WSVN Channel 7
WSVN, channel 7, is a Fox-affiliated television station located in Miami, Florida, USA. WSVN is owned by Sunbeam Television, and has its studio facilities located in North Bay Village and transmitter based in north Miami-Dade County.
Channel 7 began broadcasting on July 29, 1956 as NBC affiliate WCKT. The station was originally owned by Biscayne Television Corporation, a partnership of the Cox and Knight publishing families who owned Miami's two major newspapers: the Miami News and Miami Herald, respectively. The same Cox/Knight partnership also owned WCKR radio (610 AM, now WIOD; and 97.3 FM, now WFLC). Nile Trammell, a former NBC president, held a 15 percent interest in WCKT.
Before WCKT signed on, NBC programming had been carried on Fort Lauderdale's WFTL-TV (channel 23) (later known as WGBS-TV after it had been acquired by Storer Broadcasting), which also held a secondary affiliation with the DuMont Television Network. However, WFTL struggled because television sets were not required to have UHF tuning capability. When the Cox/Knight partnership won a construction permit and broadcast license for channel 7, NBC quickly agreed to move its affiliation to WCKT since WCKR had been the longtime Miami affiliate of NBC Radio. Channel 23 became an independent station and eventually went dark, and later came back to the air in 1967 as WAJA-TV, eventually becoming Univision-owned WLTV.
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