| Owner: Fox Television Stations Slogan: "My 65"
News: None
Previous
News: Eyewitness News at 10 on UPN 65
(produced by WFTV)
Etc:
Part of the
first duopoly in Orlando, Fox owns it as well as
Fox affiliated WOFL-Channel 35. Station was an
independent first then became a charter member of
UPN. When CBS and Time Warner announced plans to
shutter both UPN and the WB to create a new CW
network, Fox-owned WRBW was one of the first UPN
stations in the nation to shed its UPN branding.
Once Fox announced plans to start up My Network
TV as a rival to CW, WRBW adopted the My Network
branding and became My 65. Called itself
"The Space Station'' in its early days for
all the different Star Trek and science-fiction
shows it aired. It took over broadcast
rights for the Orlando Magic from WKCF in
1999-2000 season.
Station
History: Went on the air in June 1994 as an
independent. Originally known as Rainbow
65, this station was based at Universal Studios
-- supposedly the first TV station ever based at
a theme park. Its sale from local Rainbow
Broadcasting to United Television was blocked for
years by rival WKCF. United Television was later
acquired by Fox, which gave Orlando its first
network-owned station -- even though Fox let
Meredith-owned WOFL keep the Fox network
affiliation. Later, Fox swapped stations with
Meredith to give it control of both WOFL, and it
thene moved WRBW's operations to WOFL's Lake Mary
studios.
Digital
subchannel programming: None.
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