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WRUA is a Spanish-language independent television station in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, serving northeastern Puerto Rico on digital channel 16, virtual channel 8. WRUA is owned by Grupo TIVA, a joint venture between Dr. Norman Gonzalez Chacon, under Dr. Norman's Broadcasting (stockholder), Eastern Television Corporation (station licensee) & Alejandro Luciano (shareholder, owner of translator stations). The station brands itself as Tiva TV. The station is showing lifestyle and health programs.

History

On March 7, 1997, WRUA channel 34 started broadcasting religious programming. WRUA was owned by Damarys de Jesus, who serves as a general manager. In 2000, WRUA is sold to Eastern Television Corporation for $40,000, and joining the Telecadena ECN religious network, as satellite of WECN.

From 2006 to 2007, WRUA operated as a standard independent station, using the Citytv branding, under license from CHUM Limited – it was the first Citytv franchise on American soil. Rogers Media discontinued the licensing for WRUA, after its acquisition of Citytv, and the station formerly serves as a translator for WECN.

Both prior to its time as Citytv and after, WRUA was and still is a religious station.

WECN & WRUA forces to shut down on October 22, 2014, due to financial reasons. as of 2015, WECN is Silent, and its sale is pending to the new officers & directors, under Único TV Media for $1.9 million. On March 1, 2015; WRUA returns to the air, and will become a Satellite of WVQS-LD, repeating Telemicro Internacional on Channel 33.1 & The Retro Channel on 33.2. On April 17, WRUA will become a full-time Locally owned Independent station, broadcasting Retro Music Videos on channel 33.1, just before WVQS-LD moves CTNi to 50.1 & Telemicro Internacional to WSJU-TV channel 31.1.

On August 10, 2015, WRUA moves its frequency from 33.1 to channel 8.1, becoming a satellite of WWXY-LD, as part of the Tiva TV Network.

On October 27, 2015, WRUA will sell $1,000,000 to Grupo TIVA (Dr. Norman Gonzalez, president, Edwin Gonzalez, general manager), the owners of WWXY-LD, marking its move to low-power channel 38, and will become the first full-power VHF O&O television station to be owned by TIVA. The sale was completed on December 7, 2015.

Digital television

WRUA's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP short name Programming[1]
8.8 480i 16:9 TIVA TV main WRUA programming / TIVA TV
16.1 WRUA Secondary TIVA TV programming
33.1 4:3 WRUA 2 France 24
64.1 16:9 WECN WECN programming / Único TV

W08EI-D's digital signal is multiplexed:

Channel Video Aspect PSIP short name Programming[2]
8.2 720p 16:9 Tiva HD main W08EI-D programming / TIVA TV
8.3 Salv TV Salvación TV
39.1 480i 4:3 Mix TV Mix TV

On February 17, 2009, WECN and WRUA signed off their analog signals.

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