WSFL-TV
WSFL-TV, virtual channel 39 (UHF digital channel 19), is a CW-affiliated television station located in Miami, Florida, United States. The station is owned by the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of Tribune Media Company. WSFL-TV maintains studio facilities, which are shared with the Sun-Sentinel newspaper, located on East Las Orlas Boulevard and Southeast 2nd Street in Fort Lauderdale; its transmitter is located between Northwest 210th and 207th Streets in Andover. On cable, the station is carried on Comcast Xfinity's system in West Palm Beach (despite the presence of in-market CW affiliate WTVX).
History
As an independent station
The station first signed on the air on June 1, 1982 as WDZL. It was originally owned by Channel 39 Broadcasting Ltd. Operating as an independent station, the station maintained a general entertainment format consisting of cartoons, off-network dramas, classic movies, a few older off-network sitcoms, and religious programs. Odyssey Partners, which would later evolve into Renaissance Broadcasting (and which had owned WTXX, now WCCT-TV, in Waterbury, Connecticut), owned an interest in WDZL.
