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WPBF is the ABC-affiliated television station for the Gold and Treasure Coasts of South Florida. Licensed to Tequesta, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 16 from a transmitter in Palm City southwest of I-95. Owned by Hearst Television, the station has studios on RCA Boulevard in the Monet section of Palm Beach Gardens. ==History== WPBF first went on-the-air January 1, 1989, owned by Alan Potamkin and the John H. Phipps Company.〔(Instant TV WPBF, New ABC Affiliate Starting From Scratch, Races Toward Sunday Air Debut ), ''South Florida Sun-Sentinel'', December 30, 1988.〕〔(Fanfare Absent As Switchovers Strike Airwaves In S. Florida ), ''South Florida Sun-Sentinel'', January 2, 1989.〕 This marked a return to West Palm Beach for Phipps, which had previously owned NBC affiliate WPTV-TV from 1956 to 1961. The original plans called for the station to be an Independent. However in mid-1988, CBS (which was due to lose its longtime Miami affiliate WTVJ to NBC) bought Fox affiliate WCIX (now WFOR-TV). That station only provided a Grade B ("rimshot") signal to Fort Lauderdale and Broward County because its transmitter was farther south than the other Miami stations. CBS persuaded the longtime ABC affiliate in West Palm Beach, WPEC, to switch to CBS in order to get a city-grade signal in Fort Lauderdale. In Fall 1988, ABC made the decision to affiliate with WPBF rather than with former CBS affiliate WTVX, owing to the success of Phipps and Potamkin's other station, WCTV.〔(ABC Picks Palm Affiliate That Is Not Yet On The Air ), ''South Florida Sun-Sentinel'', October 19, 1988.〕 These changes occurred on the day of WPBF's sign-on. The station had bought a large inventory of classic sitcoms and cartoons but now had no time to air them. It sold this programming to WTVX a couple of months after signing-on when that station shut down its news department. In 1993, WPBF was sold to Paxson Communications which at the time owned several FM radio stations as well as a few ABC and CBS affiliates. In 1997, Paxson sold their radio stations and network affiliates (including WPBF) in order to finance the acquisition of stations for PAX (now ION Television) with this channel going to the Hearst Corporation.〔(Paxson Communications Corp. announces the sale of West Palm Beach television station WPBF TV-25 to Hearst Corp. ) ''Business Wire''. March 26, 1997. HighBeam Research. (February 17, 2011).〕 As soon as the transaction was finalized, Hearst handed over control of WPBF to its majority-owned subsidiary, Hearst Television (formerly Hearst-Argyle Television). All Hearst ABC affiliates including WPBF preempted ''Saving Private Ryan'' in 2004. The station was one of three ABC affiliates in the state of Florida that preempted the movie. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WPBF」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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