WKAQ Television Station
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content: WKAQ (Television station : San Juan, Puerto Rico)
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content: WNJU (Television station : New York, NY)
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content: Telemundo Group, Inc.
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content: Univisión (Television network)
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content: Mirós, Gilda
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content: Aguilar, Héctor
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content: Gazcón, Edgardo
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content: Spanish Language Broadcasting Collection
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content: Spanish Language Broadcasting Collection / Series 3: Telemundo Group, Incorporated
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: WKAQ, a television station located in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is owned and operated by Spanish-language network, Telemundo. In 1954, WKAQ-TV was the first Television station in Puerto Rico. In 1954, Ángel Ramos, creator of El Mundo (The World) and Puerto Rico's first and third-licensed radio station in the world, WKAQ, founded WKAQ-TV, the first television station in Puerto Rico. The station began branding itself as "Telemundo Puerto Rico" in 1987. Since then, WKAQ-TV is recognized as the original "Telemundo" and has become one of network's flagship stations. WKAQ-TV became a superstation in 2005 when NBCUniversal reformatted its entertainment-based cable channel Telemundo Internacional into Telemundo Puerto Rico. The channel aired WKAQ-TV-produced programs such as "Telenoticias". Telemundo Puerto Rico's target audience was Puerto Ricans and other Caribbean communities living in the U.S. mainland. However, the superstation feed was discontinued in early 2008. Later that year, WKAQ-TV, in co-production with the Telemundo network, launched the morning news and lifestyle show Levantate from its San Juan studios. The station also began to air a local teen drama series, which achieved success in the Puerto Rican teen market.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1954-2008, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: NMAH.AC.1404, Subseries 3.1
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content: Archival materials
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content: The WKAQ subseries includes photographs of performers, reporters, and on-air personalities, the station's construction, studio interiors, and stills from several programs (telenovelas, variety shows, specials, motion picture films, staff at work). The series also features a telenovela script, ratings statistics, studio floor plans, and print advertisements for the station, its programming, and Telemundo.