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WRFB
Satellite of
WORA-TV ,
Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
City Carolina, Puerto Rico
Channels Branding ABC Puerto Rico (general) ABC News Extra (newscasts) DW (on DT2) VIVE Television (on DT3) Telecinco (on DT4) Affiliations 5.1:
ABC 5.2:
DW 5.3: VIVE /
24H 5.4:
Telecinco Owner Telecinco, Inc. WORA-TV Founded October 2, 1989 First air date
1997 (27 years ago) (1997 ) Former call signs
WDZE (1997–1998) WZDE (1998–2001) Former channel number(s)
Analog: 52 (UHF, 1997–2009)Digital: 51 (UHF, 2009–2017)Virtual: 51 (PSIP, 2009–2019)Analog/DT1:
Independent (1997–2016) DestinoTV (2013)
Telemicro Internacional (2013–2014)
Silent (2014, 2016, 2017–2019)
SuperCanal (2016–2017)
Telemundo (2019)DT2: ABC (2019) 24H (January-August 2020)
Inter Online TV (2020-2022) DT3:
TVE/VIVE (February-July 2019) 24H (July-December 2019)DT4:
RT Network (2021-2022)DT5:
Mega TV (2019-2022)R &F B roadcasting (former owner)Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID 54443
ERP 250
kW 40
kW (
STA )
HAAT 273.5 m (897 ft) (
STA ) 311 m (1,020 ft) (
CP ) Transmitter coordinates
18°16′25″N 66°5′40″W / 18.27361°N 66.09444°W / 18.27361; -66.09444
Translator(s) W05DA-D 5.1
Fajardo W05DB-D 5.1
Ponce W29EE-D 5.1
San Lorenzo Public license information
Website
www.abc.pr
WRFB (channel 5), branded on-air as ABC Puerto Rico , is a
television station
licensed to
Carolina , serving the
San Juan area as an affiliate of
ABC . It is a full-time
satellite of
Mayagüez -licensed
WORA-TV (channel 5) which is owned by Telecinco, Inc. WRFB's transmitter is located on Cerro Marquesa in
Aguas Buenas ; its parent station maintains studios on Ponce de León Avenue in
Santurce , with additional studios at the Guanajibo Building in Mayagüez.
Sale to Telecinco
On June 15, 2017, WRFB sold for over $600,000 to Telecinco, Inc. through subsidiary ERA International Corporation, and after the transaction with a $30,000 deposit had been made by the buyer, this became a sister station of WORA-TV in Mayagüez. WRFB was to be used to bring ABC network programming as a satellite of WORA-DT2, and
TVE programming from VIVE/WORA-DT3, expanding the coverage area. The sale of WRFB to Telecinco was completed on October 22, 2017.
Due to the passage of
Hurricane Maria , WRFB went
off the air on September 20. WRFB returned to the air for a brief period of testing, then went silent once again on August 19, 2018. After months off the air, the station returned to the air on February 22, 2019 as a repeater for
WORA-TV and switched its virtual channel position from channel 51 to channel 5.
Owners
1997–2001: Rickyn Sanchez (VTK PR, Inc.)
1998–2001: ZDE-TV Broadcasting, Inc.
1999–2002: Pegasus Communications (WZDE Licensee, Inc.)
2001–2017: R&F Broadcasting
July–October 2013: Destino Media Group (Destino Network)
2017–2018: ERA International Corporation
2018–present: Telecinco, Inc.
Branding
1997–1999: MusicaVisión
2000–2001: VTK
2001–2003: WRFB-TV Canal 52
2003–2013: Videomax
2013: My Destino TV
2013–2014: Telemicro Internacional
2014–2016: Videomax Canal 51
2016–2017: SuperCanal
2017–2019: Telecinco / WORA Televisión
2019-2020: ABC 5 Puerto Rico
2020–present: ABC Puerto Rico
Digital television
The station's digital signal is
multiplexed :
On June 12, 2009, WRFB signed off its analog signal and completed its move to digital.
References
External links
Reception may vary by location and some stations may only be viewable with
cable television
San Juan
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ATSC-M/H
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