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WPTV

WPTV-TV
WPTV.png
West Palm Beach, Florida
United States
City West Palm Beach
Branding WPTV NewsChannel 5
Slogan Local Coverage You
Can Count On
Channels Digital: 12 (VHF)
Virtual: 5 ()
Subchannels 5.1 NBC
5.2 MeTV
5.3 Laff
Affiliations NBC
Owner E. W. Scripps Company
(Scripps Broadcasting Holdings, LLC)
First air date August 22, 1954; 62 years ago (1954-08-22)
Call letters' meaning West Palm Beach (or Phipps Family) TeleVision (former owner)
Sister station(s) WFLX
Former callsigns WJNO-TV (1954–1956)
Former channel number(s) 5 (VHF analog, 1954–2009)
55 (UHF digital, –2009)
Former affiliations NBC WX+ (DT2; 2004–2008)
LWN (DT2; 2011–2014)
Transmitter power 50 kW
Height 386.3 m
Facility ID 59443
Transmitter coordinates 26°35′20″N 80°12′44″W / 26.58889°N 80.21222°W / 26.58889; -80.21222 (WPTV-TV)
Licensing authority FCC
Public license information: Profile
CDBS
Website www.wptv.com

WPTV-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for South Florida's Gold and Treasure Coasts. Licensed to West Palm Beach, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 12 (PSIP virtual channel 5) from a transmitter in Lake Worth along U.S. 441/SR 7. The station can also be seen on Comcast channel 3 (in Martin, Palm Beach, Okeechobee, and Southern St. Lucie Counties) and channel 5 (in Indian River and Northern St. Lucie Counties). Owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, WPTV has studios on South Australian Avenue in Downtown West Palm Beach (mailing address says Banyan Boulevard also known as 1st Street).

The station began broadcasting on August 22, 1954 as the primary NBC affiliate for all of South Florida with the call letters WJNO-TV. At sign-on, the first words heard on-air were from Control Room Director Vern Crawford: "The power has just been turned on for WJNO-TV channel 5 by Frank M. Folsom, President of The Radio Corporation of America." Crawford later became a fishing reporter for the station. (While the station is the oldest in operation in the region, the area's first TV station was WIRK-TV, Channel 21, which was in operation from 1953 to 1956.)


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