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Recent RogerSimmons.com Orlando TV News reports involving WKMG-Channel 6, the CBS affiliate for Central Florida. The station calls its newscasts Local 6 News. Channel 6 was the first TV station in Orlando and has previously used the call letters WDBO-TV (Way Down By Orlando) and WCPX

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WKMG’s Jamie Seh joins elite group of TV women

June 25, 2017 Roger Simmons

In the process of elevating Jamie Seh from weekend sports anchor to sports director, Channel 6 is making a bit of history. … MORE

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David Pingalore out as WKMG sports anchor after 10 years

June 22, 2017 Roger Simmons

WKMG Channel 6 is dropping longtime sports anchor David Pingalore, reports Hal Boedeker of the Orlando Sentinel. … MORE

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Comedian Bill Dana passes, helped launch short-lived United Network on Channel 6

June 20, 2017 Roger Simmons

Comedian Bill Dana, whose death at age 92 was announced Monday, was best known for his “Jose Jimenez” character in the 1960s. But he also had a small role in Orlando TV history. … MORE

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Greed, movies and soda: How Channel 6 became WCPX-TV in 1982

June 18, 2017 Roger Simmons

Thirty-five years ago this month, there was a big change in Orlando television. You can blame a greedy, lazy station owner as well as the FCC, a movie company and even a soft-drink maker.  … MORE

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Orlando’s first TV signal broadcast 63 years ago

June 11, 2017 Roger Simmons

It was at 11:16 p.m. on Friday, June 4, that Channel 6 turned on its transmitter for the first time and sent out its first broadcast, a test pattern. The signal came from an 80-foot antenna atop the station’s new 500-foot tower on Texas Avenue, just north of West Colonial Drive.  … MORE

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Bear wanders into downtown, Orlando TV news stations pounce

June 8, 2012 Roger Simmons

It was breaking bear news you can use on Orlando’s big four TV news stations Friday night. WESH, WFTV, WKMG and WOFL all spent nearly the first 10 minutes of their 6 p.m. newscasts waiting … MORE

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WKMG’s newscasts go HD; WESH loses longtime employee

June 4, 2012 Roger Simmons

Posted by Roger Simmons Some quick Orlando TV news notes … For nearly three years, WKMG-Local 6 has been the only major news outlet in Orlando not broadcasting its local news in high definition. That … MORE

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Former WKMG meteorologist Reynolds Wolf out at CNN

May 30, 2012 Roger Simmons

Former WKMG morning meteorologist Reynolds Wolf is out at CNN. TVSpy.com reported Wednesday that Wolf and fellow meteorologist Jacqui Jeras were let go. Wolf joined CNN in 2006, shortly after leaving Local 6. TVSpy.com notes Wolf … MORE

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Awkward Magic moment becomes TV news in Orlando

April 5, 2012 Roger Simmons

Uh, awkward. That’s perhaps the best way  to describe what happened Thursday at Amway Center when Orlando Magic coach Stan Van Gundy — confirming a report by WKMG sports anchor David “Ping” Pingalore — said … MORE

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Orlando TV news anchors in the news

April 5, 2012 Roger Simmons

Some updates for you on some former Orlando TV newsers who are making news … Mike Garofalo, who left Local 6 back in September 2010 to be closer to his reporter wife in Miami, has … MORE

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