WKAQ-TV
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| WKAQ-TV | |
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| San Juan, Puerto Rico | |
| Branding | Telemundo |
| Slogan | Tu canal, siempre (Your channel, always) |
| Channels | 2 (VHF) analog, 28 (UHF) digital |
| Translators | W09AT 9 Fajardo W32AJ 32 Utuado W68BU 68 Adjuntas |
| Affiliations | Telemundo |
| Owner | NBC Universal |
| Founded | March 28, 1954 |
| Call letters meaning | Named after former sister station WKAQ (AM) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1954-1986) |
| Transmitter Power | 55 kW / 861 m (analog) 924 kW / 825.9 m (digital) |
| Class | Full service |
| Facility ID | 64983 |
WKAQ-TV is a full-power television station located in San Juan, Puerto Rico transmitting over analog channel 2, digital 28. The station is owned and operated by NBC Universal and is branded simply as Telemundo.
WKAQ-TV has one full-power repeater station: WOLE-TV, channel 12 in Aguadilla. WOLE-TV repeats over 95% of WKAQ-TV's programing under an affiliation agreement. In the past they had used WORA-TV, channel 5 in Mayagüez. The station also has three low-power translator facilities: W09AT in Fajardo, W68BU in Adjuntas and W32AJ in Utuado.
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[edit] History
WKAQ-TV became the first Puerto Rican TV station on March 28, 1954. The station was founded by Angel Ramos, founder of Puerto Rico's main newspaper at the time, "El Mundo" (The World) and Puerto Rico's first radio station (and third licensed radio station in the world), WKAQ. Ramos wanted to maintain a consistent branding between its properties using the "mundo" theme, and thus named WKAQ-TV "Tele Mundo" (Tele World). He had tried to obtain a TV license as early as the mid 1940s, but due to an FCC licensing freeze for all new American TV stations, Ramos had to wait until 1954 to obtain the license.
During the station's history, WKAQ-TV battled fiercely with WAPA-TV to obtain the top position of Puerto Rican viewership. During the 1970s and 1980s, WKAQ-TV (then branded as Telemundo Canal 2), was a major producer of Puerto Rican Spanish soap operas. The channel was also known by its "fingers" logo (a bold number 2 with the silhouette of two upright fingers inside the number), calling itself "El canal de los dedos" (The channel of the fingers).
WKAQ-TV has produced and broadcasted recognized local shows such as "El Show de las Doce", "La Gente Joven de Menudo", "En Casa de Juanma y Wiwi", "Los Kakucomicos", "Noche de Gala", "Estudio Alegre", "La Pension de Dona Tere", "El Show de las Doce", "No te Duermas", Marcano el Show", "Super Sabados", "Fantastico", "El Tio Nobel", "Telecomicas" among others. It also produced famous telenovelas such as "El Hijo de Angela Maria", "Tomiko", "Cristina Bazan", "El Idolo", "Viernes Social", "La Verdadera Eva", "Coralito", "Tanairi" and others. One of the most important producers at WKAQ-TV is Paquito Cordero, who has been at the station since 1954 both as an actor as well as producer, mostly for the cancelled "El Show de las Doce".
With the creation of the Telemundo Network in 1987, the station started branding itself as "Telemundo Puerto Rico". (Before, WKAQ-TV had branded itself as either Telemundo or just "Canal 2".) Since then, WKAQ-TV has since then become one of Telemundo's flagship stations, as well as the recognized original "Telemundo". It has been highly critiziced that because of the station's affiliation to the Telemundo Network, locally produced programming has been traded for "enlatados", or foreign Spanish programming such as Mexican and Venezuelan telenovelas. To avoid this critizism, in 2006, WKAQ-TV started airing the first Puerto Rican written and produced telenovela in 15 years: Dueña y Señora. To the general population, WKAQ-TV is still known simply as "Telemundo", and it is branded as such to this day.
WKAQ-TV's main slogans have been: Y como el dos no hay dos! (There's no two like channel two and Telemundo: tu canal, siempre (Telemundo: your channel, always).
In 2005, WKAQ-TV became a superstation when NBC Universal created the Telemundo Puerto Rico cable channel. The channel airs programs created by WKAQ-TV such as No te Duermas and TVO as well as the station's news program, Telenoticias en Acción. Telemundo Puerto Rico is aimed at Puerto Ricans and other Caribbean communities living in the mainland United States.
[edit] Programming
[edit] Telenoticias
Telenoticias is the name of WKAQ-TV's newscast. The show was started in 1954 and it was the first local television program. It was first anchored by Evelio Otero. In the 1960s, a renewed edition of Telenoticias started with different anchors.
Over the years, many people have worked on Telenoticas including: Bobby Anglero, Charito Fraticelli, Silvia Gómez, Aníbal González Irizárry, Ramón Enrique Torres, Jorge Rivera Nieves, Grenda Rivera, Ivonne Solla, Ramón Enrique Torres, Bruni Velez, Hector Vazquez Muniz, Luis Guardiola, Ivette Sosa, Zoraida Nelly Torres, Raúl Camilo Torres, Junior Abrahams, Jose Esteves, Raul Quiñones, Roberto Cortes and Madelyn Vega.
For more than twenty years, Telenoticias only had 2 editions: the 5 o'clock edition and the 11 o'clock edition. However, in 2002, a weekend edition was introduced that started at 5 & 11 o'clock. In 2003, Telemundo por la Mañana started with Charito Fraticelli, Silverio Perez, Lourdes Collazo, and panel experts.
In the 1990s, Telenoticias used Telemundo 1992 News Theme as the main theme music for its newscasts. This was replaced later by Telemundo News Theme by Frank Gari. Currently, the station uses Production Music: Raw Power by Network Music.
In 2006, WKAQ-TV's parent company, NBC Universal, announced a restructuring plan called NBCU 2.0, the plan includes major cuts in staff at all NBC Universal properties. In its announcement, WKAQ-TV would eliminate 60 to 80 staffers, some of those cuts include some Telenoticias anchors and reporters,and the ending of the Morning,afternoon,and weekend editions of Telenoticias
[edit] Newscasts
Weekdays
- Telenoticias a las 5:00 PM - 5:00PM-6:00PM
- Telenoticias a las 11:00 PM - 11:00PM-11:30PM
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