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WAPA-TV was the second television station to be licensed to Puerto Rico and began broadcasting on May 1, 1954. Popularly known by its channel number, or Canal Cuatro, The station's mascot has always been a cat, which is called el gato in Spanish and the station slogan is, Por el cuatro como el gato, which rhymes in Spanish.
One of five major Puerto Rican television channels, Televicentro's competitors include Telemundo Puerto Rico, Tele Once, Super Siete and Canal 6. WAPA-TV and Telemundo have battled for the title of Puerto Rico's most-viewed station since the 1950s.
In September of 2004, Televicentro became the first Puerto Rican station to broadcast shows through the DirecTV satellite system to the United StatesThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in, under the name of WAPA-America.
WAPA-TV for years showed boxingBoxer redirects here; for other meanings of boxer see Boxer (disambiguation). In computer science, boxing is a way to wrap primitive types over object types. See object type. Boxing is a combat sport. Fighting with the fists for sport and spectacle is pro, BSN basketballBasketball is a ball sport in which two teams of five players each try to score points by throwing the ball through a basket. Basketball is highly suited to viewing by spectators, as it is primarily an indoor sport, played in a relatively small playing ar, both national and international telenovelas, movies, comedies, sitcoms (both AmericanThe United States of America also referred to as the United States U. America ¹ or the States is a federal republic in central North America, stretching from the Atlantic in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west. It shares land borders with Canada in and domestic), baseballBusch Stadium in Saint Louis, Missouri. Baseball is a team sport in which a small hand-sized ball is thrown and hit with a bat. Scoring involves running and touching markers on the ground called bases, hence the name. The ball itself is also called a base, NFLFor other uses of the abbreviation "NFL," see NFL (disambiguation). The National Football League NFL is the largest and most popular professional American football league in the world, consisting of thirty-two teams from American cities. The league was fo footballAmerican football known in the United States simply as football is a competitive team sport that rewards players' speed, agility, skill, tactics, and brute strength as they run and throw a ball, and block, tackle, and outrun each other, trying to force th, both WWE and Puerto Rican wrestling, human interest shows and its news show, Noticentro 4.
WAPA-TV is owned by LIN Television of San Juan, Inc. which relaunched the station under the "Televicentro" name in 1998. LIN also owns independent WJPX-TV , Channel 24, and radio station WAPA-AM 680, an affiliate of the Hispanic Radio Network .