Post-Newsweek Stations is the official name of the broadcasting division of the
Washington Post Company and is a self-contained corporation within that company. The company is headquartered in
Detroit, Michigan in headquarters shared with Post-Newsweek's station in that market,
NBC affiliate
WDIV-TV and is headed by president and
chief executive officer Alan Frank, formerly general manager of WDIV.
In 1992, Post-Newsweek bought the now defunct Detroit regional sports station
PASS Sports from former
Detroit Tigers owner and
Domino's Pizza founder
Tom Monaghan.
FSN Detroit put the channel out of business in October 1997.
As of 2006, Post-Newsweek owns 6 VHF stations, all of which are in the Top 50 markets. All but one has a network affiliation.
History
What today is Post-Newsweek Stations originated as
WTOP, Inc. in 1949 when
CBS sold controlling interest (55 percent) of
WTOP radio in
Washington, D.C. to the
Post; CBS retained a minority (45 percent) stake. In 1950, WTOP bought WOIC-TV, Washington's CBS television affiliate, and changed that station's call letters to WTOP-TV.
CBS was forced to sell its remaining interest in WTOP in 1954. The
Post then merged its Washington stations with recently-purchased WMBR-AM-TV in
Jacksonville, Florida and changed the company's name to
Post Stations, Inc. WMBR radio was later sold off (it is now
WZAZ); the
Post then changed WMBR-TV's calls to
WJXT. The company adopted the Post-Newsweek name after the
Post bought
Newsweek magazine in...
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