WKAQ-TV

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WKAQ-TV
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Branding	Telemundo
Slogan	Tu Canal / Eres Tú ( Your Channel / It's You )
Channels	Analog: 2 (VHF) Digital: 28 (UHF)
Translators	W09AT 9 Fajardo W32AJ 32 Utuado W68BU 68 Adjuntas
Affiliations	Telemundo
Owner	NBC Universal (Telemundo of Puerto Rico)
First air date	March 28, 1954
Call letters’ meaning	Named after former sister station WKAQ (AM)
Sister station(s)	WNBC
Former affiliations	Independent (1954-1986)
Transmitter Power	55 kW (analog) 924 kW (digital)
Height	861 m (analog) 825.9 m (digital)
Facility ID	64983
Transmitter Coordinates	18°6′47.5″N, 66°3′9.1″W

WKAQ-TV is a full-power television station located in San Juan, Puerto Rico transmitting over analog channel 2, digital 28. The station is owned and operated by NBC Universal and is branded simply as Telemundo.

WKAQ-TV has one full-power repeater station: WOLE-TV, channel 12 in Aguadilla. WOLE-TV repeats over 95% of WKAQ-TV's programing under an affiliation agreement. In the past they had used WORA-TV, channel 5 in Mayagüez. The station also has three low-power translator facilities: W09AT in Fajardo, W68BU in Adjuntas and W32AJ in Utuado.

Contents 1 History 2 Programming 2.1 Telenoticias 3 Primetime Schedule 3.1 Newscasts 4 Broadcasting 4.1 Satellite and translator stations 4.2 Digital television 5 Logos 6 External links

[edit] History

WKAQ-TV became the first Puerto Rican TV station on March 28, 1954. The station was founded by Angel Ramos, founder of Puerto Rico's main newspaper at the time, "El Mundo" (The World) and Puerto Rico's first radio station (and third licensed radio station in the world), WKAQ. Ramos wanted to maintain a consistent branding between its properties using the "mundo" theme, and thus named WKAQ-TV Telemundo (Tele World). He had tried to obtain a TV license as early as the mid 1940s, but due to an FCC licensing freeze for all new American TV stations, Ramos had to wait until 1954 to obtain the license. WKAQ began broadcasting in color on NTSC in 1968.

During the station's history, WKAQ-TV battled fiercely with WAPA-TV to obtain the top position of Puerto Rican viewership. During the 1970s and 1980s, WKAQ-TV (then branded as Telemundo Canal 2), was a major producer of Puerto Rican Spanish soap operas. The channel was also known by its "fingers" logo (a bold number 2 with the silhouette of two upright fingers inside the number), calling itself "El canal de los dedos" (The channel of the fingers).

WKAQ-TV has produced and broadcast recognized local shows such as "El Show de las 12", "La Gente Joven de Menudo", "En Casa de Juanma y Wiwi", "Los Kakucomicos", Teatrimundo, "Musicomedia", "El Show de Chucho", "Noche de Gala", "Estudio Alegre", "La Pension de Doña Tere", "El Show de Nydia Caro", "No te Duermas", "Marcano el Show", "Super Sabados", "Fantastico", "El Tio Nobel", "Telecómicas", "Al Grano con Zervigón", Ahora Podemos Hablar and "Dame un Break", among others. It also produced famous telenovelas such as "El Hijo de Angela Maria", "Tomiko", "Cristina Bazan", "El Idolo", "Viernes Social", "La Verdadera Eva", "Rojo Verano", "Modelos S.A.", "Coralito", "Tanairi" and others. One of the most important producers at WKAQ-TV is Paquito Cordero, who had been at the station since 1954, both as an actor as well as producer, until the cancellation of "El Show de las 12".

With the creation of the Telemundo Network in 1987, the station started branding itself as "Telemundo Puerto Rico". (Before, WKAQ-TV had branded itself as either Telemundo or just "Canal 2".) Since then, WKAQ-TV has since then become one of Telemundo's flagship stations, as well as the recognized original "Telemundo". It has been highly critiziced that because of the station's affiliation to the Telemundo Network, locally produced programming has been traded for "enlatados", or foreign Spanish programming such as Mexican and Venezuelan telenovelas. To avoid this criticism, in 2006, WKAQ-TV aired the first Puerto Rican written and produced telenovela in 15 years: Dueña y Señora. To the general population, WKAQ-TV is still known simply as "Telemundo", and it is branded as such to this day.

WKAQ-TV's main slogans have been: Y como el dos no hay dos! (There's no two like channel two and Telemundo: tu canal, siempre (Telemundo: your channel, always). At the end of 2006, Telemundo's new slogan is: Eres Tú (It's You).

In 2005, WKAQ-TV became a superstation when NBC Universal created the Telemundo Puerto Rico cable channel. The channel airs programs created by WKAQ-TV such as "No te Duermas" and "TVO", as well as the station's news program, "Telenoticias en Acción". Telemundo Puerto Rico was aimed at Puerto Ricans and other Caribbean communities living in the mainland United States. The superstation feed, however, was discontinued in early 2008.

On October 9, 2007, WKAQ's owners, NBC Universal, announced that they put WKAQ-TV up for sale. This followed NBC Universal's acquisition of Oxygen Media. ([1]) However, on December 21, 2007, NBC Universal announced that they had withdrawn WKAQ-TV from the selling block.

[edit] Programming

[edit] Telenoticias

Telenoticias is the name of WKAQ-TV's newscast. The show was started in 1954 and it was the first local television program. It was first anchored by Evelio Otero. In the 1960s, a renewed edition of Telenoticias started with different anchors.

Over the years, many people have worked on Telenoticas including: Bobby Anglero, Charito Fraticelli, Silvia Gómez, Aníbal González Irizarry, Ramón Enrique Torres, Jorge Rivera Nieves, Grenda Rivera, Ivonne Solla, Ramón Enrique Torres, Bruni Velez, Hector Vazquez Muniz, Luis Guardiola, Johanna Rosaly, Ivette Sosa, Zoraida Nelly Torres, Siverio Pérez, Raúl Camilo Torres, Junior Abrams, Jose Esteves, Raul Quiñones, Roberto Cortes and Madelyn Vega.

For more than twenty years, Telenoticias only had 2 editions: the 5 o'clock edition and the 11 o'clock edition. However, in 2002, a weekend edition was introduced that started at 5 & 11 o'clock. In 2003, Telemundo por la Mañana started with Charito Fraticelli, Silverio Perez, Lourdes Collazo, and panel experts.

In the 1990s, Telenoticias used Telemundo 1992 News Theme as the main theme music for its newscasts. This was replaced later by Telemundo News Theme by Frank Gari. In 2005, the station uses Production Music: Raw Power by Network Music. Currently use the original music theme from Manolo Mongil Production.

In 2006, WKAQ-TV's parent company, NBC Universal, announced a restructuring plan called NBCU 2.0, the plan includes major cuts in staff at all NBC Universal properties. In its announcement, WKAQ-TV would eliminate 60 to 80 staffers, some of those cuts include some Telenoticias anchors and reporters, and the ending of the morning, midday, and weekend editions of Telenoticias.

On Monday, January 8, 2007, Telenoticias debuted a new set, new graphics and new music.

[edit] Primetime Schedule

Movies shows are in red;Reality/Game Shows are in green; Primetime Talk Shows are in blue; Dramas are in beige; Telenovelas are in purple; Comedies are in pink.

	7:00 PM	7:30 PM	8:00 PM	8:30 PM	9:00 PM	9:30 PM	10:00 PM	10:30 PM
Sunday	Sex in the City	Noticreo	Cane (TV series)		Ahora Podemos Hablar		CineMundo
Monday	Madre Luna		La Traición		Pecados Ajenos		No te Duermas
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday							Esto Está K-ñón
Saturday	Cine Familiar (dubbed Hollywood movies)		Cine Mundo (dubbed Hollywood movies)				Cine Mundo

[edit] Newscasts

Weekdays

• Telenoticias a las 5:00 PM - 5:00PM-6:00PM
• Telenoticias a las 11:00 PM - 11:00PM-11:30PM

News music

Package	Composer	Years Used	Other Notes
Telemundo 1992 News Theme	Unknown	? - 1999
Telemundo News Theme	Gari Communications	1999 - 2005
Production Music: Raw Power	Network Music	2005 - 2007
WKAQ-TV News Original Theme	Manolo Mongil	2007 - present

[edit] Broadcasting

[edit] Satellite and translator stations

WKAQ-TV can be seen across Puerto Rico on the following stations:

• W09AT 9 in Fajardo
• WOLE-TV 12 in Aguadilla
• W32AJ 32 in Utuado
• W34CI 34 in Mayagüez (translator for WOLE-TV)
• W68BU 68 in Adjuntas

[edit] Digital television

• WKAQ-DT 28.1/2.1 - Simulcast of WKAQ-TV

[edit] Logos

WKAQ in the 1970s.	WKAQ in the 1980s.	WKAQ in 1992 -- also used on WORA-TV.	WKAQ logo in 2004 conciding 50 aniversary.
Telemundo Puerto Rico cable channel logo.

[edit] External links

• Telemundo
  • Telemundo Puerto Rico (cable channel)
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WKAQ-TV
  • Query the FCC's TV station database for W09AT
  • Query the FCC's TV station database for W68BU
  • Query the FCC's TV station database for W32AJ
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WKAQ-TV

v • d • e Broadcast television stations in the Puerto Rico market San Juan:  WKAQ 2 (TEL) - WAPA 4 (Ind) - WIPR 6 (PBS) - WSTE 7 (Ind) - WLII 11 (UNI) - WORO 13 (Ind/Rel) - WSJN-CA 15 (Rel) - WTCV 18 (Ind) - WJPX 24 (Caribe)  W26DK 26 (The CW/LATV) - WSJU 30 (Ind) - WDWL 36 (TBN) - WMTJ 40 (PBS) - W44CK 44 (3ABN) - WVQS-LP 50 - WRFB 52 (Ind) - WUJA 58 (Rel) - WWXY-LP 62  WECN 64 / WRUA 34 (Rel) - WVSN 68 (Rel) Mayagüez:  WIPM 3 (PBS) - WORA 5 (UNI) - WSTE 7 (Ind) - WOLE 12 (TEL) - WOST 16 - WPRU-LP 20 (ABC) - WNJX 22 (Ind) - WSJX-LP 24 (Fox)  WSJP-LP 30 / W51DJ 51 (The CW/LATV) - WELU 32 (Rel) - WJWN 38 (Caribe) - WVEO 44 (Ind) - WQHA 50 (Rel) - W63BF 63 (Rel) - WTPM-LP 67 (Rel) Ponce:  WSTE 7 (Ind) - W08AB 8 / W54AQ 54 (Rel) - WSUR 9 (UNI) - WTIN 14 (Ind) - WKPV 20 / WIRS 42 (Caribe) - WXWZ-LP 22 (A1) - WQTO 26 (PBS)  WQQZ-CA 33 - W36DB 36 (The CW/LATV) - WIDP 46 (Rel) - WVOZ 48 (Ind) Arecibo:  WSTE 7 (Ind) - WIMN-CA 20 (Rel) - WQSJ-LP 48 (Rel) - WCCV 54 (Rel) - WMEI 60 U.S. Virgin Islands stations available on cable television, Dish Network and DirecTV WVGN-LP 14 (NBC) - WVXF 17 (CBS) Local cable television channels El Canal del Tiempo - WAPA America

v • d • e Broadcast television stations in the United States Virgin Islands Saint Thomas:  WFIG-LP 5 (ABC) - WTJX 12 (PBS) - WVGN-LP 14 (NBC) - WVXF 17 (CBS) - WMNS-LP 22 (Ind) - W29CB 29 (3ABN) - WBIV-LP 38 (Ind)  Saint Croix:  W05AW 5 (PBS) - WSVI 8 (ABC) - WVIF 15 - WJWM-LP 34 (Ind) - W35CE 35 (TBN) - WCVI 39 (The CW) - WEYA-LP 52 (Ind) - WEON-LP 60 (Fox)  Digital-only stations Saint Thomas: WZVI 43 (ABC)  Stations from Puerto Rico available over the air and on cable television WKAQ 2 (TEL) - WAPA 4 (Ind) - WIPR 6 (PBS)  Past broadcast stations Saint Thomas: WBNB 10 (CBS)

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