WUDT-CA
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| Detroit, Michigan | |
| Branding | Univision Detroit |
| Channels | 23 (UHF) analog |
| Affiliations | Univision |
| Owner | Equity Broadcasting (EBC Detroit, Inc.) |
| Founded | January 4, 1989 |
| Call letters meaning | W Univision Detroit |
| Former callsigns | W05BN (1989-1995) WBXD-LP (1995-2002) WBXD-CA (2002-2004) |
| Former affiliations | The Box (1989-2000) MTV2 (2000-2004) |
| Transmitter Power | 50 kW Analog |
| Class | Class A Television Station (-CA) |
| Facility ID | 70421 |
| Website | www.univisiondetroit.com |
WUDT-CA, in Detroit, Michigan, is a low-power affiliate of the Univision Spanish-language television network. It operates as a Class-A station on channel 23, owned and operated by Equity Broadcasting, and goes by the nickname of "Univision Detroit". WUDT-CA is also the first Spanish-language television station to take to the air in the state of Michigan since the early 1980s (K66BV, now W66BV, Detroit's TBN network translator), as well as one of only two Univision network stations, along side Univision O&O WQHS-TV in Cleveland, Ohio in Canadian bordering markets.
With Univision's return to over-the-air TV in Detroit, it makes the Detroit - Windsor market the only market in the US or Canada with terrestrial stations in Spanish and French (Radio-Canada affiliate CBEFT).
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[edit] Technical & Service Information
The station recently began a strange type of news program, with the newscast based in Denver, Colorado and stories taped and shown from Detroit from their offices at 5600 King Street in Troy. But even then, the station's master control is also remotely originated, via satellite from Equity's headquarters in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Neither Comcast Detroit, Bright House Livonia nor Cogeco Windsor has WUDT in their line-ups -- Comcast does offer the national feed on channel 65.
The station operates with an Effective Radiated Power of only 50 kilowatts with a directional antenna, covering the immediate Detroit and Windsor areas, plus southern Macomb County.
It has also been realized that because the broadcast comes via satellite from Little Rock, the capabilities of the station's equipment are limited. As a result, often times during bad weather the station will lose its signal beam to the network and to headquarters leaving viewers with a black screen. Also, in some cases when the signal is lost, the station displays a "No signal" message on the upper left part of the screen -- an error inherent with satellite equipment.
[edit] History
The station took to the air on January 4, 1989, as low-power W05BN on channel 5. It then became WBXD-LP on September 1, 1995, and would later be acquired by Viacom in 2000, with the MTV2 music television network affiliation -- all of the properties have since gone to the new CBS Corporation after CBS and Viacom went their own separate ways, Viacom did keep MTV2. CBS is responsible for Detroit's only duopoly, CW affiliate WKBD 50 and CBS UHF flagship WWJ-TV 62. CBS also owns radio stations WWJ-AM 950, WXYT-AM 1270, WKRK-FM 97.1, WVMV-FM 98.7, WYCD-FM 99.5, and WOMC-FM 104.3.
On January 30, 2001, the station moved to channel 35 and then to channel 23 on July 12, 2001. Then on June 27, 2002, the station began operating at Class-A status.
Viacom later sold WBXD-CA to Equity Broadcasting, who then proceeded to rename the station WUDT-CA. The station went from MTV2 to Univision in a matter of hours. This move occurred on November 18, 2004. Again as mentioned, Viacom and CBS split very late in 2005.
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[edit] External links
- Univision - WUDT 23 Detroit
- Query the FCC's TV station database for WUDT
- Michiguide's Broadcast Television Database for wudt
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information about Television Station WUDT
