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WPTV
West Palm Beach, Florida
Branding	WPTV NewsChannel 5 HD
Slogan	Local Coverage You Can Count On
Channels	Analog: 5 (VHF) Digital: 12 (VHF)
Subchannels	5.1 NBC
Affiliations	National Broadcasting Company
Owner	E. W. Scripps Company (Scripps Howard Broadcasting Company)
First air date	August 22, 1954
Call letters’ meaning	West Palm Beach TeleVision -or- Phipps Family TeleVision (second station owner)
Former callsigns	WJNO-TV (1954-1956)
Former affiliations	NBC Weather Plus (on DT2, 2004-2008)
Transmitter Power	100 kW (analog) 900 kW (digital) 15.5 kW (after 2009)
Height	391.5 m (analog) 386.5 m (digital)
Facility ID	59443
Transmitter Coordinates	26°35′22″N 80°12′43.1″W / 26.58944, -80.211972 (WPTV)
Website	wptv.com

WPTV, channel 5, is the NBC-affiliated television station for West Palm Beach, Florida. Its transmitter is located southeast of Wellington along U.S. 441 and FL 7. Owned by the E.W. Scripps Company, the station has studios on South Australian Avenue in downtown West Palm Beach (the mailing address is Banyan Boulevard, however). Syndicated programming on WPTV includes: Ellen, Dr. Phil, Oprah, Extra and Entertainment Tonight.

History

WPTV's logo from 2002 to 2007.

WPTV began broadcasting on August 22, 1954 with the call letters WJNO-TV. At sign-on, the first words heard on-air were from control room director Vern Crawford (who later became a fishing reporter for the station): "The power has just been turned on for WJNO-TV channel 5 by Frank M. Folsom, President of The Radio Corporation of America." At that time, the station was owned by William Cook and Theodore Granick and there were only 32 employees working at the station. It was later purchased by The Phipps Family in 1956 and they changed the call letters to the current WPTV. Then, in 1961, a man named Mort Watters purchased the station for Scripps Howard. Under Scripps Howard ownership, the station began expanding. WPTV's current 1,000-foot (305 m) transmitter tower was built along with new transmitter facilities. The station's West Palm Beach studios were rebuilt and expanded.

In May 1971, Scripps Howard built new studios for the station on Flagler Drive in West Palm Beach. In 1976, WPTV began operating the market’s first live mobile news van. In 1999, WPTV added a new Harris analog transmitter to improve its signal. The station also built a new 1,325-foot (404 m) transmitter tower. This upgrade came several years after Miami's NBC affiliate WTVJ moved from Channel 4 on the Broward-MiamiDade border to 6 in South Dade county. This also gave WPTV a city-grade signal the northern half of Broward County, including Fort Lauderdale. WTVJ's signal in most of Broward County is Grade B, not city grade. In March 16, 2001, the station moved from their facilities on Flagler Drive to a larger, newer, and advanced complex at 1100 Banyan Boulevard on the city's west side approaching Clear Lake. The building's exteriors portray the exteriors of the fictional television studio seen during the second season of the NBC sitcom Good Morning, Miami. WPTV's "Circle 5" logo is a variation of the one used for many years by its Cleveland, Ohio sister station, WEWS-TV (they resurrected the logo in January of 2007, albeit in a slightly different form).

News operation

The station's nightly 11 o'clock open.

WPTV has been rated number one in local news in West Palm Beach since Nielsen began recording data in the market. Following the July 2008 sweeps period, WPTV retained its title as the top-rated television station in the state of Florida (based on sign-on to sign-off household share in metered markets). On August 4, 2007, WPTV became the first television station in south Florida to air its local news in high definition. This upgrade resulted in the debut of a new graphics package and weather set with advanced HD weather equipment. In addition to its main studios in downtown West Palm Beach, the station operates three news bureaus. The Stuart Bureau is located on South Federal Highway (a.k.a. U.S. 1 in Stuart). The Port St Lucie Bureau is located in the Scripps Treasure Coast Newspaper printing facility.

The South County Bureau is located on Congress Avenue in Delray Beach inside the building of news partner Sun Sentinel. WPTV's 1 million watt weather radar is called "VIPIR 5" and it operates a helicopter called Chopper 5. In addition to NBC News, WPTV is also a CNN affiliate. Until its shutdown on December 1, 2008, the station had offered NBC Weather Plus on its second digital subchannel, Comcast digital cable channel 216 or 188, and via live streaming video on its website. The news department has been recognized with three regional Edward R. Murrow awards in the past seven years. In 2001, the station won for its continuing coverage of the 2000 Presidential vote controversy in Palm Beach County. In 2003, the station was recognized in the news documentary category for a story on the desperate conditions in Haiti. And in April of 2008, the station was recognized for excellence again in the documentary category for its hour-long primetime special on medicare fraud produced by its Contact 5 investigative unit.

Newscast titles

• WJNO-TV News (1954-1956)
• WPTV News (1956-1965)
• The Sixth Hour Report / The Eleventh Hour Report (1965-1972)
• TV-5 News (1972-1975)
• Action 5 News (1975-1993)
• NewsChannel 5 (1993-present)

Station Slogans

• Part of Your Life (late 1970s)
• Action 5 News: The Recognized Authorities (early 1980s)
• We're Looking Out For You! (1984-1989)
• Your News Leader. (1980s-early 1990s)
• The 24-Hour News Channel (early 1990s)
• Coverage You Can Count On (1993-2007)
• Local Coverage You Can Count On (2007-present)

News team

Anchors

• Roxanne Stein - weekday mornings and health reporter
• John Favole - weekday mornings and Noon (Monday through Thursday)
• Jay Cashmere - Friday morning and Noon, weekend mornings
  • weekday morning reporter
• Chandra Bill - weekdays at Noon, 5, and 5:30
• Shannon Cake - weeknights at 5 and 5:30
  • investigative reporter
• Kelley Dunn - weeknights at 6 and 11
• Jim Sackett - weeknights at 6 and 11
• Paige Kornblue - weekend mornings and Wednesday through Friday weekday morning reporter
• Jamie Holmes - weekend evenings and reporter
• Tania Rogers - weekend evenings and reporter

Storm Team 5

• Steve Weagle (Certified Broadcast Meteorologist) - Chief seen weeknights
• Keenan Smith (AMS Seal of Approval) - weekday mornings and Noon
• Glenn Glazer (AMS Seal of Approval) - weekend mornings
• James Wieland (AMS Seal of Approval) - weekend evenings

Sports

• Ryan Lieber - Sundays through Thursdays at 6 and 11
• Jay Gilmore - Fridays at 6 and 11
  • Saturday nights and sports reporter three days a week

Reporters

• Captain Julie Stevens - Chopper 5 pilot and reporter
• Eric Glasser
• Tim Malloy
• Bryan Garner
• Katie Brace
• Marci Gonzalez
• Nichelle King
• Carolyn Scofield
• Danielle Dubetz
• Jennifer Rivera
• Jesse Chavez

Post-analog shutdown

After the analog television shutdown and digital conversion, which is tentatively to take place on February 17, 2009, WPTV will move its digital broadcasts to channel 12^[1] However, through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers will display WPTV's virtual channel as 5.

References

External links

• WPTV "NewsChannel 5 HD"
• WPTV wireless
• NBC
• Query the FCC's TV station database for WPTV

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