by the fall. Financial constraints also prevented them from moving forward. In order to finish building the new station, in January 1988, WMOD's channel 43 signal was sold to HSN affiliate company, Blackstar Broadcasting. That February, it began to run HSN full-time (except for a few hours of religious and public affairs shows on Sunday mornings), and changed its call letters to WBSF. Its cartoons and other barter shows moved to WAYK (channel 56, now WOPX-TV), another Melbourne station with an even weaker signal than channel 43 had. Other existing programming was dropped and moved in November 1988 to the newly built WKCF (channel 68, which relocated to channel 18 in 1992). When the FCC relaxed ownership restrictions for television stations in 1996, Blackstar sold its stations, including WBSF, to Silver King Broadcasting. Barry Diller later bought the Home Shopping Network soon afterwards. After HSN bought USA Networks, a new plan for WBSF emerged. Channel 43 was to become a general entertainment independent station once again by 2002, along with other stations that were owned by USA Broadcasting. That plan, however, did not materialize, as WBSF and the other USA Broadcasting stations were sold to Univision Communications in 2001. The sale was finalized in January 2002, and the station became an affiliate of TeleFutura under the new call sign of WOTF (the WBSF calls have since been reassigned to a CW affiliate in Bay City, Michigan). In May 2010, the station began broadcasting its network programming in 1080i high definition. In January 2014, the station added subchannel network GetTV. In August 2014, Escape TV launched on 43.4. On December 4, 2017, as part of a channel swap made by Entravision Communications, WOTF and sister station WVEN swapped channel numbers, with WOTF moving from digital and virtual channel 43 to digital channel 49 and virtual channel 26. On October 13, 2021, Univision announced it would take over operation of WVEN, as well as Tampa Bay Univision affiliate WVEA-TV, effective January 1, 2022, coinciding with the end of licensing agreements on December 31, 2021, effectively ending WOTF's UniMás affiliation. Technical information Subchannels The station's digital signal is multiplexed: Analog-to-digital conversion WOTF-TV ended programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 43, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 20 to channel 43 for