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Wsvn | align="center" bgcolor="#66FFCC" colspan="3"|WSVN (Fox) | | lign="center" colspan="3" style="padding:10px;"| | | lign="center" colspan="3" style="border-bottom:3px solid gray; font-size: smaller"|Slogan: "The News Station" | | lign="center" bgcolor="#66FFCC" colspan="3"|Miami, Florida | lign="center" colspan="3"|Channel 7
Digital channel 8 | | lign="left" valign="top"|Owner | colspan="2" valign="top"|Sunbeam Television | | lign="left" valign="top"|Founded | colspan="2" valign="top"|1957 | | lign="left" valign="top"|Signal Radius | colspan="2" valign="top"|South Florida | | lign="left" valign="top"|Callsign Meaning | colspan="2" valign="top"|W
SVN=7 http://www.oldradio.com/archives/nelson/origins.call-list.html | | lign="left" valign="top"|Former Affiliations | colspan="2" valign="top"|NBC, Independent | WSVN is a FOX affiliate in Miami, broadcasting on VHF Channel 7. It is owned by Sunbeam Television, which also owns WHDH channel 7 in Boston. WSVN signed on in 1957 as WCKT, owned by the Cox and Knight publishing families. It became WSVN sometime in the early 80s. It was originally South Florida's NBC affiliate. However, after NBC purchased WTVJ (on channel 4 back then; originally a CBS affiliate) and CBS purchased independent WCIX channel 6 (now WFOR-TV) in the late 1980s, WSVN was left without a major network affiliation. It eventually affiliated with Fox. After it became a Fox affiliate, WSVN became a lot more aggressive with its news coverage, and is sometimes criticized for sensationalist reporting, using the philosophy "If it bleeds it leads". Nonetheless, it continues to attract decent ratings. FOX News anchor Shepard Smith once worked for the station as well as CNN Headline News anchor Linda (Cinnamon) Stouffer, and current CNN and one-time MSNBC anchor Rick Sanchez. WSVN is a proud sponsor of Habitat for Humanity. In 2004 WSVN lead meteorologist Bill Kamal was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and sentenced to jail for 5 years for soliciting a child for sex. External links
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