📺 WKMG-TV News 6 celebrates 71 years of serving Central Florida
Timeline of WKMG’s 71 years of news broadcasting, Central Florida’s first on-air news program
Crystal Moyer
WDBO-TV studio (Copyright 2024 by WKMG ClickOrlando - All rights reserved.)
Happy birthday to us!
WKMG-TV is celebrating 70 years of broadcasting, so we thought we’d share some fun facts about the station with you. Channel 6 was the home of Central Florida’s very first news broadcast program dating back to 1954.
Check out the timeline below and enjoy the crazy, cool photos!
Here’s a look at the very first script read during News 6’s very first broadcast July 1, 1954.
The first broadcast script for WDBO-TV Channel 6 when it signed on at 7:55 a.m. July 1, 1954 as the first TV news program in Central Florida. (Copyright 2025 by WKMG ClickOrlando - All rights reserved.)
Copyright 2024 by WKMG ClickOrlando - All rights reserved.
