| Owner: Cox Slogan: "Central Florida's
Action Station"
News: Action News at 10 (produced
by duopoly sister station WFTV)
Etc:
Besides
producing "Action News at 10," WFTV
experimented with a 7 p.m. newscast (the first in
the market since WESH's NewsCenter at 7 in the
early '80s) during the opening days of the Iraq
War. Just like the earlier attempt to start a 7
p.m. show, this newcast was soon pulled. ...
Action News at 10 uses WFTV's set, but while WFTV
now broadcasts its news on Channel 9 in HD from
the same set, the WRDQ newscast remains in
standard definition.
Station
History: Orlando's 15th full-power
station, WRDQ, signed on the air April 23, 2000.
It was managed by and then acquired by
WFTV-Channel 9. WRDQ was licenced to Reece Associates Limited
when it went on the air. Marsha Reece was a
longtime morning news anchor at WFTV before
leaving in the late '80s to try to start a TV
station with husband. She signed a management
agreement with WFTV to run WRDQ -- an agreement
that included a provision that would allow Cox to
buy the station if the government ever approved
of one company owning two TV stations in the same
market. Much to Reese's surprise, the government
did change the rules to allow such duopolies, and
she was forced to sell her station to Cox.
Digital
subchannel programming: Airs WFTV's Early Warning
Doppler 9 HD on its 27.2 subchannel.
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