WSVN

WSVN is the FOX affiliate in Miami, broadcasting on VHF Channel 7. It is owned by Sunbeam Television, who also owns WHDH channel 7 in Boston.

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WSVN signed on in 1957 as WCKT, an NBC station owned by the Cox and Knight publishing families. The Cox-Knight partnership sold the station to Ed Ansin in 1983, and Ansin changed the calls to WSVN.

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As an NBC station, WCKT/WSVN aired news in place of whatever NBC aired at noon. It also preempted shows during the 10 or 11 AM hours and an occasional prime time show. NBC was very annoyed at seeing so much of its programming getting preempted in the growing Miami market, and eventually concluded it needed to have an owned and operated station there. NBC got its chance in the late 1980s, when CBS affiliate WTVJ, Florida's oldest television station, went on the block. NBC won a bidding war for WTVJ in 1987, but couldn't move its programming there right away because WTVJ's affiliation deal with CBS lasted until the end of 1988. Also, Ansin insisted on keeping NBC programming for one more year because of the Summer Olympics. Finally, on New Year's Day 1989, NBC formally moved to WTVJ. WSVN quickly snapped up the Fox affiliation from WCIX channel 6 (now WFOR-TV channel 4).

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