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WPTV
WPTV-TV (channel 5) is a television station in West Palm Beach, Florida, United States, affiliated with NBC. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company alongside Stuart-licensed news-formatted independent station WHDT (channel 9); Scripps also provides certain services to Fox affiliate WFLX (channel 29) under a shared services agreement (SSA) with Gray Media. The stations share studios on South Australian Avenue in downtown West Palm Beach ( mailing address says Banyan Boulevard, also known as 1st Street); WPTV-TV's transmitter is located in Lake Worth along US 441/ SR 7. History The station began broadcasting on August 22, 1954, as the primary NBC affiliate for all of South Florida with the call letters WJNO-TV. At sign-on, the first words heard on-air were from Control Room Director Vern Crawford: "The power has just been turned on for WJNO-TV channel 5 by Frank M. Folsom, President of the Radio Corporation of America." Crawford later became a fishing reporter for the stati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFLX
WFLX (channel 29), branded Fox 29, is a television station in West Palm Beach, Florida, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Gray Media, which maintains a shared services agreement (SSA) with the E. W. Scripps Company, owner of NBC affiliate WPTV-TV (channel 5) and Stuart-licensed news-formatted independent station WHDT (channel 9), for the provision of certain services. The stations share studios on South Australian Avenue in downtown West Palm Beach ( mailing address says Banyan Boulevard, also known as 1st Street); WFLX's transmitter is located near Wellington west of US 441/ SR 7. History WFLX was to begin operations in August 1982 but delays pushed the sign-on date back to October 1, 1982, as an independent station, the market's first. Originally owned by Malrite Communications, it ran a programming lineup typical of independent stations at the time—early-morning cartoons, older sitcoms later in mornings, movies in early afternoons/prime time ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WHDT
WHDT (channel 9) is an independent television station licensed to Stuart, Florida, United States, serving the West Palm Beach area. It is owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, E.W. Scripps Company alongside NBC affiliate WPTV-TV (channel 5); Scripps also provides certain services to Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox affiliate WFLX (channel 29) under a shared services agreement (SSA) with Gray Media. The stations share studios on South Australian Avenue in downtown West Palm Beach (United States Postal Service, mailing address says Banyan Boulevard, also known as 1st Street); WHDT's transmitter is located near Wellington, Florida, Wellington west of U.S. Highway 441 in Florida, US 441/Florida State Road 7, SR 7. While the present facility dates to 2002, WHDT dates to 1997, originally as a low-power broadcasting#Television, low-power station. It was founded by Günter Marksteiner and was early to convert to high-definition program origination and broadcasting, including being the first d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 South Florida Television Affiliation Switch
On January 1, 1989, six television stations in the Miami–Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach, Florida, Media market#Television, markets, exchanged network affiliate, network affiliations. The event, referred to in contemporary media coverage as "The Big Switch", was described as "Miami's own soap opera" and at times compared to ''Dallas (TV series), Dallas'' and ''Dynasty (1981 TV series), Dynasty'' because of the lengthy public disputes between multiple parties that preceded it. Approximately three million television viewers in both markets were affected. The changes were initiated after NBC's January 1987 purchase of WTVJ, WTVJ (channel 4), the market's CBS affiliate. This was the first time that a television network in the United States had purchased an affiliate of one of its competitors; due to existing contractual obligations, WTVJ was taken over by NBC in September 1987 but operated as a CBS affiliate for nearly 16 months. Miami's existing NBC affiliate, WSVN (channel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Worth, Florida
Lake Worth Beach, previously named Lake Worth, is a city in east-central Palm Beach County, Florida, United States, located about north of Miami. The city's name is derived from the body of water along its eastern border known as the Lake Worth Lagoon, which was named for General William J. Worth, who led United States Army forces during the last part of the Second Seminole War. Lake Worth Beach is situated south of West Palm Beach, Florida, West Palm Beach, southeast of Lake Clarke Shores, Florida, Lake Clarke Shores, east of Palm Springs, Florida, Palm Springs, and north of Lantana, Florida, Lantana, while a small section of the city also partitions the town of Palm Beach, Florida, Palm Beach. The 2010 United States census, 2010 census recorded a population of 34,910, which increased to 42,219 in the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Lake Worth Beach is within the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,138,333 people in 2020. While archaeolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Palm Beach
West Palm Beach is a city in and the county seat of Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It is located immediately to the west of the adjacent Palm Beach, Florida, Palm Beach, which is situated on a barrier island across the Lake Worth Lagoon. It is the largest city in Palm Beach County, and at the time of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 117,415. West Palm Beach is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to 6.14 million people in 2020. It is the oldest incorporated municipality in the South Florida area, incorporated as a city two years before Miami in November 1894. West Palm Beach is located approximately north of Greater Downtown Miami, Downtown Miami. History The beginning of the historic period in south Florida is marked by Juan Ponce de León's first contact with native people in 1513. Europeans found a thriving native population, which they categorized into separate tribes: the Mayaimi in the Lake Okee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994–1996 United States Broadcast Television Realignment
Between 1994 and 1996, a wide-ranging realignment of television Network affiliate, network affiliations took place in the United States as the result of a multimillion-dollar deal between the Fox Broadcasting Company and New World Communications, announced on May 23, 1994. Unprecedented in the broadcast industry, the deal resulted in twelve stations owned by, or in the process of being purchased by New World, switching network affiliations to Fox over the course of a two-year period when existing contracts expired. These stations were long-standing affiliates of the traditional "Big Three (American television), Big Three" television networks, CBS, NBC, and American Broadcasting Company, ABC, in some of the country's largest Media market, markets, with the majority having been aligned with CBS individually for over 40 years. The major impetus for the changes was to allow Fox to improve its local affiliate coverage after having successfully outbid CBS for broadcast rights to the Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WEWS-TV
WEWS-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, affiliated with ABC. It has been owned by the E. W. Scripps Company since its inception in 1946, making it one of three stations that have been built and signed on by Scripps (alongside company flagship WCPO-TV in Cincinnati and WMC-TV in Memphis, the latter of which was sold in 1993). WEWS-TV's studios are located on Euclid Avenue (near I-90) in Downtown Cleveland, and its transmitter is located in suburban Parma. History The station first signed on the air on December 17, 1947, as the first television station in Ohio, and the 16th overall in the United States. The call letters denote the initials of the parent company's founder, Edward Willis Scripps. The station is the oldest in Cleveland to maintain the same channel position (as an analog broadcaster), ownership and call letters since its sign-on. A few weeks before WEWS-TV's sign-on, Scripps launched WEWS-FM 102.1 (later occupied by WDOK) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WJNO
WJNO (1290 kHz) is a commercial news/talk radio station licensed to serve West Palm Beach, Florida, covering Palm Beach County and portions of the Miami metropolitan area. Owned by iHeartMedia, WJNO serves as the local affiliate for: Fox News Radio; ''The Glenn Beck Program'', '' The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show'', ''The Sean Hannity Show'', ''The Mark Levin Show'', ''The Dave Ramsey Show'' and ''Coast to Coast AM''; and syndicated personalities Kim Komando, Ric Edelman and Bill Handel. The WJNO studios are located in West Palm Beach, while the station transmitter resides in nearby Loxahatchee. In addition to a standard analog transmission, WJNO streams online via iHeartRadio. This station is the second station in the West Palm Beach area—and the third AM station overall—to use the WJNO call sign, which originated on the former WJNO (1230 AM) in 1936; that station is now known as WBZT. WJNO is also notable as being the first station in the market to use the WIRK call ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 VHF stations, which took away its network affiliations, and ceased telecasting February 29, 1956. Foundation and construction The owners of WIRK radio (1290 AM), organized as WIRK-TV, Inc., filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to build a new television station in West Palm Beach—on channel 12—on May 21, 1952. However, as two other applicants also pursued the channel, WIRK-TV opted to amend its application in November to specify UHF channel 21, also allocated to West Palm Beach, instead, and thus get a head start on the VHF stations whose fates would be determined by lengthy comparative hearings. The change allowed WIRK-TV to get its construction permit on December 18, 1952—the first such permit in West Palm Beac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale ( ) is a coastal city located in the U.S. state of Florida, north of Miami along the Atlantic Ocean. It is the county seat of and most populous city in Broward County with a population of 182,760 at the 2020 census, making it the tenth-most populous city in Florida. After Miami and Hialeah, Fort Lauderdale is the third-most populous city in the Miami Metro Area, which had a population of 6,166,488 in 2019. Built in 1838 and first incorporated in 1911, Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. Development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed including the first at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the present-d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gray Media
Gray Media, Inc., doing business as Gray Television, is an American publicly traded television broadcasting company based in Atlanta. Founded in 1946 by James Harrison Gray as Gray Communications Systems, the company owns or operates 180 stations across the United States in 113 markets. Its station base consists of media markets ranging from as large as Atlanta to one of the smallest markets, North Platte, Nebraska. History James H. Gray started his communication business in Albany, Georgia with the purchase of The Herald Publishing Company (a company founded in 1897 to promote ''The Albany Herald'', a newspaper that started publication in 1891), in 1946 after he returned from World War II. The purchase included WALB radio. Gray launched WALB-TV in 1954. In 1960, Gray purchased WJHG-TV in Panama City, Florida, and followed it later in the decade with KTVE serving Monroe, Louisiana and southern Arkansas. In 1986 Gray died, leaving his 50.5% share of the stock in a trust fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
