WSVN (channel 7) is a television station in Miami, Florida, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. Serving as the flagship station of locally based Sunbeam Television, it has studios on the 79th Street Causeway in North Bay Village and a transmitter in Miami Gardens, Florida.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regards WSVN as having signed on with the WCKT calls in December 19, 1962 (1962-12-19), under Sunbeam ownership. However, the station was the result of a long and contentious legal battle between Sunbeam and three other applicants for the channel 7 allocation in Miami, with a three-way partnership including the publishers of the Miami News and Miami Herald signing on a previous WCKT on July 29, 1956. Stripped of its license after ethics violations within the FCC, along with improper behavior taken by this partnership during the application process, Sunbeam purchased the assets of WCKT and re-launched the station under a new license with uninterrupted service. The market's NBC affiliate since its inception, WCKT was renamed WSVN in 1983 and became an independent on January 1, 1989, after NBC's purchase of CBS affiliate WTVJ and CBS's purchase of WCIX-TV initiated a major affiliation switch. With minimal advance preparation, WSVN relaunched their news department with an emphasis on tabloid journalism under Joel Cheatwood's direction, an unconventional decision initially pilloried by the local media but since been emulated and copied throughout the industry.
WSVN's newscasts have attracted national and international attention for aggressive and controversial content and have been credited as an inspiration for the launch of Fox News. One of the largest Fox affiliates not owned by the network, onetime Fox executive Lucie Salhany famously called WSVN "the future of television". Involved with Sunbeam from the company's beginnings until his July 26, 2020, death, chairman Edmund Ansin repeatedly refused offers to sell either WSVN or his Boston stations.
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WSVN (channel 7) is a television station in Miami, Florida, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. Serving as the flagship station of locally...
as a CBS affiliate for nearly 16 months. Miami's existing NBC affiliate, WSVN (channel 7), and owner Sunbeam Television protested this transaction, but...
then-Fox network president Lucie Salhany calling WSVN "the future of television" in May 1994. WSVN remains the largest Fox affiliate in terms of market...
6) becoming a CBS owned-and-operated station; and longtime NBC affiliate WSVN (channel 7) taking the Fox affiliation from WCIX. WTVJ and WCIX later swapped...
own Morphine Love Dion competing on Season 16 of 'RuPaul's Drag Race'". WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdale. 2024-01-06. Archived...
in Pickering, Ontario. He is an entertainment reporter for FOX affiliate WSVN in Miami on the show Deco Drive. Prior to coming to Miami, he worked at WOIO...
previous job was the co-anchor of Deco Drive, a weeknight entertainment show on WSVN in Miami, FL. Aguirre was born Louis Juan Aguirre in Miami, Florida on November...
Sun-Sentinel. "Royal Caribbean's Symphony of the Seas docks at PortMiami". WSVN Miami. 9 November 2018. "'I don't regret it': Vancouver man banned after...
the team hosts an interconference opponent or plays on a Thursday night, WSVN, the local Fox affiliate will have the games being televised. When playing...
anchor for WCTV-TV in Tallahassee, and then was employed in similar roles at WSVN-TV in Miami. After a move to Los Angeles, Johnson was the prime-time weather...
March 6, 2017. RabbitEars TV Query for KCDO "Digital TV Market Listing for WSVN". RabbitEars.info. Retrieved September 18, 2018. Jacobson, Adam (January...
cornerback Vontae Davis found dead at Southwest Ranches home, 7News source says". WSVN 7News. April 1, 2024. Archived from the original on April 1, 2024. Retrieved...
independent. WSVN's performance in their first year as a news-intensive Fox affiliate shattered conventional wisdom and attracted industry notice. While WSVN experienced...
Sheikh Mohammed's own words provide glimpse into the mind of a terrorist". WSVN. Associated Press. 16 March 2007. Archived from the original on 25 August...
"Key Largo firefighter takes first steps since nearly getting killed". WSVN. 18 January 2017. "Firefighter who survived Key Largo rescue attempt that...
resolution to bring incentives to city as Hard Rock Stadium prepares to host F1". WSVN-TV. Retrieved April 18, 2021. "Miami F1 circuit to be called Miami International...
International Business Times. "Selena Gomez performs at American Airlines Arena". WSVN. June 11, 2016. Crandell, Ben (October 25, 2016). "Review: Adele dazzles...
talks Miami Beach Pride, new single, competing on 'RuPaul's Drag Race'". WSVN 7News. 2023-04-14. Archived from the original on 2023-05-15. Retrieved 2023-10-10...
go on to work as an anchor/reporter at WFTX-TV in Fort Myers, Florida and WSVN in Miami, where she anchored the top-rated Today in Florida and 7 News at...
queen Melissa Barrera talks about new chilling movie on Tubi 'Bed Rest'". wsvn.com. Retrieved December 6, 2022. "Melissa Barrera Loses Her Mind in Tubi's...
2019). "Djimon Hounsou brings voodoo documentary to Miami Film Festival". WSVN. Retrieved 21 October 2023. Kaufman, Gil (20 March 2024). "Jessie Reyez,...
She has worked for KGET-TV, the NBC affiliate in Bakersfield, California, WSVN 7 in Miami, Florida, and KNBC in Los Angeles, California. Loresca currently...
870 pump action shotgun, the M1911 pistol and Beretta M9; Ted Bradley; a WSVN news broadcast with Jane Akre; two thirds of Miami's population were Latin-American...
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