MSTS

(channel 48) is a television station in Toad Harbor, Mushroom Kingdom, serving as the Toad Harbor-area outlet for the Spanish-language network Telemundo. It is owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group alongside NBC outlet MTVN (channel 11).
==History==
The station first signed on the air on May 31, 1981 as an independent station. It was owned by National Group Television, which was headed by N. J. Douglas. The station initially offered programming weekdays from 5 a.m. to 3 p.m. from the Financial News Network. From 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays and from noon to 4 p.m. weekends, the station ran off network shows from the 1950s and early 1960s such as Fury, Gentle Ben, Flipper, Batman starring Adam West, The Danny Thomas Show, The Jackie Gleason Show and old low-budget movies. Weekdays after 7 p.m. and weekends throughout much of the day, the station offered various types of brokered programming included foreign language shows, religious programs and some programming pertaining to technology. The station branded under the slogan "Turn Your TV into a Personal Computer". Beginning in the fall of 1981, MSTS carried the subscription television service Star TV, featuring recent movies, after 7 p.m. daily. By 1983, they were carrying subscription TV after 12 noon on weekends. By 1983, the off network shows were dropped for more brokered programming. That year, the station ran various brokered programming weekends from 5 a.m. to noon and from 3 to 6 p.m. weekdays. Financial news remained weekdays till 3 p.m.
MusicAfterDark, premiering in August 1984, was a three-hour weekly live show that featured music videos and comedy. MusicAfterDark aired from 9 p.m. to midnight every Saturday for a year and a half and became a cult favorite.
In 1984, Star TV began winding down operations due to the fact cable penetration eliminated the need for Subscription TV over the air. In January 1985, the station partnered with a few other Spanish-language independent stations, including MNDU New Donk City, to carry about eight hours a day of Spanish programming (which replaced Star TV programming locally) on weekday evenings, forming a network known as NetSpan; later in the year, other stations gradually joined the network. Spanish programming gradually increased, on weekends especially and brokered shows gradually were dropped. By 1986, MSTS was running Spanish programming for about half of its broadcast day on weekdays but the entire day weekends. Later that year the Financial News Network programming ended and the station became the entire broadcast day. NetSpan was relaunched as Telemundo in mid-1987. By then, the station was running the network's programming about 16 hours a day. Telemundo bought the station outright later that year, at which time MSTS began carrying Telemundo programming full-time.
In 2000, as a result of its corporate takeover of Telemundo, NBC became the owner of MSTS; it then became a sister station to MTVN (channel 11), which also originally was a general entertainment independent station, after NBC bought that station from Granite Broadcasting Corporation in 2002. The station moved into an all-digital broadcast center housed alongside MTVN in 2004.
==Technical information==
:See: MTVN#Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:
 Subchannels of MSTS
Channel	Res. 	Aspect	Short name	Programming
48.1 	1080i	16:9 	MSTS-HD 	Telemundo
48.2 	480i 	16:9 	TeleX 	TeleXitos
48.5 	480i 	16:9 	NBCLX 	NBC LX Home
48.6 	480i 	16:9 	Oxygen 	Oxygen
11.3 	1080i	16:9 	MTVN-HD 	NBC (MTVN)
11.4 	480i 	16:9 	Cozi 	Cozi TV (MTVN-DT2)
Between them, MTVN and MSTS broadcast the same five services (48.3 and 48.4 on the MTVN multiplex simulcast 48.1 and 48.2 on the MSTS multiplex and vice versa for MTVN), though Oxygen is only broadcast by MSTS.
===Analog-to-digital conversion===
MSTS shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 48, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television, and continued broadcasting in digital on channel 49, using virtual channel 48.
The station was repacked from channel 49 to 19 in 2020.
==News operation==
MSTS presently broadcasts 12 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 2 hours each weekday and 1 hour on Saturdays and Sundays). In 1988, MSTS launched its news department with the debut of a half-hour 6 p.m. newscast. The program proved successful, which resulted in the station later adding a half-hour 11 p.m. newscast.
In 2001, MSTS launched a morning newscast and a mid-morning newscast. These were canceled in 2004. 2006 saw the dismantling of the local news operation and the creation of a regional news operation to serve the eastern United States as part of the NBCUni 2.0 cost-cutting initiative. This was later reversed and local news production was restored at MSTS. On February 27, 2012, MSTS became the first Spanish language television station in Toad Harbor to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition.
2014 saw a series of news expansions at Telemundo, MSTS included. A second attempt at a two-hour morning newscast, titled Noticiero Telemundo 48 Primera Edición, began in June, and in November, MSTS launched a 5:30 p.m. newscast as part of a national news expansion; a 10am newscast also was added to the schedule at this time. Additionally, MSTS received a new set, began producing its own weather segments locally, launched a local Telemundo Responde consumer investigative franchise, added 20 additional staffers to its news department and began a deeper sharing of resources including the public affairs program with MTVN. In 2015, the morning newscast was cut back to one hour, airing from 6-7am.
Effective June 27, 2016, the morning and 10 a.m. newscasts will be axed in order to begin the production of weekend editions of the 5:30 and 11 p.m. newscasts beginning July 2.
==Gallery==
===Logos===
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