WWSI, digital channel 49, is a television station licensed to Atlantic City, New Jersey

Atlantic City, New Jersey

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. It is considered to be the Philadelphia affiliate of the Spanish-language Telemundo

Telemundo

Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....

 television network. WWSI's transmitter is in Tuckerton, New Jersey

Tuckerton, New Jersey

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; its tower is the tallest structure in New Jersey. The station has no local news department, and runs minimal local programming. WWSI's studios are on North Delaware Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...

.

The station is unique in that, while its transmitter site is located in Ocean County, part of the New York City TV market, the station cannot be viewed on cable TV in Ocean County since it is licensed to a city in the Philadelphia TV market.

History

WWSI did not begin operation until 2001. Prior to its airdate, its construction permit carried the call letters of WDKZ in 1989, followed that same year by WACI. In 2000 WACI became WPHA. The station then hit the air as WWSI, and adopted the Telemundo affiliation (originally on WTGI

WPPX

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 until 1998, then WTVE

WTVE

WTVE, Channel 25 , is a Reading, Pennsylvania television station that has been in operation since May 4, 1980 Its schedule consists mostly of infomercials and paid religious programs. It also simulcasts Real Politics Live and Richard French Live which are produced by sister station WRNN in...

 in Reading, Pennsylvania

Reading, Pennsylvania

Reading is a city in southeastern Pennsylvania, USA, and seat of Berks County. Reading is the principal city of the Greater Reading Area and had a population of 88,082 as of the 2010 census, making it the fifth most populated city in the state after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown and Erie,...

 from 1998–2000).

WWSI opened its website in 2007.

In January 2008, Hispanic Broadcasters Corporation agreed to sell WWSI to ZGS Communications

ZGS Communications

ZGS Communications, also referred to as the ZGS Group or ZGS Broadcasting, is a television and radio station operator in the United States, based in Arlington, Virginia. The company operates 18 stations: 15 television stations , and 3 radio stations...

for $10 million. The station officially became owned by ZGS on March 11 of that year.

External links

• Station website
• Telemundo