WRFB (channel 5), branded on-air as ABC Puerto Rico, is a television station licensed to Carolina, serving the San Juan area as an affiliate of ABC. It is a full-time satellite of Mayagüez-licensed WORA-TV (channel 5) which is owned by Telecinco, Inc. WRFB's transmitter is located on Cerro Marquesa in Aguas Buenas; its parent station maintains studios on Ponce de León Avenue in Santurce, with additional studios at the Guanajibo Building in Mayagüez.

This article is missing information about WRFB's history from 1989 to 2017. (January 2020)

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WRFB

Satellite of WORA-TV, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
Carolina/San Juan, Puerto Rico
City	Carolina, Puerto Rico
Channels	Digital: 30 (UHF) Virtual: 5
Branding	ABC Puerto Rico (general) ABC News Extra (newscasts) DW (on DT2) VIVE Television (on DT3) Telecinco (on DT4)
Programming
Affiliations	5.1: ABC 5.2: DW 5.3: VIVE / 24H 5.4: Telecinco
Ownership
Owner	Telecinco, Inc.
Sister stations	WORA-TV
History
Founded	October 2, 1989
First air date	1997 (27 years ago) (1997)
Former call signs	WDZE (1997–1998) WZDE (1998–2001)
Former channel number(s)	Analog: 52 (UHF, 1997–2009) Digital: 51 (UHF, 2009–2017) Virtual: 51 (PSIP, 2009–2019)
Former affiliations	Analog/DT1: Independent (1997–2016) DestinoTV (2013) Telemicro Internacional (2013–2014) Silent (2014, 2016, 2017–2019) SuperCanal (2016–2017) Telemundo (2019) DT2: ABC (2019) 24H (January-August 2020) Inter Online TV (2020-2022) DT3: TVE/VIVE (February-July 2019) 24H (July-December 2019) DT4: RT Network (2021-2022) DT5: Mega TV (2019-2022)
Call sign meaning	R&F Broadcasting (former owner)
Technical information[1]
Licensing authority	FCC
Facility ID	54443
ERP	250 kW 40 kW (STA)
HAAT	273.5 m (897 ft) (STA) 311 m (1,020 ft) (CP)
Transmitter coordinates	18°16′25″N 66°5′40″W
Translator(s)	W05DA-D 5.1 Fajardo W05DB-D 5.1 Ponce W29EE-D 5.1 San Lorenzo
Links
Public license information	Public file LMS
Website	www.abc.pr

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On June 15, 2017, WRFB sold for over $600,000 to Telecinco, Inc. through subsidiary ERA International Corporation, and after the transaction with a $30,000 deposit had been made by the buyer, this became a sister station of WORA-TV in Mayagüez. WRFB was to be used to bring ABC network programming as a satellite of WORA-DT2, and TVE programming from VIVE/WORA-DT3, expanding the coverage area. The sale of WRFB to Telecinco was completed on October 22, 2017.

Due to the passage of Hurricane Maria, WRFB went off the air on September 20. WRFB returned to the air for a brief period of testing, then went silent once again on August 19, 2018. After months off the air, the station returned to the air on February 22, 2019 as a repeater for WORA-TV and switched its virtual channel position from channel 51 to channel 5.

• 1997–2001: Rickyn Sanchez (VTK PR, Inc.)
• 1998–2001: ZDE-TV Broadcasting, Inc.
• 1999–2002: Pegasus Communications (WZDE Licensee, Inc.)
• 2001–2017: R&F Broadcasting
• July–October 2013: Destino Media Group (Destino Network)
• 2017–2018: ERA International Corporation
• 2018–present: Telecinco, Inc.

• 1997–1999: MusicaVisión
• 2000–2001: VTK
• 2001–2003: WRFB-TV Canal 52
• 2003–2013: Videomax
• 2013: My Destino TV
• 2013–2014: Telemicro Internacional
• 2014–2016: Videomax Canal 51
• 2016–2017: SuperCanal
• 2017–2019: Telecinco / WORA Televisión
• 2019-2020: ABC 5 Puerto Rico
• 2020–present: ABC Puerto Rico

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

On June 12, 2009, WRFB signed off its analog signal and completed its move to digital.