WFDC

WFDC is a full-powered Telefutura affiliate in Washington, DC, located on channel 14 (digital channel 15).

Channel 14 first signed on as WOOK in 1963 as the first station in the country aimed at the Arican-American demographic. WOOK's claim to fame was their teen-oriented dance show called Teenarama, which featured big-name acts such as James Brown and Marvin Gaye. The station flipped to Spanish-language WFAN in 1970.

In 1972, channel 14 went dark after accumulating financial difficulties. Throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, channel 14 was used to relay public channel 53 WNVT to the Washington, DC market, and occasionally served as a low-power Univision affiliate.

Channel 14 was reborn as WTMW on December 7, 1988. The call letters came from the initials of the owner Theodore M. White. From then until May 1999, WTMW aired programming similar to the Home Shopping Network, called America's Store from 1997 onward. Then in May 1999, WTMW began airing the new Military Channel. After the Military Channel stopped broadcasting a month later in June 1999, channel 14 began airing programming from the Panda Shopping Network. Then in December 1999, channel 14 became an affiliate of the American Independent Network, which primarilly broadcasted reruns of old sitcoms and infomercials. The channel flipped again in January 2001 when it became an affiliate of the Renaissance Network.

None of these formats were financially viable, and in November 2001, Theodore M. White sold the station to Univision, and the call letters were changed to WFDC. Univision allready had an affiliate in Washington on chanel 47 (WMDO), so they decided to use WFDC as one of the first affiliates of their new network, Telefutura, which was created to directly compete with Telemundo for the Latin-American demographic, since Univision is more Mexican-oriented. Telefutura began broadcasting on January 14 2002, and channel 14 has done better financially since then.

External links

• Telefutura Official Website
• WOOK information