SIN. NetSpan's founding affiliates were WNJU, ethnic independent KSCI-TV channel 18 for the Los Angeles market, and Chicago's WBBS-TV. That same year, channel 47 relocated from Newark to a new one-story building in Teterboro, and Barba hired a 22-year-old Nely Galán to be the station manager. ON TV folded in 1985, and on the way out, it made two major contributions to the launch of a second Spanish-language television network by selling Los Angeles-area KBSC-TV to Estrella Communications, a Reliance Capital-backed group that converted it to Spanish as KVEA, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, station WKID to John Blair & Co., which relaunched it as Spanish-language WSCV. By 1986, KVEA had replaced KSCI (and WCIU-TV had entered in Chicago); the network offered three hours a day of programming plus specials. Reliance Capital Group, which also was in the process of buying WSCV, reached a deal to acquire WNJU-TV for $70 million in October 1986. Two higher offers had been made by groups that would have converted channel 47 to English-language operation, both of which were shunned. With WNJU and WSCV now Reliance-owned, on January 12, 1987, NetSpan became Telemundo, supplying additional programming and national news programming. The station continued to air weekend programs in other languages into the 1990s, including Indian, Greek, Haitian and Pakistani programs. During the 1990s and early 2000s, the station experimented with Spanish-language sports simulcasts, which included games of the Yankees, New York Knicks, and New York CityHawks. However, local ratings fell as New York viewing habits fell more in line with national ones and Univision came to dominate in national and local programming. In October 2001, NBC (then owned by General Electric) announced its acquisition of Telemundo and WNJU, creating a duopoly with WNBC; NBC would assume control in April 2002. The purchase led to a major overhaul of the on-air product at the network and the station. In 2004, WNJU relocated from Teterboro to the sixth floor at 2200 Fletcher Avenue in Fort Lee, occupying the former studios and offices of the NBC-owned CNBC cable network, which had moved to a state-of-the-art new studio complex in Englewood Cliffs; the space was more than twice the size of the Teterboro facility. After the September 11 attacks, WNJU was one of several stations that moved to the Alpine Tower provisionally. There was no space for a digital facility at the Empire State Building, so a permanent site