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| Founded | December 11, 1981 |
First air date | July 31, 1989 (1989-07-31) |
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Call sign meaning | y tú,Spanish for "and you" |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 168618 |
| Class | LD |
| ERP | 7kW |
| HAAT | 300.3 m (985 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 43°6′42″N87°55′50″W / 43.11167°N 87.93056°W /43.11167; -87.93056 |
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Public license information | LMS |
| Website | telemundowi |
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| WFBN-LD | |
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| Branding | Telemundo Rockford |
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| Founded | November 14, 1988 |
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Former channel numbers | Analog: 33 (UHF, 1989–2012) |
| Independent (via WCIU/WFBT, 1989–1999; sole affiliation, 1999–2014) | |
Call sign meaning | "Focus Broadcasting Network" (calls originated with first owners ofWGBO in the 1980s) |
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| Facility ID | 168664 |
| Class | LD |
| ERP | 15kW |
| HAAT | 197.8 m (649 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 42°17′48″N89°10′15″W / 42.29667°N 89.17083°W /42.29667; -89.17083 |
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Public license information | LMS |
WYTU-LD (channel 63) is alow-power television station inMilwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language networkTelemundo. Owned byWeigel Broadcasting, it issister toCBS affiliateWDJT-TV (channel 58),Class AMeTVowned-and-operated stationWBME-CD (channel 41) andRacine-licensedindependent stationWMLW-TV (channel 49). The stations share studios in the Renaissance Center office complex on South 60th Street inWest Allis (with a Milwaukeepostal address); WYTU-LD's transmitter is located in Milwaukee'sLincoln Park (next to the transmitter belonging toABC affiliateWISN-TV, channel 12).
Due to WYTU's low-power status, itsbroadcasting radius does not reach all ofsoutheastern Wisconsin. Therefore, the station can also be seen through a16:9widescreenstandard definitionsimulcast on WDJT-TV's fourthdigital subchannel in order to reach the entiremarket. This relay signal can be seen on channel 58.4 from the same Lincoln Park transmitter facility. WYTU is also relayed onWFBN-LD (channel 35.2) inRockford, Illinois,WMYS-LD (channel 69.2) inSouth Bend, Indiana andWMEI (channel 31.6) inGreen Bay, Wisconsin.
The station airs all of Telemundo's schedule, along with Spanish-language coverage of Sunday afternoonMilwaukee Brewers baseball home games, using camera positions shared withBally Sports Wisconsin. WYTU-LD is also available viaDish Network andCharter Spectrum's systems throughout their entire state service area as far west asLa Crosse and as far north asBayfield,[3] making for a rare example of an intra-regionsuperstation in the digital age.
The station has mostly been a feeder of the entire schedule ofUnivision and Telemundo through most of its history, with new local programming being added to the schedule as the station (and Telemundo's schedule) has gained strength. In 1999, Weigel dropped Univision in a compensation dispute and affiliated with Telemundo, and within the year, the station moved to UHF channel 63 from channel 46 as W63CU, in order to accommodate WDJT's channel 46 digital signal and the company's move to one tower in Lincoln Park for all its operations. In mid-December 2003, the station took the lettered call sign WYTU-LP as it began to solicit local advertising from the growingLatino population in the Milwaukee area and Weigel began to push for extended cable coverage by including it inretransmission consent negotiations for WDJT.
The station signed on its digital signal on UHF channel 17 on December 10, 2007.[4] Unlike the channel 13 digital signal of WMLW (which receives interference fromWZZM inGrand Rapids), WYTU-LD's digital signal reaches the southern portion of the adjacentGreen Bay–Appleton market, and is somewhat unrestricted asWXMI, the former occupant of channel 17 in the Grand Rapids market, now broadcasts on digital channel 20, although that station'sMuskegon translator W17DF-D also broadcasts on channel 17. As a result of carriage agreements byTime Warner Cable andCharter Communications for access to the WDJT signal and to provide network service to areas without a Telemundo affiliate, WYTU is carried through the entirety of the state, especially after Time Warner and Charter's merger intoSpectrum in 2017. Currently, due to different lineups and carriage contracts among the providers which will eventually be united in Spectrum's next agreement with Weigel, the availability of the station's high definition feed depends on the individual system.
In January 2009, WYTU was added to sister station WBME's digital signal ondigital subchannel 49.4, calls which changed on August 16, 2012, as part of the channel swap between WBME and WMLW to allow WMLW to launch full-power, high-definition operations.[5]
The station's analog signal on channel 63 did not broadcast the Telemundo Wisconsin schedule from June 12, 2009, onward, when Weigel decided to convert that signal to anenhanced nightlight service instead, carrying WDJT's CBS schedule for the benefit of those viewers who were not yet prepared for thedigital transition for full-power stations. The special agreement to carry CBS in an analog form ended onJanuary 1, 2010, and from then until 2011, WYTU-LP carried the MeTV lineup, while Telemundo Wisconsin remained a digital-only offering via WYTU's digital signal and WMLW-DT4.[6] On February 11, 2013, theFederal Communications Commission canceled WYTU's analog license.[7]
The station converted their low-power channel 17 digital signal into a720phigh-definition signal on July 25, 2012, in time for Telemundo's Spanish-language coverage of the2012 Summer Olympics. Following the Games, the station carried, for the first time in team history,Green Bay Packers preseason football with Spanish language play-by-play in full high definition on its designated digital signal. These broadcasts are simulcast in the Green Bay market over English-languageMyNetworkTV affiliateWACY-TV (channel 32). In summer 2014, the standard definition simulcast on WMLW-DT4 began to scale network content to standard-definitionwidescreen depending onActive Format Description codes sent out over the Telemundo network feed.
On January 8, 2018, the full-power market-wide simulcast of WYTU moved to WDJT-DT4 due to WMLW's merge of their spectrum to the low-power WBME-CD.[8] In addition,This TV (a network formerly owned by Weigel and now owned byTribune Broadcasting), was moved to WYTU's second subchannel as part of the move and to manage bandwidth.[9]
On September 3, 2018, Weigel launched the new female-focusedStart TV network, replacing This after nearly ten years on Weigel channel spaces. The same day saw Weigel'sMovies! network move to the newly-launched 63.3 subchannel, moving over fromWISN-TV's second subchannel (which was replaced byJustice Network two days earlier).[10] WFBN-LD3 additionally launched a third subchannel for Start TV in Rockford.
Sinclair, Weigel Broadcasting, andMilwaukee PBS decided on a switch date of January 8, 2018, for their various local spectrum moves, which included the market-wide simulcast of WYTU-LD, which moved from WMLW-DT4 to WDJT-DT4.[11]
WYTU is the Spanish-language over-the-air home of theMilwaukee Brewers, airing Sunday home games for the team, around 13 per season.[12]
In 2024, WYTU parent company Weigel Broadcasting announced an agreement to broadcast 10Milwaukee Bucks games during the2023–24 NBA season. All 10 games aired in English on sister stationWMLW-TV. The March 4 game was aired in Spanish by WYTU.[13]
The station launched a nightly 10-minute newscast in July 2007 within the 10 p.m. national edition ofNoticiero Telemundo, calledNoticiero Telemundo Wisconsin, with production assistance from WDJT.[14] Several on-air reporters and anchors within the WDJT newsroom have beenbilingual, allowing reporters to file stories for both stations. The show is pre-recorded before WMLW's 9 p.m. and WDJT's 10 p.m. newscasts. It began to carry an 11 a.m. midday newscast leading into the newly-inaugurated nationalNoticias Telemundo Mediodía on June 4, 2018.[15]
Recently, local content has made up the bulk of the 35 minutes of the program, with parts of the national newscast and stories fromCNN en Español via CNN'sNewsourcewire service blended into the show. Apublic affairs program titled¡Qué Pasa Wisconsin! airs on weekend mornings on the station. Recently that program, along with the 10 p.m. newscast, has been anchored by Jocelyne Pruna.
Local newscasts are broadcast weekdays at 11 a.m., 5 p.m., and 10 p.m.
The stations' signals aremultiplexed:
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 63.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | WYTU-HD | Telemundo |
| 63.2 | 480i | StartTV | Start TV | |
| 63.3 | WEST | WEST | ||
| 63.4 | MeTV+ | MeTV+ | ||
| 63.12 | INFO | OnTV4U (infomercials) |
| Channel | Res. | Aspect | Short name | Programming |
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| 23.11 | 1080i | 16:9 | CBS23 | CBS (WIFR-LD) |
| 35.1 | 720p | HEROES | Heroes & Icons | |
| 35.2 | 1080i | TMDO | Telemundo | |
| 35.3 | 480i | START | Start TV |
Currently, Weigel Broadcasting has contracted withGray Media to rebroadcastCBS affiliateWIFR-LD (channel 23) in the Rockford market, due to WIFR-LD's reallocated physical channel 28 experiencing interference in the northwestern portion of the market with WISN-TV in Milwaukee; it would otherwise be WFBN-LD 35.4.[18]
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