WPLG
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| Miami / Fort Lauderdale, Florida | |
| Branding | Local10 |
| Channels | 10 (VHF) analog, 9 (VHF) digital |
| Translators | 47 W47AC Big Pine Key |
| Affiliations | ABC |
| Owner | Post-Newsweek Stations |
| Founded | 1957 |
| Call letters meaning | W Phillip L. Graham (In memory of the late Washington Post president) |
| Former callsigns | WPST-TV (1957-1964) WLBW-TV (1964-1970) |
| Former affiliations | None |
| Transmitter Power | 316 kW Analog 15.8 kW Digital 30 kW Digital CP |
| Website | www.local10.com/ |
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, near the Miami Design District and Miami Beach. WPLG also operates a translator, W47AC at Big Pine Key.
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[edit] History
The station began broadcasting on August 2, 1957 as WPST-TV, as the second ABC affiliate in the Miami market under the ownership of National Airlines. Prior to this time ABC had been carried by WITV, channel 17. When the more powerful channel 10 came on the air, however, channel 17 quickly went out of business. In the early 60's the ownership of WPST got in trouble with the FCC and lost its license. L.B. Wilson won the right to start a new station on channel 10 which signed on November 20, 1961, just a week after WPST was forced to sign off. This new ABC station had the call letters WLBW-TV for the initials of its owner, as well as branding itself as "Colorvision 10", indicating that it was broadcsting in color. 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 renamed WPLG, named for Katharine Graham's late husband Philip 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 1995. She worked part-time at the station until she succumed to colon cancer in 1997. 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.
WPLG offers the ABC Weather Channel on DT2.
WPLG recently announced plans to relocate its studio facilities from 3900 Biscayne Boulevard to a location in southern Broward County. The station has been at its current location since the 1960s. Construction on the new facility is expected to be finished in 2009.
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TV Guide ad from 1967.
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