WKMG-Local 6 will soon be home to youth-oriented Hispanic programming on its digital subchannel.
Post-Newsweek, parent of WKMG, has signed a deal with LATV — Latino Alternative — to program the digital subchannels of P-N stations in Orlando, Miami, Houston and San Antonio, according to TVNewsday.com
LATV’s music-oriented programing targets 12-34-year-olds. The network was started four years ago by Walter Ulloa, CEO of Entravision, which owns Orlando TV station WVEN-Univision 26 and programs WOTF-Telefutura 43.
WKMG currently airs an automated Web-like page of news, weather and traffic on its digital 6.2 subchannel. Orlando is the 19th largest media market in the nation, but ranked No. 17 among Hispanic TV markets.
UPDATED: With little fanfare, WKMG has thrown the switch on 16:9 for its newscasts. (Oops — I reported early that Local 6 had gone to HD. Not the case, however.) Local 6 is using 16:9 studio cameras, but its weather graphics and most field reports are still in standard 4:3…
A production technician at WKMG has been arrested as part of an Internet sex string. Christian Rodriguez-Torres, 19, was among 28 caught in the Polk County Sheriff’s Office’s latest operation targeting men wanting to have sex with under-age girls. Detectives, posing as 13-and-14-year-old girls, lured suspects from Internet chat rooms…
A couple of quick items to start off the new year … Congrats to former WESH anchor Shannon Hori, now at WFOR-CBS 4 in Miami. Last week she welcomed twin boys, Colt and Cade. “The best Christmas present ever,” Hori told the Miami Herald. The boys are the first children…