Whois & Analysis for wptv.com

WPTV-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for South Florida's Gold and Treasure Coasts.

Licensed to West Palm Beach, it broadcasts a high definition digital signal on VHF channel 12 (PSIP virtual channel 5) from a transmitter in Lake Worth along U.S. 441/SR 7.

The station can also be seen on Comcast channel 3 (in Martin, Palm Beach, Okeechobee, and Southern St. Lucie Counties) and channel 5 (in Indian River and Northern St. Lucie Counties).

Owned by the E.

W.

Scripps Company, WPTV has studios on South Australian Avenue in Downtown West Palm Beach (mailing address says Banyan Boulevard also known as 1st Street).

West Palm Beach is a city in and the county seat of Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.

It is one of the three main cities in South Florida.

The population was 100,343 (revised) at the 2010 census.

The University of Florida Bureau of Economic and Business Research (BEBR) estimates a 2016 population of 108,896, a 7.9% increase from 2010.

It is the oldest municipality in the Miami metropolitan area, having been incorporated as a city two years before Miami in November 1894.

Although West Palm Beach is located approximately 68 miles (109 km) north of Downtown Miami, it is still considered a principal city within the Miami metropolitan area, due to the solid urbanization between both cities.

The estimated population of the Miami Metropolitan area, which includes all of Palm Beach County, was 6,012,331 people at the 2015 census.

All-news radio is a radio format devoted entirely to the discussion and broadcast of news.

All-news radio is available in both local and syndicated forms, and is carried on both major US satellite radio networks.

All-news stations can run the gamut from simulcasting an all-news television station like CNN, to a "rip and read" headline service, to stations that include live coverage of news events and long-form public affairs programming.

Weather is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy.

Most weather phenomena occur in the lowest level of the atmosphere, the troposphere, just below the stratosphere.

Weather refers to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity, whereas climate is the term for the averaging of atmospheric conditions over longer periods of time.

When used without qualification, "weather" is generally understood to mean the weather of Earth.

Sports radio (or sports talk radio) is a radio format devoted entirely to discussion and broadcasting of sporting events.

A widespread programming genre that has a narrow audience appeal, sports radio is characterized by an often-boisterous on-air style and extensive debate and analysis by both s and callers.

Many sports talk stations also carry play-by-play of local sports teams as part of their regular programming.

Hosted by Bill Mazer, the first sports talk radio show in history launched in March 1964 on New York's WNBC (AM).