WSBS-TV
WSBS-TV, virtual channel 22, is a Mega TV owned-and-operated television station licensed to Key West, Florida, United States. It serves as the flagship station of owner Spanish Broadcasting System. WSBS-TV's studios are located on Northwest 77th Avenue in Miami, and its transmitter is located on Bahama and Simonton Streets in Key West.
WSBS-CD in Miami operates as a low-powered, Class A translator of WSBS-TV.
The station's Mega TV programming has been available nationally on DirecTV since October 17, 2007, with its high definition feed available on the satellite provider since September 29, 2010.
History
The station was originally licensed as WYDH on October 2, 1989; the calls were changed to WEYS on October 11, 1989, and the station itself first signed on the air in June 1993. WSBS-TV has had numerous callsign changes over the years. This has caused much confusion, both among viewers and writers. In many places, the station is still referred to as WEYS TeleNoticias, and WDLP Licensing, Inc. remained the licensee for several months after the call change to WSBS-TV. Some of these calls have been reused by low-power repeater stations, themselves often subject to similar callsign shuffles. On April 4, 2003, the station changed its call letters to WGEN-TV; it was then changed to WDLP-TV on November 24 of that year. The current WSBS-TV call letters were first adopted on July 1, 2004, before reverting to the WDLP-TV callsign on September 28, 2004. Prior to 2005, the station was co-owned with another Key West station, WGEN-TV, under the ownership of Sonia Broadcasting.On March 1, 2006, the station became a charter station of Mega TV when the network was launched, and changed its callsign back to the previous WSBS-TV letters. Its original slate of programming includes productions aimed at young Hispanic viewers. Mega TV's format follows a very similar pattern traced by rival Telemundo station WSCV and Univision station WLTV decades earlier: by creating its own television personalities.
Digital television
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP Short Name | Programming |
22.1 | 1080i | WSBS DT | Main WSBS-TV programming / Mega TV | |
22.2 | 480i | C-LA FE | Canal de la Fe |