WFTY-DT

WSNL returned to the air again four-and-a-half years later, on December 4, 1979, with a broadcast day running from 7:00 p.m. to midnight weeknights and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekends.[6] The station ran some old movies, brokered programming, and religious shows. The following month on January 30, 1980, an electrical fire nearly destroyed the station's studios, forcing WSNL to shut down again, this time until July 1980.

Upon returning to the air, the station began running a mixed independent/subscription television format featuring programming from Wometco Home Theater. WSNL aired a morning movie from WHT between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., then ran encoded color bars until 3:45 p.m., followed by unencoded color bars until sign on at 4 p.m. for four hours of commercial programming. This lineup consisted primarily of old movies, film fillers, public affairs shows, and a local newscast that was anchored by Karl Grossman and Joan May.[7] At 8 p.m., WSNL ran WHT programming until sign-off, which was usually around 1:30 a.m. or later. On Saturdays, WSNL operated for four hours beginning at 1 p.m. (featuring old movies, public affairs shows and wrestling), followed by WHT programming from 5 p.m. until sign-off. Sunday was slightly different, as WSNL would sign on at 8 a.m. with two hours of religious shows, then sign off at 10 a.m., it resumed programming at 1 p.m. with general entertainment programming running until 5 p.m., followed by WHT programming running until sign-off. In January 1981, Wometco Enterprises bought WSNL and began simulcasting Newark's WWHT (now WFUT). However, WSNL would occasionally break away from WWHT-TV during its entertainment schedule to run a local public affairs show, then rejoin WWHT.

In a corporate deal, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts took over Wometco along with a couple of other broadcasting companies. In 1985, WSNL and WWHT discontinued the general entertainment and subscription programming in favor of music videos, with the parent station becoming known as "U-68". By the fall of 1986, when KKR sold its stations to a variety of owners, WWHT and WSNL were sold to the Home Shopping Network (HSN), WSNL-TV became WHSI and WWHT-TV became WHSE. HSN programming ran on both stations for the next fifteen years.

In the late 1990s, HSN's broadcasting arm Silver King Television planned to switch its stations to a general entertainment independent format, with WHSE/WHSI slated to switch in 2001. In the interim WHSE/WHSI ran programming from the AIN/UATV networks. Late in 2000, however, USA Broadcasting, which Silver King was renamed after Barry Diller had purchased HSN and its other holdings (merging it with USA Network), decided instead to sell its stations to Univision Communications. The Walt Disney Company, owners of ABC owned-and-operated station WABC-TV channel 7, had been the leading bidder for the USA stations but were outbid by Univision at the last minute. On January 14, 2002 WHSE/WHSI then became charter affiliates of Univision's new secondary network Telefutura (which rebranded as UniMás in January 2013) with WHSE's call letters being changed to WFUT and WHSI's call letters changed to WFTY. In November 2017, UniMás moved to 67.2 thus reverting to its English Channel 67.1 as the Justice Network affiliate.

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

As of November 2014, WFTY changed the simulcast of WXTV-DT 41.1 from 480i to 1080i.

WFTY discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 67, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.[9] The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 23, using PSIP to display WFTY's virtual channel as 67 on digital television receivers, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.

As of 2019, Grit airs on channel 67.4, featuring action/adventure television series and westerns.

Court TV Mystery was added on 67.4 in August 2014 as Escape, adding both movies and original TV series to the station's lineup. Escape was the first sub-channel targeted specifically at women, and the first general entertainment network since music videos were added in 1985. In November 2017, Escape moved to 67.5. The network was renamed Court TV Mystery on September 29, 2019.

The Justice Network, previously airing on WJLP, was added on 67.5 in October 2017, airing crime dramas and documentary programming. In November 2017, Justice Network moved to 67.1. This is the first primary English-language network to air on 67.1 since 2002.

GetTV was launched in February 2014 on the station's 67.3 digital sub-channel, becoming the first free over-the-air English-language movie network to air on the station since the demise of Wometco Home Theater in 1985. In November 2017, GetTV moved to 67.4. As of 2019, Grit airs on 67.4 while GetTV is available on WFUT-DT channel 68.3.