
WKMG-TV, Local 6 - Orlando, Florida
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WKMG-TV, Channel 6, is the CBS network affiliate for Central Florida.
Waymark Code: WM29RJ
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 09/28/2007
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WKMG-TV, Channel 6, is the CBS network affiliate for Central Florida (the Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne, Florida market). WKMG is licensed to Orlando and is owned and operated by Post-Newsweek Stations, Inc., a subsidiary of the Washington Post Company. It is branded as "Local6", under the "Local Mandate," a station standardization adopted for all stations owned by Post-Newsweek. WKMG's transmitter is located in Bithlo, Florida.
The station first took to the air on July 1, 1954; as WDBO-TV, which stood for "Way Down By Orlando." It is the sixth-oldest station in Florida, and the oldest in Central Florida.
As the only station in the market at its inception, it originally carried programming from all four networks of the time — CBS, NBC, ABC and DuMont.
The main news anchors at WKMG currently are Bob Frier and Jacqueline London. Lauren Rowe recently moved to help co-anchor the early morning news, and now Jacqueline London does the five, six and eleven PM newscasts alongside Frier and Chief Meteorologist Tom Sorrells, and the four PM newscast with Marla Weech.
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