Relevant Date
1954 -WJNO TV channel 5 (NBC) in Palm Beach began broadcasting on this date. Switched call letters to WPTV on Nov. 6, 1956, after John H. Phipps bought the station. According to the Palm Beach Post, “Channel 5 went on the air as WJNO-TV, with some partial ownership of radio station WJNO. Studios in Palm Beach in the old “slat-house” on Coconut Row. Later ownership change to Scripps-Howard and changed to WPTV.”
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