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Remember back in April, when WFTV-Channel 9 announced that it would turn over its 9.3 digital channel to a new Hispanic station, WAWA-LP 47? Here’s how the Orlando Sentinel reported the news: “WAWA, an affiliate of the GenTV network, will have a spot on WFTV’s digital subchannel 9.3 and will be…

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Could Orlando’s Channel 6 have been the site of one of the most unthinkable breaches of journalism ethics by the profession’s most trusted anchorman, Walter Cronkite? That’s what a FBI informant claimed in documents obtained by a Yahoo! News blogger in a Freedom of Information Act request. According to John Cook, senior…

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6 adds awards to its trophy case

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