12 Facts About WESH

WESH is a television station licensed to Daytona Beach, Florida, United States, serving the Orlando area as an affiliate of NBC.

WESH formerly served as a default NBC affiliate for the Gainesville market as the station's analog transmitter provided a city-grade off-air signal in Gainesville proper .

WESH was one of two NBC affiliates that were owned by Cowles Communications; during various points in the company's history, Cowles owned at least three CBS-affiliated stations and two ABC affiliates .

From 1990 to 2002, WESH aired select Orlando Magic games through the NBA on NBC, including the team's appearance in the 1995 NBA Finals.

WESH was the first station in Orlando to carry an on-site Doppler weather radar system, "SuperDoppler 2", as opposed to relying on data from regional radar sites operated by the National Weather Service; the radar is located atop the tower at the station's Winter Park studio facility.

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Over two decades, WESH's newscasts have usually placed second in the market, behind WFTV.

However, for most of the time since 2004, WESH's newscasts have traded second and third place with WKMG, while its 4 p m newscast continued to trail The Oprah Winfrey Show on WFTV by a wide margin; this coincided with NBC's ratings struggles that have occurred since 2005.

WESH was one of many NBC affiliates across the country that benefitted from the network coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics during the February sweeps ratings period: Its late-night newscast beat WFTV's by a small margin.

WESH titled its newscasts NewsCenter 2 for most of the 1970s and 1980s until the station re-branded to 2 News in 1991, then NewsChannel 2 in 1996.

In 2005, WESH adopted the current WESH 2 News branding and began pronouncing the station's call letters as a word for the first time since the early 1990s .

In mid-January 2018, WESH became the first Hearst-owned station to unveil an updated version of its standardized graphics package that is optimized for the full 16:9 letterboxed format.

WESH is the only television station in the Orlando market broadcasting on the VHF band post-transition, as WFTV and WKMG-TV opted to broadcast their digital signals on the UHF dial instead.