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WUNI (channel 66) is a
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licensed to
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, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language
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network to the
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area. It is owned by
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alongside
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–licensed
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affiliate
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(channel 50);
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operates WUNI under a
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(JSA), making it
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to
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–licensed
UniMás UniMás (, stylized as ''UNIMÁS'', and originally known as TeleFutura from its launch on January 14, 2002, to January 6, 2013) is an American Spanish free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. The network's programming, which is ...
affiliate
WUTF-TV WUTF-TV (channel 27) is a television station licensed to Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language UniMás network to the Boston area. It is owned by Entravision Communications, which provides certain services t ...
(channel 27). WUNI and WWJE share studios and transmitter facilities on Parmenter Road in
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; under the JSA,
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and some internal operations of WUNI are based at WUTF's studios on 4th Avenue in Needham.


History


As an English-language independent station

The station first signed on the air on January 1, 1970 as WSMW-TV, an
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that featured English general entertainment programs including old
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(including the entire series of
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movies and the Bowery Boys/ Dead-End Kids movies starring
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),
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, religious shows (including the Jacob Brothers and ''
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''), a
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(''Cooking with Bernard''), science fiction shows (such as
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's ''
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''),
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(including ''
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'' and '' Thriller''), as well as
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s (including ''
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'' and ''
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''). Though WSMW-TV was within the Boston market, it was far enough from Boston itself that the station was able to air some of the same shows as the Boston stations, in a similar situation to
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(channel 9), the
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affiliate in
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. The station's call letters stood for State Mutual (Insurance Co.) in Worcester, the corporate owner of the station. WSMW also broadcast sports programs; from its debut through the end of the
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, the station was the television home of the
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. In 1970 and 1971, WSMW broadcast (same-weekend tape-delayed coverage of)
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preseason games. WSMW also offered extensive coverage of
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throughout the 1970s, mostly games of the
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and Assumption College, with some
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,
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, and
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games included on the schedule. The broadcast team of play-by-play man
Bob Fouracre Robert E. Fouracre (November 22, 1937 – April 17, 2021) was an American sportscaster who called football and basketball for the College of the Holy Cross. He was a 1956 graduate of Northboro High School, a 1958 graduate of the Cushing Academy ...
and analyst
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worked these games. During the college football season, the station carried a taped two-hour broadcast of a game from earlier in the day on Saturday nights at 10:30 p.m. These games were typically Holy Cross home games, and when Holy Cross was on the road, games from UMass. Fouracre worked these games, and the analyst most of the time was
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. WSMW also broadcast ''Bay State Bowling'', a weekly
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program on Sunday evenings for most of the 1970s, which was hosted by Fouracre. In 1970, shortly after the cancellation of the long-running ''Bozo's Circus'' on
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, WSMW-TV debuted their own version of the
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series franchise, ''Bozo's Big Top''. Tom Matzell played Bozo, alongside Gene Sanocki as Bozo's sidekick Professor Tweetyfoofer. Local children were featured on the program daily, with many waiting up to one year or more for their chance to be on the show. This version aired until 1974. In the fall of 1980, channel 27 began running the
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at night after 7 p.m. In February 1983, the station expanded Preview to begin weekday programming at 5 p.m. and 2 p.m. weekends. Then on July 1, 1983, the station dropped all of its entertainment programs and began running Preview 21 hours a day, with the remaining hours 6 to 9 a.m. (in the morning) devoted to religious and public affairs programming. In the spring of 1985, WSMW cut Preview's broadcast hours down to 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. on weekdays and after 3 p.m. on weekends; it also brought back some general entertainment programs. Hill Broadcasting bought the station in late 1985, and changed the station's call letters to WHLL. At that time, WHLL dropped Preview and reverted to being a general-entertainment independent full-time. Initially, WHLL's schedule consisted of B-grade movies, drama series, public domain cartoons and a few sitcoms, as well as religious programs. While the station again initially shared some of its programming with Boston stations, by the fall of 1986 the duplication had largely been eliminated, and WHLL began to market itself as a Boston station. When cartoons and sitcoms were gone around 1987, the station began running preempted network programming from
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, ABC, and
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(that were declined by
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channel 4;
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channel 5; and WNEV-TV channel 7, now WHDH), which had previously aired on Boston's WQTV (channel 68, now
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) and started airing
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and
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shows as well as airing new cartoons. The graphics were made by Cranston/Csuri and
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in 1989, which was less expense than BBC has. WHLL also began running some first-run syndicated shows by 1988, as well as a good amount of religious programming. During the station's tenure as WHLL, it employed
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radio personality David Allan Boucher as its booth announcer.


Addition of Spanish programming and Univision affiliation

In 1992, the station added Spanish programming as a part-time affiliate of
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, with the network's programming running from 4 or 5 p.m. until about 1 a.m. By 1993, when the Jasas Corporation acquired the Hill Broadcasting stations, WHLL ran Spanish-language programs after noon; much of the remaining English-language programming consisted of preempted network shows and religious programs. That year, the station became an
Univision Univision () is an American Spanish-language free-to-air television network owned by TelevisaUnivision. It is the United States' largest provider of Spanish-language content. The network's programming is aimed at the Latino public and includes ...
affiliate and changed its
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to WUNI. In 1995, the station began carrying Spanish language programming full-time. The station was purchased by
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in 2000. On February 18, 2011,
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cable provider Full Channel TV, Inc. (now known as i3 Broadband) dropped WUNI from its systems and replaced the station with Univision's national feed on its
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tier; the impetus for the removal was a breakdown in negotiations over claims that Entravision demanded "a 33% increase in retransmission fees" as a cash payment to renew its carriage deal with WUNI. On December 4, 2017, as part of a channel swap made by Entravision Communications, WUNI and sister station WUTF swapped channel numbers, with WUNI moving from digital channel 29 and virtual channel 27 to digital channel 27 and virtual channel 66.


News operation

WUNI presently broadcasts 2½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with a half-hour each on weekdays; the station does not produce a late evening newscast on any night nor any news programs on Saturdays and Sundays). As WSMW, the station produced a nightly 6 p.m. newscast. This program was anchored by Doug White; Walter Cryan of
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in
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liked White's work on the newscast and hired him away from WSMW-TV; White subsequently became a longtime news anchor at another Providence station,
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. On April 1, 2003, WUNI launched a half-hour local newscast, ''Noticias Univision Nueva Inglaterra'' (''Univision News New England''), at 6 p.m. Sara Suarez was brought from Univision's
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KCEC to serve as anchor and
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. Angel Salcedo, who hosted WUNI's public affairs program ''Enfoque Latino'' for several years, was chosen as Suarez's co-anchor. However, Salcedo left the station shortly afterwards, leaving Suarez as the sole anchor until Carlos Ruben Zapata was hired as Salcedo's replacement. In 2005, Zapata left the station and eventually hired Eduardo Guerrero as co-anchor late that year. Before the newscast debuted, the station signed a news share agreement with
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, in which the regional cable news channel provided news footage. In addition, several commercial spots for NECN aired on WUNI and Telefutura-affiliated
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WUTF-TV WUTF-TV (channel 27) is a television station licensed to Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, broadcasting the Spanish-language UniMás network to the Boston area. It is owned by Entravision Communications, which provides certain services t ...
(which Univision owns, but is operated by Entravision), targeted at both stations' Hispanic audience. The agreement with NECN expired in mid-2005, WUNI then signed a content sharing agreement with
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owned-and-operated station
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(channel 4). WBZ is acknowledged with an on-air credit when news footage supplied by the station appears on WUNI's newscasts, as well as at the end of the broadcast, before the copyright tag. In April 2007, WUNI began producing news updates under the title ''Despierta Boston'' (which was anchored by Maria Gonzalez), during Univision's morning news/talk program ''
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'' at :25 minutes past the hour from 7 to 9 a.m. The station used a modified version of the ''Despierta America'' logo branding, while using an alteration of the graphics and music package used on the 6 p.m. newscast. While ''Despierta Boston'' was relatively successful, economic problems led to Entravision discontinuing the morning updates in early 2009. The station also laid off Eduardo Guerrero (once again resulting in Sara Suarez anchoring solo) and 10-year veteran sports journalist Omar Cabrera. On July 14, 2007, the station began airing the weekend edition of Univision-owned
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station
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's newscast ''Las Noticias Univision''; this was subsequently dropped.


Notable former on-air staff

*
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– college football color commentator (1978–1982) * Doug Brown – sports anchor (1982–1983) *
Gino Cappelletti Gino Raymond Michael Cappelletti (March 26, 1934 – May 12, 2022) was an American professional football player. He played college football at University of Minnesota and was an All-Star in the American Football League (AFL) for the Boston ...
– college football color commentator *
Bob Cousy Robert Joseph Cousy (, born August 9, 1928) is an American former professional basketball player. Cousy played point guard for the Boston Celtics from 1950 to 1963, and briefly with the Cincinnati Royals during the 1969–70 season. A 13-time N ...
– college basketball color commentator *
Cy Follmer Cyrus Brown "Cy" Follmer, Jr. was an American broadcaster. Early life Follmer was born on December 14, 1933, in Berlin, where his father was U.S. Vice Consul. He served in the United States Marine Corps during the Korean War. He later graduated fr ...
– sports anchor, Boston Celtics play-by-play announcer, New England Patriots play-by-play announcer (1970–1971) *
Bob Fouracre Robert E. Fouracre (November 22, 1937 – April 17, 2021) was an American sportscaster who called football and basketball for the College of the Holy Cross. He was a 1956 graduate of Northboro High School, a 1958 graduate of the Cushing Academy ...
– sports anchor, Bay State Bowling host, Boston Celtics play-by-play announcer, college football and basketball play-by-play announcer (1971–1982) * Stephen Guptill – elderly affairs reporter, host of ''The Elder American'' (1971–1975) *
Togo Palazzi Togo Anthony Palazzi (August 8, 1932 – August 12, 2022) was an American basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Boston Celtics and Syracuse Nationals. Playing and coaching career A 6'4" forward/guar ...
– college basketball color commentator * Doug White – news anchor (1970–1972)


Technical information


Subchannels

The station's digital signal is
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:


Analog-to-digital conversion

WUNI shut down its analog signal, over
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channel 27, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 29. Through the use of
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, digital television receivers display the station's
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as its former UHF analog channel 27.


WUNI-TV tower

The WUNI-TV tower is a former television
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located in
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. It is the tallest broadcast tower in Massachusetts, standing above ground level, and above mean sea level. The tower is owned by Entravision Communications and formerly broadcast WUNI until its move to Hudson.


See also

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Channel 27 virtual TV stations in the United States The following television stations operate on virtual channel 27 in the United States: * K12XK-D in Boulder, Colorado * K12XQ-D in Monroe, Louisiana * K14NJ-D in Hot Springs, Montana * K18GG-D in Mina/Luning, Nevada * K20JX-D in Sacramento, Californ ...
*
Channel 29 digital TV stations in the United States The following television stations broadcast on Digital television, digital channel 29 in the United States: * K24II-D in Kanab, Utah, on virtual channel 7, which rebroadcasts KUED * K29AZ-D in Newport, Oregon, on virtual channel 8, which rebroadcas ...
*
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References


External links

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