|work=The New York Times|first=Fred|last=Ferretti|date=October 3, 1973}}</ref> Anselmo wrote to FCC commissioner Robert E. Lee and the governors of New York and New Jersey asking for their intercession.<ref>{{cite news|id={{ProQuest|963248898}}|work=Variety|page=23|title=N. Y. UHFer Asks FCC's Lee To Intervene In World Trade Center Renege On Antenna Promises|date=October 3, 1973}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|page=43|title=SIN Network Still Pushing Vs. Empire In Favor of World|work=Variety|id={{ProQuest|963266596}}|date=October 31, 1973}}</ref>
The station was successful in getting FCC approval to operate from the World Trade Center in 1974,<ref name="hc">{{Cite web|url= https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=87057 |title= History Cards for WXTV|publisher=Federal Communications Commission}} (Guide to reading History Cards)<!--Converted from {{FCC letter}}--></ref> but delays continued for years. In April 1980, the Port Authority finally reached an agreement to allow WXTV and its direct competitor, WNJU-TV, to operate from its antenna site on the north tower. However, further pushbacks by the Port Authority over radiation concerns for visitors to the south tower's 107th-story observation deck led Anselmo to start a hunger strike in an RV parked at the base of the towers in May 1980.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84799607/mixed-signals-in-antenna-dispute/|accessdate=September 5, 2021|title=Mixed signals in antenna dispute|first=Michael C.|last=Pollak|page=C7|work=The Record|date=May 14, 1980|archive-date=September 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906015050/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84799607/mixed-signals-in-antenna-dispute/|url-status=live}}</ref> Finally, in June, an agreement was approved to allow WXTV and WNJU to broadcast from the tower.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84799824/a-victory-for-spanish-tv/|title=A victory for Spanish TV|accessdate=September 5, 2021|page=A-29|work=The Record|date=June 8, 1980|archive-date=September 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906015045/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84799824/a-victory-for-spanish-tv/|url-status=live}}</ref>
===Growth=== In 1978, after ten years based in its city of license, WXTV announced it would move its studios to Secaucus, New Jersey, where they were consolidated with the station's Manhattan advertising offices.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84800199/paterson-group-cant-si-shift-of-spani/|page=50|work=Daily News|location=New York|first=Larry|last=Sutton|title=Paterson Group Can't 'Si' Shift of Spanish TV Station|date=April 20, 1978|accessdate=September 5, 2021|archive-date=March 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310011655/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84800199/paterson-group-cant-si-shift-of/|url-status=live}}</ref> The move would save money and pay for the relocation of the transmitter to the World Trade Center.<ref>{{cite news|title=Channel 41 leaving Paterson: Secaucus to get Spanish TV|page=D-4|work=The Record|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84800295/channel-41-leaving-paterson-secaucus-to/|date=June 14, 1979|first=Alfredo|last=Lopez|accessdate=September 5, 2021}}</ref> Meanwhile, as SIN became a pioneer in the use of television translators to extend its reach, WXTV soon began to spread outside of the New York City area. On May 3, 1980, a channel 35 translator went on the air in Philadelphia,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84800416/channel-11-joins-the-magazine-show-biz/|accessdate=September 5, 2021|work=The Herald-News|first=Mike|last=Botta|title=Channel 11 joins the magazine show biz|date=May 9, 1980|page=D12|archive-date=September 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906021845/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84800416/channel-11-joins-the-magazine-show-biz/|url-status=live}}</ref> which was followed by a second translator on channel 61 for Hartford, Connecticut, the next month.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84800363/|work=Hartford Courant|title=State Spanish TV Station To Start Operating|page=22|first=C.L.|last=Smith Muniz|date=June 21, 1980|accessdate=September 5, 2021|archive-date=March 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310011658/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84800363/state-spanish-tv-station-to-start/|url-status=live}}</ref>
WXTV was not the only Spanish-language TV station for the New York market—WNJU was already on the air—and the two began a healthy competition for viewers. However, the mix of programs on SIN and Univision, which emphasized Mexican ''novelas'', sometimes hurt WXTV in a market with more Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans. This allowed WNJU to beat WXTV at times.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84804529/hotand-getting-hotter-spanish-language/|title=Hot—And Getting Hotter: Spanish-language TV is coming of age, and the race is on to lead the field|work=Newsday|pages=TV Plus 8, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84804551/hot/ 9], [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84804578/spanish-shows-now-being-produced-in-the/ 13]|first=Enrique|last=Fernandez|date=June 19, 1988|accessdate=September 5, 2021|archive-date=March 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310011647/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84804529/hotand-getting-hotter/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84804336/|first=Richard|last=Sandomir|work=Newsday|title=Big Businesses Tuning In To Hispanic TV Stations|date=October 20, 1986|page=III:5|accessdate=September 5, 2021}}</ref>
In the late 1990s, WXTV made substantial strides in the general-market ratings. In February 1999, it topped WWOR-TV in total-day ratings, a historic first in New York; despite this, it had just $44 million in advertising revenue compared to $155 million for WWOR.<ref>{{Cite news|id={{ProQuest|219196870}} |title=Spanish TV station primed|first=Valerie|last=Block|work=Crain's New York Business|date=March 1, 1999}}</ref>
The September 11, 2001, terror attacks on the World Trade Center did not affect WXTV's over-the-air signal, as WXTV's transmitter is located at the Empire State Building. The station had filed in 1989 to return there from the World Trade Center and completed the move in 1992.<ref>{{cite news|id={{ProQuest|1016929679}}|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1989/BC-1989-09-25.pdf|title=For the Record|page=55|via=World Radio History|date=September 25, 1989|work=Broadcasting}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/app_list.pl?Arn=19920218KE|title=License to Cover BLCT-19920218KE|publisher=Federal Communications Commission|access-date=October 11, 2022}}</ref> WXTV and WCBS-TV (channel 2), which had a full-powered backup transmitter at the Empire State Building, were the only major New York City stations whose over-the-air signals were not disrupted. For a time until the other English stations could re-establish emergency transmission bases at Empire or the Armstrong Tower, WXTV's anchors reported in both languages for viewers without pay access to local English stations; the station had also done so when the towers were bombed in 1993.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84801283/most-area-tv-stations-got-knocked-off-th/|title=Most area TV stations got knocked off the air|first1=David|last1=Bianculli|first2=Richard|last2=Huff|work=Daily News|location=New York|accessdate=September 5, 2021|date=September 12, 2001|archive-date=March 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310011652/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84801283/most-area-tv-stations-got-knocked-off/|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Newscasts== right|thumb|alt=A white news van with the Univision logo and "Noticias 41 Univision" on the side|A WXTV news van in 2010 Local news began with the station, originally in the form of half-hour newscasts at 7 and 11 p.m. (later changed to 6 and 11).{{r|on}} From 1981 to 1985, Enrique Gratas was WXTV's news director.<ref>{{cite news|first=Evelio|last=Taillaco|work=El Nuevo Herald|page=37D|date=March 21, 2002|title=Enrique Gratas: El enfático rumbo de un maestro|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84880404/enrique-gratas-el-enftico-rumbo-de-un/|language=es|accessdate=September 6, 2021}}</ref> In 1999, an hour-long morning newscast was added to the station's evening news broadcasts, the first Spanish-language morning news program in the New York market.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84806120/univision-begins-an-am-newscast/|work=The Herald-News|title=Univision Begins An A.M. Newscast|first=Winnie|last=Bonneli|page=B2|date=October 8, 1999|accessdate=September 5, 2021|archive-date=September 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906044659/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/84806120/univision-begins-an-am-newscast/|url-status=live}}</ref> In addition to the newscasts, the station produces news updates for Altice USA's News 12 Networks on weekdays.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://corporate.univision.com/press/press-releases/2019/05/14/univision-new-york-and-altice-usas-news-12-networks-partner-to-bring-spanish-language-news-updates-to-viewers/|title=Univision New York and Altice USA's News 12 Networks Partner to Bring Spanish-Language News Updates to Viewers|publisher=Univision Communications|date=May 14, 2019|access-date=October 12, 2019|archive-date=October 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191012011945/https://corporate.univision.com/press/press-releases/2019/05/14/univision-new-york-and-altice-usas-news-12-networks-partner-to-bring-spanish-language-news-updates-to-viewers/|url-status=live}}</ref>
Since the late 1990s, as the Hispanic population in New York has grown, WXTV's ratings have grown to become competitive with the market's English-language stations. WXTV won the July 2008 sweeps period and also became the first Spanish-language television station to win all three evening slots (local newscasts at 6 and 11 and the national news at 6:30 pm). WXTV's 6 p.m. newscast was also No. 1 among the 25–54 demographic, followed by WABC-TV, WCBS-TV, WNJU, WNYW and WNBC.<ref>{{cite news|work=Adweek|url=http://www.adweek.com/news/television/univisions-wxtv-ny-claiming-weekday-newscast-victory-109227|title=Univision's WXTV N.Y. Claiming Weekday Newscast Victory|date=July 24, 2008|first=Katy|last=Bachman|archive-date=January 15, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115050418/http://www.adweek.com/news/television/univisions-wxtv-ny-claiming-weekday-newscast-victory-109227}}</ref> WXTV's 6 p.m. newscast ended the 2011 calendar year as the number-one newscast in that timeslot in the entire United States in any language among adults 18–49.<ref>{{cite news|url-status=dead|url=http://corporate.univision.com/2012/press/wxtv-univision-41-new-york-ends-2011-with-highest-rated-early-evening-local-newscast-in-the-country-regardless-of-language-among-adults-18-49/|title=WXTV Univision 41 New York Ends 2011 with Highest Rated Early Evening Local Newscast in the Country, Regardless of Language Among Adults 18-49|archive-date=October 17, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017233232/https://corporate.univision.com/2012/press/wxtv-univision-41-new-york-ends-2011-with-highest-rated-early-evening-local-newscast-in-the-country-regardless-of-language-among-adults-18-49/|date=January 5, 2012|accessdate=September 5, 2021}}</ref>
In 2020, the late newscast, ''Solo a las Once'' (''Only at 11''), was retooled with an in-depth format.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Heyward |first=Andrew |date=September 10, 2020 |title=Breaking the mold on the late news |language=en-US |work=Knight-Cronkite News Lab |url=https://cronkitenewslab.com/broadcast/2020/09/10/univision-breaking-late-night-news-mold/ |access-date=September 5, 2021 |archive-date=June 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210616042908/https://cronkitenewslab.com/broadcast/2020/09/10/univision-breaking-late-night-news-mold/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
===Notable current on-air staff=== * Adriana Vargas – weeknight anchor<ref>{{Cite news |title=Adriana Vargas a Univisión |language=es |work=Kien y Ke |url=https://www.kienyke.com/radar-k/adriana-vargas-univision |access-date=September 6, 2021 |archive-date=September 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906052927/https://www.kienyke.com/radar-k/adriana-vargas-univision |url-status=live }}</ref> * Rafael Bello – weekday meteorologist and entertainment anchor<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.mediamoves.com/2016/04/rafael-bello-resurfaces-tv-nys-univision-41.html|work=Media Moves|first=Verónica|last=Villafañe|date=April 1, 2016|title=Bello resurfaces on TV at NY's Univision 41|accessdate=September 5, 2021|archive-date=September 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906060424/https://www.mediamoves.com/2016/04/rafael-bello-resurfaces-tv-nys-univision-41.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
===Notable former on-air staff=== * María Celeste Arrarás<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ojito |first=Mirta |date=May 5, 2002 |title=A Dish of Rice and Beans Heats Up Latino TV |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/05/style/a-dish-of-rice-and-beans-heats-up-latino-tv.html |access-date=September 5, 2001 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=May 27, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527204909/http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/05/style/a-dish-of-rice-and-beans-heats-up-latino-tv.html |url-status=live }}</ref> * Daisy Fuentes<ref>{{Cite news |last=Silver |first=Vernon |date=April 25, 1993 |title=Fast Forward |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/25/style/fast-forward.html |access-date=September 5, 2021 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=September 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906052926/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/25/style/fast-forward.html |url-status=live }}</ref> * Denisse Oller<ref>{{cite news|url=https://nypost.com/2007/11/03/anchor-drops-ch-41/|accessdate=September 5, 2021|date=November 3, 2007|title=Anchor Drops Ch. 41|work=New York Post|first=Michael|last=Starr|archive-date=September 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906044700/https://nypost.com/2007/11/03/anchor-drops-ch-41/|url-status=live}}</ref> * Rafael Pineda (retired in 2013)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.univision.com/noticias/rafael-pineda-mas-de-41-anos-de-historia|language=es|date=December 31, 2013|title=Rafael Pineda, más de 41 años de historia|publisher=WXTV|trans-title=Rafael Pineda, more than 41 years of history|accessdate=September 5, 2021|archive-date=September 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906052928/https://www.univision.com/noticias/rafael-pineda-mas-de-41-anos-de-historia|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Technical information== ===Subchannels=== {{#section:WFUT-DT|subs}} {{Maplink|frame=yes|frame-height=240|frame-width=300|raw={{Wikipedia:Map data/WFUT and WFTY map}} |text=Coverage areas of WFUT–WXTV (red) and WFTY-DT (blue). WFUT–WXTV, from the Empire State Building, serves New York City, the Hudson Valley, and northern New Jersey. WFTY-DT, from Middle Island, serves much of the southern Connecticut coast and eastern Long Island. The signals overlap over southwestern Connecticut and west-central Long Island.}}
===Analog-to-digital conversion=== WXTV ended regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 41, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television; the station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 40, using virtual channel 41.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/at-midnight-analog-age-of-television-ends/|author-link=Brian Stelter|first=Brian|last=Stelter|work=The New York Times|date=June 13, 2009|title=At Midnight, Analog Age of Television Ends|accessdate=September 5, 2021|archive-date=March 10, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310011653/https://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/at-midnight-analog-age-of-television-ends/?mtrref=undefined&gwh=FD24211C48665568625F235344A222FC&gwt=pay&assetType=PAYWALL|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Analog to Digital">{{Cite web |date=May 23, 2006 |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds |url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-date=August 29, 2013 |access-date=August 29, 2021 |publisher=Federal Communications Commission}}</ref>
In the incentive auction, WXTV's spectrum was sold for $198,965,211, and the station's license was consolidated onto one channel with co-owned WFUT.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.rbr.com/post-spectrum-auction-channel-sharing-begins/|work=RBR|date=January 12, 2018|title=Post-Spectrum Auction Channel Sharing Begins|first=Adam|last=Jacobson|accessdate=September 5, 2021|archive-date=September 6, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210906044700/https://www.rbr.com/post-spectrum-auction-channel-sharing-begins/|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Notes== {{notelist}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{Official website|https://www.univision.com/local/nueva-york-wxtv}}
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