List of television stations in Florida
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Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...
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Full-power stations

VC refers to the station's
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. RF refers to the station's physical RF channel.


Defunct full-power stations

*Channel 10:
WPST-TV WPST-TV was a television station that broadcast on channel 10 in Miami, Florida, United States, from 1957 to 1961. Owned by Public Service Television, Inc., the broadcasting subsidiary of Miami-based National Airlines (NAL), and managed ...
- ABC - Miami (8/2/1957-11/13/1961) *Channel 13:
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- ETV - Key West (1989-1990) *Channel 15: WPFA-TV - DuMont - Pensacola (10/16/1953-12/18/1955) *Channel 17: WITV - ABC, DuMont - Fort Lauderdale (12/1/1953-5/11/1958) *Channel 19:
WTVI WTVI (channel 42) is a PBS member television station in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, owned by Central Piedmont Community College. The station's studios are located in the Chantilly-Commonwealth section of east Charlotte, and its tra ...
- CBS - Fort Pierce (11/23/1960–2/10/1961, 9/10/1961–1/6/1962) *Channel 21:
WIRK-TV WIRK-TV, UHF analog channel 21, was a television station licensed to West Palm Beach, Florida, United States. It was the first television station in the Palm Beach area, signing on September 13, 1953. However, it was quickly overshadowed by new ...
- West Palm Beach - (8/31/1953–3/1/1956) *Channel 23: WFTL-TV →
WGBS-TV WGBS-TV was a television station that broadcast on channel 23 in Miami, Florida, United States, from 1953 to 1957. Originally established as WFTL-TV in Fort Lauderdale, it moved south to Miami when it was purchased by Storer Broadcasting at the ...
- NBC - Fort Lauderdale, Miami (5/5/1953-4/13/1957) *Channel 36: WJHP-TV - Jacksonville (12/13/1953-10/25/1957) *Channel 38:
WSUN-TV WSUN-TV, UHF analog channel 38, was a television station located in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. Operating from 1953 to 1970, it was the first television station in the Tampa/St. Petersburg television market. History Early history Th ...
- ABC/Ind. - St. Petersburg (5/31/1953-2/23/1970)


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stations


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See also

* Florida media **
List of newspapers in Florida This is a list of newspapers in Florida. Daily and weekly newspapers (currently published) Student newspapers * ''The Avion Newspaper'' (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) * '' The Beacon'' (Florida International University) * ''Central Flor ...
**
List of radio stations in Florida The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of Florida, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats. List of radio stations Defunct * WAGE * WAXA ...
** Media of
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in Florida:
Fort Lauderdale A fortification is a military construction or building designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is also used to establish rule in a region during peacetime. The term is derived from Latin ''fortis'' ("strong") and ''facere'' ...
, Gainesville,
Jacksonville Jacksonville is a city located on the Atlantic coast of northeast Florida, the most populous city proper in the state and is the List of United States cities by area, largest city by area in the contiguous United States as of 2020. It is the co ...
, Key West, Lakeland,
Miami Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a coastal metropolis and the county seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida, United States. With a population of 442,241 at ...
,
Orlando Orlando () is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and is the county seat of Orange County. In Central Florida, it is the center of the Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2,509,831, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures re ...
,
St. Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
,
Tallahassee Tallahassee ( ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Leon County. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida, then the Florida Territory, in 1824. In 2020, the population ...
, Tampa *
List of Spanish-language television networks in the United States The following is a list of Spanish-language television networks in the United States. As of 2016 the largest Hispanic/Latino television audiences An audience is a group of people who participate in a show or encounter a work of art, literat ...


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External links

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Florida Association of Broadcasters
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