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Clermont/Orlando, Florida United States |
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| City | Clermont, Florida |
| Branding | CW 18 (general) WESH 2 News on CW 18 (newscasts) This TV Orlando (on DT2) Estrella TV Orlando (on DT3) |
| Slogan |
Central Florida's CW Station & Local. Live. Late Breaking. |
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Digital: 17 (UHF) Virtual: 18 () |
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| Owner |
Hearst Television (Hearst Properties Inc.) |
| First air date | December 1988 |
| Call letters' meaning | Knights of Central Florida |
| Sister station(s) | WESH |
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| Transmitter power | 1,000 kW |
| Height | 472 m |
| Class | DT |
| Facility ID | 53465 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 28°35′12″N 81°4′58″W / 28.58667°N 81.08278°WCoordinates: 28°35′12″N 81°4′58″W / 28.58667°N 81.08278°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.cw18tv.com |
WKCF, virtual channel 18 (UHF digital channel 17), is a CW-affiliated television station serving Orlando, Florida, licensed to Clermont. The station is owned by the Hearst Television division of the Hearst Corporation, and is part of a duopoly with NBC affiliate WESH (channel 2). The two stations share studios on North Wymore Road (along I-4) in Eatonville (with a Winter Park address) and its transmitter is located in unincorporated Bithlo.
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
During the George Zimmerman trial in 2013, WKCF's second digital subchannel, in addition to This TV, was used to carry NBC Daytime and WESH's daytime syndicated programming to accommodate trial coverage on WESH.
WKCF ended programming on its analog signal, on UHF channel 18, on June 12, 2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television. The station's digital signal continued to broadcasts on its pre-transition UHF channel 17. Through the use of , digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 18.
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