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{{Short description|Television station in Key West, Florida}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2019}}
{{Infobox television station
| callsign               = WSBS-TV
| city                   =
| logo                   = MegaTV.png
| logo_size              = 225px
| branding               = Mega TV; ''Mega News''
| digital                = 3 ([[very high frequency|VHF]])
| virtual                = 22
| translators            = ''WSBS-CD 19 ([[Ultra high frequency|UHF]]) [[Miami]]''
| affiliations           = {{ubl|'''22.1:''' [[Mega TV (American TV network)|Mega TV]]|'''22.2:''' [[Visión Latina]]}}
| owner                  = [[Spanish Broadcasting System]]
| licensee               = WSBS Licensing, Inc.
| location               = [[Key West, Florida]]
| country                = United States
| founded                = {{start date and age|1989|10|2|p=y}}
| airdate                = {{start date and age|1993|6|p=y}}
| last_airdate           = 
| callsign_meaning       = Spanish Broadcasting System
| sister_stations        = [[WRMA]], [[WCMQ-FM]], [[WXDJ]], [[WMFM]], [[WRAZ-FM]]
| former_callsigns       = {{ubl|WYDH (October 2–11, 1989)|WEYS (October 11, 1989–April 2003)|WGEN-TV (April–September 2003)|WDLP-TV (November 2003–July 2004, September 2004–2006)|WSBS-TV (July–September 2004)}}
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 22 ([[Ultra high frequency|UHF]], 1993–2009)}}
| former_affiliations    = {{ubl|[[Independent station|Independent]] (1989–1994)|[[Telemundo Internacional]] (1994–1996)|[[CBS Telenoticias]] (1996–2000)|[[Network One]] (2000–2006)}}
| erp                    = 1 [[kilowatt|kW]]
| haat                   = {{convert|54|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| facility_id            = 72053
| coordinates            = {{nowrap|{{Coord|24|33|19.8|N|81|48|4.5|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|display=inline, title}}}}
| licensing_authority    = [[Federal Communications Commission|FCC]]
| website                = {{URL|https://mega.tv/}} 
}}

'''WSBS-TV''' (channel 22) is a [[television station]] licensed to [[Key West, Florida]], United States, serving as the [[flagship (broadcasting)|flagship station]] of the Spanish-language network [[Mega TV (American TV network)|Mega TV]]. [[owned-and-operated station|Owned and operated]] by [[Spanish Broadcasting System]], the station maintains studios on Northwest 77th Avenue in [[Miami]], and its transmitter is located on Bahama and Simonton Streets in Key West.

'''WSBS-CD''' (channel 19) in Miami operates as a [[low-power broadcasting#Television|low-power]], [[Class A television service|Class A]] [[Broadcast relay station#Translator stations|translator]] of WSBS-TV.

==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 (for instance, the WDLP callsign is currently used by a repeater for rival [[WGEN-TV]]). On April 4, 2003, the station changed its call letters to WGEN-TV; it was then changed to WDLP-TV on September 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 and Latino Americans|Hispanic]] viewers. Mega TV's format follows a very similar pattern traced by rival [[Telemundo]] station [[WSCV]] (channel 51) and [[Univision]] station [[WLTV-DT|WLTV]] (channel 23) decades earlier: by creating its own television personalities.

==Technical information==

===Subchannels===
The station's signal is [[multiplex (TV)|multiplexed]]:
{| class="wikitable"
|+Subchannels of WSBS-TV<ref>{{Cite web |title=RabbitEars TV Query for WSBS |url=https://rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=72053#station |access-date=February 11, 2025 |website=[[RabbitEars.info]]}}</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" | 22.1
| [[1080i]] || rowspan=3|[[16:9]] || WSBS || [[Mega TV (American TV network)|Mega TV]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 22.2
| rowspan=2| [[720p]] || VISLATN || [[Visión Latina]] ([[Spanish language in the United States|Spanish]] [[religious broadcasting|religious]])
|-
! scope = "row" | 22.3
| Test || Simulcast of 22.1
|}

===Analog-to-digital conversion===
WSBS-TV ended programming on its analog signal, on [[Ultra high frequency|UHF]] channel 22, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States [[Digital television transition in the United States|transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts]] under federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition [[VHF]] channel 3,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 29, 2013 |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and the Second Rounds |format=PDF |access-date=March 24, 2012}}</ref> using [[virtual channel]] 22. WSBS is one of the only television stations in the United States to operate its digital signal on the VHF [[band I|low band]], which is especially rare on channels 2 to 4 (54–72&nbsp;MHz), due to interference that the band is subjected to. It chose to keep this channel in the first round of the [[digital channel election]]s.

==Translator==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! City of license
! Callsign
! Channel
! [[effective radiated power|ERP]]
! [[height above average terrain|HAAT]]
! [[Facility ID]]
! Transmitter coordinates
|-
|| [[Miami]] ||'''{{FCC-LMS-Facility|29547|3=WSBS-CD}}'''|| 19 || 15&nbsp;kW || {{convert|285.6|m|ft|1|abbr=on}} || 29547 || {{coord|25|59|10|N|80|11|36.3|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=WSBS-CD}}
|}
WSBS-CA (analog UHF channel 50), which lists "Miami, [[etcetera|etc.]]" as its [[city of license]], [[flash cut]] its signal to digital in early 2010, and accordingly changed its callsign to WSBS-CD. This station has a [[Class A television service|Class A]] [[broadcast license]], meaning that although it is [[Low-power broadcasting#Television|low-power]], it has protection from [[RF interference]] as full-power stations do. Like the main station, it uses virtual channel 22.1, as it is likely just an RF passthrough with no [[demodulation]]. Its transmitter is located in the [[Andover, Florida|Andover]] section of [[Miami Gardens, Florida|Miami Gardens]], immediately south of the tower facility that is used by several other Miami area television stations, and has a [[directional antenna]] that aims mostly southeast and southwest, covering far northeastern [[Miami-Dade County, Florida|Miami-Dade County]], the city of Miami and far southeastern [[Broward County, Florida|Broward County]], up to just south of [[Fort Lauderdale, Florida|Fort Lauderdale]].

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [https://mega.tv/ Mega TV official website]
* [http://www.spanishbroadcasting.com/ SBS corporate website]
* [http://www.lamusica.com/ LaMusica.com owned by SBS]

{{Spanish Broadcasting System}}
{{Miami TV}}
{{Florida Spanish Stations}}

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