WSVN NBC Miami 1988 Affiliation Switch

Consumer Reporter Carmel Cafiero explains the upcoming Miami network affiliation switch.
Courtesy: Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archive

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• WSVN
• WCIX
• WTVJ
• WFOR
• NBC
• CBS
• Fox
• Miami
• 1988
• Affiliation
• Switch
• Joel
• Cheatwood
• Sally
• Fitz
• Penny
• Daniels
• Carmel
• Cafiero

[1985OldSkool]

This must have been at the tail end of December 1988.

[NewmanNewsman]

@1985OldSkool It did. This aired in the last week of 1988, days before the switch.

[altfactor]

Around that time, didn't the FCC consider moving Channel 7 down to the Keys, and moving WSVN to a new UHF allocation??

[NewmanNewsman]

@altfactor I've never heard of that proposal.

[Padrigfilms]

why did they say ind when it was a fox station afther

[NewmanNewsman]

@Padrigfilms

Because, at the time, Fox only programmed 2 nights a week. It wasn't the full-fledged network it is today.

[garrisonskunk]

Switching three affiliations causes so much confusion in Florida? (Insert Florida Vote 2000 joke here)

[a1cjlock]

In some ways WSVN is still independent even though FOX has grown to carry a full lineup. It never gave major networks like NBC and FOX much slack.

[marcus813]

That's the affiliation switch that a ripple effect across FOX's stations that air news now. Many of FOX's O&Os do the news just like WSVN 7 did it and programmed in similar ways. WSVN 7 became a rare news-intensive FOX affiliate, which looks commonplace now among FOX stations that used to be affiliated with CBS, ABC or, in 7's case, NBC. I know about it since WTVT did the same thing in Tampa after the New World Communications deal on Dec. 12, 1994.

[jhshifris1]

1:38 looks like my old math teacher that I had when I was in school

[jhshifris1]

Penny was also on Chicago's channel 2, by the way.

[rebafan19]

@Padrigfilms proably a year before they became Fox in 1989

[CRobertOsgood]

@applesauce2100 Actually, WTVJ and WFOR(WCIX) did not switch affiliations, but rather dial positions as part of a deal between Group W/CBS and NBC, transferring stations in Philly(WCAU, then a CBS O+O) to NBC, in exchange for stations in Denver and Salt Lake City, as well as WTVJ's channel position/hardware. In addition to WCAU, NBC received cash and the Channel 6 frequency/ WCIX's license. this is why the WTVJ call sign is on channel 6, not channel 4(WFOR)

[sickandtiredofmorons]

this story just proved how stupid and ignorant people are.