BREAKING: Warren Buffett Buys WPLG!

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Mar 12, 2014

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Billionaire Warren Buffet’s iconic company Berkshire Hathaway will trade 1.6 million shares of Graham Holdings stock in exchange for WPLG, according to a report from Deadline

It’s been known for a while that Buffett wants to exit Graham Holdings, formerly known as the Washington Post Co., who are left with only their TV stations and a business in the education sector. Buffett will allegedly get WPLG plus an unspecified amount of cash.

The Washington Post company bought WPLG in 1969 and changed its call letters to WPLG in memory of Phillip L. Graham, the husband of Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham.

WPLG First Local Station to Reach 100k Facebook Likes

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Mar 11, 2014

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WPLG First Local Station to Reach 100k Facebook Likes

Today WPLG crossed the 100,000 Facebook likes mark, the first Miami news station to reach that number. As of this writing they are at 100,233 likes and growing as a Norwegian Cruise lines contest is taking place that requires people to like WPLG’s Facebook page to enter the contest.

Channel 10 started their drive for more Facebook likes in May 2010 by giving away iPads (and for which we ribbed them a bit) to get 10,000 likes. A few days later they upped their goal to 25,000 likes, and later had more giveaways that had goals for 50,000 and 60,000 likes.

POTD: Retro Newsplex Selfie

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Mar 8, 2014

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We had the post-Oscars newsplex selfie the other day but now we have what’s probably the original newsplex selfie. And it’s a really retro one. Make yourself feel old retro. It’s from about 17 years ago, circa 1996 or 1997.

https://twitter.com/brianandrews/status/441582762475024385

L to R: Kelley Mitchell, Brian Andrews, Jeff Peguez, Rick Sanchez, Shaun Robinson, Kelly Carrillo (WSVN assistant news director), Darcy Tannebaum (now WSVN senior executive producer). And the enthusiastic photo bomber in the back is someone by the name of Jesus.