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| Branding | Telemundo Cleveland |
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| History | |
First air date | November 30, 1989 |
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Call sign meaning | "Telemundo Cleveland" |
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Licensing authority | FCC |
| Facility ID | 6699 |
| Class | LD |
| ERP | 15 kW |
| HAAT | 306.8 m (1,007 ft) |
| Transmitter coordinates | 41°22′45″N 81°43′11″W / 41.37917°N 81.71972°W |
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Public license information | LMS |
| Website | telemundocleveland |
WTCL-LD (channel 6) is a low-power television station in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, affiliated with Telemundo. It is owned by Gray Media alongside CBS affiliate WOIO (channel 19), CW affiliate WUAB (channel 43) and independent station WOHZ-CD (channel 22); WTCL and WOHZ also function as ultra high frequency (UHF) repeaters for WOIO. All four stations have studios at Reserve Square in downtown Cleveland; WTCL-LD's transmitter is located in suburban Parma. WTCL's visibility is extended to the southern part of the Cleveland market via repeaters WOHZ and W28FG-D in Akron; WOHZ is additionally relayed over WTCL.
Founded as a mostly obscure low-power station in the Cleveland area on UHF channels 47 and 65, this station moved to channel 6 in 2012 after several failed attempts to convert the station for digital broadcasting, enabling it to operate as WLFM-LP, a de facto radio station on 87.7 FM. After briefly carrying a hybrid modern rock/talk format, a lease to TSJ Media resulted in the installation of a Spanish language radio format as "La Mega 87.7", the first such format to operate on a full-time basis in the market. Increasing technical complications and limitations forced WLFM-LP to convert to digital in July 2020. A sale to Gray Television the following year saw the station relaunched as the market's first Telemundo affiliate.
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