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WOTF-DT Channel 43 is the UniMás station serving the Orlando/Daytona Beach/Melbourne, Florida television market. It is owned by Univision and managed by Entravision which owns Univision affiliate WVEN-TV and radio station WNUE-FM, and offers a Spanish language entertainment format featuring movies, dramas, comedy shows, and kids shows. The studios are located in Altamonte Springs which is also shared by WVEN.

Digital television

WOTF's digital signal transmits on channel 43. WOTF's transmitter tower is located in the Christmas/Bithlo FL area.

History

The station began operation in July 1982 on Channel 43 as WMOD, licensed to Melbourne. It was owned by Press Broadcasting, and programmed a general entertainment format with an emphasis on movies and drama, along with some game shows. Shows included Ironside, Bonanza, Soap, One Day At A Time, The Joker's Wild, Tic Tac Dough, among others. In 1984, WMOD became a more traditional independent station. added sitcoms and cartoons such as Inspector Gadget, Superfriends, He-Man, Brady Bunch, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Lucy Show, All In The Family, Odd Couple, Honeymooners, and others.

Being licensed to Melbourne placed the station at a disadvantage, as it was located 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Orlando, and only reached Orlando with a grade B signal. It did not even reach Daytona Beach at all. As a result, the station received low ratings despite decent programming.

Soon afterwards, the FCC allocated a commercial license to Clermont, a western suburb of Orlando, on Channel 68. Press applied for the license in 1985, and received it in March 1986. The plan was for Press Broadcasting to sell off WMOD to the Home Shopping Network the same time as their new station on Channel 68 was built and on the air. In the meantime, WMOD agreed to affiliate with the Home Shopping Network on a part-time basis. Initially in October 1986, WMOD began airing Home Shopping on overnights. In January 1987, Home Shopping was increased to the midday hours and by the Summer of 1987 Home Shopping Network programming occupied 18 hours a day of WMOD's schedule. General entertainment continued running from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. The station still was unable to move its programming unit of general entertainment programming to Channel 68 by the fall. Plus financial constraints prevented them from moving forward. So in order to finish building the new station, in January 1988, WMOD 43 was sold to Home Shopping Network affiliate company, Blackstar Broadcasting. That February, it began to run HSN full-time (except for a few hours of religious and public affairs shows Sunday mornings), and changed its call letters to WBSF. Its barter cartoons and other barter shows moved to Channel 56 WAYK (also a Melbourne station with an even weaker signal than Channel 43). Other existing programming was rested and moved in November 1988 to their newly built WKCF Channel 68 (moved to Channel 18 in the 90's).

When the television station ownership restrictions were lifted in 1996, Blackstar sold its stations, including WBSF, to HSN. Barry Diller, owner of the USA Network, bought HSN soon afterwards, and a new plan for WBSF emerged. The station was to become a general entertainment outlet by 2002, along with other USA Broadcasting stations.

That plan, however, did not materialise, as Univision purchased the station in 2001. The sale was finalized in January 2002, and the station became an affiliate of TeleFutura under the new callsign of WOTF. (The WBSF calls were since reassigned to a CW affiliate in Bay City, Michigan.)

In May 2010, the station began broadcasting in 1080i HD and passing network programming in HD.

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Corporate directors	Daniel Alegre
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Studios	Televisa Studios Videocine W Studios Pantelion Films
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Other holdings	ViX Entravision Communications (10%)
Defunct/former assets	Blim TV Prende TV El Rey Network Fusion TV Gizmodo Media Group Gawker Media Univision Music Group
TelevisaUnivision owns these stations, which are licensed to and operated by Entravision Communications under local marketing agreements.

• Spanish-language television stations in Florida
• Channel 43 digital TV stations in the United States
• Channel 43 virtual TV stations in the United States
• Television channels and stations established in 1982
• Television stations in Florida
• UniMás network affiliates