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WFTY first signed on November 14, 1973 as WSNL-TV, but this independent station went bankrupt and had to leave the air in June 131975. It returned to the air on December 4, 1979, simulcasting Newark's WWHT (now WFUT) with a mixed independent / subscription television format. On January 30, 1980, an electrical fire nearly destroyed the station's studios, forcing WSNL to again cease to broadcast, this time until the summer of 1980. It returned to the air in July 1980.
In 1985, WSNL and WWHT discontinued the independent and subscription programming in favor of music videos. By the fall of 1986, the stations became WHSI and WHSE when they were sold to the Home Shopping Network. The two stations would run HSN programming for the next fifteen years.
In the late 1990s, HSN's broadcasting arm (Silver King Television) planned to switch their stations to an independent format. WHSE/WHSI were slated to switch to the format in 2001. Late in 2000, however, USA Broadcasting, who owned HSN by that time, decided to sell their stations to Univision, meaning that WHSI would (instead of returning to an independent format) switch to AIN/UATV, networks generally used by low-powered stations, before becoming a charter Telefutura affiliate on January 14, 2002, re-called as WFTY
Trivia
The WFTY call letters were formerly used by Washington, DCCW Affiliate, WDCW while they were an independent station.
