WFUT-DT

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WFUT-DT is the UniMás television station for the New York City area, licensed to Newark, New Jersey. It is owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision (Univision New York LLC). The station shares studios with WXTV-DT (channel 41) on Frank W. Burr Boulevard in Teaneck, New Jersey, and broadcasts from transmitters at the Empire State Building in Midtown Manhattan. Programs on WFUT-DT (68.1) and its sister station WXTV-DT are also carried for Long Island and southern Connecticut from WFTY-DT (channel 67) in Middle Island, New York.

What you watch on WFUT-DT
- Digital channel: 26 (UHF), Shared with WXTV-DT
- Virtual channel: 68
- Branding: UniMás Nueva York
- Subchannels: 68.1 UniMás, 68.2 True Crime Network, 68.3 GetTV

Ownership and nearby stations
- Owner: TelevisaUnivision (Univision New York LLC)
- Sister stations: WXTV-DT (channel 41), WFTY-DT

Technical notes
- Formerly analog channel 68; digital history includes channels 53 and 30 before final digital placement
- Transmitter coordinates and power reflect its Newark/Manhattan broadcast footprint
- The stations’ spectrum was reorganized in the 2019 auction, and WFUT now shares channel space with WXTV on channel 26

Call sign meaning
- WFUT references Telefutura, the former name of UniMás

History in brief
- Channel 68 in Newark began as WBTB-TV in 1974, later becoming WTVG and WWHT, then WHSE-TV/WHSI under the Home Shopping Network (HSN) era
- The stations carried subscription TV as WHT, expanding to parts of New York and New Jersey, and briefly operated as a music-video outlet U68
- HSN sold the stations to Univision in 2001; in 2002 the stations became WFUT and WFTY to launch Telefutura (now UniMás)
- Telefutura rebranded to UniMás in 2013
- After the 2009 digital transition, WFUT’s digital signal settled on channel 30, with virtual channel 68; in 2019 the stations moved to channel 26 as part of the spectrum reallocation

WFUT-DT serves as the New York-area UniMás outlet, continuing a historic evolution from its early UHF beginnings to its current Spanish-language network branding.