Sinclair’s deal to buy WPEC and the rest of the Freedom-owned TV stations has closed. The $385 million deal with Freedom Communications was just approved by the FCC giving Sinclair a local duopoly in the process, the media company also owns Palm Beach CW affiliate WTVX.
And no sooner after the deal goes trough the WPEC newsroom is being dismantled to make way for a new set. This photo posted yesterday on WPEC’s Facebook page
It’s probably the old secondary set they used for WFLX when they produced that station’s newscasts. The current WPEC set can be seen in the foreground (kind of obscured by the pole).
maybe they building new set for wtvx to have newscast soon at 10pm
If that happens, I think they’ll probably use the CBS12 set and branding. Just a thought
I guess we can eventually kiss Enforcer on CBS12 goodbye, and say Hello to the Daily News.
Not necessarily. Not all Sinclair stations use Daily News. Some of their CBS stations still use Enforcer. But we’ll see.
Also, was “say Hello” an intended pun? Because WPEC used that at one point too…
No, ‘Say Hello’ was not an intended pun, but I am aware that WPEC, per NMSA, used Hello News in the Mid-80’s.
Haha I didn’t think so, but still. 🙂
Sorry to hear it. Sinclair doesn’t have the finest tradition of public service for all.
WPEC will likely get “Daily News” theme music, which is exclusive to Sinclair-owned stations. I assume that Delvin Design Group will design a new news set for WPEC as well… given that Delvin was recently contracted to design new HD news sets for Sinclair stations.
Their sets are cool, but I thought FX Group really did superb in designing sets for WPEC.
WPEC will start getting a new Devlin Design Group-design set, don’t worry.