WPLG
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Miami/Fort Lauderdale, Florida United States |
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| City | Miami, Florida |
| Branding | Local 10 (general) Local 10 News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | The One and Only |
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Digital: 10 (VHF) Virtual: 10 () |
| Translators | W47AC Big Pine Key |
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| Owner |
BH Media (WPLG, Inc.) |
| First air date | August 2, 1957 (current license dates from November 20, 1961) |
| Call letters' meaning |
Phillip Leslie Graham (in memory of the former Washington Post publisher) |
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| Transmitter power | 127.7 kW |
| Height | 309 m (1,014 ft) |
| Facility ID | 53113 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 25°58′0″N 80°12′43″W / 25.96667°N 80.21194°WCoordinates: 25°58′0″N 80°12′43″W / 25.96667°N 80.21194°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www |
WPLG, channel 10, is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Miami, Florida, United States. WPLG's studios are located on West Hallandale Beach Boulevard (SR 858) in Pembroke Park, and its transmitter is located in Miami Gardens.
From 1969 through 2014, WPLG was owned by Post-Newsweek Stations; in March 2014, the station was sold to Berkshire Hathaway in exchange for cash and its shares in Post-Newsweek's parent company Graham Holdings.
The station first signed on the air on August 2, 1957 as WPST-TV, as the second ABC affiliate in the Miami market; it was originally owned by Public Service Television, Inc., the broadcasting subsidiary of National Airlines. The station took ABC programming from WITV (channel 17, later occupied by PBS member station WLRN-TV), which ceased operations shortly after losing the ABC affiliation.
A Congressional investigation of former FCC commissioner Richard A. Mack in 1958 revealed that a Miami attorney named Thurman A. Whiteside, working on behalf of National Airlines, had bribed the former commissioner to obtain the WPST broadcast license. As a result, National Airlines was stripped of its license to operate WPST-TV.
After the FCC revoked National Airlines' license, a group headed by Cincinnati-area broadcaster L.B. Wilson was awarded a construction permit to build a new television station on channel 10. As part of an FCC-supervised deal, National Airlines sold WPST's assets to Wilson's group. WPST signed off for the last time on November 19, 1961. The next day on November 20, channel 10 returned to the air as WLBW-TV (named after the owner's initials). Although it operates under a separate license, what is now WPLG claimed the National Airlines station's history as its own.
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