WFOR-TV
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Miami–Fort Lauderdale, Florida United States |
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| City | Miami, Florida |
| Branding | CBS 4 (general) South Florida's CBS 4 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | South Florida's smart choice |
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Digital: 22 (UHF) Virtual: 4 () |
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CBS Corporation (CBS Television Stations, Inc.) |
| Founded | April 1964 |
| First air date | September 20, 1967 |
| Call letters' meaning | Four |
| Sister station(s) | WBFS-TV, WKIS, WPOW, WQAM |
| Former callsigns | WCIX(-TV) (1967–1995) |
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| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 298 m (978 ft) |
| Facility ID | 47902 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 25°58′8.3″N 80°13′19.2″W / 25.968972°N 80.222000°WCoordinates: 25°58′8.3″N 80°13′19.2″W / 25.968972°N 80.222000°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
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Profile CDBS |
| Website | miami |
WFOR-TV, channel 4, is a CBS owned-and-operated television station located in Miami, Florida, United States. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation, as part of a duopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate WBFS-TV (channel 33). The two stations share studio and office facilities in Doral, Florida, near Miami International Airport; WFOR's transmitter is located in Andover, Florida.
The station first signed on the air on September 20, 1967 as WCIX-TV, broadcasting on VHF channel 6. The station was originally owned by the locally-based Coral Television Corporation. General Cinema Corporation acquired controlling interest in Coral Television and WCIX in August 1972.
The channel 6 frequency was allocated to Miami by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in June 1957, as part of a minor reorganization nationwide of VHF channel assignments. The channel was reallocated to the city of South Miami when Coral Television was awarded a construction permit to build channel 6 in April 1964. In February 1967, seven months before WCIX went on the air, Coral Television successfully convinced the FCC to move the community of license back to Miami proper, where the station could serve more viewers. WCIX built a transmitter tower in Homestead, which was 40 miles (60 km) southwest of Miami, farther south than the Miami-Fort Lauderdale market's other television stations. This arrangement was necessary to protect WPTV (on adjacent channel 5) in West Palm Beach and WDBO-TV (now WKMG-TV, and also on channel 6) in Orlando. As a result, Miami's channel 6 only provided a "Grade B" signal to Fort Lauderdale, and was virtually unviewable in the northern portion of Broward County. The station made up for this shortfall in its coverage area by signing on translator stations throughout Broward County and in Boca Raton (part of the West Palm Beach market); WCIX identified these translators, broadcasting on UHF channels 33, 61 and 69, in its station IDs as late as the mid-1980s. The channel 33 translator was shut down in 1984 to allow future sister station WBFS-TV to sign on, and was then moved to channel 27 where it operated until the mid-1990s; channel 69 became WYHS-TV in 1988. Translators on channels 21 (in Pompano Beach) and 58 (in central Broward County) were also used in later years.
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