12 Facts About WSVN

WSVN is a television station in Miami, Florida, United States, affiliated with the Fox network.

WSVN's studios are located on 79th Street Causeway in North Bay Village, and its transmitter is located in Miami Gardens, Florida.

However, Ed Ansin was not interested in letting NBC out of its affiliation agreement with WSVN, which expired at the same time; Ansin even made an unsuccessful petition to the FCC to stop NBC's purchase of WTVJ.

At the time, WSVN was one of the largest heritage "Big Three" stations to join Fox.

The combination of WSVN not following a similar pattern to other Fox affiliates at the time, and WCIX becoming a "Big Three" affiliate had led then-struggling independent WDZL to rise to a higher profile, as WDZL had picked up many shows that were formerly seen on WCIX .

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WSVN, meanwhile, picked up some of WCIX's movie packages, as well as a couple of cartoons that it aired on Saturday and Sunday mornings.

However, WSVN did allow DirecTV customers to view the NFC championship game and an episode of American Idol that aired immediately after the game while negotiations were still ongoing.

When WSVN became a Fox affiliate in January 1989, its programming format was quite unusual for the network's affiliates as it did not include sitcoms as part of its schedule; it ran cartoons only on weekend mornings, and aired a heavy amount of talk and court shows, some movies, and some drama series.

WSVN continues not to feature any sitcoms as part of its syndication inventory, somewhat atypical for a news-intensive Fox station.

Since Fox acquired National Hot Rod Association broadcast rights in 2016, WSVN has constantly been the target of viewer and NHRA complaints, the station preempts Fox NHRA in favor of infomercials, resulting in the NHRA sending a formal complaint on their website.

WHDH uses many visual cues taken from WSVN including the use of flashy graphics, distinct music packages composed by Chris Crane and a similarly designed "newsplex" set; WSVN's "circle 7" logo was adopted by WHDH after Sunbeam assumed ownership.

WSVN ended programming on its analog signal, on VHF channel 7, on June 12,2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts.