WSJU-TV

WSJU-TV
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Branding PlayTV
Channels Analog: 30 (UHF)
Digital: 31 (UHF)
Subchannels

TIVA, FOX, PETTV, TELEMICRO, FRANCE24

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Owner Aerco Broadcasting Corporation
First air date 1984
Call letters' meaning San Juan
Former callsigns WRWR-TV (1984-2000)
Former affiliations Independent (1984-1986)
Univision (1986-1991)
silent (1991-1999)
Independent (1999-2008)
Transmitter power 2630 kW (analog)
66 kW (digital)
Height 287 m (analog)
267 m (digital)
Facility ID 4077
Website [http://www.playtvpr.com

WSJU-TV is a full-power television station in San Juan, Puerto Rico transmitting over channel 30. During most of the 2000s, the station's programming mostly consisted of music videos. It is carried by all three cable systems and covers 80 percent of the national territory.

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 2009, WSJU_TV became the first national television station to broadcast over-the-air international television stations 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 also developed new media platforms 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. PlayTV also 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.

WSJU 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 Programming
31.1 PLAYTV
31.2 TIVA
31.3 FOX
31.4 PETTV
31.5 TELEMICRO
31.6 FRANCE24

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