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WPLG

December 31, 2022

WPLG (channel 10) is a television station in Miami, Florida, United States, affiliated with ABC. The station is owned by Berkshire Hathaway as its sole broadcast property. WPLG's studios are located on West Hallandale Beach Boulevard in Pembroke Park, and its transmitter is located in Miami Gardens, Florida.

WPLG
CityMiami, Florida
Channels
BrandingLocal 10
Programming
Affiliations
Ownership
Owner
History
First air date
November 20, 1961
(61 years ago) (1961-11-20)[a]
Former call signs
WLBW-TV (1961–1970)
Former channel number(s)
  • Analog:
  • 10 (VHF, 1961–2009)
  • Digital:
  • 9 (VHF, 1999–2009)
Call sign meaning
in memory of former Washington Post publisher Phillip Leslie Graham
Technical information
Licensing authority
FCC
Facility ID53113
ERP156 kW
HAAT309 m (1,014 ft)
Transmitter coordinates25°58′1″N 80°12′42″W / 25.96694°N 80.21167°W / 25.96694; -80.21167
Links
Public license information
  • Public file
  • LMS
Websitewww.local10.com

WPLG signed on the air as WLBW-TV on November 20, 1961, as the replacement for WPST-TV, which was forced off the air by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) following the revelation of bribery undertaken with one of the commissioners to secure that station's license. L. B. Wilson, Inc., was found to be the only bidder for the original channel 10 license not to have engaged in coercive action, and was thus awarded a temporary permit to begin telecasting. While WPST-TV's license was revoked in July 1960, WLBW-TV had to wait for nearly a year to finally sign on using entirely different facilities, but hired multiple former WPST-TV staffers and picked up the ABC affiliation WPST-TV held. Sold to Post-Newsweek Stations in 1969, WLBW-TV was renamed WPLG the following year in honor of Philip Leslie Graham. Led by on-air talent including Ann Bishop, Dwight Lauderdale, Bryan Norcross, Michael Putney and Calvin Hughes, WPLG's news department emerged in the 1970s as a leader in local television ratings and has maintained that position ever since. WPLG has been owned by Berkshire Hathaway since 2014, when Post-Newsweek (renamed Graham Media Group) divested it, but continues to maintain infrastructure and logistical ties to its previous ownership.

Prior history of channel 10

Further information: WPST-TV
 
L. B. Wilson
 
Charles H. Topmiller

The first station to broadcast on channel 10 in the Miami market was WPST-TV, owned by Public Service Television, the broadcasting subsidiary of National Airlines (NAL). WPST-TV was the second ABC affiliate in the Miami market, having assumed it from UHF station WITV.[2] WPST-TV first signed on the air on August 2, 1957,[3] from a transmitter tower and facilities purchased from Storer Broadcasting when their UHF outlet, WGBS-TV, was taken dark. A gala grand opening celebration for a purpose-built studio facility on Biscayne Boulevard took place on January 17, 1958.[4][5] The same day, Drew Pearson's syndicated newspaper column alleged unethical behavior among FCC commissioner Richard A. Mack and Miami attorney Thurman A. Whiteside, working on behalf of National Airlines, who bribed the commissioner to help obtain the broadcast license.[6]

Investigations by the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight and an rehearing on the WPST-TV license award by retired judge Horace Stern revealed a pattern of influencing behavior among three of the four bidders for the license, as well as lobbyists and legislators aligned with the bidders after learning of Mack's vote. Mack resigned his position[7] and was later arrested with Whiteside on three counts of influence peddling, fraud and conspiracy.[8] Stern, who was acting as an independent examiner on the FCC's behalf, recommended on December 1, 1958, that WPST-TV's license be revoked.[9][10] The FCC agreed on July 14, 1960, revoking the license and awarding a temporary four-month operating permit to Cincinnati-area broadcaster L. B. Wilson, Inc., the only bidder for the license not to be implicated in the scandal, effective immediately on WPST-TV's closure.[11][12]

L. B. Wilson, Inc. had been one of the four applicants for the channel in 1953.[13] Owner of radio station WCKY in Cincinnati, its namesake was L. B. Wilson of that city, who wintered in Miami Beach. He died of a heart attack on October 28, 1954, in a Cincinnati hotel suite;[14][15] this was credited with weakening the credibility of his business's application.[16] Wilson's will split his stake in the business. One half went to his widow, Constance, and was voted on by three executives: Charles H. Topmiller, who had worked for Wilson for 24 years; Jeannette Heinze, Wilson's secretary of 23 years; and Thomas A. Welstead, manager of WCKY's office in New York City. The other went to Wilson's brother, Hansford; the three executives and another employee; and three friends, one of whom was Sol Taishoff, the publisher of Broadcasting magazine.[17]

History

A new channel 10

 
This "statement of policy" ad was published in newspapers on WLBW-TV's first day of operations.[18]

As the temporary license granted to L. B. Wilson, Inc. was basically a "license by default",[12] replacement station WLBW-TV was quickly assembled by company president Charles Topmiller, who took over for the company's namesake upon his 1954 death (and which the call sign was selected in tribute).[19] Separate studio facilities and transmitter towers needed to be secured due to NAL founder/CEO George T. Baker refusing to sell any of WPST-TV's assets,[20] valuing the studio building at more than five times the market value.[21] WPST-TV was originally given a date of September 15, 1960, to vacate the airwaves[11] and allow for WLBW-TV to take to the air, but a series of appeals filed by Baker delayed the process substantially, with the FCC temporarily suspending the order.[22] WLBW-TV was given authority to transmit a test pattern during the overnight hours, doing so starting in November 1960,[23] operating on a standby basis employing a minimum of staffers.[24]

After Baker exhausted his appeals with the U.S. Supreme Court denying a writ of certiorari to Judge E. Barrett Prettyman's ruling affirming the FCC's revoking order on October 9, 1961,[25][26] the commission imposed a new deadline of 3:00 a.m. on November 20, 1961.[27] WPST-TV's last day of operations on November 19 featured an on-air editorial delivered by Baker[28] decrying the FCC's verdict and rejected the allegations levied against the station.[29] Baker's editorial was reprinted in newspapers the very next day[30] alongside a "statement of policy" advertisement taken out by WLBW-TV.[18] The marquee outside the former WPST-TV studios continued to be turned on every night for nearly 18 months after closure as a sign of defiance by Baker,[31] only turning it off after agreeing to sell the building.[32] The former WPST-TV transmitter site was repurchased by Storer[33] and later reused for WAJA-TV.[34] Despite this severe license discontinuity and little connection between the two other than the ABC affiliation, what is now WPLG claims the National Airlines station's history as its own.[1]

 
WLBW-TV For Women Today hosts Molly Turner and Gerry Burke with Luciana Pignatelli.

The first program to be seen on the new WLBW-TV was a short dedication led by Topmiller and short talks by a priest, a rabbi, and a minister.[35] The studio facilities proved cramped from the start: in reviewing the first day of activities, which included a debate among Miami mayoral candidates, news and kids' shows, The Miami News television critic Kristine Dunn noted that WLBW-TV already needed "more studio space, more storage space and more office space".[36] Some of the faces seen on WPST-TV moved to the new station, including Bill Bayer (whose public affairs program Important became Miami Press Conference after the change).[37] Molly Turner, who had previously hosted a mid-morning interview show on WPST-TV,[38] was hired by WLBW-TV to host a daily variety show modeled after The 50/50 Club with Ruth Lyons, a popular program in Cincinnati.[39] It was also the first station in Miami to feature a weather girl, Virginia Booker.

However, with an initial operating authority to run for four months, L. B. Wilson, Inc., had to fend off competitors nearly immediately. In February 1962, the FCC opened the door to competing applications against Wilson's bid for a full-term license for WLBW-TV.[40] In addition to Wilson, former WPST-TV owner Public Service Television applied (only to have its bid deemed unacceptable for filing), as did a group of former WPST-TV employees organized as the South Florida Television Corporation;[41] Civic Television, headed by Charles Crandon; and the Miami Television Company, whose stakeholders included a string of local civic leaders.[42] FCC hearing examiner H. Gifford Irion gave the nod to South Florida Television in his initial decision, issued at the end of 1963, because of its experience and civic participation;[43] but in July 1964, the full FCC opted to set aside the examiner's choice and awarded a full-term license to Wilson on a 4–1 vote.[44]

With its long-term prospects more secure, WLBW-TV began to plan for the future. In 1964, it began airing local color programming from film and tape. In 1965, the station acquired a parcel of land at Biscayne Boulevard and NE 39th Street to construct a purpose-built, color-equipped facility with two studios.[45] Construction began that fall,[46] and the studio formally opened in March 1967,[47] allowing the station to broadcast local programs, including the dance show Saturday Hop, in color. The station became known as "Colorvision 10".

Post-Newsweek ownership

In March 1969, L. B. Wilson, Inc., announced the $20 million sale of WLBW-TV and WCKY radio—which it had owned for 40 years—by the Washington Post Company for $20 million.[48] It was the first broadcasting purchase for the Post since acquiring WJXT in Jacksonville in 1953.[49][50] The FCC approved in September 1969,[51] and one of the Wilson ownership's last acts was to deliver $250,000 in bonus checks to WLBW and WCKY employees with a year or more of tenure.[52] News of Post-Newsweek's first changes came at the very end of the year.[53][54] On March 16, 1970,[51] the station's call letters were changed to the current WPLG—the calls were chosen in honor of Philip L. Graham, husband of Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, who committed suicide in 1963.[53] Similarly to L. B. Wilson, Graham also had local ties to the area: the oldest son of Ernest R. Graham, he had been a longtime resident of Miami and was the brother to eventual Florida senator Bob Graham.[55]

WPLG adopted its current "10" logo, which features four stripes of differing colors within the "0" that represent a sunset, in 1982.

 
WPLG logo, used from 1999 to 2004.

On January 1, 1989, the Miami–Fort Lauderdale market underwent a three-way network affiliation swap that saw longtime CBS affiliate WTVJ (channel 4) becoming an NBC owned-and-operated station; longtime independent station and charter Fox affiliate, WCIX (channel 6) becoming a CBS owned-and-operated station; and longtime NBC affiliate WSVN (channel 7) taking the Fox affiliation from WCIX. WTVJ and WCIX later swapped channel positions on September 10, 1995, as compensation for an affiliation deal involving Group W, with WCIX moving to channel 4 as WFOR-TV and WTVJ moving to channel 6. Neither transaction affected WPLG, which retained its ABC affiliation as well as its channel 10 allocation. As a result, it is the only television station in the Miami–Fort Lauderdale market that has retained the same network affiliation throughout its history. Possibly because of this consistency, WPLG remains one of the highest-rated stations in South Florida. In 2004, WPLG began branding itself as "Local 10" under the branding standardization adopted by Post-Newsweek for its stations.

From April 2007 to May 2009, WPLG was South Florida's most-watched English-language television station according to Nielsen; this can partially be attributed to its availability on Comcast's West Palm Beach system, which in turn had a potentially negative effect on the ratings for that market's ABC affiliate, WPBF. However, Comcast dropped WPLG from its West Palm Beach area systems on April 13, 2011. After the May 2009 ratings period, the station switched to a single anchor format for its evening newscasts; WPLG's total-day viewership fell behind CBS-owned WFOR, which took the #1 position among the market's English-language stations. However, WPLG remains tied with WSVN for second/third.

On July 18, 2008, Post-Newsweek Stations announced that it would purchase WTVJ for $205 million. The purchase would have created a duopoly between WTVJ and WPLG—duopolies involving two "Big Three" stations ordinarily would be prohibited under the FCC's media ownership rules, which do not allow duopolies involving two of a market's four highest-rated stations in terms of audience share; however during the May 2008 Nielsen ratings period, WPLG ranked in first place and WTVJ ranked sixth in total-day viewership, allowing the possibility of a purchase. Under the proposal, WTVJ would have merged its operations with WPLG at the studio facility (which was under construction at the time) on Hallandale Beach Boulevard in Pembroke Park.[56] However, the sale was cancelled on December 23, 2008, with NBCUniversal and The Washington Post Company citing poor economic conditions and the lack of approval by the FCC.[57]

On March 28, 2009, WPLG relocated its studio facilities from 3900 Biscayne Boulevard to the new Pembroke Park facility. As a result of this relocation, all of the South Florida market's "Big Three" network stations are based outside of the Miami city limits.[58][59]

Sale to Berkshire Hathaway

In 2013, the Washington Post Company sold the Washington Post to Amazon founder and chairman Jeff Bezos; the company retained most of the other non-newspaper assets, including the Post-Newsweek broadcast outlets, and renamed itself Graham Holdings.

On March 12, 2014, Graham Holdings announced that it would sell WPLG to the BH Media subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway in a cash and stock deal. Berkshire Hathaway and its chairman, Warren Buffett, had been longtime stockholders in Graham Holdings; the sale of WPLG included a large majority of Berkshire Hathaway's shares in Graham Holdings.[60] To maintain continuity following the consummation of the purchase, BH Media entered into agreements with Post-Newsweek Stations (renamed Graham Media Group in July 2014) to continue providing the station with access to its centralized digital media, design, and traffic services after the sale's completion.[61] The sale was finalized on June 30.[62][63]

Programming

Syndicated programming

Syndicated programming seen on WPLG as of September 2022 includes Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, and Live with Kelly and Ryan.

Tape-delayed programming

WPLG carries the entire ABC programming schedule, including the ABC station-exclusive Saturday morning syndicated block Weekend Adventure. However, until the network dropped the program on August 28, 2010 (following Saban Entertainment's repurchase of the franchise from ABC's corporate parent The Walt Disney Company), the station ran the ABC Kids airings of Power Rangers on a week-delayed basis, airing it on Saturdays from 5:00 to 6:00 a.m. due to the station's three-hour weekend morning newscast (which at the time had aired from 7:00 to 10:00 a.m.). Around the same time, it also aired the 9:00–10:00 a.m. hour of the ABC Kids block from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. (then ABC's recommended timeslot to air Power Rangers). The latter scheduling continues in use even after the network replaced ABC Kids with Weekend Adventure in September 3, 2011.

Dr. Phil on WPLG

In 2004, WPLG announced it had won a bidding war to air Dr. Phil and Judge Judy starting in 2006.[64] However, the station had a contractual stipulation not to air Dr. Phil in direct competition with The Oprah Winfrey Show, also produced by Harpo Productions. WPLG's only option was to cancel its 5 p.m. newscast, forgoing its time slot to Dr. Phil, preceded by Judge Judy at 4 p.m. This became the station's final decision.

Initially slow out of the gate, the change ended up being successful as WPLG ranked No. 1 in the 5 p.m. time slot, beating out its competitors' 5 p.m. newscasts, and was able to lure viewers into its 6 p.m. newscast.[65] This change was so successful that other local stations in the Miami and West Palm Beach markets started airing syndicated programming in place of local newscasts, such as WPTV, WTVJ, and WPBF. But by 2011, Dr. Phil's ratings had slipped and WPLG announced that the show would move back to WFOR, replacing Oprah which had just ended its 25-year run.[66]

Sports programming

WPLG airs contests involving the NBA's Miami Heat via the network's contract with the league. The station has aired the Heat's 2006, 2011–14, and 2020 NBA Finals appearances, including the team's 2006, 2012 and 2013 championship victories.

The station also airs select Miami Hurricanes football games as part of ABC's rights to college football telecasts. This included the team's national championship in 2001 by winning the 2002 Rose Bowl.

WPLG also broadcasts select Florida Panthers contests beginning in 2021 through ABC's contract with the NHL. Since 2022, the station has also aired the Miami Grand Prix using a simulcast of Sky Sports F1.

News operation

 
Chuck Dowdle

WPLG presently broadcasts 54½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 8½ hours each weekday and six hours each on Saturdays and Sundays) – the highest of any ABC affiliate in the nation – and produces an additional 16 hours of local newscasts for Scripps-owned CW affiliate WSFL-TV each week (with three hours each weekday and 30 minutes each on Saturdays and Sundays). In regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming, as of June 2021, it is the highest local newscast output of any station in the Miami market (with a combined 70½ hours each week) after surpassing Fox affiliate WSVN (which runs 63½ hours of newscasts each week). In addition, the station produces the hour-long political discussion program This Week in South Florida, which debuted in 1990 and airs Sunday mornings at 11:30 a.m.. From the show's inception until his retirement on December 18, 2022, the program was hosted by senior political reporter Michael Putney. Glenna Milberg, who has co-moderated the show since 2014, became the sole leader of the program upon Putney's retirement.[67]

In 1979, WPLG deployed the first helicopter in the Miami market used for newsgathering, known as "Sky 10". The station became well known from 1976 to 1982 for its popular anchor team of Glenn Rinker, Ann Bishop, sports anchor Chuck Dowdle and meteorologist Walter Cronise. In 1982, the station adopted the Eyewitness News format for its newscasts, which was used until its news branding was changed to the generic Channel 10 News in 2001; that year, Rinker left for another position in Orlando and was replaced as evening co-anchor by Mike Schneider. Schneider and Bishop remained paired as the station's lead anchor team until 1986, when Schneider left to become the 5:30 and 11:00 p.m. co-anchor at CBS flagship station WCBS-TV in New York City and was replaced by general assignment reporter Dwight Lauderdale (who had been working at WPLG since 1976); Lauderdale's appointment as anchor made him the first African-American to anchor a nightly newscast in the South Florida market, and he remained the station's primary evening co-anchor until his retirement in 2008.

By 1985, WPLG had surpassed rival WTVJ (channel 4, now on channel 6) in the ratings and would dominate the ratings for over ten years. Ann Bishop would continue to serve as co-anchor for the station's evening newscasts until 1995, when she moved to a part-time position at the station until she died from colon cancer in 1997. Don Noe joined WPLG in 1979 and was one of Miami's most popular chief meteorologists (Walter Cronise having moved to the morning newscasts) up until his retirement in 2007; Chuck Dowdle, meanwhile, had left by 1986 for fellow ABC station WSB-TV in Atlanta; his slot was filled by Khambrel Marshall, who later moved to WFOR and then to WPLG's former sister station in Houston, KPRC. Since 1993, WPLG has used several versions of Gari Media Group's "The One and Only" news music package, which took its name from a longtime slogan originally used by the station from 1979 to 1999 and was revived in 2014.

On March 28, 2009, in conjunction with the station's relocation to its Pembroke Park studios, WPLG became the third Miami station to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition. On August 22, 2011, WPLG debuted an hour-long newscast at 5:00 p.m., which replaced Dr. Phil after it moved back to WFOR-TV; the station had produced an early evening newscast in that timeslot previously until it was replaced by Dr. Phil in 2004.[68][65] On January 13, 2014, WPLG added an hour-long newscast at 4:00 p.m. weekdays, which competes against an existing hour-long newscast in that slot on WSVN.[69] On April 27, 2014, WPLG expanded This Week in South Florida to one hour, retaining its 11:30 a.m. timeslot on Sundays.[70] On August 13, 2018, WPLG added a half-hour 3 p.m. weekday newscast and later in fall, it expands to full hour.

On March 10, 2021, it was announced that WPLG will start producing newscasts for WSFL-TV, allowing the latter to restore news content in some form to the station after cancelling in-house newscasts in September 2018. Began on June 1, 2021, under the Local 10 branding, WPLG airs a 2-hour extension of their weekday newscast from 7 to 9 a.m, and a nightly 10 p.m. newscast on WSFL.[71]

Notable current on-air staff

Notable former on-air staff

Technical information

Subchannels

The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Subchannels of WPLG[77]
Channel Video Aspect Short name Programming
10.1 720p 16:9 WPLG Main WPLG programming / ABC
10.2 480i ME TV MeTV
10.3 H & I Heroes & Icons

WPLG previously carried LATV on its second digital subchannel; the Spanish language network was replaced by MeTV on April 24, 2012.[78] On January 24, 2013, Post-Newsweek Stations entered into an affiliation agreement to carry the Live Well Network on digital subchannels of WPLG and its then-Orlando sister station WKMG-TV; both stations added the network in April 2013.[79]

Analog-to-digital conversion

WPLG ended programming on its analog signal, on VHF channel 10, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition VHF channel 9 to channel 10 for post-transition operations.[80][81] Three other local stations (WSVN, WPXM-TV and WLTV-DT) also moved their digital signals to their former analog channel allocation, requiring viewers to rescan their digital tuners. WPLG and WSVN are the only Miami stations that continue to broadcast on the VHF band.

Out of market coverage

WPLG is one of four Miami-based TV stations that are viewed via cable in The Bahamas.[82]

Notes

  1. ^ Several station histories trace its establishment to August 2, 1957, when predecessor WPST-TV began broadcasting.[1] However, WPST-TV had no continuity of ownership or facilities with WLBW-TV.

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wplg, channel, television, station, miami, florida, united, states, affiliated, with, station, owned, berkshire, hathaway, sole, broadcast, property, studios, located, west, hallandale, beach, boulevard, pembroke, park, transmitter, located, miami, gardens, fl. WPLG channel 10 is a television station in Miami Florida United States affiliated with ABC The station is owned by Berkshire Hathaway as its sole broadcast property WPLG s studios are located on West Hallandale Beach Boulevard in Pembroke Park and its transmitter is located in Miami Gardens Florida WPLGMiami Fort Lauderdale FloridaUnited StatesCityMiami FloridaChannelsDigital 10 VHF Virtual 10BrandingLocal 10ProgrammingAffiliations10 1 ABC10 2 MeTV10 3 Heroes amp IconsOwnershipOwnerBerkshire Hathaway WPLG Inc HistoryFirst air dateNovember 20 1961 61 years ago 1961 11 20 a Former call signsWLBW TV 1961 1970 Former channel number s Analog 10 VHF 1961 2009 Digital 9 VHF 1999 2009 Call sign meaningin memory of former Washington Post publisher Phillip Leslie GrahamTechnical informationLicensing authorityFCCFacility ID53113ERP156 kWHAAT309 m 1 014 ft Transmitter coordinates25 58 1 N 80 12 42 W 25 96694 N 80 21167 W 25 96694 80 21167LinksPublic license informationPublic fileLMSWebsitewww wbr local10 wbr comWPLG signed on the air as WLBW TV on November 20 1961 as the replacement for WPST TV which was forced off the air by the Federal Communications Commission FCC following the revelation of bribery undertaken with one of the commissioners to secure that station s license L B Wilson Inc was found to be the only bidder for the original channel 10 license not to have engaged in coercive action and was thus awarded a temporary permit to begin telecasting While WPST TV s license was revoked in July 1960 WLBW TV had to wait for nearly a year to finally sign on using entirely different facilities but hired multiple former WPST TV staffers and picked up the ABC affiliation WPST TV held Sold to Post Newsweek Stations in 1969 WLBW TV was renamed WPLG the following year in honor of Philip Leslie Graham Led by on air talent including Ann Bishop Dwight Lauderdale Bryan Norcross Michael Putney and Calvin Hughes WPLG s news department emerged in the 1970s as a leader in local television ratings and has maintained that position ever since WPLG has been owned by Berkshire Hathaway since 2014 when Post Newsweek renamed Graham Media Group divested it but continues to maintain infrastructure and logistical ties to its previous ownership Contents 1 Prior history of channel 10 2 History 2 1 A new channel 10 2 2 Post Newsweek ownership 2 3 Sale to Berkshire Hathaway 3 Programming 3 1 Syndicated programming 3 2 Tape delayed programming 3 3 Dr Phil on WPLG 3 4 Sports programming 3 5 News operation 3 5 1 Notable current on air staff 3 5 2 Notable former on air staff 4 Technical information 4 1 Subchannels 4 2 Analog to digital conversion 5 Out of market coverage 6 Notes 7 References 8 External linksPrior history of channel 10 EditFurther information WPST TV L B Wilson Charles H Topmiller The first station to broadcast on channel 10 in the Miami market was WPST TV owned by Public Service Television the broadcasting subsidiary of National Airlines NAL WPST TV was the second ABC affiliate in the Miami market having assumed it from UHF station WITV 2 WPST TV first signed on the air on August 2 1957 3 from a transmitter tower and facilities purchased from Storer Broadcasting when their UHF outlet WGBS TV was taken dark A gala grand opening celebration for a purpose built studio facility on Biscayne Boulevard took place on January 17 1958 4 5 The same day Drew Pearson s syndicated newspaper column alleged unethical behavior among FCC commissioner Richard A Mack and Miami attorney Thurman A Whiteside working on behalf of National Airlines who bribed the commissioner to help obtain the broadcast license 6 Investigations by the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight and an rehearing on the WPST TV license award by retired judge Horace Stern revealed a pattern of influencing behavior among three of the four bidders for the license as well as lobbyists and legislators aligned with the bidders after learning of Mack s vote Mack resigned his position 7 and was later arrested with Whiteside on three counts of influence peddling fraud and conspiracy 8 Stern who was acting as an independent examiner on the FCC s behalf recommended on December 1 1958 that WPST TV s license be revoked 9 10 The FCC agreed on July 14 1960 revoking the license and awarding a temporary four month operating permit to Cincinnati area broadcaster L B Wilson Inc the only bidder for the license not to be implicated in the scandal effective immediately on WPST TV s closure 11 12 L B Wilson Inc had been one of the four applicants for the channel in 1953 13 Owner of radio station WCKY in Cincinnati its namesake was L B Wilson of that city who wintered in Miami Beach He died of a heart attack on October 28 1954 in a Cincinnati hotel suite 14 15 this was credited with weakening the credibility of his business s application 16 Wilson s will split his stake in the business One half went to his widow Constance and was voted on by three executives Charles H Topmiller who had worked for Wilson for 24 years Jeannette Heinze Wilson s secretary of 23 years and Thomas A Welstead manager of WCKY s office in New York City The other went to Wilson s brother Hansford the three executives and another employee and three friends one of whom was Sol Taishoff the publisher of Broadcasting magazine 17 History EditA new channel 10 Edit This statement of policy ad was published in newspapers on WLBW TV s first day of operations 18 As the temporary license granted to L B Wilson Inc was basically a license by default 12 replacement station WLBW TV was quickly assembled by company president Charles Topmiller who took over for the company s namesake upon his 1954 death and which the call sign was selected in tribute 19 Separate studio facilities and transmitter towers needed to be secured due to NAL founder CEO George T Baker refusing to sell any of WPST TV s assets 20 valuing the studio building at more than five times the market value 21 WPST TV was originally given a date of September 15 1960 to vacate the airwaves 11 and allow for WLBW TV to take to the air but a series of appeals filed by Baker delayed the process substantially with the FCC temporarily suspending the order 22 WLBW TV was given authority to transmit a test pattern during the overnight hours doing so starting in November 1960 23 operating on a standby basis employing a minimum of staffers 24 After Baker exhausted his appeals with the U S Supreme Court denying a writ of certiorari to Judge E Barrett Prettyman s ruling affirming the FCC s revoking order on October 9 1961 25 26 the commission imposed a new deadline of 3 00 a m on November 20 1961 27 WPST TV s last day of operations on November 19 featured an on air editorial delivered by Baker 28 decrying the FCC s verdict and rejected the allegations levied against the station 29 Baker s editorial was reprinted in newspapers the very next day 30 alongside a statement of policy advertisement taken out by WLBW TV 18 The marquee outside the former WPST TV studios continued to be turned on every night for nearly 18 months after closure as a sign of defiance by Baker 31 only turning it off after agreeing to sell the building 32 The former WPST TV transmitter site was repurchased by Storer 33 and later reused for WAJA TV 34 Despite this severe license discontinuity and little connection between the two other than the ABC affiliation what is now WPLG claims the National Airlines station s history as its own 1 WLBW TV For Women Today hosts Molly Turner and Gerry Burke with Luciana Pignatelli The first program to be seen on the new WLBW TV was a short dedication led by Topmiller and short talks by a priest a rabbi and a minister 35 The studio facilities proved cramped from the start in reviewing the first day of activities which included a debate among Miami mayoral candidates news and kids shows The Miami News television critic Kristine Dunn noted that WLBW TV already needed more studio space more storage space and more office space 36 Some of the faces seen on WPST TV moved to the new station including Bill Bayer whose public affairs program Important became Miami Press Conference after the change 37 Molly Turner who had previously hosted a mid morning interview show on WPST TV 38 was hired by WLBW TV to host a daily variety show modeled after The 50 50 Club with Ruth Lyons a popular program in Cincinnati 39 It was also the first station in Miami to feature a weather girl Virginia Booker However with an initial operating authority to run for four months L B Wilson Inc had to fend off competitors nearly immediately In February 1962 the FCC opened the door to competing applications against Wilson s bid for a full term license for WLBW TV 40 In addition to Wilson former WPST TV owner Public Service Television applied only to have its bid deemed unacceptable for filing as did a group of former WPST TV employees organized as the South Florida Television Corporation 41 Civic Television headed by Charles Crandon and the Miami Television Company whose stakeholders included a string of local civic leaders 42 FCC hearing examiner H Gifford Irion gave the nod to South Florida Television in his initial decision issued at the end of 1963 because of its experience and civic participation 43 but in July 1964 the full FCC opted to set aside the examiner s choice and awarded a full term license to Wilson on a 4 1 vote 44 With its long term prospects more secure WLBW TV began to plan for the future In 1964 it began airing local color programming from film and tape In 1965 the station acquired a parcel of land at Biscayne Boulevard and NE 39th Street to construct a purpose built color equipped facility with two studios 45 Construction began that fall 46 and the studio formally opened in March 1967 47 allowing the station to broadcast local programs including the dance show Saturday Hop in color The station became known as Colorvision 10 Post Newsweek ownership Edit In March 1969 L B Wilson Inc announced the 20 million sale of WLBW TV and WCKY radio which it had owned for 40 years by the Washington Post Company for 20 million 48 It was the first broadcasting purchase for the Post since acquiring WJXT in Jacksonville in 1953 49 50 The FCC approved in September 1969 51 and one of the Wilson ownership s last acts was to deliver 250 000 in bonus checks to WLBW and WCKY employees with a year or more of tenure 52 News of Post Newsweek s first changes came at the very end of the year 53 54 On March 16 1970 51 the station s call letters were changed to the current WPLG the calls were chosen in honor of Philip L Graham husband of Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham who committed suicide in 1963 53 Similarly to L B Wilson Graham also had local ties to the area the oldest son of Ernest R Graham he had been a longtime resident of Miami and was the brother to eventual Florida senator Bob Graham 55 WPLG adopted its current 10 logo which features four stripes of differing colors within the 0 that represent a sunset in 1982 WPLG logo used from 1999 to 2004 On January 1 1989 the Miami Fort Lauderdale market underwent a three way network affiliation swap that saw longtime CBS affiliate WTVJ channel 4 becoming an NBC owned and operated station longtime independent station and charter Fox affiliate WCIX channel 6 becoming a CBS owned and operated station and longtime NBC affiliate WSVN channel 7 taking the Fox affiliation from WCIX WTVJ and WCIX later swapped channel positions on September 10 1995 as compensation for an affiliation deal involving Group W with WCIX moving to channel 4 as WFOR TV and WTVJ moving to channel 6 Neither transaction affected WPLG which retained its ABC affiliation as well as its channel 10 allocation As a result it is the only television station in the Miami Fort Lauderdale market that has retained the same network affiliation throughout its history Possibly because of this consistency WPLG remains one of the highest rated stations in South Florida In 2004 WPLG began branding itself as Local 10 under the branding standardization adopted by Post Newsweek for its stations From April 2007 to May 2009 WPLG was South Florida s most watched English language television station according to Nielsen this can partially be attributed to its availability on Comcast s West Palm Beach system which in turn had a potentially negative effect on the ratings for that market s ABC affiliate WPBF However Comcast dropped WPLG from its West Palm Beach area systems on April 13 2011 After the May 2009 ratings period the station switched to a single anchor format for its evening newscasts WPLG s total day viewership fell behind CBS owned WFOR which took the 1 position among the market s English language stations However WPLG remains tied with WSVN for second third On July 18 2008 Post Newsweek Stations announced that it would purchase WTVJ for 205 million The purchase would have created a duopoly between WTVJ and WPLG duopolies involving two Big Three stations ordinarily would be prohibited under the FCC s media ownership rules which do not allow duopolies involving two of a market s four highest rated stations in terms of audience share however during the May 2008 Nielsen ratings period WPLG ranked in first place and WTVJ ranked sixth in total day viewership allowing the possibility of a purchase Under the proposal WTVJ would have merged its operations with WPLG at the studio facility which was under construction at the time on Hallandale Beach Boulevard in Pembroke Park 56 However the sale was cancelled on December 23 2008 with NBCUniversal and The Washington Post Company citing poor economic conditions and the lack of approval by the FCC 57 On March 28 2009 WPLG relocated its studio facilities from 3900 Biscayne Boulevard to the new Pembroke Park facility As a result of this relocation all of the South Florida market s Big Three network stations are based outside of the Miami city limits 58 59 Sale to Berkshire Hathaway Edit In 2013 the Washington Post Company sold the Washington Post to Amazon founder and chairman Jeff Bezos the company retained most of the other non newspaper assets including the Post Newsweek broadcast outlets and renamed itself Graham Holdings On March 12 2014 Graham Holdings announced that it would sell WPLG to the BH Media subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway in a cash and stock deal Berkshire Hathaway and its chairman Warren Buffett had been longtime stockholders in Graham Holdings the sale of WPLG included a large majority of Berkshire Hathaway s shares in Graham Holdings 60 To maintain continuity following the consummation of the purchase BH Media entered into agreements with Post Newsweek Stations renamed Graham Media Group in July 2014 to continue providing the station with access to its centralized digital media design and traffic services after the sale s completion 61 The sale was finalized on June 30 62 63 Programming EditSyndicated programming Edit Syndicated programming seen on WPLG as of September 2022 includes Wheel of Fortune Jeopardy and Live with Kelly and Ryan Tape delayed programming Edit WPLG carries the entire ABC programming schedule including the ABC station exclusive Saturday morning syndicated block Weekend Adventure However until the network dropped the program on August 28 2010 following Saban Entertainment s repurchase of the franchise from ABC s corporate parent The Walt Disney Company the station ran the ABC Kids airings of Power Rangers on a week delayed basis airing it on Saturdays from 5 00 to 6 00 a m due to the station s three hour weekend morning newscast which at the time had aired from 7 00 to 10 00 a m Around the same time it also aired the 9 00 10 00 a m hour of the ABC Kids block from 12 00 to 1 00 p m then ABC s recommended timeslot to air Power Rangers The latter scheduling continues in use even after the network replaced ABC Kids with Weekend Adventure in September 3 2011 Dr Phil on WPLG Edit In 2004 WPLG announced it had won a bidding war to air Dr Phil and Judge Judy starting in 2006 64 However the station had a contractual stipulation not to air Dr Phil in direct competition with The Oprah Winfrey Show also produced by Harpo Productions WPLG s only option was to cancel its 5 p m newscast forgoing its time slot to Dr Phil preceded by Judge Judy at 4 p m This became the station s final decision Initially slow out of the gate the change ended up being successful as WPLG ranked No 1 in the 5 p m time slot beating out its competitors 5 p m newscasts and was able to lure viewers into its 6 p m newscast 65 This change was so successful that other local stations in the Miami and West Palm Beach markets started airing syndicated programming in place of local newscasts such as WPTV WTVJ and WPBF But by 2011 Dr Phil s ratings had slipped and WPLG announced that the show would move back to WFOR replacing Oprah which had just ended its 25 year run 66 Sports programming Edit WPLG airs contests involving the NBA s Miami Heat via the network s contract with the league The station has aired the Heat s 2006 2011 14 and 2020 NBA Finals appearances including the team s 2006 2012 and 2013 championship victories The station also airs select Miami Hurricanes football games as part of ABC s rights to college football telecasts This included the team s national championship in 2001 by winning the 2002 Rose Bowl WPLG also broadcasts select Florida Panthers contests beginning in 2021 through ABC s contract with the NHL Since 2022 the station has also aired the Miami Grand Prix using a simulcast of Sky Sports F1 News operation Edit This section needs expansion with further information on Local 10 News department You can help by adding to it May 2010 Chuck Dowdle WPLG presently broadcasts 54 hours of locally produced newscasts each week with 8 hours each weekday and six hours each on Saturdays and Sundays the highest of any ABC affiliate in the nation and produces an additional 16 hours of local newscasts for Scripps owned CW affiliate WSFL TV each week with three hours each weekday and 30 minutes each on Saturdays and Sundays In regards to the number of hours devoted to news programming as of June 2021 it is the highest local newscast output of any station in the Miami market with a combined 70 hours each week after surpassing Fox affiliate WSVN which runs 63 hours of newscasts each week In addition the station produces the hour long political discussion program This Week in South Florida which debuted in 1990 and airs Sunday mornings at 11 30 a m From the show s inception until his retirement on December 18 2022 the program was hosted by senior political reporter Michael Putney Glenna Milberg who has co moderated the show since 2014 became the sole leader of the program upon Putney s retirement 67 In 1979 WPLG deployed the first helicopter in the Miami market used for newsgathering known as Sky 10 The station became well known from 1976 to 1982 for its popular anchor team of Glenn Rinker Ann Bishop sports anchor Chuck Dowdle and meteorologist Walter Cronise In 1982 the station adopted the Eyewitness News format for its newscasts which was used until its news branding was changed to the generic Channel 10 News in 2001 that year Rinker left for another position in Orlando and was replaced as evening co anchor by Mike Schneider Schneider and Bishop remained paired as the station s lead anchor team until 1986 when Schneider left to become the 5 30 and 11 00 p m co anchor at CBS flagship station WCBS TV in New York City and was replaced by general assignment reporter Dwight Lauderdale who had been working at WPLG since 1976 Lauderdale s appointment as anchor made him the first African American to anchor a nightly newscast in the South Florida market and he remained the station s primary evening co anchor until his retirement in 2008 By 1985 WPLG had surpassed rival WTVJ channel 4 now on channel 6 in the ratings and would dominate the ratings for over ten years Ann Bishop would continue to serve as co anchor for the station s evening newscasts until 1995 when she moved to a part time position at the station until she died from colon cancer in 1997 Don Noe joined WPLG in 1979 and was one of Miami s most popular chief meteorologists Walter Cronise having moved to the morning newscasts up until his retirement in 2007 Chuck Dowdle meanwhile had left by 1986 for fellow ABC station WSB TV in Atlanta his slot was filled by Khambrel Marshall who later moved to WFOR and then to WPLG s former sister station in Houston KPRC Since 1993 WPLG has used several versions of Gari Media Group s The One and Only news music package which took its name from a longtime slogan originally used by the station from 1979 to 1999 and was revived in 2014 On March 28 2009 in conjunction with the station s relocation to its Pembroke Park studios WPLG became the third Miami station to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition On August 22 2011 WPLG debuted an hour long newscast at 5 00 p m which replaced Dr Phil after it moved back to WFOR TV the station had produced an early evening newscast in that timeslot previously until it was replaced by Dr Phil in 2004 68 65 On January 13 2014 WPLG added an hour long newscast at 4 00 p m weekdays which competes against an existing hour long newscast in that slot on WSVN 69 On April 27 2014 WPLG expanded This Week in South Florida to one hour retaining its 11 30 a m timeslot on Sundays 70 On August 13 2018 WPLG added a half hour 3 p m weekday newscast and later in fall it expands to full hour On March 10 2021 it was announced that WPLG will start producing newscasts for WSFL TV allowing the latter to restore news content in some form to the station after cancelling in house newscasts in September 2018 Began on June 1 2021 under the Local 10 branding WPLG airs a 2 hour extension of their weekday newscast from 7 to 9 a m and a nightly 10 p m newscast on WSFL 71 Notable current on air staff Edit Calvin Hughes anchor Max Mayfield Hurricane Specialist Will Manso sports director also heard during coverage of University of Miami football on WQAM 560 AM Michael Putney senior political reporter also host of This Week in South FloridaNotable former on air staff Edit Ernie Anderson station announcer Morry Alter host of The Morry Story 1980s Jack Barry host of local game show Hole in One in 1962 later hosted The Joker s Wild deceased 72 Ann Bishop 1970 1995 deceased Susan Candiotti now a national correspondent for CNN Jimmy Cefalo sports anchor now a radio show host and Radio Play by Play Voice of the Miami Dolphins Liz Cho now at WABC TV in New York City Bertha Coombs now with CNBC 73 Victoria Corderi now with NBC News 74 Roy Firestone later with ESPN Megan Glaros most recently at WBBM TV in Chicago until 2020 Carlos Granda now at KABC TV in Los Angeles Larry King 75 Steve Kroft 1977 1980 retired correspondent for CBS News 60 Minutes Dwight Lauderdale 1976 2008 now retired Bryan Norcross Hurricane Specialist 1983 1990 and 2018 2022 now with Fox Weather Charles Perez 76 Walter Perez reporter now at WPVI TV in Philadelphia Rob Schmitt now at Newsmax Richard Schlesinger now at CBS News Mike Schneider 6 and 11 p m anchor now with NJ PBS as anchor and managing editor of NJ Today Jon Scott anchor 1983 1988 now anchor at Fox News Channel Molly Turner 39 Lisa Willis reporter fill in anchor 2001 Now retired from TV Technical information EditSubchannels Edit The station s digital signal is multiplexed Subchannels of WPLG 77 Channel Video Aspect Short name Programming10 1 720p 16 9 WPLG Main WPLG programming ABC10 2 480i ME TV MeTV10 3 H amp I Heroes amp IconsWPLG previously carried LATV on its second digital subchannel the Spanish language network was replaced by MeTV on April 24 2012 78 On January 24 2013 Post Newsweek Stations entered into an affiliation agreement to carry the Live Well Network on digital subchannels of WPLG and its then Orlando sister station WKMG TV both stations added the network in April 2013 79 Analog to digital conversion Edit WPLG ended programming on its analog signal on VHF channel 10 on June 12 2009 the official date in which full power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate The station s digital signal relocated from its pre transition VHF channel 9 to channel 10 for post transition operations 80 81 Three other local stations WSVN WPXM TV and WLTV DT also moved their digital signals to their former analog channel allocation requiring viewers to rescan their digital tuners WPLG and WSVN are the only Miami stations that continue to broadcast on the VHF band Out of market coverage EditWPLG is one of four Miami based TV stations that are viewed via cable in The Bahamas 82 Notes Edit Several station histories trace its establishment to August 2 1957 when predecessor WPST TV began broadcasting 1 However WPST TV had no continuity of ownership or facilities with WLBW TV 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