WKMG-TV channel 6 is the
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network affiliate for
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(the
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-
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-
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market). WKMG is licensed to Orlando and is owned and operated by
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, Inc., a subsidiary of the
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. The station refers to itself as
"Local6". WKMG's transmitter is located in
Bithlo, FloridaBithlo is a census-designated place and an unincorporated community in Orange County, Florida, United States. The population was 4,626 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee Metropolitan Statistical Area. For 20 years in the early 20th century, Bithlo was an incorporated...
. WKMG's studios are located on
John Young ParkwayState Road 423, known for most of its length as John Young Parkway, and Lee Road east of Orange Blossom Trail, is a four- and six-lane surface road in the U.S. state of Florida. SR 423 is completely inside Orlando, Florida and runs from SR 408 north to U.S...
.
WKMG clears most CBS programs, but pushes back the start of
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by half-an-hour. Syndicated programming on the station includes
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,
Inside EditionInside Edition is a thirty-minute American television syndicated news program, first aired on CBS on October 9, 1988. It was originally similar to the programs Hard Copy and A Current Affair, but now more closely resembles a condensed version of breakfast television, exclusively with pre-recorded...
,
Dr. PhilDr. Phil is a reality/talk television show hosted by Phil McGraw. After McGraw's success with his segments on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. Phil debuted on September 16, 2002...
and
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.
History
The station first took to the air on July 1, 1954; as
WDBO-TV, which stood for "
Daytona
Beach
Orlando", But locals would call it "
Way
Down
By
Orlando." It is the sixth-oldest station in Florida, and the oldest in Central Florida. It was originally owned by the Orlando Broadcasting Company along with WDBO radio (
AM 580WDBO is a radio station broadcasting a News/Talk/Information format. Licensed to Orlando, Florida, USA, the station is currently owned by Cox Radio.It is also the local affiliate broadcaster of Orlando Magic basketball games....
and FM 92.3, now
WWKAWWKA is the callsign of K92FM, a Country radio station in Orlando, Florida. The station is owned by Cox Radio, and has had a country format since 1982. Previous owners include The Outlet Company and New City Communications....
).
As the only station in the market at its inception, it originally carried programming from all four networks of the time — CBS,
NBCThe National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
,
ABCThe American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
and
DuMontThe DuMont Television Network, also known as the DuMont Network, DuMont, Du Mont, or Dumont was one of the world's pioneer commercial television networks, rivalling NBC for the distinction of being first overall. It began operation in the United States in 1946. It was owned by DuMont...
. DuMont would shut down most network operations in 1955, but honor network commitments until 1956; at that point, DuMont disappeared from the schedule. It lost NBC when Daytona Beach's
WESHWESH is the NBC affiliate in Orlando, Florida. It is licensed to Daytona Beach, with studio facilities in Winter Park. It transmits its digital signal on VHF channel 11, which redirects to virtual channel 2.1, reflecting its former analog channel assignment, through PSIP. It is currently owned by...
expanded its signal to cover all of Central Florida in 1957, and ABC when WLOF-TV (now
WFTVWFTV, channel 9, is the ABC-affiliated television station for Central Florida that is licensed to Orlando. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 39 from a transmitter between Bithlo and Christmas. Owned by Cox Enterprises, WFTV is sister to Independent WRDQ. The two stations...
) signed on in 1958. Orlando Broadcasting merged with Cherry Broadcasting in 1957. In 1963, WDBO-AM-FM-TV were sold to
The Outlet CompanyThe Outlet Company was a corporation based in Providence, Rhode Island, which owned holdings in both retail and broadcasting. The centerpieces of the group was its flagship Providence store and WJAR radio and television, also in Providence....
.
In 1982, WDBO AM-FM was sold to Katz Broadcasting, as Outlet decided to begin exiting radio. Outlet was nearly bought out by
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around the same time. In advance of this, channel 6 prematurely changed its call letters to
WCPX-TV, which stood for "
W Columbia
Pi
X" (shorthand for "Pictures"). While the deal fell through, channel 6 kept the WCPX calls for 16 years. Outlet pared down its holdings after a buyout in 1986, selling off many stations. At that point, WCPX was sold to First Media, Inc.
In the early 1990s WCPX decided to move the CBS program
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from Friday evening to 11:35 pm on Saturday so that it could air
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on Friday evenings. WCPX also pre-empted some CBS sports programs as well. In 1994, WCPX hired a new general manager, Brooke Spectorsky, from
WUABWUAB, identified on-air as "My43 The Block, WUAB", is the MyNetworkTV affiliate in Cleveland, Ohio. The station is licensed to the suburb of Lorain, and it shares a studio in downtown Cleveland with sister station WOIO, Cleveland's CBS affiliate. Its transmitter is located in Parma, Ohio...
in Cleveland. (Spectorsky is now general manager of
WKYC-TVWKYC, virtual channel 3 , is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Cleveland, Ohio, owned by the Gannett Company. Its studio is located on the shores of Lake Erie, while its transmitter is located in Parma, Ohio....
in Cleveland.) Under Spectorsky, WCPX put
Picket Fences back at its normal time.
In 1995, WCPX was one of the first CBS affiliates to air
Guiding LightGuiding Light is an American daytime television drama that is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest running drama in television and radio history, running from 1937 until 2009...
at 10 a.m. instead of 3 p.m., which was the normal time to air it. Under this arrangement, the program would air on a one day delay. However, CBS soon discovered that several of its O&O's were doing the same thing. CBS then decided to provide two (eventually three) same day feeds of
Guiding Light to its stations (one at 9 a.m., 10 a.m., and 3 p.m.). WKMG aired
Guiding Light at 9 a.m. up until September 18, 2009. It currently airs
Let's Make a DealLet's Make a Deal is a television game show which originated in the United States and has since been produced in many countries throughout the world. The show is based around deals offered to members of the audience by the host. The traders usually have to weigh the possibility of an offer being...
at 10 a.m.
In 1997, First Media merged with
Meredith CorporationThe Meredith Corporation is a media conglomerate based in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. The company has two divisions, National Media and Local Media.-History:...
, which already owned
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affiliate
WOFLWOFL, channel 35, is the Fox owned-and-operated television station serving the Orlando, Florida metropolitan area. It is licensed to Orlando, with studios located in Lake Mary. It broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 22. On cable, WOFL-TV is currently seen on channel 3 for subscribers of...
. At the time, duopolies were not allowed, and Meredith decided to keep WOFL (which has since been sold to Fox). In mid-1997, Meredith swapped WCPX to
Post-Newsweek StationsPost-Newsweek Stations is the official name of the broadcasting division of the Washington Post Company and is a self-contained corporation within that company...
in exchange for
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's
WFSB'WFSB, channel 3, is a CBS-affiliated television station located in Hartford, Connecticut, USA, owned by the Meredith Corporation. WFSB's studios and offices are located in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, and its broadcast transmitter is based on Talcott Mountain in Avon, Connecticut. Syndicated...
(which at the time was Post-Newsweek's flagship). On January 30, 1998, the station changed its callsign to WKMG in honor of longtime
Washington Post publisher,
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. As of recently, WKMG is the last "Big Six" affiliate in Orlando that is not part of any television duopoly (Fox/
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's WOFL/WRBW,
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's WFTV/WRDQ and Hearst Television's WESH/WKCF).
WKMG's audio signal formerly available on 87.7 FM-radio ceased on June 12, 2009 with the national analog turn-off date.
Digital television
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:>
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Physical
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| 6.1 |
26.1 |
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|
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|
WKMG-DT |
main WKMG programming / CBS HD |
| 6.2 |
26.2 |
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4:3 |
LATVLATV is a bilingual music and entertainment network. LATV has been on the air in the Los Angeles market as KJLA since 2001 and is distributed through mostly digital television subchannels throughout the United States and Puerto Rico....
|
Bilingual entertainment programming |
In addition to LATV, WKMG's 6.2 subchannel had been used to carry
CBS DaytimeCBS Daytime is a television programming block on CBS. It's the branding for the CBS Television Network's late morning and early afternoon programming. The block has historically encompassed soap operas, game shows, and talk shows...
and syndicated programming from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., to accommodate Casey Anthony trial coverage on WKMG's primary channel from May to July 2011; it had earlier planned to air trial coverage in full on 6.2 to minimize disruption to WKMG's main schedule.
As part of the
analog television shutdown and digital conversionThe DTV transition in the United States was the switchover from analog to exclusively digital broadcasting of free over-the-air television programming...
was completed, WKMG-TV shut down its analog transmitter on June 12, 2009. The station's digital broadcasts remained on channel 26. Through the use of
PSIPThe Program and System Information Protocol is the protocol used in the ATSC digital television system for carrying metadata about each channel in the broadcast MPEG transport stream of a TV station and for publishing information about television programs so that viewers can select what to watch...
, digital television receivers continue to display WKMG-TV's
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as 6.1.
News operation
From the late 1980s until 2001, the station was almost always in last place in the ratings. At the same time, WESH and WFTV battled for first place in the Orlando market, and basically continued to do so into the early 2000s; however, in the past few years, WFTV has become the dominant station (though channel 6 claimed first place at 11 p.m. in the May 2006 ratings period). Management changes had a number of GMs on the treadmill with Mike Schweitzer, Kathleen Keefe, Jeff Sales and Henry Maldonado all taking a turn at the top. News and Sales Departments had similar turnover with at least 5 News Directors taking the chair between 2000 and 2008. Sales Managers included Connie Albino for a short tenure before being replaced by Tom Calato.
Internet Broadcasting Systems provided the Internet site named "myCFnow.com" by Sales; it then switched to "local6.com", and is currently known as "clickorlando.com". Currently, despite the strength of CBS prime-time programming, WKMG has been trading second and third place with WESH in the evening newscast ratings except at 11 p.m., where until recently it waged a spirited battle with WFTV for first. From late 2007 until March 2009, WKMG's 11 p.m. newscast was in second place behind WFTV. Continuing its ratings slide, the May 2009 sweeps found WKMG's newscasts finishing in third place in all time slots, behind WFTV and WESH. In fact, despite being number one in prime time WKMG's late night newscast has failed to hold on to its lead-in audience for the most part. The siphoning off in news audience share appears to have held in the November 2009 sweeps period, when WKMG remained in a distant third place weekday evenings while its morning and late night newscasts improved slightly although still in a distant second place.
The main news anchors at WKMG currently are Gaard Swanson and Lauren Rowe; they anchor the 6 and 11pm newscast. Rowe moved to help co-anchor the morning news with Erick Weber before returning to nights, joining former news anchor Mike Garafalo for the 11 p.m. news. Matt Austin and Bridgett anchor
The Morning News Former Reporter Laura Diaz left to work for radio station WXXL. Before May 1, 2009, former news anchor Jacqueline London anchored the 4, 5, 6, and 11 p.m. newscasts with Garofalo and solo anchored the 5:30 p.m. newscast.
In 2008, WKMG-TV began broadcasting its news in
SDSorete-definition television is a television system that uses a resolution that is not considered to be either enhanced-definition television or high-definition television . The term is usually used in reference to digital television, in particular when broadcasting at the same resolution as...
16:916:9 is an aspect ratio with a width of 16 units and height of 9. Since 2009, it has become the most common aspect ratio for sold televisions and computer monitors and is also the international standard format of HDTV, Full HD, non-HD digital television and analog widescreen television ...
widescreen format. WKMG is currently the only major station in the Orlando market as well as the only station in the Washington Post Company's six-station group which has yet to upgrade its newscasts to full
high definitionHigh-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
.
On Monday, May 1, 2009, the station's 4, 5 and 5:30 p.m. newscasts were axed, and a new hour-long newscast at 6:00 debuted. It was the market's first and only full hour of news at 6 p.m. and pushed the
CBS Evening NewsCBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963....
to 7 p.m. However, on January 3, 2011, the
Evening News returned to the 6:30 half-hour, and a new 7:00 newscast took its place. On April 27, 2011, WKMG announced that it will relaunch a half-hour 5 p.m. newscast in September 2011, with syndicated entertainment newsmagazine
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following it at 5:30 p.m.; both will replace
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, which had aired in the 5 p.m. slot to compete against the 5 p.m. newscasts on WFTV, WESH and WOFL, and will move to Fox-owned
WOFLWOFL, channel 35, is the Fox owned-and-operated television station serving the Orlando, Florida metropolitan area. It is licensed to Orlando, with studios located in Lake Mary. It broadcasts its digital signal on UHF channel 22. On cable, WOFL-TV is currently seen on channel 3 for subscribers of...
in September.
Controversy
In April 2010 News Director Steve Hyvonen called for a "Newsroom Summit," and required his employees to vote for three employees who would be considered "Battery Drainers." Nomination of management was exempted from the vote.
Newscast titles
- WDBO-TV News (1954-1961)
- Television 6 Reports (1961-1966)
- The 6th Hour/11th Hour News (1966-1974)
- TV-6 News (1974-1977)
- Newswatch 6 (1977–1987)
- WCPX Channel 6 News (1987–1992)
- 6 News (1992–1995)
- Channel 6 News (1995–1998)
- WKMG 6 News (1998–1999)
- NewsCenter 6 (1999–2001)
- WKMG News (2001–2002)
- Local 6 News (2002–present)
Station slogans
- Solid Six (late 1970s)
- The Heart of Florida (early 1980s)
- Channel 6 Believes in You (early-mid 1980s)
- Channel 6 is On Your Side (1987–1989)
- Where Will We Take You Tonight? (1996)
- Working Harder for You (1998–2001)
- The Problem Solvers (2001–2005)
- Your Breaking News Station (2005–2007)
- Never Miss A Moment (2008–2009; general slogan)
- Always Here For You (2008–2009; news slogan)
- News You Need (2009–present; news slogan)
- Covering Central Florida (2010–present; general slogan)
News music packages
- WAGA 1977 News Theme (1977-1978)
- WDBO News Theme (1977–1982)
- WDBO 1982 News Theme (1982)
- WCPX 1982 News Theme (1982–1984)
- Production Music: Determination by Network Music (1984–1987)
- Turn To News by Gari Communications
Frank Gari is a popular singer and songwriter from the late 1950s and early 1960s. His best known songs as a performer are "Utopia" , "Lullaby of Love" and "Princess" , all of which hit the U.S. Top 40 in 1961. He co-wrote with Roger McGuinn the song Beach Ball for Bobby Darin...
(1987–1989)
- The Great News Package by Gari Communications (1989–1992)
- Palmer News Package by Shelly Palmer (1992–1995)
- Millennium 3 by Shelly Palmer (1995–1998)
- The One and Only by Gari Communications (1998–2004)
- Production Music: Headliners by FirstCom (2001–2004)
- Production Music: All The News and Production Music: World Vision by FirstCom (both from 2004–2007)
- The CBS Enforcer Music Collection by Gari Communications (2007–present)
Current on-air staff
Current anchors
- Matt Austin - weekday mornings "The Morning News" (5-7 a.m.) and Noon.
- Lauren Rowe - weeknights at 5, 6, 7 and 11 p.m.
- Gaard Swanson - weeknights at 5, 6 and 11 p.m.
- Erik von Ancken - weekends at 6, 6:30 and 11 p.m., also weekday fill-in
- Bridgett Williams - weekday mornings "The Morning News" (5-7 a.m.)
- Kala Rama - weekend mornings
Weather team
- Tom Sorrells (AMS
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and NWAThe National Weather Association is an American professional association with a mission to support and promote excellence in operational meteorology and related activities...
Seals of Approval) - chief meteorologist; weeknights at 6, 7, and 11 p.m.
- Troy Bridges (AMS Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekday mornings "The Morning News" (5-7 a.m.) and noon
- Julie Broughton (NWA Seal of Approval) - meteorologist; weekend mornings
- Elizabeth Hart - meteorologist; weekends at 6 and 11 p.m.
Sports team
- David "Ping" Pingalore - sports director; weeknights at 6 and 11 p.m.
- Jamie Seh - sports anchor; weekends at 6:30 and 11 p.m., also sports reporter
Reporters
- Louis Bolden - weeknight reporter
- Shaun Chaiyabhat - weeknight 11 p.m. reporter
- Mike DeForest - weeknight 6 p.m. reporter
- Cortney Hall - weekday morning reporter
- Mark Lehman - weekday morning video journalist
- Nicole Pesecky - weeknight 6 p.m. reporter
- Scott Rates - weeknight 11 p.m. video journalist
- Jessica Sanchez - weekday morning traffic reporter
- Quinn Schuler - weekday reporter
- David Sprung - Sky 6 reporter
- Chris Trenkmann - weeknight 6 p.m. reporter
- Nick VinZant - general assignment and Local 6 Problem Solvers investigative reporter
- Steven Cooper - consumer reporter
- Mike Holfeld - investigative reporter
- Tony Pipitone - investigative reporter
Notable former on-air staff
- Lisa Colagrossi
Lisa Colagrossi is an American journalist and television news anchor and reporter. Currently, she is a reporter for WABC-TV In New York City. Colagrossi joined the ABC owned station in September 2001....
(now at WABC-TVWABC-TV, channel 7, is the flagship station of the Disney-owned American Broadcasting Company located in New York City. The station's studios and offices are located on the Upper West Side section of Manhattan, adjacent to ABC's corporate headquarters, and its transmitter is atop the Empire State...
in New York City)
- Trace Gallagher
Trace Gallagher is an American television news anchor for Fox News Channel.-Background:Born Tracy G. Gallagher, he grew up in the ski resort of Mammoth Lakes, California, where he was the quarterback for the Mammoth Huskie football team before he graduated from high school in 1979...
(has been at Fox News Channel since its inception in 1996)
- Jerry Hodak
Jerry Hodak is the former Chief Meteorologist on ABC's Detroit affiliate, WXYZ-TV. Hodak studied mass communications at Wayne State University, located in Detroit, Michigan. After traveling to Orlando, Florida as a news reporter for WDBO-TV, Hodak returned to Detroit in 1967 as a weather caster...
(retired from WXYZ-TV in Detroit)
- Shepard Smith
David Shepard Smith, Jr. , known better as Shepard Smith, is an American television news anchor. He is host of Fox Report with Shepard Smith and Studio B weekdays on Fox News Channel. In addition, he anchors the 5:00 p.m...
(has been at Fox News Channel since its inception in 1996)
- Tom Terry
Tom Terry is an American Television Meteorologist. Terry was born in Fresno, California but moved to the small town of Wellston, Oklahoma as a small child. His father was in the U.S.Navy and served aboard the USS Gridley , and later owned and operated Terry's Drug Center in Wellston as a Doctor...
(now chief meteorologist at WFTVWFTV, channel 9, is the ABC-affiliated television station for Central Florida that is licensed to Orlando. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 39 from a transmitter between Bithlo and Christmas. Owned by Cox Enterprises, WFTV is sister to Independent WRDQ. The two stations...
)
- Marla Weech- anchor ( now morning anchor at Central Florida News 13
Central Florida News 13 is a cable news television station located in Orlando, Florida. It currently serves the greater Central Florida areas including Volusia County, Seminole County, Orange County, Osceola County, Lake County, Marion County, Flagler County, and Brevard County...
)
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