WBFS-TV (channel 33) is an independent television station in Miami, Florida, United States. It is owned by the CBS News and Stations group alongside CBS owned-and-operated station WFOR-TV (channel 4). Both stations share studios on Northwest 18th Terrace in Doral, while WBFS-TV's transmitter is located in Andover, Florida. WBFS-TV was established in 1984 as an independent station, marking the fourth—and successful—attempt at activating the channel for full-power use in Miami. The aggressive program purchasing and promotional tactics of its builder, the Grant Broadcasting System, carried the company into bankruptcy, but WBFS was its most successful station and became a competitive independent in the market. After being owned by a consortium of Grant's creditors throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Paramount Stations Group reached a deal to purchase WBFS-TV in 1994, resulting in the station joining UPN in 1995; however, WBFS-TV was passed over for affiliation with The CW in 2006 and affiliated instead with MyNetworkTV, airing that service's offerings until 2022. WFOR-TV previously produced dedicated local newscasts for this station until 2011. History Three unbuilt construction permits Channel 33, allocated to Miami since the introduction of UHF channel assignments in 1952, went unused by a full-power station for more than 30 years. There had been some activity around it when it was first assigned, drawing two applicants; the Miami Biscayne Television Corporation got the permit, but it went unbuilt. In the 1960s, three bids were made to start a channel 33 station, by Gem Broadcasting, proposing an all-Spanish-language station; and Supreme Broadcasting; Gem was replaced by Gateway Television Corporation, led by Miamian and former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) attorney Vincent B. Welch. Gateway got a permit in 1964 after the other two firms dropped out of the running. Gateway abandoned its bid by 1966, and Hialeah food processor Budd Mayer filed for the channel, proposing subscription television (STV) operation using the Telemeter system. Gold Coast obtained a construction permit in March 1967, though no station ever materialized. In the meantime, channel 33 was used starting in 1974 by a new translator of WCIX (channel 6), hampered by a poor signal in Broward County. "Florida's Super Station" In 1977, Miami STV Inc., a company owned by the Block family of Milwaukee, filed with the FCC for authority to build channel 33. Like Gold Coast of a decade earlier, Miami STV was aligned with a subscription television operation, in this