The station began operating in 1985 as K13UT, an affiliate of
The Box, a pay per view music video channel. Following the shutdown of The Box, K13UT began carrying
MTV2. In January 2005, after
Equity Media Holdings's purchase of channel 13, the station was re-called WUMN-LP, to reflect its new Univision affiliation. Under Equity ownership, all of the station's operations were controlled from Equity's hub in
Little Rock, Arkansas, with only engineering staff in the area and no local programming outside of some reporters contributing local stories to a newscast anchored from the Little Rock hub by
Independent Network News. WUMN was sold to SP Television on June 2, 2009, in Equity's bankruptcy auction. The sale closed on August 17, 2009. SP Television reached a deal to sell WUMN to Media Vista Group on December 21, 2012. On October 29, 2013, WUMN was granted a construction permit by the FCC to transition its broadcast signal to digital on UHF channel 17, formerly occupied by the analog signal of
KTCI. On September 18, 2023, it was announced that WUMN-LD and sister station
KUKC-LD in
Kansas City would be sold to Bridge Media Networks, led by investor
Manoj Bhargava, for $2.25 million; the sale does not include the stations' Univision affiliations. The sale was completed on March 1, 2024. ==News==