WUMN-LD

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WUMN-LD
City Minneapolis, Minnesota
Channels
BrandingUnivision Minnesota
Programming
Affiliations21.1: Univision
Ownership
Owner
History
FoundedSeptember 26, 1985
First air date
2005;20 years ago (2005)
Former call signs
K13UT, K33FB, WBWX-CA
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog: 13 (VHF, 2005–2013)
  • Digital: 17 (UHF, 2013–2020)
  • Virtual: 17 (2013–2020)
The Box, MTV2
Call sign meaning
Univision Minneapolis or Minnesota (postal abbreviation)
Technical information
Licensing authority
 FCC
Class LD
ERP 15 kW
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
Links
Public license information
LMS
Website www.univisionminnesota.com

WUMN-LD (channel 21) is a low-power television station licensed to Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, serving the Twin Cities area as an affiliate of the Spanish-language network Univision. Owned by Bridge Media Networks, the station maintains a transmitter atop the Campbell Mithun Tower on South 9th Street in downtown Minneapolis.

Contents

History

WUMN's logo prior to January 1, 2013 Univision Minneapolis-St. Paul.jpg
WUMN's logo prior to January 1, 2013

The station began operating in 2005. In January of that year, after Equity 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 in Little 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 by Independent 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 of KTCI. [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 station KUKC-LD in Kansas City would be sold to Bridge Media Networks, led by investor Manoj Bhargava, for $2.25 million; the sale does not include the stations' Univision affiliations. [1] The sale was completed on March 1, 2024. [6]

News

Equity also produced Spanish-language local newscasts at 5 and 10 p.m., originating out of the company's program production center in Davenport, Iowa. On June 6, 2008, Equity discontinued local newscasts at its six Univision affiliates, including WUMN. [7] In 2009, WUMN debuted its new local show Impacto 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]

Subchannels

The station's signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WUMN-LD [9]
Channel Res. Aspect Short nameProgramming
21.1 720p 16:9 WUMN Univision
21.2NEWSnet ShopHQ 4 rounded rect pink.svg
21.3 480i Funroad Infomercials 4 rounded rect pink.svg
21.4720pShopHQBest of ShopHQ 4 rounded rect pink.svg
21.5480iAceTV Ace TV 4 rounded rect pink.svg
21.6OAN One America Plus 4 rounded rect pink.svg
21.7AWEAWE Plus 4 rounded rect pink.svg
21.8Sales Infomercials 4 rounded rect pink.svg
21.9BarkTVBark TV 4 rounded rect pink.svg
21.10RNTVRight Now TV 4 rounded rect pink.svg
21.11FTFFTF Sports 4 rounded rect pink.svg
21.12MTRSPR1MtrSpt1 4 rounded rect pink.svg
21.13NBTVNational Black TV 4 rounded rect pink.svg
  Subchannel broadcast with MPEG-4 video

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References

  1. 1 2 "Assignments". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. September 18, 2023. Retrieved September 19, 2023.
  2. 1 2 FCC Licensing, FCC Licensing Website.
  3. ↑ FCC, FCC Website.
  4. ↑ Seyler, Dave (January 16, 2013). "Fleet of Univision-affiliated LPTVs sold". Television Business Report. Retrieved January 20, 2013.
  5. ↑ AVS Forum Minneapolis, MN OTA Post #4406
  6. ↑ "Notification of Consummation". Licensing and Management System. Federal Communications Commission. March 6, 2024. Retrieved June 15, 2024.
  7. ↑ TV Newsday, 6/10/2008
  8. ↑ Univision Minnesota Website, Univision Minnesota Information.
  9. ↑ "RabbitEars TV Query for WUMN". RabbitEars.info . Retrieved June 19, 2024.
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