WSJU-TV

WSJU-TV

San Juan, Puerto Rico
Branding	Aerco Broadcasting Network
Channels	Digital: 31 (UHF)
Subchannels	31.1 Telemicro Internacional 31.2 TeLe-Romántica 31.3 France 24 31.4 WQBS 31.5 SuperLatina TV 31.6 TeveSalud
Affiliations	Independent
Owner	AiLive Network (Aerco Broadcasting Corporation)
Founded	1966
First air date	1984
Call letters' meaning	San Juan
Sister station(s)	WQBS WIOA/WIOC/WZET WIBS WGIT/WMTI WVOZ WVOZ-FM
Former callsigns	WITA-TV (1966-1968) WUHT-TV (1968-1972) WRWR-TV (1984-2000)
Former channel number(s)	30 (analog, 1984-2009)
Former affiliations	Religious (1984-1985) Independent (1985-1986, 1989-1991) Univision (1987-1988) silent (1991-1999) Independent (1999-2008) Mega TV (2008-2009) Tiva TV (2011-2015)
Transmitter power	66 kW
Height	267 m
Facility ID	4077
Transmitter coordinates
Website	www.ailivenetwork.com

WSJU-TV is a full-power television station in San Juan, Puerto Rico transmitting over channel 30. During most of the 2000s (decade), the station's programming mostly consisted of music videos until it became an affiliate of Spanish Broadcasting System's Mega TV on August 25, 2008. It is carried by Dish Network and Puerto Rico's three cable companies.

On May 29, 1966, WITA-TV signs on for the first time, as the first english-language television station in the island broadcasting in Color, and was owned by El Imparcial, but in 1967, El Imparcial, surrendered the WITA-TV license to the Federal Communications Commission, which canceled it in 1968.

Before the year 2000, the station's callsign was WRWR-TV. When the station first started, it was branded as Cinema 30 TV and was broadcasting older movies, then in 1986, became an affiliate of Univisión. The station went off the air around 1991. It then reappeared around 1999-2000.

In August 2008, SBS entered into an agreement with WSJU, which formerly had aired music videos, making it an affiliate of Mega TV. Mega TV Puerto Rico, as WSJU is branded now, carries a full primetime schedule as well as a Puerto Rico-focused newscast, Meganoticias.

WSJU airs infomercials 15 hours a day (midnight to 3pm).

On August 2009, the station opened a digital subchannel dedicated to music videos. This subchannel made its formal debut on September 2009 as PlayTV. Like competing music video channels TCV and VideoMax, PlayTV allows viewers to send text messages to friends, which are displayed on air. PlayTV differentiates itself though, in that they assign numeric codes to each music videos, and viewers can send a text message to the station using those codes to request a particular video.

On October 2009, WSJU opened a third subchannel airing programming from the Dominican Republic.

WSJU-TV became the dominant television station for young-adults by airing music videos in partnership with the major record companies (Sony, Universal, etc). In 2010, WSJU-TV introduced new television stations that proved to have significant value to the tv viewers.

WSJU-TV also developed new media platforms (known as AiLive Network) to compliment its electronic media offering. Adding Iphone, Android, Internet, Games and many more digital platforms that now receive WSJU's host of stations regardless of the viewers locations. AiLive also allows viewers to send text messages to friends, which are displayed on air.

WSJU-TV reaches 80 percent of the 1,000,000 households directly over-the-air and 100% of the territory via the three major cable providers.

Digital television

Channel	Video	Aspect	PSIP short name	Programming
31.1	480i	4:3	WSJU-D1	Main WSJU-TV programming / Telemicro Internacional
31.2			WSJU-D2	TeLe-Romántica
31.3			WSJU-D3	France 24
31.4			WSJU-D4	WQBS 870 AM audio signal
31.5			WSJU-D5	SuperLatina TV
31.6			WSJU-D6	TeveSalud

External links

• Query the FCC's TV station database for WSJU-TV
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WSJU-TV