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| City | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Channels | |
| Branding | Univision Minnesota |
| Programming | |
| Affiliations | 21.1:Univision |
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| History | |
| Founded | September 26, 1985 |
First air date | 2005; 20 years ago (2005) |
Former call signs | K13UT, K33FB, WBWX-CA |
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| The Box,MTV2 | |
Call sign meaning | Univision Minneapolis or Minnesota (postal abbreviation) |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | FCC |
| Class | LD |
| ERP | 15kW |
| HAAT | 175.4 m (575 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 44°58′24.9″N93°16′13.8″W / 44.973583°N 93.270500°W /44.973583; -93.270500 |
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Public license information | LMS |
| Website | www |
WUMN-LD (channel 21) is alow-power television station licensed toMinneapolis, Minnesota, United States, serving theTwin Cities area as an affiliate of the Spanish-language networkUnivision. The station is owned byBridge Media Networks. WUMN-LD's offices and master control facilities are located on South Marquette Avenue, and its transmitter is atop theCampbell Mithun Tower on South 9th Street in downtown Minneapolis.
The station began operating in 1985 as K13UT, an affiliate ofThe Box, a pay per view music video channel. Following the shutdown of The Box, K13UT began carryingMTV2.
In January of 2005, afterEquity Media Holdings's purchase of channel 13, the station was re-called WUMN-LP, to reflect its new Univision affiliation.[2] Under Equity ownership, all of the station's operations were controlled from Equity's hub inLittle Rock, Arkansas, with only engineering staff in the area and no local programming outside of some reporters contributing local stories to a newscast anchored from the Little Rock hub byIndependent Network News.
WUMN was sold to SP Television on June 2, 2009, in Equity's bankruptcy auction. The sale closed on August 17, 2009.[3] SP Television reached a deal to sell WUMN to Media Vista Group on December 21, 2012.[4]
On October 29, 2013, WUMN was granted a construction permit by the FCC to transition its broadcast signal to digital on UHF channel 17, formerly occupied by the analog signal ofKTCI.[2] At the time, WUMN was the last television station broadcasting an analog signal in the Twin Cities market. Despite Twin Cities Public Television nominally being able to hold on to virtual channel 17, they instead chose to utilize KTCI as an extension of KTCA, and also number its stations as subchannels of channel 2. This allowed WUMN-LD the use of channel 17 as their new virtual channel number. In early November 2020, WUMN moved from RF channel 17 to their new allotment on RF channel 21, displaying as 21.1.[5]
On September 18, 2023, it was announced that WUMN-LD and sister stationKUKC-LD inKansas City would be sold to Bridge Media Networks, led by investorManoj Bhargava, for $2.25 million; the sale does not include the stations' Univision affiliations.[1] The sale was completed on March 1, 2024.[6]
Equity also produced Spanish-language local newscasts at 5 and 10 p.m., originating out of the company's program production center inDavenport, Iowa. On June 6, 2008, Equity discontinued local newscasts at its six Univision affiliates, including WUMN.[7] In 2009, WUMN debuted its new local showImpacto Local. Airing on a weekly basis, the program visually documents and informs the Twin Cities community on education, politics, immigration, news, sports, culture and music events.[8]
The station's signal ismultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 21.1 | 720p | 16:9 | WUMN | Univision |
| 21.2 | NEWSnet | ShopHQ | ||
| 21.3 | 480i | Funroad | Infomercials | |
| 21.4 | 720p | ShopHQ | Best of ShopHQ | |
| 21.5 | 480i | AceTV | Ace TV | |
| 21.6 | OAN | One America Plus | ||
| 21.7 | AWE | AWE Plus | ||
| 21.8 | Sales | Infomercials | ||
| 21.9 | BarkTV | Bark TV | ||
| 21.10 | RNTV | Right Now TV | ||
| 21.11 | FTF | FTF Sports | ||
| 21.12 | MTRSPR1 | MtrSpt1 | ||
| 21.13 | NBTV | National Black TV |
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