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TV station in Miami

WSVN (channel 7) is a television station in Miami, Florida, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. Serving as the flagship station of locally based Sunbeam Television, it has studios on the 79th Street Causeway in North Bay Village and a transmitter in Miami Gardens, Florida.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regards WSVN as having signed on for the first time on December 19, , as WCKT under Sunbeam ownership. However, the station was the result of a long and contentious legal battle between Sunbeam and three other applicants for the channel 7 allocation in Miami.

Biscayne Television Corporation, a three-way partnership including the publishers of the Miami News and Miami Herald signed on a previous WCKT on July 29, , only to be stripped of its license due to ethics violations within the FCC and unethical behavior by its principals during the application process.

Sunbeam purchased WCKT's assets and re-launched the station under