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{{Short description|Television station in Philadelphia}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign               = WFPA-CD
| city                   =
| logo                   = WFPA-CD (2021).svg
| logo_size              = 220px
| branding               = UniMás Philadelphia
| analog                 = 
| digital                = 35 ([[UHF]])
| virtual                = 28
| subchannels            = 
| translators            = 
| affiliations           = {{ubl|'''28.1:''' [[UniMás]]|''for others, see {{Section link||Subchannels}}''}}
| owner                  = [[TelevisaUnivision]]
| licensee               = [[WXTV]] License Partnership, [[General partnership|G.P.]]
| location               = [[Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania
| country                = United States
| airdate                = {{start date and age|1981|06|10|p=y}}
| last_airdate           = 
| callsign_meaning       = Telefutura Pennsylvania (former name of UniMás)
| sister_stations        = [[WUVP-DT]], [[WMGM-TV]]
| former_callsigns       = {{ubl|W35AB (1981–1995)|WXTV-LP (1995–2001)|WFPA-CA (2001–2015)}}
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 35 (UHF, 1981–1990), 28 (UHF, 1990–2015)|'''Digital:''' 28 (UHF, 2015–2019)}}
| former_affiliations    = [[Univision|SIN/Univision]] (via WXTV, 1981–2002)
| erp                    = 15 [[kW]]
| haat                   = {{convert|375.8|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| class                  = [[Class A television service|CD]]
| facility_id            = 74216
| coordinates            = {{Coord|40|2|30.1|N|75|14|10.1|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|display=inline,title}}
| licensing_authority    = [[FCC]]
| website                = [http://tv.univision.com/unimas UniMás TV website] 
}}

'''WFPA-CD''' (channel 28) is a [[low-power broadcasting#Television|low-power]], [[Class A television station]] in [[Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language network [[UniMás]]. It is [[owned and operated]] by [[TelevisaUnivision]] alongside [[Vineland, New Jersey]]–licensed [[Univision]] station [[WUVP-DT]] (channel 65) and [[Wildwood, New Jersey]]–licensed [[True Crime Network]] affiliate [[WMGM-TV]] (channel 40). The three stations share studios on North Delsea Drive in Vineland; WFPA-CD's transmitter is located in the [[Roxborough, Philadelphia|Roxborough]] section of Philadelphia.

==History==
The station originally operated as a [[broadcast relay station#Broadcast translators|repeater]] of [[New York City]]'s Univision owned-and-operated station, [[WXTV]]. It was first licensed as a translator, W35AB, operating on UHF channel 35. After [[WYBE]] was granted a license to operate a full-power station on channel 35, the translator moved to channel 28 and was ultimately relicensed as a low-power station, WXTV-LP (although the station was instead branded as Univision 42). In 2002, Univision Communications acquired [[WUVP]] (channel 65), and moved its programming there. Channel 28 began to air programming from the then-new TeleFutura network (which relaunched as UniMás in January 2013), and its call letters were changed to WFPA-CA.

In June 2006, the station was added to Philadelphia area [[Xfinity|Comcast]] systems on [[digital cable]] channel 251. WFPA is also available to DirecTV customers as part of the Philadelphia local channel package, as well as on [[FiOS]] in widescreen SD via WUVP-DT 65.2.

In some areas of the market, especially those north of Philadelphia, WFPA's signal causes some reception issues with the [[digital terrestrial television|digital]] signal of New York City's [[WNBC]], which also broadcasts its digital signal on channel 35 (remapped to [[virtual channel]] 4).

On June 3, 2015, the station was licensed for digital operation and changed its call sign to WFPA-CD.

==Subchannels==
The station's signal is [[Multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of WFPA-CD<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=WFPA#station|title=RabbitEars TV Query for WFPA-CD|website=[[RabbitEars.info]]|accessdate=January 4, 2025}}</ref>
! scope = "col" | [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! scope = "col" | [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! scope = "col" | [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! scope = "col" | Short name
! scope = "col" | Programming
|-
! scope = "row" | 28.1 
| [[720p]] || [[16:9]] || WFPA-CD || [[UniMás]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 28.2 
| rowspan="3"|[[480i]] || [[4:3]] || get || [[GetTV]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 28.3 
| rowspan="2"|[[16:9]] || Quest || [[Quest (American TV network)|Quest]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 28.5
| BT2 || [[Infomercial]]s
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://tv.univision.com/unimas UniMás TV website]
*[http://univision65.univision.com/ WUVP Univision 65 Philadelphia website]

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[[Category:1995 establishments in Pennsylvania]]
[[Category:Get (TV network) affiliates]]
[[Category:Low-power television stations in Pennsylvania|FPA-CD]]
[[Category:Quest (American TV network) affiliates]]
[[Category:Spanish-language television stations in Pennsylvania|FPA-CD]]
[[Category:Television channels and stations established in 1995]]
[[Category:Television stations in Philadelphia|FPA-CD]]
[[Category:UniMás affiliates]]