Branding OptimaVision Translators W06DA-D 6 Aguada Founded 1993 | Channels Digital: 50 (UHF) Affiliations Religious | |
Subchannels 50.1 OptimaTV
50.2 Optima2
50.3 W44DW-D
50.4 WNVM Audio Owner New Life Broadcasting
(Western New Life, Inc.) | ||
WQHA is a Spanish-language religious television station in Aguada, Puerto Rico, broadcasting locally on channel 50, branded as OptimaVision. Founded in 1993, the station is owned by New Life Broadcasting; the owners of radio stations WNVM, WNVI & WNVE and operated under a license management agreement with AERCO Broadcasting Corporation. The Licensee is Western New Life, Inc. WQHA's programming is also seen on translator station, W06DA-D, channel 6.1 in Aguada. The station broadcasts religious programming from 6AM to 6PM and local infomercials from 6PM to 6AM.
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OptimaVision Network
WQHA is the flagship station of the OptimaVision Network, it is simulcasting on Low-power television stations, WZNA-LD, channel 3.1 in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, and W44DW-D channel 44.1 in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Both stations are owned by New Life Broadcasting's president, Juan Carlos Matos Barreto.
Digital television
WQHA's digital signal is multiplexed:
On January 13, 2009, WQHA signed off its analog signal and completed its move to digital.
W06DA-D's digital signal is multiplexed:
W44DW-D's digital signal is multiplexed:
About OptimaVision
OptimaVision starts as a video-streaming service. On November 14, 2013, OptimaVision launched WNTE-LD channel 36 in Mayaguez, now owned by Make TV Corporation, as a satellite of WVDO-LD. WVTE-LD Channel 3 followed on March 24, 2014. WQHA Channel 50 (formerly a repeater for WUJA) was sold for $29 milllon to Western New Life, Inc. on May 2, 2014, and became the third channel in the network. NCN Television moved its programming to digital subchannel 50.2.
FCC Spectrum Auction and WQHA sale
In 2012, the Federal Communications Commission announced they were going to hold a voluntary Incentive Auction for a portion of the radio frequency spectrum that is currently used by Digital Television broadcasters across the country. WQHA's owner, New Life Broadcasting announced he would participate in the auction, since it was estimated the station would net somewhere in the range of $127 Million USD, much more than it would be worth on the open market otherwise. Since that time the auction estimate has increased to somewhere between $95 and $50 Million USD, with the auction currently scheduled to take place in early 2016.