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WPEC is the CBS-affiliated television station for the Gold and Treasure Coasts of South Florida. Licensed to West Palm Beach, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 13 from a transmitter, southeast of Wellington along U.S. 441/SR 7, in unincorporated Palm Beach County. Owned by the Sinclair Broadcast Group, the station is sister to The CW affiliate WTVX, Class A MyNetworkTV affiliate WTCN-CA and Class A Azteca América affiliate WWHB-CA. All of the television outlets share studios together on Fairfield Drive in Mangonia Park (with a West Palm Beach postal address). ==History== The station signed-on as an ABC affiliate with the call letters WEAT-TV on January 1, 1955. It was owned by RKO General. Its original studios were on South Congress Avenue in West Palm Beach. RKO sold the station to Rex Rand in 1957. In 1964, Gardens Broadcasting, a company founded by businessman John D. MacArthur bought the station. In 1973, Photo Electronics bought the station from John D. MacArthur. The station moved to its present studio facilities on Fairfield Drive in Mangonia Park that same year. On January 27, 1974, the WEAT calls were changed to the current WPEC which stood for Photo Electronics Corporation in reference to the station's then-current owner, a company founded by local entrepreneur Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr..〔https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8TYyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lbcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6313,3960043&dq=wpec&hl=en〕 The previous calls are currently used by an area radio station that is owned by Palm Beach Broadcasting. On January 1, 1989, it switched affiliations to CBS after the network purchased WCIX in Miami from the TVX Broadcast Group. WCIX's (now WFOR-TV) over-the-air signal was weaker than the other Miami VHF stations north of the city so getting WPEC to switch made up for the shortfall in coverage. New sign-on WPBF took WPEC's old ABC affiliation forcing WTVX (which lost CBS) to become an Independent station. A similar situation happened to NBC when CBS returned to channel 4 as WFOR and NBC was demoted to channel 6. This caused WPEC to lose much of its Broward County audience to WFOR. As a result, rival West Palm Beach station WPTV gained Broward County NBC market share from WTVJ that was now on channel 6. In 1996, Freedom Communications bought the station. On April 8, 2009, WPEC announced that it was eliminating its 24-hour local weather channel (known as "CBS 12 Now") in favor of a new local Spanish language television station originally known as "232 Mi Pueblo TV". However, the weather channel was re-instated on digital channel 12.3 in mid-2009. Freedom announced on November 2, 2011 that it would bow out of television and sell its stations, including WPEC, to the Sinclair Broadcast Group. Sinclair had earlier announced the acquisition of Four Points Media Group, owner of WTVX, and the two purchases will result in the first full duopoly in West Palm Beach. Sinclair began operating the Four Points stations (including WTVX and its low-power sisters) through time brokerage agreements at some point in October; the company entered into a similar arrangement with the Freedom stations (including WPEC) two months later. The deal was completed on April 2, 2012 although the physical operations of WPEC's and WTVX (along with WTCN and WWHB) initially remained separate. WTVX, WTCN, and WWHB would eventually be merged into WPEC's studios. 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「WPEC」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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