16 Facts About WFTV

WFTV is a television station in Orlando, Florida, United States, affiliated with ABC.

In 1987, WFTV announced that they would move from their original location on West Central Boulevard, to a new studio located at their present-day location.

Since July 2006, WFTV is seen on the co-owned Cox cable system in Ocala in addition to Gainesville's WCJB-TV.

Until the $20,000 Pyramid moved to the noon slot, WFTV chose to not run whatever show ABC had on at noon on weekdays in order to run a local newscast; after Pyramid was moved to that slot, WFTV ran it earlier in the morning and a day behind.

From 1985 to the early 1990s, WFTV ran only half of the shows ABC put in the 11 am to noon slot.

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The station began to carry such programming overnights starting in 1996, though WFTV did not start to air it in its proper timeslot until The View debuted in 1997.

WFTV ran the entire Saturday morning cartoon lineup from ABC until 1990, when it began preempting two hours of the lineup in favor of a morning newscast.

In 1993, WFTV expanded the newscast to three hours and dropped the entire Saturday morning ABC cartoon lineup, adding syndicated programming.

Since the late 1990s, WFTV has not shown the ABC News Brief that airs during ABC Daytime programming in favor of additional local advertising.

However, in the November 2009 sweeps period, WFTV regained its dominance over the other stations in the market.

February 2012 sweeps period, WFTV continued to win morning, noon and evening time slots.

However, WFTV finished in third place in the 25-to-54 demographic at 11 pm despite the return of Bob Opsahl to the anchor desk for the month.

In 1992, WFTV dropped two of the five hours of ABC's Saturday morning cartoons in order to add a local newscast; the station ceased airing the block completely in 1993, when the broadcast expanded to three hours.

Alongside its own Eyewitness News shows, WFTV has been producing a nightly 10 pm newscast since the 1990s, WFTV first produced a 10 pm newscast for WRBW-TV under a news share agreement with that station, prior to moving the 10 pm newscast to sister station WRDQ since 2000.

On June 10,2013, WFTV launched a new half-hour 4 pm newscast to compete against WESH's longer established and hour-long news program, which had been the only newscast at 4 pm since WKMG dropped its own 4 pm news in May 2009.

WFTV ended programming on its analog signal, on VHF channel 9, on June 12,2009, as part of the federally mandated transition from analog to digital television.