WUMN-CA

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WUMN-CA
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Branding	Univision Minneapolis Univision 13
Channels	13 (VHF) analog
Affiliations	Univision (since March 2005)
Owner	Equity Broadcasting
Founded	September 26, 1985 (On-air since 1990)
Call letters meaning	W Univision MiNneapolis or MiNnesota (postal abbreviation)
Former callsigns	K13UT, K33FB, WBWX-CA
Former affiliations	The Box, MTV2
Website	www.univision-mn.com

WUMN-CA (channel 13) is a Univision affiliate in Minneapolis, Minnesota owned by Equity Broadcasting of Little Rock, Arkansas and is the first of two Spanish-language television stations in Minnesota alongside sister station, Telefutura affiliate WTMS-CA. The station is run via satellite from Little Rock.

It was owned by Viacom subsidiary The Box Worldwide and carried MTV2 until it was purchased in 2004 (curiously, the station operated 24 hours a day, while the MTV2 channel on the city's Time Warner Cable system only operated 12 hours daily from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.).

On September 26, 1985, the low-power station received their license, with the assignment of the calls K13UT. From its official inception in 1990, the station was low-powered, operating at just 110 watts effective radiated power. Around 1995, it used the moniker "Lucky 13." The station had an application to move to channel 33 and increase power (this would have changed the call sign to K33FB), but permission expired before that change could be made. The name changed to WBWX-CA in 2001, then to the current call letters WUMN-CA after the purchase by Equity. In early 2005, the transmitter was upgraded to 1.25 kW, extending the reach of the signal into the suburbs of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. The transmitter is located in downtown Minneapolis at 44°58′25″N, 93°16′13.00″W. Because of the flux of the license between channels 13 and 33, the call letters changed several times between K13UT and K33FB before the station acquired its current Class A status in 2001.

Equity Broadcasting also announced that the station would begin airing Spanish-language local newscasts at 5 and 10 pm, which would be produced out of the company's program production center in Davenport, Iowa.

[edit] Gallery

WUMN as "Lucky 13" K13UT in 1995.	WUMN as "Lucky 13" K13UT in 1998, entering The Box's final years of operations. It would later join MTV2 in 2001 as WBWX-CA.	Station ID for WUMN in March of 2005 -- now as a Univision network affiliate.	WUMN's modified logo as found on its website.
Current logo used on-air.

[edit] External links

• WUMN-TV Canal 13 Minneapolis/St. Paul
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WUMN-CA
• BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on WUMN-CA
• NorthPine.com: WUMN-CA screen captures

[edit] References

• Deborah Caulfield Rybak (March 26, 2005). New at 5 and 10, news in Spanish. Star Tribune.

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