1980, Wometco Enterprises bought WSNL and began simulcasting Newark's WWHT (now WFUT). However, WSNL would occasionally break away from WWHT-TV during its entertainment schedule to run a local public affairs show, then rejoin WWHT. In a corporate deal, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts took over Wometco along with a couple of other broadcasting companies. In 1985, WSNL and WWHT discontinued general entertainment and subscription programming in favor of music videos, with the parent station becoming known as "U-68". By the fall of 1986, KKR sold its stations to a variety of owners, with WWHT and WSNL sold to the Home Shopping Network, WSNL-TV became WHSI and WWHT-TV became WHSE. HSN programming ran on both stations continuously for the next fifteen years. In 1999, HSN's newly renamed broadcasting arm USA Broadcasting began switching stations to a new general entertainment independent format known as "CityVision" with WHSE/WHSI slated to become the 5th USAB station to convert to this format under "The Worx 68" branding with at least one of the two stations gaining WORX call letters. The process was far enough along that an imaging package similar to the other CityVision stations was completed and ready for launch. Before it could however, financial problems in late 2000 forced USA Broadcasting to stop all "CityVision" development and put the station group up for sale with Disney, owners of ABC and O&O WABC-TV, and Univision, owner of flagship WXTV, both bidding for the stations. Meantime, in the interim and as a cost cutting measure, WHSE/WHSI switched to programming from the AIN/UATV networks. Univision later outbid Disney and on January 14, 2002—along with all but three USAB stations—WHSE/WHSI became charter affiliates of Univision's new second network Telefutura (later rebranded as UniMás in 2013) with WHSE's call letters changing to WFUT and WHSI's changing to WFTY. In November 2017, UniMás moved to WFTY's 67.2 subchannel with the main 67.1 channel returning to English-language service as New York's Justice Network affiliate (which rebranded as the True Crime Network in 2020). Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Analog-to-digital conversion WFTY discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 67, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 23, using PSIP to display WFTY's virtual channel as 67 on digital television receivers, which was among the high band