WTMS-CA was a Telefutura

TeleFutura

TeleFutura is a U.S. Spanish-language broadcast television network owned by Univision with headquarters in Miami, Florida.-Overview:TeleFutura Is America’s #2 Spanish-Language Network in prime time...

 affiliate in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota

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. The station was owned by Silver Point Capital of Greenwich, Connecticut

Greenwich, Connecticut

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 and was one of two Spanish language

Spanish language

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 television station

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s in Minnesota, alongside sister station Univision

Univision

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 affiliate WUMN-LP 13. Formerly, it was airing the Daystar Television Network

Daystar Television Network

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, and previously was a ShopNBC

ShopNBC

ShopNBC is an American broadcast and cable home shopping network, owned and operated by ValueVision Media, which is in turn 30% owned by GE Equity and NBC Universal...

 affiliate.

On June 25, 2008, Equity disclosed that it was selling WTMS to Luken Communications, LLC.

Equity Media Holdings has been in chapter 11 bankruptcy

Bankruptcy

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 since December 2008 and offers by Luken Communications to acquire Equity-owned stations in six markets have since been withdrawn.

WTMS was sold at auction to Silver Point Capital on April 16, 2009. The sale closed on August 17, 2009; just a week later, on August 25, the station's license was canceled. , however, WTMS-LD, a construction permit

Construction permit

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for a digital companion channel, remained active. This construction permit has since expired and the station is now listed as DWTMS, and is marked for deletion from the FCC database.