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WJAN-CD (channel 41) is alow-power,class ASpanish-languageindependent station inMiami, Florida, United States. Owned byAmérica CV Station Group, Inc., the station maintains studios on NW 107th Avenue inHialeah Gardens, and its transmitter is located due south ofAladdin City.
WFUN-LD (channel 41), also licensed to Miami, serves as atranslator of WJAN-CD; this station's transmitter is co-located with WJAN-CD's studios.
The station's license application was first submitted to theFederal Communications Commission (FCC) in 1980, but aconstruction permit was not issued until 1988, with alicense issued the following year as W27AQ. Owned by Skinner Broadcasting, channel 27 was intended to be a low-power independent TV station branded as "WFUN-TV"[4] and aimed atBroward County.[1] The station, approved to place its transmitter atop the Pompano Beach Club, would have aired sports, financial and other programming.[5]
When W27AQ signed on April 27, however, it did not air its own programming. Instead, it was leased[6] to newCBS affiliateWCIX to serve areas of Broward County that its Homestead-based analog signal could not.[7] In the immediate wake ofHurricane Andrew, which collapsed the Homestead tower, W27AQ remained on the air as WCIX's only broadcast signal.[8] WCIX's translator network remained with the channel 6 facility after the 1995 swap between it andWTVJ.[9]
In June 1998, the station ceased rebroadcasting WTVJ. It moved to UHF channel 48 and its call letters were changed to W48CI. In early 1999, its calls were changed to WFUN-LP; the station license was later upgraded toClass A status and its calls were altered to WFUN-CA in 2002, before reverting toLPTV status in 2004. In 2009, WFUNflash-cut its digital signal into operation on UHF channel 48.
WJAN-CD first signed on the air on June 24, 1994, as W41BF, originally broadcasting on UHF channel 41. That same year, it began broadcasting its first independently produced entertainment series produced for the U.S. Hispanic market,A Oscuras Pero Encendidos. Hosted by producer and entertainerPaul Bouche, the program became a success and in 2000, owner Omar Romay started investing in locally produced entertainment programs. In 1995, the station changed its call letters to WJAN-LP, and its license was upgraded toClass A status as WJAN-CA in 2000. By 2009, the station carried seven hours of original programming each day, and had a share of over 10% of the Spanish-language television audience in the Miami market duringprime time hours.[citation needed]
WJAN became an affiliate ofMundoFox at the network's launch on August 13, 2012, and began branding on-air as "MundoFox 41.1 & 48.2 Miami," in reference to its simulcast on WFUN-LD digital subchannel 48.2.[10] At that time, the station's intellectual operations, known as "América TeVé" moved exclusively (with the exception of its 5 and 10 p.m. newscasts, which are simulcasted on the station), toWFUN-LD digital channel 48.1.[11] On December 28, 2012, MundoFox announced that it would move its Miami affiliation from WJAN toKey West–basedWGEN-TV (channel 8), with WJAN and WFUN reverting to independent status.[12]
Due to the loss of the MundoFox affiliation, on January 28, 2013, WJAN-CD and WFUN-LD launched a new programming format calledTeveo, which is stylized as a 24-hour news channel that airs each weekday from 5 p.m. to midnight and weekends from 7 to 11 p.m. "Teveo" carries all of the station's live newscasts, along with rebroadcasts of its 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts and itspublic affairs programs includingA Mano Limpia andSevcec a Fondo. It also added live weekday hour-long 7 and 9 p.m. newscasts on that date, making it the only station in South Florida with newscasts in those timeslots (the 9 p.m. newscast was later canceled on April 12, 2013, to make way for a news/talk program that debuted the following Monday). On weekends, "Teveo" carries a "week-in-review" selection of its news programs. Paid programming is shown at other times of the day.
The stations' signals aremultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 41.1 | 720p | 16:9 | ATV-HD | América Tevé |
| 41.2 | TVEO-HD | Teveo |
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| WLMF-LD | 41.3 | 480i | 4:3 | SHOP LC | Shop LC |
| WFUN-LD | 41.1 | 720p | 16:9 | ACV-HD | América Tevé |
| 41.2 | TVO-HD | Teveo |
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