The Daily Buzz is moving to a new home — and a new station. WRDQ announced Friday that the Buzz is moving to TV 27 from WKCF-CW 18 starting May 28. According to the press release, "TV27 is taking The Daily Buzz back to the roots of where the show…
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Morning news battle heats up today
Good morning, Orlando. You may not realize it, but you’re waking up in what has become the most competitive market for morning news in the nation — with more local news, with more national news and with plenty of surprises. Monday morning, WESH-Channel 2 and WFTV-Channel 9 will start their…
More Sweeps Analysis
Breaking down more sweeps numbers, from Friday’s Orlando Sentinel. >> WOFL’s 10 p.m. newscast is up 17 percent from a year ago. From Monday-Sunday, Fox 35 News has 52,200 households and WRDQ’s Action News has 36,000. >> Showing how much the network lead-in helps or hurts, WFTV (ABC) is up…
CW Signs Up 18 — Plus Other Stuff
It’s been a newsy couple of days so far this week … The new CW Network signed up its first round of affiliates on Wednesday, and among the group of five was Orlando’s WKCF-Channel 18. The future former home of the WB network will now be the place where the…
It’s CW Decision Time for WKCF, WRDQ
TVWeek reports that more than 200 TV station owners and executives received their first communications from the new CW Network on Tuesday — starting the process for affiliate selection. In Orlando, that affiliation choice comes down to two stations: WKCF-Channel 18, the current WB affiliate and one of the strongest…
The Next Move? It Belongs to WRDQ
In a move that will better position the station for the future, WRDQ is moving. Not from Orlando or from sister-station WFTV’s studios. It’s moving on Bright House Networks cable. The station has been airing on channel 21 on the cable lineup since not long after it went on the…
Cancelled: WKCF says goodbye to Uncle Bud
WKCF-Channel 18 said it will pull the plug on Bud Hedinger and the 11-year-old “Original 10 O’Clock News” on Sept. 13. Hedinger first started in the market in 1986 when he was the 6 and 11 p.m. anchor at WFTV-Channel 9. After leaving in 1989, he returned in 1993 as…