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WPLG is an ABC network affiliate serving the entire Miami-Fort Lauderdale area. WPLG is owned and operated by Post-Newsweek Stations, a subsidiary of the Washington Post Company. Its transmitter is located in Miami. WPLG also operates a translator, W47AC at Big Pine Key.

History

The station began broadcasting on August 2, 1957 as WPST-TV, a sole ABC affiliate (which it still is presently) under the ownership of National Airlines. This ABC station later assumed the call letters WLBW-TV for its owner L.B. Wilson and Co. In 1967, WLBW moved to its present studio facility location on Biscayne Boulevard. In 1969, WLBW was purchased by Katharine Graham. On March 16, 1970, WLBW was recalled WPLG, named for Katharine Graham's late husband Phillip L. Graham.

The station became well-known in the 1970s for its popular anchor team. From 1976 to 1982 Glenn Rinker, Ann Bishop, Chuck Dowdle and Walter Cronise anchored "Newswatch 10". In 1982, Rinker left for another position in Orlando and was replaced by Mike Schneider. Schneider and Bishop anchored until 1986, when Dwight Lauderdale joined the anchor desk with Bishop on "Channel 10 Eyewitness News," becoming South Florida's first African-American nightly news anchor. By 1985, WPLG had surpassed rival WTVJ in the ratings and would dominate the ratings for over ten years. Ann Bishop would continue to anchor the news until 1997, when she succumed to cancer. Don Noe joined WPLG in 1979 and is one of Miami's most popular chief meteorologists.

WPLG deployed "Sky 10", Miami's first news helicopter in 1982.

WPLG is branded "Local10" under the station standardization adopted by Post-Newsweek, which means that all stations use the "Local Mandate."

When WTVJ, WCIX (now WFOR), and WSVN all swapped affiliations on New Years Day 1989, WPLG had remained an ABC affiliate. And, when WTVJ and WFOR swapped channel numbers, WPLG remained on Channel 10, and remained an ABC affiliate.

Newscasts

Weekdays

• Local10 Morning News - 5AM-7AM
• Local10 News at Noon - NOON-1PM
• Local10 News at Five - 5PM-5:30PM
• Local10 News at 5:30 - 5:30PM-6PM
• Local10 News at Six - 6PM-6:30PM
• Local10 News at Eleven - 11PM-11:35PM

Weekends

• Local10 News Saturday/Sunday - 6AM-8AM, 9AM-10AM
• Local10 News Weekend - 6:30PM-7PM
• Local10 News at Eleven - 11PM-11:30PM
• Sports Jam Sunday - 11:30PM-12 Midnight Sundays only

Trivia

• Glenn Rinker was seen anchoring a "Newswatch 10" broadcast in Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film The Shining (based on Stephen King's novel of the same name).
• WPLG is the only major TV Station in Miami that has been affiliated with the same network (ABC) since it signed on. Because of this, WPLG is consistently ranked as one of ABC's highest-rated affiliates annually.

External links

• [WPLG website]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for WPLG]
• [Query the FCC's TV station database for W47AC]

Broadcast television in the South Florida (Miami / Fort Lauderdale) market  [(Nielsen DMA #17)]'''
WPBT 2 (PBS) - WFOR 4 (CBS) - WTVJ 6 (NBC) - WSVN 7 (Fox) - WGEN 8 / WSBS 22 (Ind) - WPLG 10 (ABC) - WLMF-LP 13 (Ind/Edu.) - WLRN 17 (PBS) - WLTV 23 (UNI) - WIMP-CA 25 (HSN) - WBFS 33 (UPN/MNTV) - WPXM 35 (i) - WPMF-LP 38 (Ind) - WBZL 39 (The WB/The CW) - WJAN-CA 41 (Ind) - WHFT 45 (TBN) - WFUN-LP 48 (HSN) - WSCV 51 (TEL) - WEYS-LP 56 (ALMA) - WPPB 63 (EDU) - WAMI 69 (TFU)
Local digital television channels
WHDT-LP 44 (Ind)

 

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