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Blast from the past: WDBO-6 ad from 1975
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Orlando’s Channel 6 started 63 years ago today as WDBO-TV
The first regular broadcast by WDBO-TV at 7:55 a.m. on that July 1, 1954, was the culmination of a more than three-year effort to bring local TV to Central Florida.
