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What are Univisions strongest affilates?

WXTV/41 in NYC. They have a local newscast which occasionally beats the lowest-rated English language news, IIRC.

WQHS/61 here is probably the "weakest". No local programming at all, and Univision only owns it because it came along in the HSN deal (note the calls) and never sold it. They do a weekend public affairs show that is literally taped in their lobby.
 
KUVN (licensed to Garland, TX) serving Dallas-Ft. Worth would be among the strongest. Noticias 23 is the news leader in the market, #1 25-54 at both 5 PM and 10 PM.
 
WGBO-DT 66.1 Joliet/Chicago is a strong Univision station, & it's an O&O station too. This station has done better as a Univision station than any English language programming it ever had prior to January 1, 1995. Prior to 1995, Univision was a weak network in Chicago, due to only having part-time status on WCIU, & that caused Univision to buy WGBO, after they learned it was for sale, since WCIU refused to be a full-time Univision affiliate.
 
Definitely KMEX in Los(t) Angel(s)es. The city has the highest proportion of Latinos (read: Mexicans) of all the major cities in the country, helping to make it the most dominant Spanish-language network group in the U.S.. WLTV comes a close second but the difference is Miami has some other factors that is not as present in L.A.. Then comes Houston, Chicago and Dallas.
 
stationless listener said:
Definitely KMEX in Los(t) Angel(s)es. The city has the highest proportion of Latinos (read: Mexicans) of all the major cities in the country, helping to make it the most dominant Spanish-language network group in the U.S.. WLTV comes a close second but the difference is Miami has some other factors that is not as present in L.A.. Then comes Houston, Chicago and Dallas.
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You are merely looking at populations and not at the stations themselves. If you look at the "strongest" affiliates for the Univision, then WLTV is definitely right up there because Univision has many of its operations in Miami - in basically the same location as WLTV. In other words, they have awesome capabilities. And, their ratings (when I last checked) were the highest of ANY Univision station in the US.

WXTV is another that has excellent facilities by virtue of serving market #1 - and it has one of the longest histories of any Univision affiliated station. And, of course, KMEX is another "heritage" station when it comes to Spanish language broadcasting. And, KMEX gets great ratings, just as WLTV does. Lastly, one Univision affiliate that we've all forgotten is WLII 11 - 'Univision Puerto Rico', which has even better ratings on the island than locally originated WAPA (believe it or not). Although Puerto Rico is a mid to large sized market on its own, it's also 99% Spanish speaking - so it's in the top 4 or 5 Spanish speaking markets.

The others you listed are strong too, but not nearly as prevalent as the "big 3" above. I get to see plenty of broadcasts from Univision's WGBO in the Chicago market and though they do a good job, they don't hold a candle to the likes of KMEX or WLTV.
 
I don't know how WUVN-TV (UNI) channel 18 of Hartford does in the ratings. Their prior analog signal was awful where I lived. The station has had way too many problems in its history to even get into here. I think they have the same ownership as WUNI-TV (UNI) channel 27 of Worcester, MA, since news that I've seen mentions both greater Boston and Hartford.

In the waning days of analog, Telemundo was on low-power channel 50 and Telefutura was WUTH-CA, low-power channel 47.
 
KUNS 51 Seattle, since they air a local Seattle 6PM newscast...all in Espanol! Mentions also go to KMEX, WXTV and Puerto Rico's Univision.

-crainbebo
 
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