WUNI

WUNI, virtual channel 27 (UHF digital channel 29), is a Univision-affiliated television station serving Boston, Massachusetts, United States that is licensed to Worcester. The station is owned by Entravision Communications Corporation; Entravision also operates UniMás owned-and-operated station WUTF-DT (channel 66) under a management agreement with owner Univision Communications. The two stations share studios on 4th Avenue in Needham, and its transmitter is located near Shrewsbury.

History

As an English-language independent station

The station first signed on the air on January 1, 1970 as WSMW-TV, an independent station that featured English-language general entertainment programs including old movies (including the whole series of Abbott and Costello movies and the Bowery Boys/Dead-End Kids movies starring Huntz Hall), cartoons, religious shows (including the Jacob Brothers and The PTL Club), a cooking show (Cooking with Bernard), science fiction shows (such as Gerry Anderson's UFO), dramas (including Maverick and Thriller), sitcoms (including The Phil Silvers Show and Petticoat Junction). Though WSMW-TV was within the Boston market, it was far enough from Boston itself that the station was able to air some of the same shows as the Boston stations, in a similar situation to WMUR-TV (channel 9), the ABC affiliate in Manchester, New Hampshire. The station's call letters stood for State Mutual (Insurance Co.) in Worcester, the corporate owner of the station.

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