WJAL (channel 68) is a television station licensed to Silver Spring, Maryland, United States, serving the Washington, D.C., area as an affiliate of Merit Street Media.
WJAL shares transmitter facilities with CBS affiliate WUSA (channel 9) on Wisconsin Avenue in the Tenleytown section of northwest Washington.
[4] The station ended its WB affiliation on September 14, 1998, as Good Companion felt the network's programming did not fit with their desired family-friendly image.
[6][7] The main impetus of the purchase of WJAL for Entravision was to attempt to move the station's license to Silver Spring, Maryland, as a replacement for its low-power WMDO-CA (now digital WMDO-CD), which at the time was a Univision affiliate.
[3] WJAL retained its existing callsign and virtual channel number, but moved its city of license to Silver Spring, Maryland.
[12][1] The over-the-air signal from Tuscarora Mountain went dark at midnight on September 30, 2017, and the station immediately moved to WUSA's transmitter in the early morning of October 1.
[15] A provision prohibiting Entravision from operating another station with a "Spanish-language format" in the Washington market was removed in a revision that took effect on the first weekday after the channel-share was implemented, October 2, 2017, allowing WJAL to air LATV.